Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 272.

Tshombe Says UN To Blame

Province (UPI) — Katanga President Moise Tshombe blamed the United Nations today for the murder of 13 Italian airmen by rampaging Congo soldiers. In a communique, Tshombe said the deaths were the price that had to be paid for treating the Congo National army as a regular legal force. “It is too late to become indignant, Tshombe said. “The United Nations is reaping what it has sown. He charged in his communique that the United Nations is under the influence of outside politics and has withdrawn from areas where its presence is indispensable so that it may concentrate on the destruction of Katanga. It was reported here that U.N. planes had bombed the rebellious Congo troops in the towns of Sambia, Pangi and Kibongo and that Kindu Congolese commander Col. Pakassa had given orders to his troops to fire on all planes that fly over the region. (Tshombe, in a telephone call to the Katanga Information Service in New York, said the U.N. press attache in Elisabethville Rural Grade Schools Enter Spelling Bee The five county grade schools, under the supervision of the county superintendent, G. W. Vizard, have accepted an invitation from the Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette to enter competition in the annual spelling bee for 1962, Vizard revealed this morning. Students from the sth, 6th, 7th and Bth grades of Geneva, Jefferson, Hartford, Monmouth, and Pleasant Mills, will be eligible to enter the contest, to be held in 1962. Vizard, who is the chairman of the program for this county, stated that the parochial schools will alao be invited to enter competition. A letter to Vizard from Robert D. Adams, spelling bee director for the Journal-Gazette, explained that material for the 1962 “bee” is being readied and printed. and will be available in the next two weeks. Adams county will be the 19th county participating in the annual spelling bee from Northeastern Indiana, as well as schools from Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert, and Williams counties in Ohio. Approximately 50,000 students participated in the 1961 contest, from nearly 350 schools in this area. Jon Reckeweg, of Whitley county, was the 1961 winner.

Skipper Os Death Yacht Is Suicide

MIAMI (UPD — With the suicide of hard-luck skipper Julian Harvey, shocked-dazed 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault was the only person known alive today to tell of the storm-tossed end of the ketch Bluebelle in the Atlantic last Sunday. At least by Monday Terry Jo is expected to be sufficiently recovered from the ordeal of four days on a raft to tell the tale of the fiery sinking which apparently claimed five lives and led to air ace Harvey’s razor blue suicide Friday. A Coast Guard inquiry next week awaits the Green Bay, Wis., girl's story. Meanwhile, the Coast Guard went on with its search around the Bahamas for Terry Jo’s missing parents, her brother and Harvey’s “dream girl” wife. But there was little hope prominent optometrist Arthur Duperrault. his wife and son, Brian, 14, or Harvey’s wife, Mary Dene, 34, would be found alive. Rene Duperrault, 7, is known dead. Survived Two Wars Harvey, two survived two wars, two other boat sinkings and a jet plane flame-out, ended his life in a Miami motel four days after his rescue apparently in despondency over loss of his wife —reportedly the fifth woman he had married. The tragedy of the Bluebelle began unfolding Nov. 8 when Harvey and his wife sailed from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., aboard the 60-foot, two-masted yacht for a Bahamas cruise" with the Wiscon- , sin family as passengers. The ketch went down about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Harvey reported to the Coast Guard before he killed himself. Harvey was

