Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 114.

Race Demonstrations Continue In South

Number Hurt During March In Nashville NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) — A group of about 150 Negro students clashed with white hecklers and police Monday during an anti-segregation march through downtown Nashville. A number of persons was injured and at least three men were arrested. More demonstrations were planned for today. The demonstrations, which broke a truce, will continue until “some concrete steps are taken to end segregation here,” said John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Elders Counsel Nonviolence The students staged the demonstration Monday against the advice of some older Negro leaders who feared such activity would interfere with negotiations to solve the city’s racial problems. Mayor Beverly Briley said “real progress” was made in a meeting with white businessmen and Negro leaders Monday afternoon. Monday’s demonstrations saw some of the students, belts wrapped about their fists, attack groups of white hecklers. White youths stoned the Negroes near a church in the downtown area and even near the city jail. Negroes engaged in a grief shoving battle with police A number of injuries were reported, but most of them were minor. At least two Whites and a Negro were arrested. Governor Sounds Warning Gov. Frank Clement told a news conference shortly before the demonstrations, began that he planned no action on the disturbances here, but promised he would not let trouble reach the point where federal troops would have to tee called in. "I drtj’t toMrng you toi».” Clemenr told newsmen. “I think you know I believ law and order must be upheld regardless of what issues. And I believe it must be enforced in Tennessee by Tennesseans. . .As long as I am governor of Tennessee, I do not intend to let a situation get to where the federal government sends troops into Tennessee.” Time Changed For School Action Case Adams county’s school reorganization case will open at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, instead of the originally scheduled time of 9 a.m., it Was learned this morning- . .. The badly-tangled reorganization case will be held before Judge Ray Ade of the Huntington circuit court. The case was scheduled to open at 9 a.m., but has been moved back to 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. J. A. Bruggeman, of Fort Wayne, attorney for Berne-French, will be assisted by Kenner, Gordon, Glenn & Miller of Huntington. Attorneys were given until May 20 to file briefs of their respective positions in' the case.

■ I ---'V - I HAKDLY A STROLL—Guards, guards, guards. Haiti's president, Francois. Duvalier, second from left, foreground, is completely surrounded by guards, and guards line roofs of puddings on his first departure from palace arounds inPort-au-Prmce smce Apri l 21. Duvalier took his 300-yard walk to dedicate a new tax building.

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Cuban Refugee Is Lions Club Speaker -■ • , Frederic© Rodriquez, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba, brought to Bluffton by the Grace Methodist church and resettled there, addressed the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Rodrigues, an attorney in Cuba, is now working in the auditing department of North American Van Lines in Fort Wayne, and will be transferred to the legal department after he has completed his orientation *in the company. Family Separates The Cuban attorney explained how his family escaped from Cuba as it turned toward Communism, bow one daughter was in New Jersey, one in Mexico, and he, his wife and youngest child went to Venezuela. Not until they had spent two years in refugee camps were they resettled by the Bluffton Grace Methodist church, and the whole family reunited. Rodriquez had been an attorney for a Methodist group in Cuba, and the family is Methodist. He was introduced by the Rev. A. C. Underwood, of Decatur; the Rev. Keith Davis, of Bluffton, was a guest at the meeting. Teaches Spanish Mrs. Rodriguez is now teaching Spanish in the Bluffton school system; she was a graduate in Cuba, and was able to obtain a teaching license. He explained how politics in Spanish-speaking America differs from that practiced in the U. S. Instead of following parties, Span-ish-speaking people follow leaders. They did not know that Castro was Communist, and they felt he was a strong leader. The government of Cuba started becoming corrupt under the rightwind leaders, like Batista, in the early 1930’5, and progressed to the point where people had no faith in it at all. Thus, they were looking for a strong leader, not Communism, when they chose to follow Castro. South American Needs Rodriguez pointed out that what Spanish-speaking Americans desired most was that every America understand them, and their problems. What they need most, Rodriguez stated, was not aid, but understanding of what America is really like. He opened up the meeting for questions afterward, and explained in detail his opinions on a number of subjects, from the Bay of Pigs incident in the first month of the Kennedy administration, to the handling of foreign aid in South America. He explained how Cuba is currently building up left-wing trouble in South America by a tremendous exchange program, of bringing in dissatisifed South Americans to Cuba, training them, and sending in hundreds of agents to foment trouble against the oligarchies that rule the rest of the continent.

