Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 194

Rusk Optimistic Os More Agreements

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk is optimistic Russia may be willing to make isolated agreements to ease tensions with the West, but sees little hope of a solution now to all cold war issues. One potential agreement the United States would be willing to discuss, Rusk told his news conference Friday, would be the proposal to station observation teams at transportation centers in major countries. The teams would be on the lookout for large-scale troop movements which might indicate a surprise attack was in the offing. But Rusk cautioned against tying together cold war issues in in an attempt to settle all conflicts in one session. The more issues such as disarmament, Berlin, non-aggression pacts or nuclear free zones that are linked, he said, the more difficult negotiatidns would become. As a “very helpful contribution” to further easing tensions, Rusk said, the Soviet Union should agree to remove its remaining troops from Cuba. He said that while he was in Moscow he told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the United States’ interest in seeing all Russian troops pulled off the island, but would not reveal the Soviet official’s reply. Shortly after Rusk’s conference, the joint House-Senate Republican leadership called on the Russians to withdraw the troops as a “demonstration of good faith” before the United States takes any “second step” toward new agreements with the Soviet Union. Since last May when the Senate armed services subcommittee estimatee there were 17,500 Soviet troops still on the island, the

Negro Teen-Agers Kick, Maul Police

By United Press International Negro teen-agers, enraged over a huge sign saying “Nigger go home,” kicked, scratched and mauled police in Elizabeth, N. J. Friday in another violent civil rights demonstration. Fists flew and several policemen were knocked to the ground and kicked. The demonstrators, boys and girls and some first-graders, became incensed over a sign with letters two feet high and 25 feet long which said: “Nigger go home, go home, where ever you live.” Eighty of the demonstrators were booked, and of these only three were adults. About half those arrested were girls. The integrationists have been protestin alleged job hiring discrimination at two construction sites, Gov. Richard Hughes sent a top civil rights officer to meet with Negro leaders, and promised to take action on their complaints. In East St. Louis, the scene this' week of a massive demon

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group said that “so far as can be learned, no significant reduction has been made in the Soviet forces since.” Mrs. Robert Shoup Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Monday for Mrs. Dora D. Shoup, 54, wife of Robert J. Shoup, of Willshire, 0., who died Monday morning in the Van Wert county hospital, where she had been a patient since June 11. Bom in Mendon, 0., Nov. 15, 1908, she was a daughter of Wallace and Kate Majors-Dutton, and was married to Robert J. Shoup March 21, 1931. Mrs. Shoup was a telephone operator at Willshire for 38 years, a member of the United Brethren church at Willshire and the Willshire American Legion auxiliary. in addition to her husband are one son, Robert D. Shoup of Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. Harry (Sonja) Gottfried of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren, and two brothers, James and Thomas Dutton, both of Mendon, O. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Willshire U. B. church, the Rev. Mark Rutledge officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. The body was brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. today until 12 noon Monday. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. Monday until time of the services.

stration in the city’s largest bank, an agreement was negotiated to hire Negores in banks and savings and loan association. An integration leader said four banks and four savings and loan association had agreed to hire 20 Negroes immediately in noncustodial jobs. Seven of the jobs will be full-time. Oh ter integration developments: New York'The leaders of the massive civil rights march planned to take place in Washington Aug. 28 said President Kennedy agreed to meet with a civil rights delegation and unemployed workers on the morning of the scheduled march. Mobile, Ala.: Mayor Charles S. Trimmier angrily denounced a ultimatum by Negro leaders that the city commission enact integration laws or face court action in 60 days. Myrtle Beach, S. C.: Two states and the U. S. Public Health Service declined to participate in an interstate sanitation seminar here because of segregated facilities.

Governor Welsh To Kick Off Campaign Wil SHEL ■ JH ’ I Gov. Matthew Welsh Governor Matthew E. Welsh will help the Democratic candidates of Adams county in the fall election kick off their campaign, it was annuonced this morning by Dr. Harry H. Hebble, chairman of the county Democratic central committee. Gov. Welsh will be the featured guest at an outing at the Rosemary Spangler farm home, route 2, Decatur, Thursday, August 29, Dr. Hebble explained today. The affair which will begin at 7 o’clock in the evening, is sponsored by Adams county Democrats, and will kick off their campaign for the upcoming fall election. Mayor Candidates General chairmen for the outing are Carl Gerber and Richard Lehman, candidates for mayor of Decatur and Berne, respectively. Homemade ice cream, cake, coffee, soft drinks and other refreshments will be served free of charge. All Democratic candidates from the cities of Decatur and Berne and the towns of Monroe and Geneva will be introduced at the meeting. Some other Democratic dignataries from around the state, in addition to the governor, are expected to attend the affair. Committee Heads Miss Spangler is in charge of the refreshments, and she will be assisted by the Democratic candidates. Wendell Macklin is chairman of the facilities committee. Dr. Hebble said that entertainment is also being planned for the outing, and will be announced at a later date. All county Democrats are urged by Dr. Hebble to make arangements to attend the picnic, to open a big fall campaign.

