Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1963 — Page 1

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North Korean Reds Kill U. S. Soldiers

SEOUL, Korea (UPI)— Communist North Korean raiders % today killed two American soldiers and critically wounded a third. The United Nations Command quickly placed some U.S. units on a “reinforced alert status.” The Communists crossed into -■South Korean territory and ambushed a U.S. Army jeep patrol with submachine gun fire and Soviet-made hand grenades. The UNC called it a “vicious and unprovoked sneak attack.” There was no sign the Americans had been able to return the Communists’ fire; “The attack was deliberately planned, premeditated, and executed in a grey darly dawn,” a UNC spokesman said. As a result of the attack he added, “elements of the Ist Cavalry Division were placed on a reinforced alert status” along the truce line: The three soldiers were members of the Ist Cavalry. The ambush was sprung on the Americans south of the demilitarized zone. The victims were not identified pending notification of relatives. The wounded soldier had been hit four times, in the chest, arms, and legs, and was reported still unconscious several hours after

Harriman In Report On Ban

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Undersecretary of- State W. Averell Harriman today started the threenation nuclear test ban agreement on its long path through the U.S. Senate. There were signs of growing support for the treaty to outlaw atmospheric, space and underwater nuclear blasts, but Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., called for “the closest scrutiny of every word.” Harriman, who returned Saturday from initialing the pact in Moscow, was scheduled for a (10 a.m. EDT) closed meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will act on the treaty before it goes to the Senate for ratification. Also invited to attend were members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Sunday night in a television interview (NBC-TV) that the

Over 60 Killed In Egyptian Liner Crash BOMBAY, India (UPD—Three Indian naval vessels with sounddetection gear swept tfy? turbulent seas west of here today, seking the wreckage of an Egyptian airliner that crashed Sunday. Hope of finding survivors among the british-made Comet’s 8 crewmen and 54 or 55 passengers was abandoned Sunday night. The search ships kept a sharp lookout for the bodies of victims. Small boats were sent out early this afternoon to investigate an air force pilot’s report that five bodies had been seen floating in shallow water near the scene of • the crash. * Uncertaintiy as to the number of passengers aboard arose from a conflict between the passenger list, which mentioned 54, and official radio reports placing the number at 55. The confusion appeared to arise from reports that Farag Mustafa, the airline's financial adviser here, was on the flight. His wife said he was not, but Mustafa himself could not be located immediately. Two Americans, M. Floy and Thomas Gnath were listed among the passengers aboard the United Arab Airlines plane. Other victims included a score of Filipino Boy Scouts on the way to a world jamboree in Greece. The plane was on the way from Tokyo to Cairo when it crashed in monsoon weather 9 miles west of the Bombay airport as it headed in for a landing before dawn Sunday. It was raining at the time of the crash and visibility was poor. Radar equipment at the airport was following the plane in when it suddenly vanished from the J beam. ’* Nine hours later, search craft sighted wreckage in the sea.'

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the attack. “He may not live,” UNC spokesman Col. George Creel of Birmingham, Ala., said. It was the second North Korean attack on U.S. troops guarding the Korean truce line in less than a year, and it came within two days of the 10th anniversary of the truce ending the Korean War. UNC officials could not reconstruct the attack with certainty because there were no living witnesses besides the wounded soldier. Creel said the attackers were North Koreans but it was not known for certain whether they were soldiers, although the UNC was assuming they were. The three soldier?, members of the Ist Cavalry Division on truce line duty, were driving to a guard post in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. It was about 5:30 a.m. and! they were still in South Korean territory, about 75 feet from the demilitarized zone, when they were hit. The last such attack took place last November, when North Koreans lobbed grenades into a UNC outpost inside the demilitarized zone. One American soldier was killed and another wounded.

