Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1963 — Page 1

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Some Progress In Ban Talks

United Press International MOSCOW (UPD—Top-level U.S. British, and Soviet negotiators met anew today in the Moscow three-power nuclear conference amid increasing indications a n agreement may be reached soon on a partial test ban. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, U.S. Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman and British Science Minister Lord Hailsham opened the fourth session of the Big Three talks. The negotiations resumed in the wake of a Washington news conference statement by President Kennedy that he was “hopeful” the negotiators would agree to halting nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in space. Progress Noted A three-power communique issued in Moscow Wednesday night said that “progress” had been made in drafting treaty provisions. The rival East and West drafts already put forward at the Moscow nuclear talks were understood to be fairly close in positions. The Big Three talks began an hour and a half later than scheduled today because of a lunch Gromyko gave for visiting East German Foreign Minister Lothar. Boltz. East German sources said Boltz was in Moscow to discuss the Berlin problem in connection with the three-power talks. The consultations between Soviet and East German leaders during the nuclear conference led to speculation that another move might be in the works to try to solve the Berlin problem. Other Topics Discussed The conference although primarily devoted to the nuclear issue, was understood to have already held soundings—but not negotiations—on a number of cold war issues, including an EastWest non-aggression pact and the problem of Laos. The Soviet Union informed its citizens today that the East-West nuclear talks have “achieved progress” toward a limited test ban. The Soviet press published Wednesday night’s three-power communique as the talks entered their fourth day in an atmosphere of undiminished optimism. Moscow’s release of the communique was viewed as another cause for optimism. Observers noted that the Soviet press usually withholds such progress reports until negotiations are near the stage of agreement. Soviet citizens accustomed to reading between the lines of official pronouncements were certain to interpret the publication of the communique as a good sign. The communique indicated that

President Cautious On Ban Agreement

WASHINGTON (UPI) -> President Kennedy says he is not at all certain the dispute between Russia and Red China has passed the point of no return. ■ “Quite obviously there are • strong indications of pressure,” he said at a news conference Wednesday, but premature opinions would be foolish “because history has shown that they are frequently reversed.” ( The President was cautiously optimistic cm the possibility of reaching at least a limited nuclear test ban agreement with Russia' and said this should be possible — if at all — without a summit meeting. He added, however, that he would be ready to consider a session with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev if the "situation” became such that it was “essential to the making of an effective agreement.” Kennedy sought to reassure U.S. congressmen and NATO al- ‘ lies that the American mission negotiating with the Russians and British in Moscow would not make any secret deals or fatal concessions. He noted that any test ban agreement which might emerge from the Moscow negotiations being carried on by Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman would have to be approved by the Senate. The NATO Allies, Kennedy added, could be certain no deals affecting their "rights and intereats” would be made in Moscow and they would be fully filled in on any discussion of European subjects which might be going on there. inis obviously ‘meant the United States would not give Khrushchev any assurance, one way or the other, on the non-aggression pact between NATO and the Communist Warsaw Pact coun-

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the negotiators will not try to ban all tests, including those underground. It said that “progress was made in drafting some of the provisions of the test ban treaty concerning testing in the atmosphere, outer space, and under water.” Another cause for optimismwas the disclosure by diplomatic sources that the Soviet demand for a non-aggression pact to accompany the test agrement no longer poses an obstacle. The West was opposed to making the test ban dependent on the nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw alliance. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Under Secretary of, State W. Averell Harriman, and British Minister of Science Lord Hailsham were reported “relaxed and jocular” at a dinner Wednesday night, and the same friendly air has been reported from the conferences. Marion Pathologist Killed In Accident By United Press International A Marion hospital pathologist died today of injuries suffered when he and his 7-year-old son were struck by a car on an Indianapolis street, raising Indiana’s 1963 traffic fatality toll to at least 645 compared with 595 a year ago. Dr. Marion Cardenas, 65, of the staff of the U. S. Veterans Administration hospital, suffered fracand head injuries. His son Rafael was less seriously injured. They were hit Wednesday night by a car driven by Robert Neal Benedict, 36, Indianapolis, police said. Earlier, three Illinois persons were killed late Wednesday . in the second triple-fatality crash in five days on a treacherous stretch of *Chicago-to-Indianapolis highway. Ben Taylor, 56, Chicago; his wife, Loura, 44, and Prince Reed, 7, Maywood, 111., nephew of the Taylors, were killed when their car swerved on U. S. 52 in Benton County near Fowler to avoid water on the road and hit a truck head-on. Casso Reed, 6, brother of Prince, was hospitalized in Lafayette with critical injuries. Maurice Strickler, 41, Miami, Fla., the truck driver, and Larry Metzger, 26, Orlando, Fla., his passenger, also were hurt. Last Saturday, three were killed in one accident and one in another on the same stretch of highway within a 15-minute period during rainstorms.