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told him U.N. planes bombed and destroyed three Kivu villages. He identified the villages at Kibombo, Kasengo and Mpangi.) U.N. spokesman Norman Ho officially denied the U.N. jets had bombed the mutinous Congo troops in Kivu. “Our planes have not been in action, he said. “They have been patrolling the Kivu-Katanga border as they have been doing for the past several weeks. ' Sues For $75,000 In Husband's Death A $75,000 damage suit has been filed in the Adams circuit court against C. L. Baumbauer, a resident of Rainbow Lake, near Berne, by the widow of James R. Paschal, who drowned at the lake June 16 of this year._ Paschal, 21 at the time of his death, was a passenger in a small boat on the lake, with his wife, Barbara, and two other persons, when the craft either tipped or sank. The other three occupants escaped, b ut Paschal was drowned. Mrs. Paschal filed a $75,000 damage suit for “wrongful death” Friday. Claims Leaked In her suit, the widow alleges that Baumbauer rented a boat to her husband, and it leaked and sank, resulting in Paschal’s death. The complaint further states that the drowning was the result of neglect, due to the fact that the defendant, Baumbauer, failed to provide the boat with life preservers. Further stated is that the defendant failed to provide oars for the boat, which forced her husband to use an outboard motor, and she claims that the defendant knew the condition of the craft and that he also knew it would involve danger to use an outboard motor. Mrs. Paschal also claims in her suit that the defendant failed to warn her deceased husband that the boat* leaked or of the condition of the boat. Occurred June 16 The drowning occurred shortly after 8 p. m. Friday, June 16. Paschal’s body was recovered about an hour later. Mrs. Paschal was appointed executrix of her husband’s estate November 1, and filed the suit against Baumbauer Friday. Baumbauer is a well known sign painter, who resides at the lake, and operates a store there. James A. Frank, Union City, is the attorney for Mrs. Paschal.

rescued at mid-day Monday. With him was the body of Rene Duperrault, Terry Jo’s sister, who had drowned before Harvey pulled her into a lifeboat with him. Thursday, a freighter pulled Terry Jo from a bobbing white raft. She was flown to a Miami hospital and put under police guard as the Coast Guard called in Harvey for questioning. She rallied Friday and was expected to recover. Her physician said she might be able to relate her story Monday. Terry Jo’s relatives and their attorney would not disclose what she might have told them. Questioned Past Questions were concentrated, meanwhile, on the past of Julian Harvey. The man Harvey considered his best friend said the dead skipper was a man of high character, who never took up smoking and who drank only socially: a medal decorated bomber and jet fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War who also loved to skipper sleek sailboats. Mostly, said Miami advertising firm owner Jim C. Boozer — the man Harvey picked to receive his suicide note—Harvey was a man who lived hard, and had perhaps more than his share of the troubles that come with such a life. “Accident-prone” was what Boozer said. “I wouldn’t say this was a daring man, but he lived life to the fullest. This (the accidents) is what would come naturally.” He was a man, Boozer said, who had found his “dream girl” in airline stewardess Mary Dene Smith, the wife he lost with the Bluebelle.

Rules Racial Suit First In State Courts JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) — A three-judge federal panel, its highest member strongly dissenting, ruled Friday that suit seeking desegregation of travel facilities in Mississippi should be tried first in state courts. The majority opinion, held by Federal District Judges Claude Clayton and Sidney Mize, both of Mississippi, said- the federal court did not have jurisdiction until the plaintiffs had sought remedy in state tribunals. But Judge Richard T. Rives, Montgomery, Ala., of the U. S. sth Circuit Court of Appeals, disagreed and accused Mize and Clayton of exercising “unreasonable delay” in the case. He said the panel’s refusal to rule on the matter "is in violation of this court’s duty under the law.” Three Negroes with financial aid from the NAACP, filed the suit June 9 while Jackson police were arresting “freedom riders” who came here to test state segregation laws. Trial of the suit was delayed due to the illness of an assistant state attorney general and was finally heard last Sept. 25. At the conclusion of the hearing, Rives said he believed the city should be enjoined from mak-, ing arrests unless the defendants actually breached the peace. But Clayton and Mize disagreed and held the case under advisement until Friday. More than 300 riders have been arrested here and convicted of breaching the peace since last May 24. Rives said all rider prosecutions made since June 9 should be nullified. The majority said “a full and adequate procedure exists in the state tribunals for the lawsuit and by this procedure the comity existing between the federal courts and the state courts would be maintained without any injury to anyone.” Rives pointed out that the majority decision could be appealed straight to the U. S. Supreme Court. He said the issues in the case had been clearly decided in the federal courts and it was evident from the testimony that the arrests were made in order to preserve segregation. Three Lads Unhurt As Train Hits Car Three Decatur high school seniors escaped serious injury when struck by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad crossing on North Second street, at the Central Soya compahy, at 6:40 p. m. Fri.day. Charles McKinnon, 17, 1003 W. Monroe street, driver of the car, Harry Wayne Nicodemus, 17, 616 Indiana street, and Herb Magley, 18, 1029 N. Second street, were all three riding in the car struck by the engine of the train. McKinnon was traveling west on Second street, and failed to see two brakemen signaling them to stop. They proceeded onto the crossing, and were struck by the northbound train, which was traveling at a very slow rate cf speed. The train pushed the McKinnon vehicle 20 feet north, before being able to stop. James Burgin of 1003 Elm street was the conductor, and G. W. Aschlemen of Fort Wayne the engineer. All three of the youths were battered and bruised, but none received any broken bones, and they all attended the basketball game last evening, McKinnon’s car was considered a total loss. Monroe Student In College Fast Group BLUFFTON, Ohio (UPl)—Fourteen Bluffton College students left here Friday for Washington where they plan to stage a three-day fast as a demonstration for peace. The group, traveling by private car, included Phillip Kingsley, Monroe, Ind. The students followed an earlier group from Grinnell College in lowa who began fasting Wednesday night. A similar group from Carleton College in Minnesota will begin a fast next week. Deeatar Temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 32 12 midnight .. 24 1 p.m. . 33 lam 23 2 p.m. 32 2 a.m 22 3 p.m 31 3 a.m 22 4 p.m 31 4a m 22 5 p.m 30 5 a.m 22 6 p.m 29 6 a.m 22 7 P.m 28 7a m 22 8P m 27 8a m 21 9p m 27 9 a.m 30 10 p.m — 27 10 a.m 45 11 p.m 2S 11 a m 45