Three Injured Monday Night At Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD— Two white youths were cut with knives and a Negro was wounded by a pellet gun Monday night on the streets of this racially torn city. State troopers patrolled the streets while a small detachment of federal troops maintained an observation post in the federal building here. The incidents Monday night were scattered and there was no recurrence of the weekend rioting that caused President Kennedy to order 3,000 troops sent to military bases in Alabama on standby alert. Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. appealed to members of his race at a mass meeting Monday night “to be calm and retain our commitment to nonviolence. “We can’t win meeting violence with violence,” he said- “If there is any blood spilled in the streets, let it be our blood.” One white youth, J. W. Burgess, 18, was treated at a hospital for a deep gash on his arm. He told police he and another youth, Richard Hite, 17, were standing in a telephone booth near his home when a group of Negroes drove by and cursed them, then returned and beat them with sticks and slashed him with a knife. Police said Hite was stabbed in the left arm and two inches of the blade broke off in his arm. Prince Gree, 53, a Negro, was hospitalized in fair condition with a, pellet wound on his face. Green said he was emerging from a store in a Negro neighborhood whe a car containing three white youths drove by. “I felt a terrible smack on the jaw and I just felt numb all over,” he said. Hospital attendants removed a Yt inch metal slug from his left jaw. Police had no comment on the incident. • —. . , —. May Safety Check To Open Wednesday The annual May safety check, conducted by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the Adams county sheriff’s department, will begin Wednesday evening. The first check lane will be set up on Monroe St., between Fifth and Sixth Sts.,* from 5 to 7 p.m. Lanes will be set up on Mercer Ave., at the hospital, Thursday, and in front of the Youth and Community Center Friday, both running froth 5 to 7 p.m. Check lanes will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, with Saturday’s held on N. 13th street and Sunday’s on S. 13th street. The safety check will be held all of this week and next week, with Sunday, May 26, the final day. Jack Petrie is the Jaycee chairman for the annual project.

Shorter Detour On U.S. Highway 27 Detouring of traffic on U.S. 27, at the south edge of the city, was started today, as both the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads are beginning work on repairing their railroad crossings on 13th street. Traffic will be rerouted down Adams St., to Tenth St., which will be a short detour. It was originally planned to reroute traffic down Adams to Five Points, and south on Winchester St., but this has been abandoned in favor of the shorter detour. Work on the Elm street water main is expected to be held up until the crossing repair is finished, which is expected to take four to five days. Funeral Wednesday For Carrie E. Heare Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie E. Heare, who died Monday morning, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zion United Church of Christ, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Win-teregg-Linn funeral home until 12 noon Wednesday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 14, 1963.

Cooper’s Flight Around World Postponed For 24 Hours By Faulty Radar

Urges Railroads, Unions Negotiate

WASHINGTON (UPD—A presidential emergency board said today that the railroads and unions must get down to serious negotiation over the so-called featherbedding dispute within the next 30 days to avert a nationwide rail strike. It said a strike would be “crippling” to the country. The board made a number of recommendations for settlement of the work rules issues. It said that during its 5% weeks of deliberations and mediation efforts “considerable progress has been made towards the creation of a climate which could support genuine negotiation.” Asking each side to “re-exam-ine its responsibilities not only to itself, but to the nation,” the board said: “If the parties approach the bargaining table in this spirit, and will immediately undertake serious negotiations, we believe that the difficulties raised by the number and complexity of the issues and by the number and diversity of the parties can be overcome.” Kennedy created the board April 3 to forestall a strike over etergea by r»)lro«d« o< “Mfcer bedding” by unions and the position of labor organizations that