tries which the Soviet leader wants. ’ Kennedy said the first three days of the Moscow talks had been “businesslike” and he was “still hopeful” of securing a test ban treaty, at least one prohibiting atmospheric, land and under water blasts — which can be detected afar without on-site inspection. On other international subjects, the President said: —The United States will not withdraw its military support from South Viet Nam in the battle against Communist guerrillas because that would lead to “collapse” of all Southeast Asia. It was “unfortunate,” however, that the dispute between .Buddhists and the Catholic-dominated South Viet Nam government “has arisen at the very time when the military struggle has been gping better than it has been going in many months.” —The Russians appear to be right in charging that Red China’s policies would lead to East-West war in which both sides would “wind up under nuclear rubble.” However, the Chinese would need Russian help to fight such a war and he does not think the Kremlin is “anxious to engage in a nuclear struggle to carry out ideological doctrines that the —There is no evidence to back up Fidel Castro’s assertions, upon his return from Moscow, that Cuba would like to relax tension with the United States. In any event, the United States “cannot co-exist in the peaceful sense with a Soviet satellite in the Caribbean." —There is no need for the United States to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican because any exchange of information can be achieved easily through the present U.S. embassy in Italy.

Find For Defendants In SIOO,OOO Suit The jury in the SIOO,OOO libel suit filed by Bernard Eiting, former Vera Cruz tavern owner and a former Decatur resident, found two Bluffton defendants innocent of the charges. The verdict was returned in ■the U. S. district court at Fort Wayne at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, after the juiy had deliberated for four hours. , The jury’s verdict, handed to Judge Jesse Eschbach, declared Raymond G. Durr, former Wells county sheriff, and Leßoy Hedges former Wells county probation officer, were innocent of libeling Eiting. The plaintiff had contended the letter the defendants wrote to the state alcoholic beverage commission in which they charged the tavern keeper with staying overnight in a Portland motel with one of his waitresses was libelous. He said it cost him his license and business. The trial opened Monday morning and evidence in the case was concluded at noon Tuesday, with final arguments by attorneys Wednesday morning.

Pres. Kennedy - Nearly Mobbed By Students WASHINGTON (UPD—A crowd of 2,560 foreign students ran wild on the White House lawn today in an over-enthusiastic rush to get close to President Kennedy. One girl grabbed the handkerchief from the President’s breast pocket and a boy snatched his tie clasp in the melee. “That’s two from our bus that got something,” the girl proudly announced as others .in the crowd surged forward toward the President on his way back to his office from where he greeted them. Kennedy, looking a little wilted but still smiling, got to his office without physical mishap, but one police lieutenant suffered hypertension as a result of the mob scene in the stifling summer heat. Several other officers had neckties torn from them and a Secret Service agent even lost a shoe for a time in their efforts to protect the President —as well as the prized boxwood hedge, the flowers and the Hue grass lawn of the garden which adjoined the area. White House policmen, their white shirts soaked with perspiration, had to line up on the porch outside Kennedy’s office to prevent the students from pushing through to that forbidden area. Kennedy had greeted the teenagers jokingly as “not the quietest group that has come to visit us.” .. . : . But he moved them to Silence in a stirring speech during which he urged them, when they returned home, to work for peace, friendship and "a fair chance for all.” He said if they, as future leaders of their countries, could prevent war “you will be the most remarkable generation in history.”