agreement “may be the turning point under which other questions can be taken up Jor exploration.’’ Rusk On TV / Rusk and Harriman appeared on the program with Sens: Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., and John G. Tower, R-Tex. McCarthy predicted Senate ratification “after due deliberation.” But Tower estimated that “a good 40 per cent of the Senate” was skeptical or “outright opposed.” Rusk briefed the Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Atomic Energy committees last week before the pact was initialed. He is expected to meet again with the Foreign Relations group before going to Moscow to formally sign the agreement with Russia and Britain. Plans for a congressional delegation of key lawmakers to accompany him were expected to be announced this week. A two-thirds Senate vote is required for ratification of the treaty. — Ont President Kennedy’s nationwide television speech Friday night was interpreted as showing the administration’s firm determination to win public backing for the agreement as well as the needed Senate approval. WWeekend comments of lawmakers in both parties indicated growing support for the treaty, many still were cautiously avoiding all-out endorsement pending public hearings to be held by the Foreign Relations group. Dirksen expressed doubts Sunday about certain provisions of the treaty. He said senators must give the pact “the closest examination relative to its impact on our defense posture and the future of our nuclear weaponry.” He indicated he was most concerned about a provision he said would permit the Soviet Union to veto any proposed amendments to the treaty. He said he had “doubts about other provisions" but did not express them.

Injuries Are Fatal To Garrett Youth Roger Henry, Kees, 23, of Garrett, died Saturday in Parkview memorial hospital. Fort Wayne, the fifth young man was driver of one of the autos involved in the crash, in which Tim Allen Murphy, 22, of Garrett, a Decatur high school graduate and outstanding athlete here, was killed instantly. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Glassley, of Fort Wayne, were killed instantly in the crash, and Jesse A. Rayl, also of Fort Wayne, died several hours later. Young Kees is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kees of Garrett, and three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Church of Christ in Gairett, with burial in St. Joe cemetery. The body was removed to the; Gerig funeral home in Auburn.

Adams County Youth Killed In Traffic Accident On Sunday

Mass Here Tuesday For Bro. Theophane A solemn funeral mass will be held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church for Brother Theophane Schmitt, a native of Decatur, who died last Thursday night at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, after being injured in a traffic accident. Bro. Theophone was head master of St. Patrick’s high school in Liberia for the past two years. The Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, D. D., bishop of the Fort WayneSouth Bend diocese, will preach the funeral sermon. The Very. Rev. Bro. Donatus, C. S. C., provincial of the Brothers of Holy Cross, will be here from South Bend, also several other brothers of the Holy Cross community. A large number of priests from thq surrounding area will attend. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt, pastor of the Decatur church, and a brother of the accident victim, will be celebrant of the solemn high mass. The Rev. Dennis Schmitt, S. J., of Cleveland, 0., another brother, will be deacon of. the mass. Msgr. Thomas Durkin, a cousin, will be subdeacon, and Rev. Roland Simonitsch, C. S. C., a cousin, will be master of ceremonies. Four nephews of Bro. Theophane, John, Edward, Dennis and David Schmitt, will be the minor officers of the mass. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schmitt of Fort Recovery, O. A solemn memorial mass will be offered at Sacred Heart church, Notre Dame, Thursday morning for Bro. Theophane, by the Holy Cross priests and brothers, and will be attended by many friends of Bro. Theophane who live in that area.

Bierly To Deliver Memorial Address Judge G. Remy Bierly of Decatur, former mmeber of the Indiana appellate court, will give the memorial address to Gene Stratton Porter at the Gene Stratton Porter memorial dinner in Geneva, Saturday, August 10, starting at 12:30 at the dining halls of Kozy Korner restaurant. The dinner is being held in conjuction with Gene Stratton Porter Days being held in Geneva, Aug. 10-11, under sponsorship of the Geneva Civic Progress Assn., Inc.. Judge Bierly has long been interested in and a student of the life and works of Mrs. Porter and a great supporter of preservation and restoration of the Limberlost country about which she wrote. While a member of the Indiana legislature, Judge Bierly worked for the creation of the Limberlost bird sanctuary and the Gene Stratton Porter memorial highway route from Geneva to Rome City. Another feature of the memorial dinner will be selection of “Freckles of 1963.” Any boy between six and 16 years can enter by contacting the Geneva Civic Progress Assn.. There will be a special talent contest Saturday, starting at 7:15 p.m., and featuring three different divisions, contest for the best gay nineties girls or women quartet, best gay nineties barber shop quartet, and genetai talent contest. Entry blanks for this can be secured from Geneva CPA. Sunday. Aug. 11th, a historical tour will be made from the Limberlost state memorial to Mrs. Porter’s birthplace ftt Hopewell farm near Lagro in Wabash county, and to the old Methodist church where her father preached and in whose .cemetery het father and mother, as well as her brother, who inspired Laddie, are buried. Enroute home the tour will stop in Decatur to visit spots associated with Mrs. Porter’s life. There is no charge for the. tour and the public is invited to 'participate. E. I E. Dawaid is in cbarge of arrangements for the tour.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 29,1963.

