Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1963 — Page 1

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OUT FOB A STROLL — U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, left, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschchev take a stroll in shirtsleeves through garden of Khrushchev’s summer residence in Gagra, U.S.S.R. Rusk has returned to the U.S. after a serier of cold-war talks.

State Penal Farm Inmates In Riot

PUTNAMVILLE, Ind. (UPD — Five hundred inmates of the minimum security Indiana State Penal Farm rioted for nearly an hour late Sunday night in protest over the pneumonia death of a young Negro prisoner. Shouting and screaming, the rioters set fire to the laundry building, plundered the hospital office, smashed hundreds of windows throughout the area and hurled rocks and bricks until nearly 50 policemen put down the uprising shortly before midnight. Seven prisoners were injured, two of them seriously enough to require hospitalization at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Arthur Campbell, state correction board chairman, said the death ot Paul Hobbs, 18, an Indianapolis youth serving a term for vehicle taking, touched off the riot Starts In Dormitory Campbell said a group of angry prisoners in Dormitory 4 whdte about 150 men sleep started the uprising when they heard rumors that Hobbs was not given proper treatment. Campbell said Hobbs developed pneumonia and grew so serious Sunday his relatives were summoned to his bedside. The institution’s doctors decided not to transfer him to Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis because of his condition. This apparently was responsible for rumors that officials were “letting him die,” Campbell said. Screaming prisoners routed hundreds of other men from other dormitories among the 11 in the institution where 1,434 prisoners are serving short terms for misdemeanors and minor crimes. Prisoners picked up rocks, bricks, furniture and other objects and hurled them about. “They acted like wild men,” Campbell said. 45 Officers On Duty Institution guards quickly summoned Indiana State Police from a police post directly across the road from the institution. Additional troopers were summoned quickly, and about 40 to 45 officers answered the call. They fired dozens of rounds from shotguns over the heads of the demonstrators, and a few stray pellets hit some of the men. Other prisoners were injured by hurled objects. Officers also used tear gas to battle the prisoners. Prisoners set fire to die laundry.

■■■" w— — .11 .1 Plan Geneva Days For Last Os Week The annual Geneva days celebration, sponsored by the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, has been scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. During the three-day event Geneva merchants have scheduled sidewalk sales. On Friday and Saturday business places will be open until 9 p.m. A carnival company has been contracted to furnish rides and other attractions. An art exhibit has also been scheduled and will be judged by a visiting art critic. The Hartford Graden club will exhibit a flower and garden produce display. The festivities will be officially opened Thursday with a talent show at 8 o’clock, Dave Stucky, chairman of the show, has booked several local acts.* The program will be held outdoors just south of the Geneva fire station. In the event of rain it will be held in the school gym. Among the acts listed for the show are a piano duet by Judy and Marilyn Houser, a vocal solo by

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The flames extinguished quickly but not before they destroyed or damaged linens and possibly equipment. They also smashed their way into the mess hall but were evicted quickly with little damage therein the hospital, furniture was smashed but about a dozen inmate patients were uninjured. Cany Off Drugs While in the hospital, the prisoners broke into a drug room and “disarranged” the drugs, probably carrying some off, Campbell said. Campbell said there had been no estimate of damage but said it would run into "many thousands of dollars.” The prisoners broke into the commissary and raided it, There was evidence, Campbell said, that the prisoners tried to set a fire in the hospital and other buildings. Campbell praised the bulk of the prisoners for trying to stop the riot. “For every prisoner involved, there were two others trying to keep them from it,” he said. Campbell said there wa§ no racial overtone to the riot. He said the fact Hobbs was a Negro had “absolutely nothing to do” with the trouble. “It looks like they were just looking for an excuse to start something,” Campbell said. 6 or 7 Locked Up Campbell said police rertiained on duty throughout the night, long after “6 or 7 known leaders” were locked up in the institution jail and others were sent to bed. He said all was quiet this morning, breakfast was served in the mess hall as usual, and prisoners were sent out on their usual daily work details. Hospitalized or treated at the Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle were Charles M. Knott, shot wounds in face, arms and chest; Frank Harrison, scalp lacerations apparently from a hurled brick; Walter Oliver, apparently shot, suffered slight paralysis probably from shock; Paul Padgett, shot in chest and forehead; Ronald Myers, injured arm possibly fractured; Richard Taylor, severe arm, wrist and hand lacerations; Stanley Ford, shot in face and hand. Campbell said it could ndt be determined immediately whether any of the injured were hurt trying to prevent the riot. He said it was possible. Hobbs was serving a six-months term.