To Continue Search For Missing Plane MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD— A Muncie group of members of the Indiana Civil Air Patrol indicated today they will set up a new searching station at Wheelerburg. Ohio, in the hunt for a Muncie physician and four members of his family missing since their plane took off Aug. 9 from Gallipolis, Ohio. The group said after a meeting Friday night that an extensive survey of weather conditions the night the Dr. George McCoy family left Gallipolis for Muncie indicated the strong possibility the plane might have crashed in an area encompassing three Ohio and three Kentucky counties. In Cincinnati, officials said the search will be continued at least until early next week. Lt. Col. John Hederer, Cincinnati, of the Ohio Civil Air Patrol said searches normally are called off after a week “but we’re knocking ourselves out on this one because of the children involved.” The plane, piloted by Dr. George McCoy, 45, Muncie pediatrician, was last seen Aug. 9 when it left Gallipolis, Ohio, enroute to Muncie. With McCoy aboard the plane were his wife, Mildred, 40, and their three sons, George Jr., 18, David, 13, and James, 3. While the search continued, McCoy’s two daughters, March, 16, and Elizabeth, 5, waited at home for news of the missing members of their family. Mrs. Ramon A. Henderson, wife of McCoy’s partner in the operation of the Muncie Children's Clinic, said she hoped renewed efforts would turn up something over the weekend. “We just can’t give up now,” she said. “If you could only see the faces of the two little girls here waiting for news of their mother and father and three brothers, you would know why we feel this way.” McCoy's medical colleagues at Muncie issued a new appeal for farmers and hunters in eastern Indiana and western Ohio to join 'in the search for the missing plane.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 17, 1963.

Rail Unions, Management Meet Today To Work Out Rules For Arbitration

Eight Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic By United Press International Three double - fatality accidents sent the Indiana weekend traffic death first 10 hours of the 54-hour period today. The deaths, including two in single - fatality wrecks, raised the year’s toll to at least 756 compared with 706 a year ago. The latest accident occurred at 4 a.m. in Indianapolis when a car rammed the rear of a parked semi-trailer truck, killing E. Pace Spencer, 42, Indianapolis, the driver and another man identified as Clay Edward Spencer, apparently a brother of the driver. One two-fatlity accident occurred on U. S. 24 in Gass Cpunty about a mile west of the MiamiCass County line. The other happened on Indiana 2 west of LaPorte. In addition, other crashes claimed single lives. The Cass County accident about 5 miles west of Peru at 1:05 a.m. killed Glenn H. Schlemmer, 37, Peru, and Pamela McCall, 16, Logansport. Both were dead on arrival at Dukes Memorial Hosiptal in Peru. Injured critically was Fred Kendall, 20, R. R. 4, Wabash, driver of the car in, which Miss McCall was riding. Police said Kendall’s car drifted across the center line and hit the Schlemmer car headon. Alta Delle Shoopman, 49. R. R. 2, Mitchell, was killed on Indiana 37 north of Mitchell this morning when struck by a hit-run vehicle as she stood in the highway trying to flag a motorist. Mrs. Laura Miller, R. R. 1, LaPorte, and Thomas Hoffman, Hammond, were killed in the twocar collision on Indiana 2 about four miles west of La Porte. Mrs. Miller’s husband, Russell, was in? jured critically. Their son and a passenger in Hoffman’s car escaped serious injury. Police said the accident occurred when Hoffman lost control of his car on a curve and slid into the path of the Miller car. Mrs. Miller was killed outright. Hoffman, who was pinned in the wreckage for an hour, died en route to a hospital. Mrs. Betty Godwin, 27, MendonOhio, was killed when the motorcycle on which she was riding with her husband, Richard, 25. collided with a car on Indiana 124 near Bluffton. She was thrown over the car by the impact. Police said the "motorcycle collided with a car driven by Samuel Krummen, 51, who was attempting to make a left turn into the driveway of his home. Godwin and Krummen suffered minor injuries. . Another fatality occurred as the result of an accident near noon Friday which will not count hs a weekend death. Dewey Cunningham, 34, Frankton, died in Indianapolis Veterans Hosiptal from injuries suffered when a motorcycle on which he was riding struck and killed a large dog west of Anderson on a brick-surfaced road. The cycle driver, John Lehman, 26, Frankton, was injured and taken to hospital in tfair condition.