Larry Schaekel Is Victim Os Traffic Wreck Funeral services for Larry L. Schaekel, 22, of route 2, will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, "and at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Preble. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Schaekel, a 1959 Monmouth graduate died at 3:50 a. m. Sunday of a broken neck and multiple fractures received when his car veered into the side of a truck driven by W. J. Yates, Jr., 27, of Little Rock, Ark., six miles north of Fort Wayne on Ind. 427. Police said he was headed south and crossed the center line. Yates pulled to the right side of the road, but Schaekel’s car hit his left front tire and the left rear dual tires. The impact sheared the side off Schaekel’s car. David A. Ludwig, 19, of Fort Wayne, a passenger in Schaekel’s car, received a deep skull fracture and was termed “extremely critical" by Parkview authorities. Schaekel was employed in the. processing center at the tional Harvester company 'and worked part-time at the South Side Sunoco station in Fort Wayne. The accident victim was born in Decatur March 14, 1941, a son of Herman and Mathilda Allmanding-er-Schaekel. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church at Preble. Surviving in addition to his parents are two brothers, Norbert Schaekel of Buckley, 111., and Herman Frederick Schaekel, at home, and one sister, Miss Sharon Schaekel, at home. r . The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Mrs. Hannah Miller Dies This Morning Mrs. Hannah Miller, 78, widow df Christ Miller, died at 6 o clock this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Fred Bittner, Union township, where she had made her home since April 19. She had been ill since March. Bom in Union township Sept. 19, she was a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Rice-Wherry and was married to Christ Miller, Oct. 6, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death Aug. 4, 1956. Mrs. Miller was a member of the Church of God. Surviving are one daughter. Mrs. Fred (Lucille) Bittner of Union township; one grandshon; five great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hite of Beverly Hills, Calif. One daughter is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., and the Rev. Gerald Gerig officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services. Donors Sought For Bloodmobilc Aug. 5 Calling was started this morning to obtain 180 persons willing to donate blood Monday, Aug. 5, when the Red Cross regional bloodmobile unit will be at the Decatur Community .Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. * . Volunteers on the calling committee are Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, Mrs Ralph Kenyon. Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, Mrs. Robert Zwick, Mrs. Harold Idlewine, Mrs. Josephine Neireiter and Mrs. Lauras Meyer. Any one desiring to be scheduled at any 15minute interval between 10 a m. and 4 p.m. may call the Red Cross office, 3-3106, and volunteer.

nW. IK 1 I. , " JW—. im DESTROYING EARTHQUAKE — People walk past an almost destroyed building in downtown Skopje, Yugoslavia. Earthquake destroyed 80 per cent of city’s buildings.

Rescue Crews Search Rubble

SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (UPI) — Rescue crews today used French sound detection equipment to search the earthquake rubble of this city for possible survivors following Sunday’s rescue of a couple trapped 55 hours. Little hope was held out that others remained alive under the debris, but French disaster squads working with the Yugoslavs were using equipment of the type that located survivors buried in the 1960 earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, in which 12,000 died. The toll of the quake that struck this city of 200,000 persons has been placed unofficially at 2,000. At least 1,000 bodies have been recovered and an equal number are feared buried. A Belgian woman and her husruins of the Macedonia Hotel Sunband were brought alive from the day after having been trapped under its shattered walls since the quake struck before dawn Friday.

13 Are Killed On Highways Over Weekend By United Press International Death continued to ride Indiana highways over the weekend with 13 persons. 9 of them under 20 years of age, killed in traffic mishaps. The 54-hour period saw its first —and wofst—accident Saturday morning when four Posey County farm youths were killed when their car was struck by a Louisville & Nashville passenger train. The deaths brought Indiana's 1963 traffic toll to at least 683 compared with 644 this time one year ago. The victims in the car-train accident at a county crossing near Mount Vernon were Dales Esche, 21, driver of the c&r, his sister, Sharon, 16; Betty Schreiber, 17, and her sister, Paula, 14. The engineer of the train said he thought Esche stepped on the brake instead of the accelerator and stopped the car on the tracks. Two youngsters riding bicycles were killed, one late Saturday, the other Sunday evening. Randy Burks, 8, of near Brownsburg, rode his two-wheeler onto U.S. 136 Sunday. He was struck by a car driven by Gerald Bramel of near Danville, one mile west of Brownsburg. " * Danna Knowles, 14, Harmony, a community near Brazil, became the first traffic fatality to occur this year in Clay County when she was hit while riding her bicycle Saturday. Mrs. Jean Carmichael

The Belgian couple was identified as Jean and Sissie Zakmer of Brussels. Mrs. Zakmer said they had about give up hope of being rescued and she had wanted to commit suicide but that there was no way to kill herself. The couple was taken to the hospital at nearby Kumanova. Mrs. Zakmer was reported in fair condition. But a witness who watched the rescue operations said her husband’s leg had to be amputated. Today, Yugoslavs who had lived and worked in the City when it was a model provincial capital were streaming out to find new homes. It was estimated that half the population of 200,000 had left. Some said they would settle permanently in other towns and try to start anew. Others planned to return to rebuild their homes.

of Indianapolis, driver of the car,, said she did not see the girl when she rode across U.S. 40. Paul Dukett, 20, Indianapolis, was killed Sunday when his car sideswiped another ndrthwest of Indianapolis and skidded over the side of a White River bridge. The car landed upside down in 20 feet of water. Other Sunday Victims The other Sunday victims were Robert Jacobs, 19, Fort Wayne and Larry Schaekel of near Decatur. Jacobs Was killed while Walking a,cross a county road one mile west of Fort Wayne. The car hurled him 34 feet into a dtich after he was carried on the hood' for about 78 feet. / Schaekel was killed in a two-car-truck collision on U.S. 427 six miles north of Fort Wayne. .Police said he crossed the center line, struck a car, forcing it into a truck The other drivers were not hurt. Patrick Eugene Miller, 18, Indianapolis, was killed Saturday night when the sports car in which he was riding went out of control and plunged down a rail, road embankment on U.S. 50 east of Vincennes. Earlier in the ddy, Mrs. Myla Isely, 38, Zionsville, was killed in a two-car collision in Indianapolis. She was thrown through the windshield and police Starched for witnesses to discover the cause of the mishap. , Raymond tee Church, 35, R.R. 1, Vincennes, was killed Saturday afternoon when his car went out of control on a curve and collided with another car on U.S. 50 just east of Cincennes. Roger Kees, 23, Garrett, died in a Fort Wayne hospital Saturday of injuries suffered July 20 in a two-car collision on Indiana 427 near Auburn. It was the fifth death resulting from the accident.

De Gaulle Stresses U. S. Friendship

PARIS (UPD — President Charles de Gaulle said today that despite differences between France and the United States it would be a “ridiculous absurdity" to believe any split is imminent. De Gaulle said relations between the two nations "are based on friendship and alliance." “Despite the divergencies that exist, it would be a ridiculous absurdity to think the United States wants to do harm to France and that France wants to damage the United States,” he said. While stressing France’s ties with the United States, De Gaulle rejected Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s proposal for a nonaggression pact between NATO and tlie Communist Warsaw Pact powers. The United States and Britain agreed at the Moscow conference last week to consult their allies on further steps toward easing the cold war, including a possible pact between East and West mil-

