Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1961 — Page 1

VOL. LIX No. 276.

Denies Cuban Charges Os Any Intervention By U. S. In Dominican Republic

U.S. Navy To Aid Rockefeller Search

MERAUKE, Dutch New Guinea (UPI) — Eibrink Jansen, the jun-gle-wise commissioner of Merauke, said today he had called for a Dutch navy cruiser with helicopters to aid in the search for 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller. He said there still is a “50-50” chance the young explorer is alive. The Celebes-born Dutchman, who once survived 10 hours in the sea himself, told newsmen the key to the search are the two empty gasoline cans Michael used as floats when he set out from his disabled native boat to swim ashore Sunday. “The search will continue until the red jerry cans are found,” said the bald-49-year-old Jansen. Accepts U.S. Offer (At the Hague, the Dutch defense ministry announced Thursday night that the Dutch government had "gladly accepted” an offer of U.S. Navy help in the search. The Defense Department in Washington confirmed that such a message had been sent from the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. (However, up to today, the U.S. Navy apparently had not yet received official word of the Dutch acceptance and there was no indication that any American ships were on the way to New Guinea.) Jansen said that if the gasoline cans are found at sea, “we will know Michael is dead, but if we find them on shore we will be encouraged. “There are 30,000 natives, all friendly, living in that area and we are relying upon them to find Michael,” Janseri said. “A reward of 250 pieces of tobacco —a fortune to natives—has been offered as a reward and entire villages have been drafted for the search. Communications Poor “Natives know the area and will eventually report anything unusual in their area. The fact we have no word yet is not unusual as it takes time for news to leak out of these swamps where there are only poorest communications.” Michael's father; Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, and the adventurer’s twin sister, Mrs. Mary Strawbridge, spent a sad and disheartening Thanksgiving Day in this coastal vilage Thursday. Today the governor, pale and gaunt looking, conferred w’th newsmen out in the open across the street from Jansen’s house. He quietly offered his thanks to

De Gaulle In London Parley

PA RIS (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle flies to London today for a conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that may lead to East-West talks on Berlin. Diplomatic sources said Macmillan will try to persuade De Gaulle to drop his opposition to negotiations with the Russians now and present a united Western front to Moscow. Up to now, the French president has cautioned* his Western Allies against dealing with the Soviet Union under duress. It has been his contention that no accord can come out of negotiations held while Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev rattles rockets and continues to put the squeeze on Berlin. De Gaulle planned to spend the weekend conferring at the prime minister’s secluded country home in Sussex. He and his wife will leave England Sunday.

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the thousands of persons who have participated in this vast and extremely difficult search. “I don’t know how anything snore could be done on behalf of Michael than what is being done and our only hope is that Michael has managed to get ashore and into the rough interior,” the governor said. New Mail Truck At Decatur Post Office A brand-new mail truck to replace the old one-ton “clunker” in operation in Decatur for the last two years was received Wednesday by the Decatur post office, Robert Frisinger, assistant postmaster, said this noon. The new truck will be used, as the old one, for, the two daily trips to Pleasant' Mills, morning and evening, for the relays, special deliveries, parcel post, and to collect and deliver mail to boxes. 'Die old truck, only one in service, here, had “well over” 100,000 miles during its 11 years of service, although only the last couple of years were in Decatur service. Five or six post office employes drive the truck at different times and one different days, depending on their schedules. Frisinger added. David Cole, Max Daniels and Chet Longenberger are most frequently the drivers, with Don Reidenbach and Sheldon Light also driving, and Harold Thieme will drive it sometimes during the Christmas rush season. With just 250 miles on> it, the “fleet van” model, arrived Wednesday from Fort Wayne. The local post office had been expecting the retirement of its 11-year veteran, but it was not until Friday that they were informed that they “might get” a brand new one, and confirmation came Tuesday. This truck is much smaller than the old one-ton model, close to half a ton, perhaps, with a right hand drive, four-cylinder jeep construction, with automatic transmission. The department hopes to save quite a bit of money in operation, since the new four-cylinder is more economical. Also, the old gasburner got about four or five miles to the gallon, and took almost a quart of oil to the gallon to run during its last days here.