NOON EDITION Japanese Ferryboat Sinks, 35 Missing NAHA, Okinawa (UPD — A Japanese inter - island ferryboat with 209 persons aboard, including four American servicemen, capsized and sank in heavy seas near the U.S. island fortress of Okinawa tonight. A massive rescue operation was reported to have aaved at least 174 persons, including two of the Americans. By nightfall, 35 others still were missing, including the other two Americans. The Americana were not identified.

Agreement On Integration Is Made By Banks EAST ST. LOUIS, 111. (UPD— Integration leaders, heartened by a hiring agreement with East. St. Louis bankers, today vowed a “long drive to completely end job discrimination” in the city. The agreement, in which eight banks and savings and loan associations pledged to immediately hire Negroes, came late Friday after week-long “lie-down” and “kneel-in” demonstrations. James Peake, a white paraplegic and field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the integrationists may move next against the local power company, telephone company and super markets. “We anticipate a lot of work yet to do,” Peake said. He said the city’s super market owners and managers have been asked to attend a meeting Wednesday with the Human Relations Commission and the integrationists. The owners will be surveyed on employment patterns, Peake said. He said supermarkets would pASbably be the next target rrf the integrationists. “We are casting a long look at the local telephone company and the local power company,” he added. The bank settlement, he said, was “just one step” in the attack on what he called discriminatory hiring practices. The agreement, reached at city hall while 300 Negro teen-agers sang and prayed on the street outside, ended the threat of new demonstrations. Peake said four banks and four saving and - loan associations promised to employ 20 Negroes in non-custodial positions. Seven of the 20 will be full-time employes, he said, and none would work less than 12 hours a week. They will receive at least S2O a week. Rex Carr, who negotiated for the bankers, confirmed Peake’s statement and said unqualified Negroes would be hired within 60 days. “Reasonable men negotiating in good faith reached a settlement quickly,” Carr said.

Slight Warmup In Indiana Weather By United Press International Three days of record - breaking cold out of its system, the weather warmed up a little in Indiana today. But the warmup was rather insignificant and no return to the hot and humid conditions of the first two weeks in August was seen in the near future. After three nights of lows in the 40s and low 50s, the mercury warmed up to the upper 50s and the 60s early today. Minimums included 57 at Louisville, 58 at Evansville and South Bend, 59 at Cincinnati, 61 at Indianapolis, and 66 at Fort Wayne and Lafayette. The lows came after highs Friday ranging from 76 at Indianapolis to 84 at Evansville. Highs today Will range from the low 70s to 86, lows tonight in the 50s, and highs Sunday In the upper 70s. The outlook for Monday was a little warmer. Rain fell in some places during the 24-hour period ending at 7 a m. today. Showers were reported shortly after dawn at South Bend, Chicago and Cincinnati. Precipitation totals included Fort Wayne .16, South Bend .06 and Indianapolis .01. Isolated thundershowers in the southern two-thirds of the state were expected to end by afternoon and the remainder of the weekend will be mostly fair. The mid-August long-range forecast of the Weather Bureau for the Indiana area for the next 30 days calls for below normal temperature averages and above normal rainfall.

WASHINGTON (UPD — Railroad unions and management representatives were scheduled to meet today to begin working out the ground rules to be used during arbitration of the two most disputed issues of the work rules controversy. In the first significant breakthrough in the four-year-old work rules dispute which threatens a national rail strike Aug. 29, union and management Friday tentatively agreed to submit the issues of firemen on diesel locomotives and the size of yard service and train crews to arbitration. Lawyers now must agree on the arbitration details such as the procedues, scope and length of time to be spent on arbitration disucssions. The fragile agreement was endangered Friday night following a statement by a management spokesman that the unions had rejected the arbitration proposal made by Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz. However, Wirtz immediately called a late night news conference to announce that the agreement was still good. Work On DetaUs The secretary caustioned that the two sides still had to agree on the details of the two issues to be submitted. “My proposal was submitted in a form that the carriers accepted without qualification. Contrary to some reports,, the brotherhoods have also accepted the proposal insofar as submission of the two issues to arbitration.” Wirtz noted ' that the heads of the five operating unions first want to deermine within the frarhework of the two main issues what specifically will be subject to arbitration. They also have questioned how the issues not subject to arbitration will be resolved. Meet Through Weekend On the latter question. Wirtz said he and his staff would work through the weekend on how the other issues would be solved. Although optimistic, Wirtz warned that the dispute still was at a critical stage, and by no means settled. “I do not know whether the parties will agree,” he said. “There is no basis yet to determine that this can be settled privagely. However, they very significant and new element of arbitration has been adde.”