Judges Named For I 4-H Parade Tuesday The chairmen of the Adams county 4-H fair parade, Roper Singleton and Martin Steiner, today announced the parade route and the judges foe the event, Tuesday evening. The three parade judges Are Dick Heller, Jr., Decatur, Mrs. Glen Stucky, Monroe, and Simon Schwartz, Berne, They will survey a parade which will include five or six bands, at least 12 floats and numerous pieces and types of farm equipment. The parade chairmen have specified that no farm equipment may be placed in the parade unless the dealer is also displaying equipment at the fair. The parade will leave the Monroe school ground, cross route 124 and go south on Park street to Jackson street. It will then turn left on Jackson and go through the Monroe business district to Keller street, where it will turn north and go to route 124. It will then proceed west on route 124 to the Monroe road and north on the Monroe road to the rear entrance of the fairgrounds. Singleton said that the changes in the parade route have been made so that when the parade returns to the fairgrounds it will not interfere with serving at the dining hall. He also said all drivers in parade must be licensed and that the number of persons riding on equipment in the parade must be kept to a minimum, to avoid accidents. Ask Extension Os Present Debt Limit WASHINGTON <UPI> — administration told today that, despite earligf forecasts. it will not . ask tq/raise the legal ceiling on the national debt to another record l>igh this summer. / Treasury Sectary Douglas Dillorf and Budget Director Kermit Gordon askdd Congress, instead, to extend/the present debt limit of $309 .oillion to Nov. 30. ”.r Dillpn and Gordon appeared before/the House Ways and Means Committee. /The actual debt stands now at 'about $306 billion. Unless new legislation is enacted, the legal limit on the debt will drop to its permanent level of $285 billion on Sept 1. ‘‘Current estimates indicate that the debt will be about $307 billion on Aug. 31, $22 billion above its permanent level," Dillon said. ‘‘lt is obvious that action must be taken.” The fiscal facts today, however, are much brighter than the administration had anticipated only three months ago. Treasury officials had predicted that the current -debt limit of $309 billion would be pierced during the last few days of August unless action | was taken by Congress to boost the limit. I INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little cooler to- , night Tuesday mostly sunny and a little warmer in afternoon. Low tonight 58 to 66. High Tuesday mostly in mid 80s. Sunset today 8:01 , p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 3:12 a. j m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy, warm and more I humid. Lows 55 to 65. Highs in the 80s.

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itary blocs. De Gaulle declared that France and the United States have every reason to maintain the Atlantic alliance. "It is an elementary necessity for France and for the United States which assumes a capital responsibility both because of its nuclear armaments and its geographic position,” he declared. De Gaulle told a news conference of some 900 French and foreignnewsmen: r “Despite journalistic malevolence, it would be ridiculous to say either the United States or France want to hurt each other.” He recalled how the two countries were allies in two world wars. - «. "They have every reason,” he declared, “to continue their alliance as long as they are confronted by the Soviet bloc seeking to overhelm this or that territory."

Chinese Reds, France Lashed By Red Paper MOSCOW (UPD—The Communist Party newspaper Pravda today lumped Communist China with France as the odd men out who “wreck" the recently initialed nuclear test ban treaty. Pravda commentator Yuri Zhukov said that French plans for Pacific tests was proof of the “aggressive” nature of the BonnParis Axis and said both nations risked "complete isolation and universal condemnation." Referring to the Chinese, who are imshing development of atomic weapons,” Zukov added: “The position of Some responsiI ble leaders of the People’s Re- > public of China, who unabashedly > are siding with the French expoi nents of the continuation of nu- > clear tests and the thermonuclear race, is also amazing:” Borrow From French The Chinese, the article said, "unabashedly borrow from French bourgeoise propaganda . . under the hypocritcal slogan of all or nothing they ignore and wreck the nuclear test ban agreement.” . / Pravda in an editorial praised the "good will” of /the Western powers/ for conceding the treaty which halts atmospheric, under water and outer space, atomic tests. This was .seen as a new rebuke to Peking, which maintains that the West cannot be trusted to keep an agreement. The Communist party news, paper once ,-dgain sounded a call for negotiations on Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s peace plan to follow/in the wake of the nuclear trepfy. / Urges Inspections __ / The plan calls for a non-aggres-sion treaty between East and West, reduction or freezing of military budgets, reduction of foreign troops in both Germanys, inspectors in_ foreigncountries to prevent surprise attacks and in.--spectors in foreign forces in the both Germanys. Diplomatic observers said this week's big three meeting to sign the nuclear treaty may provide the impetus to an East-West detente highlighted by a summit meeting at a future date. Secretary, of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary lord Home will represent the West at the meeting, called to sign a partial nuclear test ban treaty. No precise date has yet been set Rut Rusk and Home were expected to meet with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sometime this week. Pact Spawns Optimism The treaty was initialled last Thursday and has given rise to outspoken optimism that a new era in East-West relations ha? opened. The pact bans nuclear tests in outer space, underwater and in the air but does not include underground experiments. Diplomatic observers said Rusk and Home were expected to use their 1 presence here, no matter how brief, to explore further measures to ease tensions. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has said he wants to discuss the chances of a "pact of peace” between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization I NATO) and the Communist Warsaw Pict countries., Seeks Other Solutions The Soviet leader,-who currently is involved in a bitter ideological dispute with Communist China. said Friday in an interview with the Soviet press that he hoped the partial test ban would be the start of efforts to solve other East-West problems.

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