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, continued warm tonight and Friday. Chance of a few thundershowers this afternoon or tonight. Low tonight upper 60s north, 64 to 74 south. High Friday 85 to 92. Sunset today 8:10 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:32 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers likely. Lows upper 60s and low 70s. Highs 90 to 93.

Claude H. Rhodes Dies This Morning Claude H. Rhodes, TO, of Fo r t Wcyne, died at' 2:05 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He became ill a few days ago while visiting in this city with his son, Rexford Rhodes. He was a retired steel worker at the American Steel Dredge Co. at Fort Wayne, and was an honorary member of the United Steel Workers of America. Mr. Rhodes was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne. Surviving in addition to the son are five grandchildren: eight great grandchildren, and one brother, Clyde Rhodes of Plainwell, Mich. The body jkremoved to, a Fort Wayne funeral heme. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Kennedy Asks Congress To Enact Temporary Tax On Foreign Borrowing

Miss Terri Buckley . 'Miss Roaring 20s'

Mi W Ik 9 -NJh V! . I- < ■ MISS ROARING TWENTIES— Miss Terri Buckley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Buckley of Decatur, was crowned “Miss Roaring Twenties” in ceremonies Wednesday evening. Miss Buckley was sponsored by Jani Lyn. Miss Barbara Conrad was chosen runner-up, as seven young women were entered in the contest. —(Photo by Mac Lean)

Miss Terri Buckley, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Buckley, of 209 N. Sixteenth St., was .crowned 1963’s “Miss Roaring Twenties” in impressive ceremonies Wednesday evening evening, as the feature of the day-lpng “sidewalk Sale and Wing Ding” festivities. Miss Barbara Conrad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Myers, of 221 Water St., was selected as the contest’s runner-up. Sponsored by the Jani Lyn store, 119 N. Second St., Miss Buckley wore a nile green Georgette dress with a fashionable (in 1920) low waistline. The dress was worn to a party in 1922 by Viva Worden and presently owned by Mrs. G. W. Vizard. She wore also a nile green hat trimmed with a black velvet steamer and pink rose which was worn by Miss Irene Holthouse, as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Charles and Rowena Holthouse in 1925. Her silver slippers and silver mesh purse were worn b? Mrs. Al Anderson in 1925, and the black hose are tjhc property of Mrs. Roscoe Glendening. Her long rope of tiny black beads was owned by Mrs. Harvey Elzey, owner of the Jani Lyn store. Crowned Queen She was robed by master of ceremonies Bob Sievers, of radio station WOWO, and crowned by Miss Debbie Bultemeier, who was last year’s "Miss Gay Nineties.” Following the ceremonies, the new “Miss Roaring Twenties” was taken a ride through the Second street "midway” in an antique car owned by Cal Yost, to the delight of hundreds of persons who stayed despite a drizzling rain for the contest. The local young lady is a sophomore, at Indiana Upiversity, and previously attended Baret College. She is a member of the Young Democrats, the national honor society, and a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school. Her father is an electrical engineer with CTS of Berne, while her mother, Mrs. Eileen L. Buckley, is employed by the Jani Lyn store. Miss Conrad, who was sponsored by The Commercial Print Shop, where she is employed, will be a junior at Decatur high school, where she will be a cheerleader next year. She is also a member of the Order of Rainbow for girls. Wedding Dress Miss Conrad wore the wedding