The two leaders will talk without advisers or experts. Spokesmen said no communiques will be issued on the outcome of their discussions. The conference is part of a series of Allied consultations which started with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s talks with President Kennedy in Washington this week. Adenauer is scheduled to go to London and Paris to see Macmillan and De Gaulle in the next two weeks. A full-scale Western foreign ministers meeting and a session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Council will follow the series of “little summits.” Both will be held here. Britain is anxious to find a practical basis for talks with the Soviet Union. But French officials said there was little chance Macmillan could persuade De Gaulle to “moderate” his stand and go to the conference table.

UNITED NATIONS (UPD- The Dominican Republic denied Cuban charges of U.S. intervention in its affairs today and said the presence of American naval units off its coast was “most healthy” for the Caribbean area. Dominican Ambassador Carlos Sanchez y Sanchez said U.S. warships and planes sent to the Caribbean last weekend when the return of leaders of the Trujillo family threatened a crisis in the island republic did not violate international law. He said the Security Council should declare “non - receivable” Cuba’s request that it condemn the United States as an “aggressor” and demand the withdrawal of its troops from the area of the Dominican Republic.” “My government sees no reason to doubt that these units were there in order to avoid invasions prepared in Cuba or in some other Communist - inspired system,” Sanchez told the Security Council. At no time, he said, “has there been or is there anything that can be construed as interference by the U.S. government in the domestic or foreign affairs of my country.” He charged that Cuba was trying to capitalize on the crisis to “set up totalitarian foreign features” in the Dominican Republic, thus violating agreements to which both countries are parties. The council’s Cuban debate was the first part of an unusual doubleheader. The co u n cj I meets again this afternoon to debate the Congo crisis. Prospects were that little would be accomplished, aside from oratorical exercise, on either subject Cuba hailed the United States before the council Wednesday afternoon. It charged U.S. intervention in Dominican affairs by sending warships and aircraft into the Caribbean last weekend when the return of two of the late Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s brothers to the island republic threatened a government crisis. U.S.. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson dismissed the charge as “false, absurd on its face and unworthy.” He countercharged that there was a new-found “sinister alliance” between Trujillo’ ousted relatives and agents of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The Congo debate was adjourned Friday when Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin announced he would veto U.S. proposals to extend acting Secretary General Thant’s anti-secessionist mandate to the entire Congo, rather than limiting it to separatist Moise Tshombe’s Katanga Province. Stevenson conferred with Thant and sponsors of. an Afro-Asian resolution consulted other diplomats on a solution that might escape the Soviet veto. But Zorin told the council bluntly his attitude would be the same today as it was on Wednesday. O | Advertisinq Index Advertiser Page A & P Tea Co., Inc 3 Adams Theater ..u8 Beavers Oil Service, Inc 4 Burk Elevator Co 5 Bill’s Barn 7 Cowens Insurance Agency 4 Carling’s Black Label Beer ... 7 Chevrolet 8 Evans Sales & Service 5 Fairway 3, 8 Allen Fleming 6 Habegger-Schafers 4, 8 Charles Hoffman 5 Kohne Drug Store 2, 6 Kelly Dry Cleaning .... 2 Mel Liechty, Auctioneer 6 Model Hatchery 5 Gerry Martin 5 Niblick & Co ...... 3 Petrie Oil Co 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 2. 6 J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer .... 5 Andrew Schrocks Teeple Truck Lines Villa Lanes 2 Victory Bar-... 2 Walt’s Standard Service 7 Zurcher’s Mobil Service... 7 Rural Church Page Sponsors .. 6