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 18,1961.

Nation Pays Final Honor It ' ■ w To Speaker Sam Rayburn; Pres. Kennedy At Rites

President At Final Rites For Raybum PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPl)—President Kennedy today interrupted his whirlwind Western tour to honor the late Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Kennedy planned to take off at 11:35 a.m., EST, for Perrin Air Force Base outside Sherman, Tex., where a helicopter then will whisk him to Rayburn’s funeral at Bonham, 42 miles away. Immediately after chapel , exercises for Rayburn, Kennedy will board his jet transport again for Los Angeles and another one-night stand for the ailing Democratic treasury. He speaks in Los Angeles tonight at a mammoth SIOO---plate dinner which party leaders expected to put an appreciable dent in the current Democratic deficit of about $1,500,000. Felt Deep Affection The President saw Raybum before his death, making a flying trip from Newport, R.1., to Dallas in late September to spend a few minutes with the dying Speaker not long after Raybum’s doctors announced he was suffering from an incurable cancer. Kennedy felt a deep affection for Rayburn, dating back to his arrival in Congress nearly 15 years ago as a freshman House member from Massachusetts. As Kennedy’s stature in the party increased, so did his appreciation for the legislative knowhow and political wisdom of the small, bald Texan who at times ran the House of Representatives almost as his own political province. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson joined Kennedy here late Friday to head an imposing list of Democratic leaders in honoring Sen. Carl Hayden, 84-year-old Arizona lawmaker, on completion of 50 years in Congress. Returning To Texas Johnson was returning to Texas for the Rayburn funeral, but not traveling on Kennedy’s plane. Custom decrees that the President and vice president do not travel by air together. Kennedy was due in Los Angeles at the International Airport shortly after 7 p.m., EST. He planned to travel from the airport to his temporary headquarters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel by helicopter, landing in a parking lot just outside the hotel. Instead of going to San Diego to witness naval training exercises Sunday, Kennedy planned a quiet Sunday in the Los Angeles area with his sister, Pat, and her husband, actor Peter Lawford. The President will fly back to Washington during the night Sunday, arriving in time for talks with his foreign policy advisers before conferring Monday afternoon with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater 8 Burk Elevator Co —L. 5 Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry 8 Citizens Telephone Co ... 7 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 4 Evans Sales & Service, Inc 5 F. O. O. Eagles 7 Fairway 3,7, 8 First State Bank of Decatur 8 Allen Fleming 5 Dr. H. R. Frey 5 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Habegger-Schafers 4 Charles Hoffmans Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 6 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Kohne Drug Store — 4 Pike Lunjber Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 3 Teeple Truck Line 5 Treon’s Poultry Market 4 Villa Lanes 3 Church Page Sponsors 2

Wad wl- jr l i fl Hw SPlliiliK i 'J 11 r - iHKa F I 7 I ' iMMr L.l -1. .V ~ J LAST TRIP HOME— Flower-covered casket of House Speaker Sam Rayburn lies in state in the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Tex. At left is a bronze bust of the late speaker.