dress and accessories worn by Mrs. William Kruetzman for her wedding in 1923. The material was while silk Romaine crepe with shirring on the left side and a pearl and rhinestone ornament on the right side of the dress. The sleeves of the dress were decorated with rhinestones and her shoes were of white kid. Her accessories included elbow length gloves, a tan and brown beaded necklace and a lace edged handkerchief. .1 The bow on her bouquet was also from the 1920 era. Miss Buckley won numerous prizes donated by Decatur merchants .including a cash award from the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Conrad also won several prizes and each contestant received a gift. More Thundershower Activity Predicted By United Press International More scattered thundershower activity was on tap for most Indiana areas today with the likelihood it would continue through Saturday, all in the midst of warm and humid temperatures. No cool-off was forecast at least for the next three days, and during that period Hoosiers can expect scattered rainfall, probably similar to that which fell in the 24-hour period ending at 7 a m. today. - During that period, precipitation included Evansville .25, Fort Wayne .23, South Bend .10, Indianapolis .07 and Lafayette .0? State climatologist L. A. Schaal said at Lafayette that recent rains were due to low pressure centers moving across the Great Lakes region. “These seem to be traveling farther south,” Schaal said. "Perhaps this signals a return to the more desirable rains from migrating lows rather than haphazard thunderstorm rains associated with convective activity and weak fronts.” Schaal said the slow, shaking rains of last Saturday were widespread and visited areas missed by rains a week earlier. Temperatures at high points Wednesday included Evansville 94, Indianapolis 91, Fort Wayne 90, Lafayette and Louisville 89, Cincinnati 88 and South Bend 86.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy asked Congress today to enact a temporary tax on foreign borrowing of U.S. capital in a stepped-up effort to close the growing balance of payments gap. The President said the new clampdown was needed to help make further “inroads into the hard core of our continuing payments deficit.” The President's recommendation, made in a special message to Congress, was intended to add more authority to an intensified attack on the dollar deficit which began this week with the raising of short-term interest rates. A*” payments deficit develoos when UiS. 'i&fer-' al government spend more dollars abroad than foreigners spend in this country. The result is a drain on U.S. gold stocks. The President proposed a program mixed with both old and' new ideas for resolving the balance of payments dilemma—one of the most nagging economic problems facing the nation. Urges Renewed fynphasis He urged renewed emphasis on previous drives to increase exports, promote U.S. tourism, and reduce overseas dollar expenditures by military and foreign aid programs. Kennedy said the long-range payments outlook was hopeful, but that action must be taken ■quickly to replenish “our stockpile of arrangements.. .during our return to equilibrium." The nation ended 1962 with a balance of’ payments deficit of $2.2 billion, which shot up to an annual rate of $3.3 billion March of this year. Government economists indicate the deficit is still climbing. Kennedy’s proposal for an “interest equalization tax” was designed to lessen the impact on the gap that results when foreigners borrow dollars in money markets here — where interest rates are lower —for use in their own country. Asks Graduated Tax The President asked Congress to enact a graduate tax, ranging from 2.75 per cent to 15 per cent, with the rate tied to the length of the a loan. The tax would start at the minimum 2.75 per cent on a threeyear loan, and rise to the full 15 per cent for loans maturing in 28*6 years or longer. It would be in effect through 1965. Kennedy said the levy ‘‘would stem the flood of foreign security sales in markets and still be fully consistent with both economic growth and free capital movements.” The increase earlier this week in short-term interest rates—from 3 per cent to 3*6 per cent — was intended to discourage the flight of U.S, capital to foreign banks offering higher rates. The President said these two strategies bolstered by additional savings in overseas government expenditures would add $2 billion to the "plus” side of the payments ledger during the next 18 months. Indianapolis Youth Is Drowning Victim BLOOMFIELD, Ind., (UPI) — Sonny Cale Griffith, 16, a senior at Indianapolis Tech High school, drowned Wednesday night while swimming in a gravel pit near here. Greene County Coroner Charles Greves said the boy's sister and two nieces with whom he was swimming in Noeus Gravel Pit west of BJoomfield told authorities that the victim dived from the top of a boat house and disappeared beneath the surface of the water. Huntington Man Dies In Ohio Accident URBANA, Ohio (UPI) — E. P. Lower, 52. Huntington. Ind., was killed and three Ohioans were injured Wednesday in a two-car collision near here on Ohio 68. The injured were identified as Catherin Hill, 40, Dorothea Crone, 60, and Fred Crone, 34, all of Bellefontaine, Ohio. , Police, who were still investigating. said one of the cars apparently crossed the center line of the highway.