Trial Without Jury Slated Wednesday A trial without jury will open in the Adams circuit court Wednesday morning before Judge Myles F. Parrish, concerning charges of rape and assault and battery with intent to commit a felony against 19-year-old James Durham of Decatur. The charges were brought against Durham by Adams county prosecutor Several H. Schurger, as a result of affidavits signed by a 15-year-old Decatur girl, charging Durham with the two counts. Richard J. Sullivan, Durham’s pauper attorney, entered pleas of not guilty to both charges by reason of alibi on Thursday, May 2. «r According to the notice of intention to introduce evidence in support of the alibi, Sullivan, in defense of Durham, “will offer evidence to establish presence from midnight to midnight” on the date stated by the affidavit on which the alleged offense occurred. The alibi reportedly shows the presence of Durham at all times on the day of the alleged crime, April 13, from midnight to midnight. Frank Rowley Rites Thursday Morning Funeral services for Frank L. Rowley, who died Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. A. C. Underwood will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. Pallbearers will be Deane T. Dorwin, Wilbur Petrie, Harry Knapp, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., John Boch and William Linn. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and not much temperature change tonight and Wed nesday. Low tonight 47 to 54. High Wednesday 72 to 80. Sunset today 7152 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:» a. m. Outlook for Thursdays Cloudy and warmer. Lows in the 50sHighs 75 to 85. 1

their criteria for work rules and pay structure of some 200,000 operating employes should be honored. The dispute, which has been pending since November, 1959, came to a head after a Supreme Court decision March 4 upholding the right of management to change work rules. The unions, under terms of Kennedy’s order setting up the board, are barred from striking for an additional 30 days from the time the report was filed with the White House. It was submitted Monday night. Members of the emergency board called on the President today tq discuss the report. They are Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, New York chairman; Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, and Prof. Nathan Feinsinger of the University of Wisconsin Law School. The board said a general railroad work, stoppage “would stop all movement on 92 per cent of the total railroad mileage in the United States, and render idle 94 per cent of the industry’s employes.” *-If -bits happened, it said, “the damage to the nation .would be inestimable.”

Band Parents Group Reelects Off icers Mrs. Kenneth Singleton was reelected president of the Decatur Band Parents association, at the association’s meeting Monday evening. All of the club’s original officers were reelected, including Mrs. Singleton; Mrs. E. A. Smith, vice president: Mrs. Carl Baxter, secretary;, and Mrs. Arthur Beeler treasurer. The four were the association’s first officers when the organization was originated some three months ago. Mrs. Milton Spence was chairman of the nominating committee, which presented the slate of officers. A representative of a uniform company attended the meeting, and displayed sample uniforms of current styles. The association is working on various projects to raise $5,000 for the purchase of new uniforms for the Decatur high school band. ..., Latest contributors to the are the D-Club, Oscar Lankenau, the First State Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Collins. Anyone wishing to contribute may do so by mailing the donation to Mrs. Kenneth Singleton, 1023 W. Adams St. Three-Year-Old Boy Dies At Hospital Johnnie Schwartz, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Y. Schwartz of Geneva route 2, died Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was admitted earlier in the day. Death was attributed to gastroenteritis. The child was treated at the office of a Berne physician Saturday for burns to the lower part of his body, caused when he fell into a pail of scalding water. Monday, the child became much worse and was brought to the hospital. The parents said the child had been fll with influenza the past winter and recently suffered a recurrence. Surviving are the parents, two brothers and six sisters, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Schwartz and Mr. and Mrs. Sam BW- _ - _ The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Samuel C. Schwartz residence. Friends may call at the home of the parents until time of the services.

L. Gordon Cooper's attempt to fly 22 times around the world was postponed for 24 hours today by a faulty tracking radar on which his safety and the success of his mission depended. Walter C. Williams, operations chief of the Mercury space program, announced that a second attempt would be made at 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday. Today’s postponement was announced at 10:57 a.m., 12 minutes before the 36-year-old Air Force major was to have vaulted into the sky atop an Atlas rocket for a 34-hour trip through space. After the postponement, Cooper was eased out of his spacecraft and returned to Hangar S, his pre-flight home on the cape. He had started the day at 3 50 a.mCooper, whose mission is to set a new space flight record for Americans, had been in his cramped Faith-7 cabin 4 hours and 19 minutes when the reluctant decision was made to “scrub” the flight. Trouble in Bermuda The radar trouble developed at the Bermuda tracking station on which Mercury controllers depend to determine whether a spacecraft has gone successfully into orbit. The radar will be given a final check at 7 o’clock tonight. The trouble with the radar coincided with failure of the diesel engine whidi moves jhe ISMoot, 450-ton service tower away from the Atlas booster before blastoff. The engine failure, first in the memory’ of cape veterans, forced A delay of more than two hours in Cooper’s planned liftoff. Then the radar difficulties necessitated a scrub for the day. Christopher C. Kraft, Mercury flight director, told newsmen that radar trouble was caused by “a combined mechanical - • opticalelectronic gadget” which analyzes information received from the spacecraft. Kraft said spare parts for repairing the equipment were on had in Bermuda. These difficulties spoiled an otherwise perfect pre-flight count down. The weather was fine here and at key recovery areas around the world. Cooper was in “tip-top" shape. The Atlas was ready to go. Wednesday is the earliest another attempt can be made. The big Atlas had been loaded with 160,000 pounds of liquid oxygen to burn the 73,000 pounds of high grade kerosene fuel previously put aboard. Technicians began at once to drain the liquid oxygen, roll the service tower back in place, and liberate Cooper from his cabin. Asked just when the launch would be attempted again, an official said “It’s too early to tell.” Radar Trouble Uunknown It was not immediately determined what had gone wrong with the Bermuda radar. The trouble showed up around 8 a.m The countdown had been continued, however, in the hope the radar would start functioning again. The postponement was a disappointment not only to Cooper but to the whole Mercury space team. President Kennedy and Democratic congressional leaders were at breakfast when the delay caused by the diesel engine was disclosed. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said the President indicated “great interest in the flight.” Were Previous Delays But delays and scrubs are old stuff in the space business. The first American in orbit, Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., sweated it out twice in his spacecraft before he got off on his three - orbit flight Feb. 20, 1962. Virgil I. Grissom, who made a suborbital flight July 21, 1961, also was removed from his cabin because of delays. Grissom holds the record for time spent in a capsule before flight—6 hours and 19 minutes. It was Glenn who voiced the thought always uppermost in the minds of astronauts. When he was pulled out of his cabin he said, "There’ll be another day.” Officials had hoped to the last to get Cooper off today on his 575,000-mile flight. A postpone ment when the weather is good always raises the possibility that it may turn sour before the next attempt can be made.

Pre - Trial Parley Called On Sales Tax

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Judge John L. Niblack today called a pre-trial conference for Wednesday of attorneys representing the State of Indiana and the Indiana AFL-CIO “‘to expedite” a legal battle over a new 2 per cent sales tax. Niblack said he would consider at that time also a motion to be . filed this afternoon by Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelhaus asking the judge to dissolve a restraining order he issued Friday. The temporary restraining order brought to a halt a crash program aimed at getting the tax into operation by July 1The state on behalf of the defendants—Governor Welsh, Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney arid Attorney General Edwin K. Steers—hopes to clear the way to resume preliminary

i ... ■ . — Surplus Food To Chicagoans

CHICAGO (UPD—Thousands of relief recipients crowded neighborhood service centers for surplus food in Chicago’s relief crisis today and a television cameramen was knocked unconscious at one of the depots. The incident occurred at the Abraham Lincoln Center in the heart of Chicago’s South Side where 700 to 800 persons had gathered to pick up their 35 pounds apiece of federal food. George Lussow, 47, a cameraman for Chicago television station WNBQ, was the victim. A film ' courier who was with him said someone tried to take Lussow’s camera from him. When he resisted, the courier said, the ■ crowd closed in. 1 Lussow was taken to Michael Reese Hospital in a semi-con--1 scious condition. A National Broadcasting Co. spokesman said he had suffered a concussion and 1 facial lacerations and had lost a ■ tooth, but that his condition was ■ satisfactory. Camera Is Gone Lussow’s camera was gone, the NBC spokesman said. The NBC spokesman said Lussow became lost in the crowd while taking pictures. He was found by police sitting on the pavement, his back against a police car. Lussow was dazed and was unable immediately to recount what had happened. Police said the crowd was lined up in orderly fashion, waiting for food, when Lussow went along the file taking pictures. Some of the reliefers protested, police said, and struck Lussow when he persisted. Other cameramen in the area were not attacked. Later, however, police requested that cameramen leave the area. Distribution of 30 tons of federal food began in Chicago just as the state legislature in Springfield . appeared close to settlement of the deadlock which has held up mailing of May and June relief checks to thousands of families. The disute has centered on whether “ceilings” should be placed on individual relief pay-ments.-Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner said Monday he was willing to go along with “reasonable” ceilings. Today, Senate Republican Whip George Drach said he would recommend that the GOP majority release the May and June payments without ceilings and debate the issue later. In Chicago, where 8,000 families' lire oh aid todependent children rolls, a fleet of trucks carried federal surplus food 'to 30 neighborhood distribution points. James P. Dunkin Jr., assistant . secretary of agriculture, said 2.5 . million pounds of federal food was available to feed the needy

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preparations. Otherwise the state will be unable to begin collecting the tax July 1 even though it may win the suit. President Dallas Sells of the Indiana AFL-CIO filed the suit challenging the constitutionality of the sales tax, which the state needs to produce $lB7 million of the new biennial budget. Four out-of-state tax experts called in to get the tax program into operation were told not to report to their first day’s work Monday because of Niblack’s ruling. Steers and his deputies wanted to get the restraining order removed so preliminary planning could be accomplished. The tax is to go into effect July 1. A hearing on the constitutionality of the new tax law was set for May 22. A hearing on the brackets of the sales tax was also postponed indefinitely.

in the Chicago area—enough to take care of 80,000 persons for 30 days. Plenty of Food “There’s plenty more if they need it,” Dunkin told a news con- , ference. "We could feed up to 180,000 if necessary.” At the Abraham Lincoln Ceni ter, nearly 1,000 persons had , gathered before the first food truck arrived. A case worker said “I don’t . know how many will be here for , food once the word gets out. We ! desperately need help to unload boxes and distribute the food. ! Some of the people waiting in line » are helping out.” This was before the Lussow inl cident. ; George H. Squier 1 Dies This Morning George H. H. Squier, of 310 Oak street, well known Decatur resi- ■ dent and for many years custodian I at the Decatur high school, died 1 at 1:45 o’clock this morning at the ! Adams county memorial hospital He had been ill for three weeks 1 with complications and in critical ’ condition for three days. He was I 90 years old. Born in Carroll county March 17, ■ 1873, he was a son of Ellis and Nancy A. Logan-Squier. He was married to Bessie Bowers Sept. 17, 1910. Mr. Squier retired in 1953 as high school custodian after 21 years of service. He was a member of the First Christian church, a 50-year member of the Decatur Masonic lodge, a member of the York Rite chapter 27, R. A. M., the Bluffton i council, Bluffton commandery, ' Valley of Fort Wayne, Scottish Rite. He was also a 50-year memi ber of the Order of Eastern Star, i of which he was a pest patron. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Ellis Squier of Santa | Monica, Calif.; ofie daughter, Mrs. ■ Revilla (Violet) Meyers of Lynn, 1 and two grandchildren. Three 1 brothers and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, with ’ the Rev. Matthew Worthman, of Indianapolis, officiating. Burial j will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral t home after 4 p. m. Wednesday un- > tn time ot the services. The Del catur Masonic lodge will hold serr vices at 8 p. m. Thursday.