Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1962 — Page 1

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Three Arrested By FBI On Conspiracy Charges To Commit Sabotage

Expect Break Soon Over Cuban Crisis

WASHINGTON (UPI) — It seemed touch and go today whether the Cuban crisis would be solved diplomatically or flare to new heights of tension. Unless the White House had better news than it had released so far, the affair appeared to be reaching another showdown phase. Administration officials said the key question was whether Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would agree to pull his jet bombers out of Cuba and permit diplomatic progress on other aspects of the crisis. If he continued to stall too long. President Kennedy was expected to take tough new steps, including a tightening of the America naval blockade. Expect Break Soon Well informed officials seemed to lean to the belief the' Russian leader would come to terms within a few days. Some hopefully looked for the break this weekend. But they acknowledged things could go the other way. U.S. officials did not seem overly concerned about Cuban Premier Fidel Castro’s threat to start shooting at American reconnaissance planes continuously checking his territory. State Department and Pentagon sources simply said the United States was prepared to protect its reconnaissance planes by all necessary means, including the sending of armed war planes to escort them over Cuba. Officials said the big problem was getting out the approximately 30 Soviet IL2B twin jet bombers capable of carrying nuclear bombs 750 miles into the United States. Khrushchev so far has been insisting that he would consider taking the planes back to Russia only after the United States had lifted its quarantine and met other Red conditions, including a pledge against an invasion of Cuba. U.S. officials flatly denied reports that latest U 2 flights over Cuba had disclosed two medium range offensive missiles still in place on the former bases. They said that the bases had been rendered inoperable and they were virtually certain no offensive missiles remained on the island. Looking For Reply The expectation of a possible break in the deadlock over the weekend stemmed from a belief in official circles that the White House soon would receive — if it had not already done so —a reply from Moscow to Kennedy’s Thursday message on the bombers. Three Bandits Shot During Police Trap NEW YORK (UPl)—Three payroll bandits walked into a longplanned police trap Friday and tried to shoot their way out in a gun battle which stretched along a busy truck route on Manhattan’s lower West Side: Two of the gunmen died In a hail of police fire and the third was critically wounded in a robbery which would have netted them 34 cents. A much-decorated police officer was badly wounded in the gun duel, but he was reported in “fair” condition today after emergency surgery and “will pull through,” physicians said. Killed were Kenneth Cavanagh, 33, of Forest Hills, Queens, and Albert Taylor, 48, of Rosfedale, Queens. The other bandit, Patrick J. Huston, 35, of Jackson Heights, Queens, was shot six times and -remained in critical condition today. Detective Jeremiah Howard, 27, a native of Ireland who had been cited eight times for bravery during his five years on the force, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital and underwent a two-hour operation. He was Shot in the chest, the bullet emerging through his back.

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; Churches Will Send ) ; Blankets To Algeria ! The Associated Churches of Decatur will announce to their : members Sunday that the chur- | ches will collect blankets, and 25 cents for each blanket, to send to _ the million Algerian people who • will enter winter weather with no ! blankets or shelter this year, the 1 Rev. Gerald Gerig, president of the association, and the Rev. Rob- | E. McQuaid, chairman of the 1 committee on life and work, announced today. Collection Nov. 25 Ministers will make the ani nouncement this Sunday, and collect the blankets Sunday, Novem- ' ber 25, immediately after Thanks- ■ giving. Each church will be responsible for transporting >ts blankets to the First Methodist church November 27-28, the Tuesday and Wednesday following the i collection. Immediately after, the blankets will be transported to the Napanee. Church , World Service center. The blankets are needed urgently. Already 611 million pounds of surplus food have been sent by Church World Service to alleviate some of the starving among the [ 5 million Algerians facing hunger and cold this winter. Face Cold, Hunger The cold will take even more lives than usual because of the breakdown in food supply in Algeria, and the fact that so many are now going hungry. Church World Service, which is attempting to help the Algerians in two of their states, Constantine and Bathna, is the overseas relief arm of the Protestant and Orthodox churches of the United States. Hugh D. Farley, executive director of Church World Service, has asked each community in America to make a blanket drive to help the Algerians. At the same time, the annual CROP drive, Christian Rural Overseas Program, is underway to raise funds to send food to the needy of the world through Church World Service facilities. Cooperating Churches Local Decatur churches, whose members are being asked to help, include the following: The Assembly of God, First Baptist church, Christian church, Church of Christ, Church of God, Decatur Evangelical United Brethren, First Methodist church, Church of the Nazarene, Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church, First el Evangelical United Brethren Presbyterian church, Union Chapchurch, the United Church of Christ, and the Missionary church. Log Hauler Killed On Indiana Farm FRENCH LICK. Ind. (UPI) — Services will be held Sunday for Cleda A. Butler, 53, R. R. 2, Shoals, who was crushed to death Thursday when a long rolled off a truck he was loading on a farm south of here. The accident hai> pened in the presence of Butler’s three brothers who were helping load the truck. ■ <■;> ■ Walmsley Funeral Rites Here Tuesday Funeral rites for Earl D. Walmsley, 83, who died Thursday at Saginaw, Mich., will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will he in the Dp- _ catur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Monday until time of the services. Only near survivor is his wife, , formerly Elizabeth Othilda Schneider. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Adeline Wagner, Mrs. Frances Peterson, and A1 and Norbert Schneider, all of Decatur.

- WASHINGTON (UPI) — Three persons, including a member of the Cuban mission to the United States, have been arrested by FBI agents in New York on charges of conspiring to commit sabotage Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said today. Kennedy said the agent also seized a secret cache of weapons and explosive equipment. He said the cache had been stored by proCastro Cubans. In addition to those arrested, two members of the Cuban mission to the United States are named as participants in the conspiracy. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the persons arrested were Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, | 27, a newly-arrived attache at the | Cuban mission to the United Na- | tions; Atonio Sueiro, 22, New [ York City, and Jose Garcia Orel- , lana, 42, New York City. He said Jose Gomez Abad, 21, , and his wife, Elsa, 20, both mem- ’ bers of the Cuban mission to the United Nations, also were named as conspirators but were not arrested. The arrests took place Friday ’ night and early today in New | York City. A federal complaint filed by the ; FBI in New York City Friday ; alleges that they delivered incen- . diary devices and other explosive , material to Jose Garcia. , Agents said Casanova was , armed with a fully loaded Mauser | semiautomatic pistol when he was arrested. They said he violently resisted arrest and “it was necessary for agents to subdue him.” Cashnova had “secret explosive formulas” in his possession at the time of his arrest, agents said. They said he tried to swallow these formulas but they were recovered by the agents. Jose Gomez joined the Cuban U.N. mission in December, 1961. His wife, the former Elsa Montero Maldonado, was assigned to the Cuban mission in August, 1961. Both are attaches and are on the State Department’s list of members of permanent missions to the United Nations entitled to diplomatic privileges and immunities. Hoover said Roberto and Santiesteban arrived in New York on Oct. 3,1962, aboard the same plane as Cuban President Osvalvo Dorticos. The Cuban government requested diplomatic status and immunities for Santiesteban late last month. The request was still being processed—and the diplomatic status and immunities had not been granted—at the time of his arrest by FBI agents. The FBI director said the three arrested men are charged with conspiring to violate two federal statutes. Articles For Baby Asked By Red Cross Any Adams county family that has usable baby clothes, a layette, crib, etc., to help a local girl deserted by her husband while expecting her third baby, is asked to bring it to the Adams county Red Cross office Monday, between 9:30-11:30, and 12:30-4 p. m., Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary, announced today. The Red Cross has been asked to organize help for the young lady, and anyone who can bring any of the needed items is requested to do so. Hugh Tate Is Named Acting Superintendent Hugh O. Ttate, of route 3, Bluffton, former assistant superintendent in charge of the Adams Central school, has been named acting superintendent of the Adams Central Community School® unitl Herman E. Frantz, superintendent, is well enough to return to work. Frantz, who has been superintendent for the past year, suffered a heart attack several weeks ago, and will not be able to retum to wurk for SOHla tame. He " resides in Bluffton. Tate, who with his wife made a round-the-world trip after retiring, was assistant superintendent to the county superintendent when the county superintendent still had nominal authority over the school. That system was changed when Tate retired in 1961.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 17,1962

% — i. , , .. - ■ Flight By Saturn Almost Flawless I „

1 CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — ■ “It was embarrassingly smooth.” Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Ameri- ' ca’s most famous space scientist, ■ described in those words the latest feat of the Saturn, the na- ' tion’s most powerful space rocket. “Smooh” was his sweeping and accurate description of Friday’s flight by the so-called “super ■ rocket” — an almost flawless performance that ran Saturn’s record ' to three successes in as many ■ tries. “Embarrassingly” was a bit , more difficult to pin down. About . the only embarrassment that Von : Braun and his fellow scientists [ seemed to suffer was in their . meeting with newsmen after the shot. Problems usually are the , chief topics at these sessions. , There were none Friday. The questioning bogged down from a lack of much to talk about. All Details Clear Witnesses had seen with their j own eyes nearly every dramatic ! detail of the thunderous shot — the 162-foot Saturn as it rose with [ breathtaking slowness from its ’ launching pad, the fiery dash into ’ space, the awesome -display of harnessed energy at work. J They even saw the grand finale, although it took place more than 100 miles away* in space — the deliberate destruction of the metallic giant and the massive ice cloud formed by the release of 95 tons of water the Saturn had carried as ballast in its dummy upper stages. There were no dramatic new “firsts” this time. The third Saturn flew a little higher — 104 miles — and a little farther—--270 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. But most of what could be called “new” was in the highly technical area of missile engineering—the changes that can make a great deal of difference in performance, but which cannot be readily seen on the surface. Looking Ahead Scientists now are locking toward the next Saturn shot — next spring, probably in April or May. It won’t differ much from the one Friday, as far as surface appear-! ances go. This fourth Saturn also |

Mark Time In Negotiations

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) — Cuban crisis negotiations marked time today against the return of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan from a twoweek visit to Premier Fidel Castro in Cuba. Mifcoyan’s whereabouts, and most of his activities, were a mystery. The United States,. which must grant him permission if he plans plans. The Soviet delegation professed to know little more. The Kremlin’s Armenian adjutant had been expected to leave Cuba Friday. But sparse news from Havana gave no inkling of what he was doing. It was not even definite that he would come here instead of going straight back to Russia from Cuba. Mikoyan Considered,, Key Diplomatic quarters considered Mikoyan the key man in U.S.-So-viet crisis negotiations now centered on Washington’s demand for the removal from Cuba of 30 or more Ilyushin-28 bombers, which the United States considers part of the offensive weapons Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev promised to take home to Russia. Mikoyan’s major public pronouncement during his Cuban stay was a declaration of full Soviet backing for Castro’s five-potht de- j mands including U.S. evacuation j of Guantanamo naval base. Castro himself made only a passing reference to the five j

will test the booster stage only. But the program is moving toward a higher gear. On the fifth shot, expected in late 1963, a “live” second stage will be carried for the first time. With five more shots thereafter, the Saturn J!-l should be ready and safe nough for man himself to ride. That is the plan. The goal of the Saturn C-l program is to send spaceships starting in late 1964. These will be training flights for manned trip:.; to the moon later this decaae. Frank Earl Fisher Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Frank Earl Fisher, 78, retired stonemason, who died at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home, 116 South Ninth street. ge had been in failing health for x years and critically ill the 1 past four days. ' * Born in Decatur July 2, 1884, he was a son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth Yaeger-Fisher, and was | nfarried to Mattie Amrine May 3, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1956. Mr. Fisher was a member of the Trinity Evangelical Unified Brethren church and the Loyal Order of Moose. He was an employe of the Decatur Lumber Co. for 27 years before, his retirement in 1956. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Milo (Ireta) Waggoner of LaFontaine, and one grandson, Max K. Waggoner of Ft. Riley, Kan. Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the WintereggLinn funeral home, the Rev. R. E. j Vance and the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Sunday until time of the : services.

points in his letter to Acting Sec- ; retary General Thant in which he ! threatened to shoot down U.S. surveillance planes over Cuba. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister • Valerian A. Zorin gave little more than perfunctory support to Castro’s threat here Friday. 1 Restates U. S. Position Zorin spoke in the General Assembly's main political committee after the U.S. disarmament expert, Ambassador Arthur H. i Dean, declared: “ “Until The entire provisions of the agreement-between the United States and the Soviet Union providing for U.N. inspection of withdrawal of offensive weapons from Cuba have been completely and properly implemented, the United States will be forced to continue to take its own appropriate measures to assure against the possibility that the.people of the western hemisphere may be threatened from Cuban soil. “The members of the Organization of Ameripan States have decided to take all steps necessary to guard against any threat to _£uba-—and—the —United States is" acting in accordance with that mandate and will, accordingly, continue to carry out that mandate and will yse all means necessary to assure that this iS done.” j Washington was understood to |be drafting a more formal reply i to Castro’s threat, but it was not expected to be delivered until j next week.

Jurors Blame Government In Ole Miss Riots OXFORD, Miss. (UPI) — A Mississippi grand jury Friday blamed the federal government and Chief U.S. Marshal James P. McShane for “inciting” the riots that broke out at the University of Mississippi when Negro James Meredith entered the campus. The all-white Lafayette County grand jury, in its report on the riots, commended the Mississippi highway patrol for its role in the incident. The jury indicted two persons in connection with the violence which left two persons dead and ~ scores injured, but* in keeping with grand jury procedure, it did not release the names of those indicted. However, Circuit Judge W. M. O’Barr advised reporters indictments were not returned against ■ President Kennedy or his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy. When the jury began its investigation five days ago O’Barr told jury members they were free to 1 indict the President and attorney ’ general should the facts warrant : it. i ■ O’Barr Friday sidestepped a reporter’s question whether McShane was one' of those indicted. The New York Times, however, in a dispatch from Oxford, reported that McShane “is reported to have been indicted hereon state charges arising from the VTT riots.” The newspaper also said the other indictment “was said to have been returned against PFC. Dominique Niglia of the 716th Military Police Battalion of Ft. Dix, N.J.” Niglia was among 500 MP’s and 1 15 deputy marshals left behind to , protect Meredith after the main l body of 12,000 troops was witht drawn from the Oxford area. ‘ The report said rilarshals ringed , the lyceum (administration) building for “no valid reason” since federal authorities had been ad- ” vised In advance that Meredith d could not be registered on Suns day. '» The encircling of the building, - it said, “definitely contributed to the events which followed since f the lyceum is symbolic of the [ university and it is its most halj lowed bulding. . The report said this action • “was apparently done for the'sole purpose of agitating and provoking violence.” > ■ ' Brazil Man Heads School Board Group INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Ralph H. Weston, Brazil industrial executive, was elected president of the Indiana School Boards Association today. Weston, vice president of Arfcetex Ceramics Corp., succeeds Charles Hathaway of Kokomo. Other new officers included Milton D. Marx, Huntington, first vice - president, and Wayne Hatfield, Mitchell, second vice president. Four regional chairmen also were elected—Curtis Hostetter, Lafayette, Region 4; Mrs. Claire Stern, Hammond, Region 1; Dr. Kermit Tower, Campbellsburg, Region 10, and Donald Harris, Clinton, Region 7. Weston has been on the Brazil School Board the past eight years. He has been vice president of the ISBA the past two years. A panel discussion which could produce some fireworks was on the program for the final session of the organization’s annual convention. a The panel discussion, preceding the election, was on the advisability of curtailing inter-scholastic activities such asathletics in lndiana public-schools. Among those taking part in the discussion were CbmmTssloner Phil ' Eskew of the IHSAA and Robert 1 __GarvUe of Indiana University, an 1 opponent of overemphasis on ath- 5 letics. 1 Dr. Frank Brown, principal of ' Melbourne, Fla., High School, told delegates Friday iiightthat Ameri- > can education needs “sweeping ’ changes from the inside.” s Brown, whose school was the 1 nation’s first ungraded high school, I 1 advocated complete elimination of grades in elementary and high schpolsj, He said school systems whicTß~ completely eliminated- - grades "might find TT possible to teach many pupils in six years what they now learn in 12. “Until one breaks’ up grades, he doesn’t realize how futile it is to be teaching a group of youngsters the same material merely because they happen to be the same age,” Brown said. He also attacked modern text- ■ books which he called a “large obstacle to intellectual inquiry.”

BUSINESS END — Cluster of eight engines that generate more than 1.3 million pounds of thrust make up the booster for Saturn C-l rocket at Cape Canaveral.

Fierce Battle On In India

NEW DELHI, (UPI) — Fierce fighting appeared to be in progress today in two areas of the mountainous China-India border, according to fragmentary reports from the battle scenes. In the Walong sector in the east of India’s North East Frontier Agency, Indian troops, now equipped with American and British automatic rifles, wre - reportied holding the Communists to L small gains. The Communists were trying to fight their way down 9,000-foot mountains into the Ohit River Valley, which leads to eastern Assam and the rich Digboi oil fields, 80 miles distant. About 250 airline miles to the west, India was reported still holding high ground at the Se La Pass, which protects the only good truck road from the area of | Seeks Gas Service For City Os Berne A franchise to serve natural gas to the people of Berne has been requested by Northern Indiana Public Service company, according to an announcement by Harley W. Jenson, the Gas Company’s Fort Wayne division manager. Following a visit by NIPSCO offiicals at the regular city council meeting, the board of public works and safety passed a ' preliminary resolution Thursday setting the exact form of the franchise and selecting December 10, as the date when final consideration will be given the franchise in a public hearing. In announcing the request, Jenson said. “NIPSCO is asking for this franchise since many of the residents of Berne seem interested in securing the advantages cf natural gas service. We propose to supply the town from a new connection that would be made with the American Louisiana - Pipe Line company at a point between Berne and Geneva. As soon ns the franchise is received, petitions will be filed with the public service commission of Indiana and the federal powers commission for the required approvals and - certificates. Construction of the j Rprnp_natiiral gac eyetpm Tie included in our 1964 construction program in accordance with the request-ef-thtrmity council - to 4 " delay construction of the system until the current sewer project has been completed.” He added that, if the franchise i is granted, engineering studies will be made to determine the de- , sign of the gas distribution syr- , tern that will be most suitable for Berne. J INDIANA WEATHER „ Cloudy and colder With easional light snow likely north i tonight. Sunday and cold with 1 snow or rain likely. Low tonight in the 30s. High Sunday 37 to 42 north, 44 to 48 south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy with rain or snow during the day. NOON EDITION J

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the mountains to the flat Assam Valley. Radio Peking, monitored in Tokyo, again charged that India i had attacked Chinese territory and accused the Indians of trying to expand the conflict. It said the heaviest fighting was in progress near the Tawang River “in China’s Tibet region.” ■ India said all action was at least i 16 miles inside Indian territory. Peking Ttadfto broadcast the text > of a new protest note to India, t warning Prime Minister Jawa- ■ harlal Nehru “not to take China’s • forbearance and self-restraint as a sign that China is weak and can be bullied.” It also said “proper arrangements” had been made for the j treatment of 927 Indian prisoners |of war, whose capture was an--1 nounced Friday. CROP Campaign To Be Launched Sunday With a goal of $7,000 in eight, the Adams county Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) launches its fall campaign next week, starting with CROP Sunday sermons and announcements in the churches of Adams county Sunday, Ralph Miller. Hartford township, and Charles Backhaus, St. Mary’s township, co-chairmen for the county drive, announced today. Next week, solicitors for CROP will visit every farm in the county, thoroughly covering every township, explaining the need for Christians to help others who are starving in many areas of the world. By transporting surplus American wheat, corn, milk, etc., given by the government to responsible agencies, CROP is able to distribute overseas 300 pounds of food for every dollar given. Last year Adams county CROP ranked second in Indiana only to Elkhart comity in generosity to the starving masses of people in the Near East, Africa, South and Central America, Nationalist Chino, India, and elsewhere. The county raised over $6,600 last year. This year, more than 51 farm* ers, by giving a Friendship Acre — of their crops, have given the program a good start. —A township chairman. - and in — many cases co-chairmen, have been named for all twelve townships r~and~3tl —of the townships were represented among the 75 persons who attended the kickoff meeting Thursday night at Adams Central. About 60 counties in UitT state, out of 92, will be actively canvassing this fall, to help m’Pet a s,tate goal of $162,000 for CROP. Rev. Gerald L. Wilson, state director, is hopeful of this goal. nUCATIII TKMPKH ATI'RKS l.oi-al wmil h UtHTT frrr File period ending- at 9 a.nr today. 12 nnon S 3 12 midnight Sil I r> m G 2 1 a.ni 5 8 2 p.m. 62 2 a m 68 3 Pin 62 3 it. m. . 67 4 p.m 62* l a.m 57 5 p.m 62 S a.m. . 55 6 p.m 62 6 a m. 66 7 p m. 62 7 a m. 58 8 p.m 61 g a.m, . 58 i pm. «o 9 a.m. 58 10 p.m. 80 II p.m. 60 Main Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .52 Inehen. The St. Mary's river wan at 1.51 feet.