Janice Yoder, an accordion solo by Dennis Van Emon, the Mosser vocal trio, an acrobatic dance by Joni and Karin Van Emon, and organ solo by Mike Anderson, an accordion trio consisting of Karen Hanni, Patty Fields and Marjean Neuenschenwander, the Gospel Crusaders quartet, and a song and tap dance by Laurie Stock, Debbie Krill, Jean Ann Hall, and Jeff Hampton. A water ball contest featuring the Portland, Bluffton, Hoagland, Fort Recovery and Pennville fire departments is "on tap” for Friday evening. It will begin at 5:30. Later that evening a dance will be held in front of the fire station. Saturday afternoon and evening lightweight horse and pony pulling contests are scheduled. At 8 p.m., a street record hop will be held. 1 Portland Man Dies After July 20 Wreck PORTLAND, Ind. (UPI) — Edward Beal, 69, Portland, died Saturday in U. S. Veterans Hospital at Indianapolis. Beal was hurt July 20 in a Jay County traffic accident, but a coroner's ruling was awaited as to whether the injuries caused his death.

Brother Os Local Pastor Is Ordained A service of ordination and commisson was held at Gordonville, Mo., last week for the Rev. Dr. Theodore Ludwig, missionary to Japan. Dr. Ludwig’s father, the Rev. Paul Ludwig, Sr., performed hte ceremony, and three brothers participated in the service. They are the Rev. Richard Ludwig, pastor of Zion Lutheran church in Decatur, who preached the sermon; Chaplain Paul Ludwig, Jr., of Hunter Air Force base in Georgia, who served as liturgist, and John Ludwig, of Texas, who served as organist. Dr. Ludwig graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1961, with a bachelor of divinity degree. He received a fellowship to continue his studies in the Old Testament, writing a thesis on the “Wars of the Israelite Amphictyony,” for which he given the degree of master of sacred theology. A Scheele scholarship kept him at Concordia for another year, during which he taught Hebrew. His doctoral thesis was “The Suffering Love of God,” a study in the Old Testament prophets. The degree of doctor of theology was conferred on him last June. For the past seven weeks, Dr. Ludwig and his wife, Kathleen, have been attending mission school at the seminary. They are the parents of two sons, Kevin, 22 months, and James, two months. The family will leave by plane Sept. 3 for Tokyo, Japan. Mrs. Dora Laurent Dies This Morning Mrs. Isadora Laurent, 93 of 636 North Second street, well known Decatur lady, died at 7:55 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital following a lengthy illndfc. She was born in Allen county March 22, 1870, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Smith-Sapp, and had resided in the Decatur area most of her life. She was married in Plymouth Nov. 24 1894, to Peter C. Laurent. Her husband preceded her in death June 2, 1919. Mrs. Laurent Was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society and the TTiird Order of St. Francis. Surviving are ope daughter, Miss Virginia Laurent, with whom she made her home, four sons George and Joseph Laurent, both of Decatur, Aloysius Laurent of Marion, and Charles Laurent of Gardena Calif. Another' daughter Sister Bertrand (Marian) died in 1935. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt (Officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The Hiird Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the Rosary society at 8 o’clock.

INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with showers and thunderstorms begHng this afternoon, continuing through most of the night. Tuesday partial clearing and a little cooler. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday 75 to 80. Sunset today 7:46 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:55 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly fair and mild. Lows 57 to 62. Highs 80 to 86.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 12, 1963.