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Work On 1963 Budget Is In Final Stages WASHINGTON (UPI) — Work on President Kennedy’s budget for 1963 is in its final stages and present estimates are that it will be in the “black” by less than $1 billion. Record tax income of $92 billion — give or take SSOO million—is expected for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Spending for the period is estimated at about s9l billion. Compared to record peace time spending of SB9 billion this year which is running up a $7 billion deficit, the figures for 1963 show the balanced budget which Kennedy has promised. Administration sources also disclosed that military spending as now mapepd out is likely to be a little under $48.5 billion, compared to $46.85 billion this year. However, a turn for the worse in the East-West conflict could prompt the President to increased planned military outlays. Jan. 18 has been tentatively set be handed down in the case was budget to Congress. It will be the first budget Kennedy has prepared from start to finish. During fiscal 1962, which ends June 30. he based his budget on basic figures worked out in the Eisenhower administration. Military spending will be higher because of the build-ups in manpower and weapons ordered by Kennedy earlier this year. Increased and accelerated procurement of expensive Polaris missile submarines —about SIOO million each — and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles will account for some of the rise. So will payroll costs, both military and civilian. Space outlays are expected to be up sharply from this year’s $1.34 billion.

Northern Europe No Longer Peaceful

MOSCOW (UPD—Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today the Soviet Union no longer regards northern Europe as an “area of peace and tranquility,” the official Soviet Tass news agency said. Khrushchev said this was the reason Finland was asked in the Soviet note of Oct. 30 to cooperate in strengthening the two nations’ borders, Tass said. Khrushchev spoke at a lunch he gave for Finnish President Urho Kekkonen at Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia. Kekkonen arrived there Thursday night to ask the touring Soviet premier exactly why he sought joint defense measures with Finland. Tass said Khrushchev emphasized the Soviet Union must take necessary measures, before it is too late, to curb the designs of West German militarists and re-venge-seekers who want to alter postwar national frontiers. By doing this, Khrushchev was quoted, the Soviet Union is working for European peace and security. "It was' precisely " this striving for peabe that prompted our proposal for the conclusion of a German peace treaty and normalization of the situation in West Berlin on this basis,” Tass quoted Khrushchev as saying. Khrushchev said arms must not be placed in the hands of former Nazis who he said now command the West German army and who are “worming their way into leading posts in NATO,” the agency said.

Ralph Burnett Dies After long Illness Ralph Burnett, 68, of 119 North Sixth street, died at 10 o’clock Thursday morning at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne. He had been seriously ill of complications for the past three months. He was born in Van Wert county, 0., June 28, 1893, a son of Jesse H. and Armedia YeomanBurnett, and was married to Ha- j zel Gilbert in 1921. He was employed at the Decatur plant of the General Electric Co. until his retirement in 1955. Mr. Burnett was a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the World War t Veterans. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Calvin Burnett of Decatur, and Norman Burnett of Long Beach, Calif.; twin daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Davison of Long Island, Calif., and Mrs. Ethelyn Sprunger es Berne; two brothers, Elmer Burnett of Monroeville, and John Burnett of Fort Wayne, and four sisters, Mrs. Leota Connell of Decatur, Mrs. Bertha Hoblet of Willshire, 0., Mrs. Anna Bowers of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Marie Martz of Fort Wayne. Funeral services yzill be held 'at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Fuhrman Miller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with military rites by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Saturday, partly cloudy north, fair and a little warmer south. Low tonight 25 to 34. High Saturday 42 to 47 north, 50 to 55 south. Sunset today 5:24 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:40 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy with no important temperature changes. Low Saturday night 25 to 33, high Sunday 48 to 55.

Decatur Temperaturex Local weather data for the 48 hour period ending at 11 ant. today. WEDSiESDAY TH I R«I>A Y 12 noon 38 12 midnight 36 1 p.m 41 1 a.m 36 2 p.m 39 2 a.m 36 3 p.m. .. 39 3 a. itu 36 1 p.m 38 4 a.m. 36 5 p.m. . . 36 5 a.m 36 6 p.m. . 36 6 a.m 37 7 p.m. . 36 7 a.m. .... 37 8 p.m 36 ’8 a.m 37 9 pin . 37 9 a.m 38 10 p.m 36 10 a.m 38 11 p.m 36 11 am. 39 THIRSDAY FRIDAY 12 noon 40 12 midnight .. 34 1 p,ni 40 I a.m. 34 2 p.m 40 2 a.m 34 3 p.m. .... 41 3 a.m 33 4 p.m ... 41 4 a.m 31 5 p.m 41 5 a.m3l 6 p.m 40 6 a.m. ... 32 7 p m. .. 4<> 7 a.m3l 8 p.m 40 8 a.m3o 9 p.m39 9 am 37 lu p.nt. 38 10 a.m. 40 11 p.m. * 37 11 a.m.44 Rain Total for the 48 hour-period ending at 7 a.m. today, .49 Inches. The St. Mary’s river wan at 5.65 feet.

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EMMITT HAWKINS’ BARN, showing just the rubble that was left this morning, after it burned to the ground about 8:06 p.m. Thursday night. Ase w pigs were the only livestock lost in the fire, and most of the equipment was also saved. Poor wiring or a heat lamp were believed to have started the fire. The buildings to the left of the still smouldering ruins were scorched, and both Decatur and Monroe fire departments stood by, sprinkling the buildings to keep the flames from spreading. Heavy traffic from Thanksgiving sightseers, who sped to the barn fire scene, snarled traffic, and impeded the firemen. The blaze was visible in the sky for miles.

Barn Destroyed By Fire Last Evening A barn on the Emmitt Hawkins farm south of Decatur, on route 6. was completely destroyed by fire, but other buildings and the farm machinery were saved, in a large blaze Thursday evening. L- The blaze, which lit up the surrounding area for some distance, apparently started from a heat lamp or electrical wiring, while the Hawkins family was visiting with Hawkins’ father across a field. Someone noticed the barn ablaze and quickly called Hawkins, who in turn called the fire department. Both the Decatur and Monroe fire departments were dispatched to the farm, which is owned by Alfia Jones of Monroe. The Decatur department was out for about an hour, while the Monroe department stayed longer. Decatur fire chief Cedric Fisher stated that the building was a mass of flames inside when his department arrived, and about ready to cave in. , Barn Lost The barn was completely destroyed by the fire, and a few smaller sheds were scorched by the blaze, but didn’t catch fire. The home was not damaged. Only livestock lost was a couple of pigs which were in the barn and couldn’t be saved. Most of the farm machinery and equipment was in the barn, including a couple of tractors, but all was evacuated and saved. The Decatur department received the call on the fire at 8:06 p.m. The blaze lit up the sky and could be seen for several miles, attracting a large crowd of spectators at the scene. No estimate on the damage could be arrived at this morning, chief Fisher said. Hiram 0. Swoveland Is Taken By Death Hiram O. Swoveland, 83, retired farmer of Blue Creek township, two miles southwest of Salem, died at 11:20 a. m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been seriously ill since last Friday. Born at Ohio City, 0.. Jan. 28, 1878, he was a son of Peter and Mary Catherine Wagley-Swove-land. He was first married in 1903 to Ollie May Harman, and she died May 26, 1926. He then married Mayme Cloud March £, 1936. Mr. Swoveland was a member of the Willshire United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Orville (Vera) Jones of Berne route 2, Mrs. Irenios (Mary Jane) Mattax of Mendon, Mich., and Mrs. Marvin (Norma) Haines of Monroe route 1; eight grandchildren; 18 great-grand-children; and two brothers, George and James Swoveland, both’ 6f Ohio City. One daughter and six brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Willshire U. B. church, the Rev. Jerry Fair and the Rev. Chester Hirschy officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p. m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 1:30 p. m. Sunday until time of the services.