Police In Chicago Halt Demonstration

CHICAGO (UPD — Police entered the offices of the Chicago Board of Education today and broke up an eight-day old' sit-in demonstration. Ten persons were arrested, . y, ~ ' The demonstrators were protesting alleged segregation in Chicago public schools. Their plan was to force the board into holding a special meeting to put new district boundary rules into effect. About 30 policemen, some in plain clothes, took part in the operation, which came 15 hours after violence erupted in front of the board's downtown office building. About 200 demonstrators Wednesday night massed in front of the building, two blocks from city hall, and marched and chanted for an hour. When some of them tried to enter the building they were turned back by police. Four- policemen and a young Negro girl were injured and Three demonstrators were, arrested. Spend the Night Later, some of the demonstrators were permitted to enter the building, where they spent the night. More demonstrators returned this morning and about 100 were inside the building shortly before the sit-in party was routed. Sponsors of the demonstrations, the Congress of Racial Equality, had announced that their activities in and around the building would be continued indefinitely. Wednesday night’s demonstration was without incident until the crowd tried to enter the building. On the street outside the school board building, the milling demonstrators carried signs, knelt in prayer and sang the anthem of the integration movement, "We Shall Overcome.” Core leaders delivered pep talks to the crowd for about an hour. Barred from Entrance But when the sit-in demonstrators tried to return to the school board conference room, they learned that a Board of Education official had asked police to pre-

Backs Civil Rights Bill

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy told Congress today that "no issues are more urgent" than those the administration’s civil rights program seeks to resolve. ,•, Kennedy appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by hostile Sen. James O. Eastland, D - Miss., to urge acceptance of the -President's entire civil rights package. To do so, he said in prepared testimony, would be “to bring to law what we have always known in our hearts to be justice.” The attorney general citied ra ciai unrest in Cambridge. Md.; Savannah. Ga., and "countless other cities" as evidence of what happens when "long-standing legitimate grievances are not remedied under law." He thus echoed the word of his brother, President Kennedy, who said Wednesday that the way to eliminate the nation’s racial troubles is to “provide for a redress of grievances." Demonstrations Hurt Cause The President told a news,conference that demonstrations leading to riots and violence, as in Cambridge, could only hurt the civil rights cause. But those who urge an end to demonstrations must be willing to work for equal opportunities, he said, or the problem will remain. The attorney general, whose ap-

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vent anyone from re-entering the building. About 25 policemen barred the entrance to the school board offices. The chanting, angry crowd surged toward the policemen and the melee began. The little Negro -girir- Cynthia Howell, Hh —wastrampled by the crowd and was taken to a hospital with a bruised leg. Policemen tried to shove the crowd back Jack Harkins, 27, white public relations director for’ CORE, was thrown to the ground. Harkins and Wendell Sexton, 35, a Negro school teacher, were carried to police wagons. Four policemen wrestled Robert Heard. 19. to the ground and carried him to a squad car. Three Leaders Arrested Heard, a Negro and unit director of CORE, Harkins and Sexton were arrested and booked on assorted charges ranging from aggravated battery to carrying a knife in a shoe. One policeman received a broken ankle, another was slashed by a woman's spiked shoe and two others received scratches and bruises. 8 - ’ After the scuffle, six demonstrators were allowed to return to the sit-in. \ Sam Riley, chairman of the Chicago chapter of CORE, said the refusal to allow sit-in'demon-strators to return to the board conference room violated an agreement with Board President Claire M. Roddewig. Riley said Roddewig had agreed to a special board meeting next Wednesday at which CORE could air its grievances. In return. Riley said, the sit-in would be abandoned at 8 a m. today. He said the sit-in now would continue. CORE has joined with other organizations to protest what they termed a double-standard school system. They have accused the board bf refusing to transfer Negro students from neighborhood school districts.

pearance before the committee had been delayed two days, coupled his plea for civil-rights legislation with an attack on states* rights advocates. "States’ rights, as our forefathers conceived it, ■ was a protection of the right of the individual citizen," Kennedy said. “Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seek, ing the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation." Stresses Important Point The attorney general said no part of the President’s program was “of more vital and immediate significance" than the proposal to ban discrimination in public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants. This provision would “accomplish the most immediate good in stamping out the fires of racial discord in our land," he added. “The other sections of the bill are ways of tunneling in to get at the smoldering origin of the fire; this one takes care of the flames." Calling for new authority to institute federal court suits to speed school desegregation' - Kennedy said the time had come for Congress to act "to prevent further delays’* in implementing the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools.