Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1962 — Page 1

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Probe Mysterious Fatal Plunge Os Liner Friday Killing All 17 Aboard

U. S. And British Missions In India

NEW DELHI (UPI) — U.S. and British missions talked with Indian defense officials today and Red China began a new propaganda campaign to force acceptance of its terms for ending the border war. British Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys arrived today to join the British team. Asistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman heads the U.S. mission. “The purpose of my visit is simple,” Sandys said. "It is to find out what Britain can do to help India at this time of difficulty and danger.” India continued to move troops up to the threatened state of Assam to establish a new defense line against the Communists despite the uneasy truce proclaimed by Peking. There was no official word here that the Chinese were carrying out a similar buildup, although Indian officials have been quick to report such moves in the past. Communist Chinese broadcasts heard in Tcfcyo showed both an attempt to try to force India to the conference table and increasing signs of nervousness at the speed and scope of western aid to India. Chinese Premier Chou En-lai sent out appeals to Britain’s Lord Bertrand Russell and Guinean President Sekou Toure, urging them to pressure Indian into negotiating under the unfavorable Auction School To Open Here Monday Three students, from California, Indiana, and Alabama, have already arrived for the 85th session of the Reppert school of auctioneering, Dr. Rolland Reppert, school president, announced this morning. Between 50 and 60 students are expected for the winter session, which opens Monday, he added. The 180 hours of classroom and practical instruction will last three weeks, with more than a dozen top instructors from every part of the country. Guy Petit 11l One very familiar face will be missing this year, a face seen in Decatur two or three times a year since 1923. Guy L. Petit, 79, of Bloomfield, lowa, an auctioneer and instructor of national fame, and a veteran of 38% years with the school, suffered a stroke about two weeks ago, and is now a patient at the Davis county hospital, Bloomfield, la., where he has suffered a partial paralysis of the right side. Petit is well-known here, and has addressed the Decatur Rotary and Lions clubs on many occasions. Harold D. Parker, of LaPorte, a graduate of the School, and father of a graduate, had been on the local staff for three sessions. He suffered a fatal heart attack at his home in LaPorte the evening that the summer session closed last August. He was an expert on pedigree work. Johnson May Return Guy Johnson, a member of the first Reppert class of 1921, and for many years a lecturer at the school, is expected back this year, s health permitting. He is «• native of this area, and now lives in Ohio, but hns not been well enough to attend sessions for several years. Q. R.Chaffee, dean ot the school since the death of Col. Fred Reppert in 1946, is back for his 28th year. Paul Martin, of Lancaster, Pa., a horse and pony auctioneer, will be on the faculty for the first time this year. , Attorney Speaks Robert S. Anderson, local attorney, will again give lectures on the legal aspects of auctioneering, licensing laws in several states, and possible liabilities en-

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terms set out by the Chinese. Peking also appeared to be building up its case for a resumption of the fighting. It gave detailed reports of the arrival of the Harriman aid mission, and it has warned India many times in recent days against accepting U.S. weapons. There were two indications here Friday night that an early end to the conflict is not in sight, despite the ceasefire. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a message read at a youth rally here, said India’s struggle with China would be long. In an oblique reference to the cease-fire, he said “we must not imagine the struggle will be over soon because of various diplomatic moves.” The other indication came from K.K. Sha, general secretary of Nehru’s Congress party, who said there was “no change” in India’s stand that the Chinese must return to the positions they held before Sept. 8. The Peking conditions for new talks call for a withdrawal to the more forward positions the Reds held Nov. 7. In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, President Mohammed Ayub Khan’s brother, a leading politician in his own right, demanded that Pakistan withdraw immediately from the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and improve its relations with Communist China. volved. Anderson gave his first lecture last summer. At the summer session, the 84th semi-annual session, there were 73 students from 19 states and two from India. At the 83rd session last December there were about 52 graduates; at the 82nd, in August, 1961, 76 graduates from 19 states and Canada; at the 81st, in December, 1960, there were 55 students; and at the 80th, in 1960, there were 70, from 21 states and Alberta, Canada.

Warns Against Soviet Change

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Kennedy administration is seeking to exploit the broader peace possibilities of its Cuban victory without raising false hopes that the end of the cold war is in sight. Officials acknowledge this is a delicate task. Without discounting the importance of the Soviet retreat in the Caribbean, some officials are beginning to fear the public may have been oversold on its possible long range significance. .This could backfire against the administration if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, after reviewing his strategy, turned tougher than ever on Berlin and other critical issues. Or it could play into the Soviet leader’s hands if — as many authorities believe — he launches a new “peace offensive” to take advantage of Americaa complacency and potential differences among the allies. Cleveland Issues Warning A top administration spokesman in a speech. in Philadelphia Friday night Issued the first clears cut puHlc warning on this score. Assistant Secretary of State for international Affairs Harlan Cleveland said that any assumption that Khrushchev’s backdown in Cuba heralded the beginning of a general retreat and earlier return to “normalcy” was nothing but "bottled-in-bond mythology." His remarks appeared to be addressed to the more extravagant journalistic interpretations of recent developments as the begin-

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (UPI) — Investigators are wondering if the solution of Friday’s mysterious fatal plunge of a United Air Lines Viscount lies in the freakish fate of another Viscount that crashed nearly three years ago because of multiple engine failure. Thirteen passengers and four crew members died in Friday’s crash, which occurred in bright, sunny weather a few moments after the plane had been cleared for final approach to Washington National Airport. The overwhelming majority of eyewitness reports on Friday’s crash of the Newark-Washington plane told of apparent engine trouble, followed by an almostvertical dive to earth like a runaway elevator. Significantly, there was no long swath of clipped trees in the wooded area where the prop-jet fell, and all the wreckage was concentrated in a relatively small space. Resembles Earlier Story Its final actions — with engines making “a funny noise” followed by a sudden dive to the ground—closely resembled the story of that earlier Viscount. It was a Capital prop-jet bound for Norfolk, Va., from Washington on the night of Jan. 18, 1960. At 8,000 feet over Holdcroft, Va., all four engines sputtered and quit. The pilot got one engine restarted just before the plane pancaked into the ground, killing all 50 aboard. Wreckage distribution was startingly similar to Friday’s accident, and eyewitnesses again cited apparent engine trouble. Nearly two years later, the CAB issued a report on the Holdcroft crash that blamed engihe icing for the multiple power failure. It also blamed Capital for not paying attention to a warning from Vickers, the plane’s British manufacturer, that the Viscount’s Rolls-Royce engines could ice up at higher temperatures than were believed possible. Capital crews were not advised of a Vickers bulletin suggesting that de-icing equipment be turned on sooner than Capital’s flight manuals recommended. Icing Not Blamed Hie weather over Holdcroft three years ago was rainy and cold, perfect for icing. Friday’s weather In the crash area was cold and sunny, with no precipitation. However, icing could occur without precipitation.

ning of the end of international communism’s expansionist efforts. Cleveland said the problem was that when administration officials speculated on a possible “turning point” or “watershed in world affairs .. . people immediately jumped to the conclusion that we shall wake up some fine Friday morning and discover that the horrors and threats and sweat and struggles of the past decade and a half were no more than bad dreams .. . ” His speech, before the council for Social Studies, was the first full dress presentation bya high official since Kennedy disclosed Khrushchev’s agreement to pull his jet bombers out of Cuba. Discounts Complete Reversal Cleveland said, as the President had last Tuesday, that the way might now be open for some on other East-West issues. But he warned against expecting a complete Russian turnabout. He said he would expect any change more likely would be a gradual "moving in the direction .of peace through complex forms of cooperation.” Kennedy himself acknowledged that it was Impossible at this time to tell just what the possibilities were. He held out the hope that the Cuban experience plus obvious troubles between Russia and Red China might eventually force a more reasonable Moscow approach on Berlin and other issues. But he said only time could tell.

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'■■■—— y But there are other possible causes, admittedly rare, of multiple engine failure. They include fuel starvation or contamination, an electrical system malfunction that might affect propellers or failure of a turbine blade that could hav£ been thrown into an adjacent engine. The 10 Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigators pawing through the charred wreckage of United Flight 297 will be looking for evidence of other possible causes than engine failure — control difficulties, crew incapacitation and even sabotage, for example. The plane’s flight recorder was foupd in good condition and its data will be examined by experts at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington. All but four of the 13 passengers aboard were United employes. Believe East Germany Eases Berlin Demands BERLIN (UPI) — Western officials believe a new East German Communist document indicates thp Communists may be backtracking on their demands that the Allies withdraw their troops from West Berlin. This cautious belief was based on expert examination of a statement published in the East German press Friday. Called a program for the “age of socialism,” the 1, official statement wag drafted at a meeting of the East German party’s central committee last month. Officials said the program played down the demand, first advanced in November, 1958, that East Germany be given a peace treaty providing for West Berlin’s conversion into a “demilitarized free city,” which would mean Western Garrisons would have to leave. The peace treaty demand was included in the statement, but it was not stressed as an immediate objective. It appeared instead to be a long-range goal. The statement did include a demand for “eradication of the occupation regime” in West Berlin and establishment of the “free city.” But the usual vitrolic terms were missing, and the continued existence of West Berlin was accepted in a plea for “normal relations” between the city and East Germany. At the least, Western officials said, the program indicated a change of emphasis on the part of the Communists. They considered it significant that the Communist propaganda campaign against the West has been toned down since the return from Moscow this month of East Germany party leader Walter Ulbright. The officials said East Germany still is trying to get a long-term loan from prosperous West Germany and is maintaining contacts with the Bonn government hoping to conclude the deal. This was considered a good sign that there would be no trouble in the immediate future, because West Germany would refuse to do business under such circumstances. O B SHOPPING ” DAYS LEFT I ciriitMS Mils noht tb \ mlgf

- -2 ..... Affidavits Filed In Junk Yard Protests City attorney Robert S. Anderson has filed affidavits with city court judge John B. Stults, once again, concerning the “junk yard” on S. Eighth street. The affadavits, signed by Miss Eleanor R. Wemhoff, a resident of 309 N. Eight street, are against Lawrence Gallogly, his wife, Arlene Gallogly, and Edward Imel. One affidavit is against Gallogly and his wife, owners of the lot where the alledged dumping of junk is going on, for permitting the dumping of the junk, while a second affidavit is against Imel for dumping the junk on the Eighth street lot. The third affidavit is against all three for conspiring together to allow this violation of a zoning ordinance to continue. On July 5, of this year, city attorney Anderson was instructed by the city council to file three affidavits, identical to those which have been signed by Miss Wemhoff. Case Continued The case went before city court Judge Stults later in July, and the judge continued the case, on the ■ •Agreement that the GaUogiys and • Imel would clean up the lot and ■ discontinue any dumping of ' “junk.” 1 The major and city council had been requested that the dumping be stopped, and finally resorted to I taking the matter into court. Following the court decision, Gallogly and Imel apparently discontinued the dumping and cleaned up the lot. Miss Wemhoff, and other residents of the area, have been claiming, however, that the junk dumping has not been stopped, and that the city zoning ordinance is once again being violated. Signed Friday As city attorney, Anderson is to handle suph matters as violations of city ordinances, etc., and explained to the Eighth street residents that further action would be taken if they would sign the affidavits, which Miss Wemhoff did Friday afternoon. The ordinance allegedly violated is general ordinance 1-1949 of the zoning ordinance, which states that no junk storage shall be dumped except within a closed building or a lot with a solid, eight-foot fence around the lot, and that no dumpwithin 300 feet of a residential district. What Is Junk? The Eighth street lot is definitely in a residential area, and there is no fence around the lot, D. Burdette Custer, representing the Galloglys and Imel in the previous action, however, brought up the question as to just what constitutes junk. Anderson filed the affidavits with Judge Stults this morning, and the judge will now set a date for hearing the case which is actually reopening the previous case, which was continued on the agreement of cleaning up the lot and discontinuing the dumping of the alleged “junk.” Increase Aid For Chinese Refugees UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —The United States contribution for aid to Chinese refugees will be increased from $2 million this year to $4 million in 1963, it was announced Friday. Mrs. Marietta P. Tree, a member of the U.S. delegation, told the U.N. Social Committee of the planned increase. 300 Ships Under Boycott By Arabs CAIRO (UPI) — A total of 300 ships are being boycotted by the Arab League’s Israel boycott office, the semi-official Middle East News Agency (MENA) said Friday. MENA said the ships blacklisted for dealing with Israel include American, British, Greek, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish vessels.

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Kennedy Attending Harvard-Yale Game HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) — President Kennedy makes' a sentimental journey back to his alma mater today to back the Harvards against the Yales. Traveling by helicopter from Cape Cod to Boston at 12:30 p.m. EST, the Chief Executive planned his first visit to the Harvard-Yale football game since he took office. The President and his family are spending the weekend here. The First Lady was not expected to accompany him to the game, although his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, another Harvard alumnus, will be along. They will be joined st the game by a former Harvard captain, Kenneth P. jO’Donnell, now special assistant to the President in charge of his appointments. The President, Harvard ’4O, did not play varsity football, himself, because of an injury received at the start of his college career. He has maintained an avid interest in football, however. Next Saturday will find him at the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. There seemed to be little likelihood of new developments here’ this weekend on the President’s “highly probable” meeting with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. Kennedy returns to Washington Monday and a decision on when and where to meet the prime minister for a year-end check-up on world affairs may be made shortly thereafter. Kennedy and Macmillan last met in Washington in April of this year. They also met in Bermuda last December.

Khrushchev Still Firmly In Control

MOSCOW (UPI) — Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev apparently was still firmly in control of the Soviet Communist party today despite a series of high-level changes which moved a number of newcomers to the party’s upper levels. The changes were announced Friday night, at the end of a week-long meeting of the Communist central committee. They were intended to expedite a reorganization in the Soviet economy proposed by Khrushchev, which called for top-to-bot-tom tightening of party control. Western diplomats were carefully —studying—the— announced changes to determine the signifI icance of each shift and its relation ter Khrushchev’s leadership. One of the more interesting changes shifted Dmirty Polyansky, a member of the ruling presidum (politburo) from the job of premier “of the “Wiet Ucon’s largest “state!” — the Russian Federation — to the post of deputy premier of the nation. Some Western observers regarded the transfer as a possible comedown for the 44-year-oid official because six other Soviet INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Fair and warmer Sunday. Low tonight 25 to 35. High Sunday mid 50s. Outlook for Monday: Fair and mild. NOON EDITION

State Traffic Toll Above 1962 Totals -

By United Press International Indiana’s traffic fatality toll for the year climbed above the count for the entire year of 1961 today in a flurry of deaths during the Thanksgiving holidays. Three accidents today each claimed one life, and two other persons died from injuries suffered in earlier wrecks, raising the toll for 1962 to at least 1,083, compared with 939 this date last year. The final toll for 1961 was 1,082. More than five weeks remain in this year for the casualties to i shoot up far beyond that figure. Richard Fitzwater, 17, Craw- , fordsville, was killed today when • he apparently dozed while driving i alone along a road about one-mile from Crawfordsville. The car left [ the road and smashed into a tree. Bobbie Gene Hughes, 19, Anderson, was killed today when a car in which he rode careened off a county road south of Anderson, ripped through a fence and overturned. The driver of the car in which Hughes was riding was identified . as Thomas Tremaine, 23, Anderson. Tremaine was injured. Norman Sanders of Anderson told authorities the accident happened after Sanders demanded to be let out of the car because Tremaine was driving recklessly. Sanders said Tremaine was stopped earlier in the night for operating a car with an expired driver license. James Rosenberry, 37, Hammond, father of seven children, was killed this morning when two cars collided at an intersection in East Chicago. The driver of the other car was Galen Thoreson,

deput” premiers are not even presidium members. Another key shift moved Leonid F. Ilyichev, former head of the agitation and propaganda department of the central committee, to the post of chairman of the central committee’s ideological commission. It was believed Ilyichev may be moving toward the position of party ideological expert, currently believed to be held by veteran presidium member Mikhail L Suslov.* . J — Authorize India To Buy Wheat In U. S. WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States Friday issued an authorization for India to buy. $55 million worth of wheat -fromAmerican suppliers under the Food-for-Peace program. The shipments are to be made between Nov. 30 and March 31. DBCAWB TEMPERATVRES Local weather data for the period ending at 9 a.m. today. 12 noon .. 56 12 midnight .. 68 1 p in ’56 1 a m 56 2 p.m 56 2 a.m 55 3 p.m 56 3 a.m 54 4 p.m .’.... 59 4 a.m 54 5 p.m 60 5 a.m 52 6 p.m62 6 a.m. ....: 50 7 p.m. 62 7 am. 48 8 p.m 64 8 a.m 50 9 p.m;..... 62 9 a.m 54 10 p.m. 60 11,p.m. ...:.. 60 Rain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. .0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1.56 feet 1 . J- • 1

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Gary, who was injured. Rosenberry was thrown out and was dead on arrival at am East Chicago hospital. Two other deaths from earlier accidents were added to the toll. Wayne Weller, 53, assistant principal of Evansville Reitz High School, died early today in Deaconess Hospital in that city from injuries suffered Nov. 10. Authorities said Weller was driving along a road at the outskirts of Evansville when he became ill, stopped the car and get out. He was struck by a car driven by a 15-year-old girl whom aui thorities said had no license be- ' cause she was below the minimum driving age, and who said she had had a drink of vodka. Mrs. Agnes May Welch, 30, Montpelier, died Thursday at Muncie from injuries suffered Sept. 23 in an accident in Jay County east of Hartford City. The latest accidents raised to 12 the number of deaths from accidents occurring since the Thanksgiving holiday period began at 6 p.m. Wednesday. PlKup 7th pgh: Q woman was A woman was killed in a traincar crash Friday afternoon. State police said Mrs. James Byard, 22, R. R. 1, St. Paul, was killed when the car she was driving collided with a New York Central railroad train four miles northwest of Greensburg. Mrs. William Byard, 48, R.R. 1, St. Paul, the victim’s mother-in-law, was critically injured and admitted to Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis. Also hurt was Lisa Lynn Byard, 3, daughter of the dead woman. Results of an autopsy were expected in an investigation of the death of Leo K. Wendall, 30, Shelbyville, Friday near Mooresvile. It was thought he might have suffered a heart attach before his car crashed into a car driven by John- Ragsdae, Indianapolis. Cubans Gripped By Terror In Red Rule MIAMI (UPD — Six Cuban refugees,; weak from exposure but overjoyed to be in the United States, said Friday their homeland is ruled by terror, gripped by hunger and controlled by_Contv_ munist spies. ~ “Cuba is a completely impossible place,” said-_onejium,-4Hmem-ber ofTwo groups totaling 11 persons to arrive separately Friday after fleeing the island in two small boats. The refugees were the first to reach this country since the liftihg of the Cuban quarantine. „ The two groups fled Cuba foiir I days apart and entered Florida at two different points — Key West and Pompano Beach. The six sat in the Cuban refu-gee_centeF-here Friday. The other ~ five persons were detained at a hospital for treatment of exposure and hunger. ‘‘Once ordinary things such as oranges are now rare in Cuba,” one man said. “Even sugar is in short supply.” They said "Castro must be overthrown. The people can’t go on much longer. “But they know he is dominated by the Russians, and they now recognize him as a mere puppet.” J ' t