Secretary Os State Rusk Urges Senate To Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Pact

Pres. Kennedy Divides Time At Work, Home HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPD —President Kennedy divided his time today — as he will all week —between family responsibilities on Cape Cod and duties as chief of state in Washington. His schedule, after the tragic birth and death of his third child, called for: —At least one visit with his wife, Jacqueline, at Otis' Air Force Base, Mass., where she is. recovering from the premature birth by Caesarean section. —Departure at 3 p.m.. EDT, from Otis aboard his Air Force jet transport for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and a quick helicopter hop to the White House. —A meeting at about 5 p.m., EDT, with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to discuss the nuclear test ban treaty awaiting Senate ratification, and Rusk’s talks last week with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. ♦ —His usual breakfast meeting Tuesday with Democratic congressional leaders, to discuss vote recruitment for the treaty as well as the administration’s other big pending measures — civil rights, tax reduction, and emergency handling of the railroad labor dispute. —A flight back to Cape Cod Tuesday evening to see his wife and children, and return to Washington Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Then, another trip back to the cape Friday evening, for the weekend. One Man Killed In Flint Hotel Fire FLINT, Mich. (UPD —Three persons still were unaccounted for today following a hotel fire that killed one man, but authorities believed they escaped the flames unharmed. The spectacular pre-dawn blaze Sunday destroyed the six-story Adams Hotel, injuring four persons and causing damage estimated at $500,000. Fire Marshal Harold Chirgwin said three of the 110 persons registered at the 60-year-old hotel were not located immediately. But he said h ethought they either fled to safety or were away a the time the blaze broke out. Fred Whitby, 83, died from burns over 50 per cent of hi s body at Hurley Hospital Sunday night, several hours after his rescue from the third floor by fireman Jack D. Johnson.

Chicago Cops Jail Pickets

CHICAGO (UPI) — Waves of integrationist pickets knelt, sat and lay in front of construction equipment at a mobile classroom site today and police hauled them away in wholesale lots. Estimates of the number of persons arrested by late morning ranged from 25 to 40. Three of, those arrested, including Negro comedian Dick Gregory, were charged with resisting arrest. Gregory, who has been prominent in civil rights demonstrations in the South, was arrested twice. After he was picked up and released the first time, he returned to the site at 73rd and Lowe streets and was arrested again.

Eight Persons Die In Indiana Traffic By United Press International Weekend traffic killed eight persons in Indiana, pushing the state total for 1963 to at least 732 compared with 692 a year ago. Mrs. Geraldine Ping, 34, Columbus, mother of eight children, was killed six miles west of Columbus Sunday night when she lost control of her car on a hill and it smashed into a bridge railing. James Browning, 24, Kokomo, died in surgery nearly five hours after his truck went out of control And rammed into a tree along a Marion County road northeast of Indianapolis Sunday. James Evanoff, 41, East Chicago, was killed Saturday night when his car was struck from behind by another auto along a county road three miles north of Lowell. John Bassett, 22, Peru, was killed, also Saturday night, when his car went out of control and struck a railroad bridge six miles east of Logansport along U.S. 24. The wreck occurred at a railroad overpass which has been termed one of the worst traffic hazards in Cass County. Authorities have been attempting for some time to have the road widened. Stanley Garrett, 55, Montezuma and Mrs. Ocy Collier, 60, Dana, were killed in the worst wreck of the - period when their cars collided on the center line of U.S. 36 east of Dana Saturday. Earlier Saturday, a Princeton man who feared the car he was in was about to be hit by a train was killed when he jumped. Owen Cullivan, 42, was killed when his leap hurled him into the path of the train. The car made it safely across the tracks. Glen Brown, 19, Memphis, .was the first weekend traffic victim. He was killed early Saturday in a car-truck collision along Indiana 131 north of Clarksviye. Two deaths which added to the year's toll but not to the weekend count were also recorded. Mrs. Bessie Stolph, 75, Christianburg, Ohio, died in Henry County hospital at New Castle of injuries suffered July 28th in a three-car pileup along U.S. 35 in Randolph County. Lottie May Lux, 70, Muncie, in a delayed account, was reported killed in a two-car accident one mile east of Muncie on Indiana 32 in Delaware County Aug. 9. Massive Search On For Missing Plane COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPD —A massive air-sea search resumed today for a Danish royal air force Catalina missing over Grenland since Saturday night with 12 persons aboard. The searchers, including U. S. and Canadian planes, centered on the fiords of southeastern Greenland, where officials fear the plane crashed. The plane carried six crew members and six civilians, including two children. All abroad were Danes.