161 Deaths In U.S. Traffic Over Holiday By United Press International The Thanksgiving traffic toll climbed toward the 200 mark today but the first third of the holiday was no worse than a normal midweek in late November. Adverse weather for driving may have kept motorists from the highways in many parts of the nation, holding down the death count, but the peaceful, leisurely pace of the holiday also played a major part. Americans were dying on the highways at the rate of about four an hour. But that figure was about the same as the traffic death rate In non-hoHday periods. The National Safety Council, stressing that Thanksgiving is a home-centered holiday with a relatively low death .toll.. declined to make an advance estimate of the number who would be kiled during the 102-hpur period. However, the safety council said 450 persons could be expected to die in a normal, non-holiday period of the same duration in late November. At 9:30 a.m. CST, United Press International had counted 161 traffic deaths in the nation since the holiday period began at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The breakdown: Traffic 161 Planes 2 Fires 15 Miscellaneous 23 Total 201 California had 24 traffic deaths to lead the nation. This was more than twice the number recorded, in any other state. Next highest were Illinois and Pennsylvania, each of which had 10. New York had 9 deaths.

Earhart Body Thought Found

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A San Francisco radio newsman has discovered on Saipan Island the remains of what may. be the bodies of long - missing aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, it was reported today. Jules Dundes, vice president and general manager of radio station KCBS, said newsman Fred Goerner discovered the remains on the far western Pacific Island several weeks ago. The remains were being flown here today for examination by anthropology Prof. Theodore McCown of the University of California at Berkeley. “We don’t know that these are the remains of Earhart and Noonan. we only suspect that they ire,’’ Dundes said. r‘All of our previous investigations point to the fact that they were on the island when they were trying to fly around the world in 1937.” Last year Goerner went to Saipan to investigate reports that Miss Earhart’s plane had crashed

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Three Are Injured In One-Auto Wreck Two Adams county residents and an Ohio City youth escaped serious injury in a one-car accident Wednesday afternoon, at the north edge of Convoy, O. A Lester Brunner, route 3, Decatur, St. Mary's township trustee, suffered a sprain of his right shoulder and left ankle, while the driver of the car, Clyde H. Everett, 39, Pleasant Mills, received scalp lacerations and a slight concussion. The third person in the vehicle, Fred Tumbleson, 19, route 2, Ohio City, sustained lacerations of the forehead and jaw, and a severed tongue. Tumbleson and Brunner were riding with Everett near the north edge of Convoy on state road 49, when the mishap occurred at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday. Their vehicle went out of control, skidded across the road, back across the road again and clipped a telephone pole, grazed ft tree, and then crashed headon into another tree. Everett was ticked for reckless driving by state patrolman E. L. Johnson, who investigated. All three were treated at the Van Wert hospital, and released a short time later. The three men were on a hunting trip when the accident occurred. Laetare Medal Is Presented Kennedy WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy Wednesday received the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal for 1961. The award has been presented annual* ly to an outstanding American Catholic layman since 1883. The gold medal in its blue velvet frame was presented to Kennedy in his office by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame.

at Saipan in 1937. He brought back a generator that was recovered from Garapan harbor off Saipan, at the site where Saipan natives said a twinengined plane crash-landed in 1937 The discovery of the generator led to the belief that the disappearance of Miss Earhart and Noonan had been solved. It was believed that they crashed off Saipan and were taken prisoner by the Japanese who shot them because Miss Earhart saw the military preparations being made for. World War M. - However,, the Bendix Aviation Corp, examined the generator and said it did not come from Miss Earhart’s airplane. Dundes said the remains being flown here contained no dental plates, as one report said. They were found in an unmarked grave. “There’s absolutely no firm evidence that these are the remains of Earhart and Noonan,” Dundes said. “But we had every reason to believe that they were on Saipan and perished on Saipan.”