Pearl Neaderhouser Dies This Morning Mrs. Pearle Neaderhouser, 78, Aaf 306 Bryan street, Berne, died of a cerebral thrombosis at 6:15 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She was born in Hoagland March 19. 1883, a daughter of George and Helen Harrod-Holmes. Her first husband, Ed Rice, of Decatur,, preceded her in death, and she was married Feb. 22, 1909, to Louis Neaderhouser. Her second husband, also deceased, was a rural mail carrier at Berne. Mrs. Neaderhouser was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church at Berne, and the ladies auxiliary of the rural letter carriers. Surviving are three sons, Newell B. Rice of Columbia City, George L. Neaderhouser of North Caldwell, N.J., and Robert P. Neaderhouser of Berne; one daughter, Mrs. Hubert E. Craven of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; one brother.

Rockefeller Divorce Is Jolt For GOP

NEW YORK (UPI) — The 31-year-old marriage of New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his socialite wife will end soon in divorce. The Rockefellers, who have five adult children, announced Friday night they have separated prior to seeking an out-of-state divorce. They already have reached a proerty settlement. No grounds were revealed for the breakup which came as a shock. No sign of domestic discord had been noted, although Mrs. Rockfeller has been absent from Albany, the state capital, for eight months. A political aide said the divorce would “absolutely not” change Rockefeller’s plans to run for reelection as governor next year. The separation and subsequent divorce may have repercussions in the 1964 GOP presidential maneuvering. Rockefeller, a multi-millionaire and leader of the liberal, eastern wing of the Republicans, is a leading contender for the 1964 aparty presidential nomination, along with Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. There was speculation that former Vice President Richard M. Nixon who had renounced seeking the nomination while running for the California governor’s office, would re-evaluate his position. No divorced man has ever become President of the United States. Democrat Adlal Stevenson, the only man of divorced sta-

the Rev. Gordon T. Holmes of | Sidney, 0., and one sister, Mrs. O. P. Schug of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be cohducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. Robert L. Cox officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral hople after 2 p.m. Sunday until time of the services. Hoffman Funeral Monday Morning Funeral services for Russell J. Hoffman, former Decatur man who died suddenly Friday morning at his home in Richmond, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, instead of 1:30 p.m., as previously announced. . The Rev. Lawrence T. Norris will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. Pallbearers will be Ray Sievers, Tony Teeple, Jim Statzer, John Alberding, *Ray Barney and Jar Harmon.

tus to run for President, was defeated in 1952 and 1956 by Dwight D. Eisenhower. The announcement of the divorce ending a romance that started when the Rockefellers were teen-agers came in a four paragraph statement from the Rockefeller family office here. It was indicated that the announcement meant the formal dissolution would come soon. A spokesman said the divorce action would not take place in New York state where the only legal grounds are infidelity or prolonged absence. Mrs. Rockefeller, who is 54. presumably would file for the divorce, he added. The 53-year-old governor must retain his New York residency to qualify for his office. The spokesman said the separation was “amicable” but there was no indication where the divorce would be sought. Mrs. Rockefeller and the governor remained in seclusion and had no comment. She was reported in their New York apartment. He was at his Pocantico Hills home in nearby Westchester County. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight and with chanee of some snow or rain late tonight and Sunday morning. Not so cold. Low tonight 32 to 40. High Sunday 42 to 47 north, 47 to 53 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer.

County Plat Book To Be Published Fred Koi ter, Decatur businessman, has announced plans to publish an Adams county plat book early in 1962. It will be the first county plat book published since 1950. Kolter’will have 1,000 of the books printed, and will handle the distribution himself Several orders have already been placed for the helpful guide to county land owners. Printing of the book will be handled by the Rockford Map Publishers, who have been a quality name in map publishing for over 50 years. Several previous county plat books have been handled by forerunners of the Rockford company. Kolter will handle all of the businesss arrangements for the book. He will sell the advertising and receive and distribute the finished product. The Rockford Map Publishers representatives will handle the work of securing the names and locations of all properties in the county of more than one acre. Three-Year Book The new plat book will be considered official for a period of three years. In the latter part of 1964, if real estate transactions warrant it, the book will be revised. If there have not been a sufficient number of real estate sales and transfers, the plat book will be revised in the latter part of 1965. The book will contain an index map of the entire county, a separate page for each township, and having a detailed township map, and a soil distribution map of the county, furnished by county agent Leo Sentenright. 'lbere will also be an alphabetical igdex in the back of the book which will refer the reader to the property in question. » The front of the Adams county plat book will feature a picture of the county court house. Anyone interested in placing an order for the book can contact Kolter. Post Office Needs Temporary Helpers Ten men, at least 18 years of age, are needed at the Decatur post office to assist in handling the heavy flow of mail during the annual Christmas rush, John Boch, acting postmaster, stated today. The men will start work Dec. 14 and will be employed until Christmas. Five will be used as assistant city carriers, four for clerical help and mail handling, and one as a parcel post helper. Veterans will be given preference. Boch stated. Men interested in the temporary employment may apply at the post office.

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Funeral This Afternoon At Texas Church BONHAM, Tex. (UPD — Sam ■ Rayburn will be buried today in the black earth of the rolling, northeast Texas countryside he loved. President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, congressional leaders and thousands of his friends and neighbors will be on hand to pay their final respects. The funeral of the House Speaker will be held at 2:30 p.m. EST in the First Baptist Church. It should take about 30 minutes. Raybum, 79, died at 7:20 a.m. EST. Thursday of cancer. The body of "Mr. Sam.” will lie in state in The Sam Rayburn Libary until 10 a.m. EST today. Former President Harry Truman, House Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, who may succeed Raybum as speaker, 122 U.S. representatives, including the Texas delegation, and 25 U.S. senators are I scheduled to attend the funeral. The service will be nationally televised by the three major television networks. Services Held Simultaneously Memorial services for Rayburn will be held simultaneously in the I nation’s capital at the Washington Cathedral. Active pallbearers today will include: H.G. Dulaney, an assistant and the administrator of Rayburn Library: Robert (Buster) Cole, Raybum’s lawyer; Robert West and Choice Moore, who were old friends: Dr- Joe A. Risser, Rayburn’s personal physician, and John Holton, his administrative assistant. Honorary pallbearers will be the President, vice-president and members of the Senate and House. Elder H.G. Ball win conduct the simple service. Raybum joined Ball’s primitive Baptist Church of Tioga, Tex., in 1957. Many of the 45 members of Ball’s congregation will be present. While primitive Baptists nor mally have no music at their services, except singing without instrumental accompaniment, the Rayburn service will have a background of organ music. Mrs. J.C. Christian Jr. will play. The Rev. Bernard Braskamp of Washington, chaplain of the House of Representatives, is expected to close the service with a prayer. Elder Ball said he would begin with a prayer and deliver about a 15-minute eulogy. Plans Immediate Departure Kennedy was scheduled to arrive at 1:50 p.m. EST at Perrin Air Force Base at Sherman, Tex. He will take a helicopter to Bonham and go directly to the church. Tentative plans called for the President to depart from the church without going on to the cemetery. Kennedy and his immediate party, and Johnson and his wife, will occupy the second pew on the left side of the sanctuary. Main floor pews can seat 750 and the balcony across the rear of the sanctuary another 200. Chairs have been placed in all anterooms so that another 600 to 700 of the Speaker’s friends can hear the service over loudspeakers. The sanctuary audience will include, besides the official House delegatin of more than 100 and the official Senate delegation of 22. Rayburn's only surviving sisters,Mrs. S.E. Bartley of Bonham and Mrs. W.A. Thomas of Dallas. Other close relatives at the funeral will be nephew Robert Bartley of Washington, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, and his wife: Mrs. Dick Rayburn; Mrs. Tom Bolton of Dallas, a niece, and perhaps a score of others related to the Speaker by blood or marriage.