The demonstrations continued despite the arrests Negro leaders indicated they would continue their sit-down lay-down tactics through the day. Two ministers were among those arrested. Gregory's wife was also picked up. The demonstrators, many of them juveniles, plopped themselves down in front of construction equipment being used in the installation of mobile classrooms which Negro leaders charge are a symbol of alleged segregation in the Chicago school system. Negroes Charged police brutality as police hauled some of the demonstrators away bodily. Police denied the charge.

WASHINGTON (UPD - Urging the Senate today to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said even if the agreement contains marginal risks "they are far less" than the hazard of a continuing nuclear weapons race with Russia. Rusk testified before an overflow crowd in the Senate caucus room, assuring members of three Senate committees that the United States has not forgotten the lessons of its dealings with Russia over the past 18 years. He said this country intends to maintain its strength and will “know about” any possible cheating by the Soviets under the treaty to ban all but underground nuclear tests. On a suggestion of Sen. Bourke, B. Hickenlooper, R-lowa, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee conducting the hearings decided to place Rusk and all other witnesses under oath. The secretary, just back from Russia where he discussed with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev other possibilities for easing cold war tensions, echoed President Kennedy’s appeal for Senate approval of the American-Russian-British pact, which now has been signed by nearly 50 other countries. Reassures Senators Rusk assured the senators that the treaty does not obligate the United States to recognize Communist East Germany, one of the co-signers; that it does involve a veto on amendments "essential to the security interests of the United States,” and that it does not include any “side arrangemens, understandings or conditions of any kind.” Rusk’s appearance at the opening Senate hearings on the test ban came only a liWe over 20 hours after his ington from a the Soviet Union and many. He will give a first-hand report on his trip to President Kennedy late today at the White House. Underscoring his judgment that the treaty is in the nation’s best interests, Rusk told the foreign relations, armed services and joint atomic committee members: “If there may be marginal risks in it, they are far less in .my opinion than the risks that will result if we accept the thought that rational man must pursue an unlimited competition in nuclear weapons.” He reminded the Senators that Bernard Baruch told the United Nations when the nuclear age first began: " 'We are here to make a choice; between the quick and the dead.’ ’’ Baruch, Rusk recalled, said that if the world's leaders failed to control the atom, “We have damned every man to be the slave of fear.” Live In Fear The secretary observed that since the dawn of the nuclear age “all men have lived in the shadow of that fear.” Then he concluded: “If the promise of this treaty can be realized, if we can now take even this one step along a new course, then frail and fearful mankind may find another step and another until confidence replaces terror and hope takes over from despair.” The committees will hear testimony from Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara Tuesday on behalf of the treaty. Later this week the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Central Intelligence agency will appear. Rusk said that through “breathtaking” weapons development, the point had been reached where “war has devoured itself because it can devour the world." Can Endure McNamara, Rusk said, will make it clear m his testimony that this country has the ability to endure any possible nuclear attack and deliver counter blows of vast devastation. “We intend to keep it that way, lest others be tempted by ambition to abandon reason," Rusk as. serted. Nevertheless, he said, “No one can realistically think of ’victory' in a full-scale nuclear exchange.” He said the experience of last October’s Cuba missile crisis was "sobering for all.”

Negro Girl Slain In Racial Disturbance

By United Press International | Police kept extra patrols today i in a Jersey City, N. J., neighborhood 0 where a Negro girl was slain by a white man during a racial disturbance Saturday. The suspect was to be arraigned today in the shotgun killing. In Mississippi a river ferryboat turned around in mid-stream Sunday to bring into custody 25 whites and Negroes who refused to use segregated waiting rooms. Police and sheriff’s deputies at Plaquemine, La., arrested the group brought to shore by the ferryboat’s captain. Officers said they would be charged with resisting arrest. Ronnie Moore, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE*, said witnesses told him officers used their shoe heels to break the "passive-resistance armlock” of the group. Officers denied any brutality. At Lexington, N. C., police stepped between angry whites and Negroes outside a jail where three Negro youths were being held for the slaying of a white man in a race riot June 6. The Negroes knelt and prayed outside the jail, and then Charles Poole — brother of one of the I jailed Negores exchanged hot words with white hecklers.

Revamp Plans For Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Kennedy administration today revamped its plan for cutting everybody's income taxes. The new plan, effective next Jan. 1, would provide net reductions of $10.6 billion, phased over a two- year period. The revised formula compares with the original plan under which individual and corporate income taxes would have been reduced about $10.3 billion, with the cuts taking effect in three stages—on July 1, 1963, Jan. 1, 1964, and Jan. 1, 1965. Treasury Secretary ' Douglas Dillon outlined the new plan in testimony at a closed session of the House Ways & Means Committee. The three main elements of the revised plan: —lndividual tax rates would range from 14 to 70 per cent. That compares with the present schedule of 20 to 91 per cent and with the original plan to cut rates to a 14 to 65 per cent range. —The tax rate on corporations would be cut to 48 per cent. That compares with the present rate of 52 per cent and the original proposal of a 47 per cent rate. The first $25,000 of corporate income would be taxed at 23 per cent, inHake Infant Dies Sunday At Hospital Christopher John Hake, two-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale F. Hake, of 215 West Jefferson street, died at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday evening. The infant was born Saturday morning. The parents are members of St. Mary’s Catholic church. Surviving in addition to the parents, Dale and Sarah Gass Hake; are one brother, Jeffrey Wm„ at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gass of Decatur; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hake of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wagner of Bryant. Graveside services, the Gillig & Doan funeral hflft were held this afternoon atJIE Catholic cemetery, with hflWaft. Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating

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When the white and Negro groups moved toward each other', police quickly took up positions in the middle of the street to keep them apart. Other integration developments: Tuscaloosa, Ala: James A. Hood, 21, one of two Negro students who entered the all-white University of Alabama under federal guard two months ago, quit to “avoid a complete mental and physical breakdown." Hood, 21, apparently faced imminent expulsion for criticizing state and university officials. He said he hoped to return to the university, but school officials said he could not come back until after a hearing on charges he publicly and unfairly accused officials of trying to get him expelled. Goldsboro, N. C.'- About 156 Negroes staged an orderly antisegregation march in the town that saw 139 Negroes arrested in a demonstration Saturday night. Sixty - five Negro demonstrators remained in the Goldsboro jail. Chicagot The American Bar Association considers a resolution today calling on lawyers to promote equal rights for Negroes. The resolution also asks an end to violent racial Tiemonstrations.

stead of the existing rate of 30 per cent. The original proposal would have cut this rate to 22 per cent. —Revisions in the income tax structure would yield $690 million in new revenue, compared with the $3.2 billion originally proposed. jettisoning many of the original proposals. Further Cooling Is Forecast In State By United Press International Hoosiers got a weekend respite from high temperatures and high humidity, and further cooling wajj expected to dominate the week s weather. Although the mercury hit 90 at Evansville Sunday, top temperatures in the low 80s generally prevailed for Indiana areas both days of the weekend. Forecasts called for highs today ranging from the 80s to 92 and Tuesday ranging from 80 to 87. The five-day average will be 3 to 6 degrees below normal. It will turn cooler Tuesday and stay that way the rest of the week over the bulk" of the state except in the north portion where a warmer trend willodevelop Thursday or Friday. The weekend was generally rainless, although Evansville recorded .03 of an inch Saturday. Showers or thunderstorms with chance of locally heavy rain were expected to develop this afternoon or tonight in the northern third of the state, ending Tuesday morning. Scattered showers were likely this afternoon and tonight, and again Tuesday, in the central and south portions. Sunday highs included 81 at South Bend, 82 at Indianapolis, 84 at Fort Wayne and Louisville and 86 at Cincinnati. Saturday highs included 80 at Indianapolis, 81 at South Bend, 82 at Fort Wayne and Louisville and 89 at Evansville. Overnight lows Sunday morning ranged from 57 at Indianapolis to 66 at Evansville. Overnight lows this morning ranged from 57 at South Bend and Fort Wayne to 65 at Evansville. Low tonight will range from the mid to upper 60s.