Six Persons Killed In Wisconsin Fire NIAGARA, Wis. (UPV—Six persons, including five members of one family, were killed today when fire swept their home in this tiny northeastern Wisconsin community. The victims wTre identified as Howard Comstock, 41; his wife Marjorie, 39; their daughters, Paula 15, and Christine, 10; a son, Peter, 7, and a friend of Christine’s. Mary Joe Schelfhout, 9. The Schelfhout girl is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schelfhout. Niagara. She was spending the night with Christine. A second Comstock son, Robert, 18. was spending the night at the home of friends about six miles from here. Comstock was production superintendent at the Kimberly Clark paper mill here. His family moved here from Neenah last October. He had been employed by Kim-berly-Clark there for 17 years. Authorities said the fire broke out in the downstairs portion of the home while the family was upstairs, and was put under control in 20 minutes. A watchman at the Kimberly mill saw'the flames at about 3:30 a.m. and called the volunteer fire department. The victims were rushed to a hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival. Revival efforts at the scene failed. Village Marshal Joe Rouse Said the fire was apparently started by a cigarette. He said he had traced the start to a davenport. Rouse said paint was cracked throughout the house and “even the tile on the floors curled up.’*

More Os Train Loot Is Found

LONDON (UPD — Ships of the British navy and coast guard were on the alert today for a yacht that may be carrying part of the loot from Britain’s spectacular $7.3 million mail - train robbery. The hunt for the remainder of the stolen banknotes moved to the British coast as police aj>pealed to vacationers to help in the search. "We direct this appeal to all ramblers, hikers and country strollers this weekend,” a police spokesman said. “Your cooperation will ■ help.” Spurring the appeal was Friday’s discovery of $282,620 in a wooded area in the County of Surrey. The discovery raised to $680,699 the total amount of loot recovered so far. In addition, the London Evening News said police also Were investigating a tip that another $1.4 million was hidden on a farm in Buckinghamshire, near the scene of the “great train robbery” nine days ago. Fiv» ParaotM Held A court held two sisters and three men on charges linked with the commando-type train raid that resulted in the biggest theft in history. Police asked the public to “watch out for anything, any

Safeguards To Nuclear Pact

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Pentagon sources said today there is little doubt the Kennedy administration will furnish the Senate a “bill of particulars” detailing its specific safeguards against losing ground from any Soviet violation of the nuclear test ban treaty. Detailed specifications of how the administration will proceed with underground tests and main tenanc of laboratory and test site facilities were demanded by senators on the preparedness and armed services committee groups. 'Fhe sponsor of t|ie move, Sen. Henry M, Jackson. D-Wash., went so far as to say that the Senate needs a “second treaty” with the executive branch to “make sure they will in good faith carry out what they say they will do." Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Order Inoculation Os Officers, Prisoners ALBION, Ind. (UPD — Noble County officials and prisoners in the county jail have been inoculated against infectious hepatitis after it was learned that a Woman burglar/ became ill of the disease in her cell. The stricken prisoner was Anna Marie Marburger, 20, who was convicted in connection with 24Q burglaries in three states recently and was taken to the Indiana Women’s Prison at Indianapolis last Wednesday to serve a 1-10 year sentence. Attaches of the sheriff’s depart ment, the circuit court and jail officials as well as four other prisoners were given inoculations in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease, and efforts were made to contact all persons who might have been in contact with the prisons from the time of her arrest until she was taken to prison.

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clue, which is out of the ordinary,” such as a suspicious character digging holes or dumping bags. Scotland Yard’s detectives theorized that members of the gang which hijacked the mail train near Cheddington were panicking and trying to hide their share of the loot. The money recovered Friday was found when John Ahern, a motorcyclist who had given a lift to Mrs. Esa Hargrave, pulled up alongside some woods, because of an overheated engine. Sp4t Three Parcels Mrs. Hargrave told the Daily Express she and Ahern spotted three parcels —two bags, ono with a handle, and a brief case wrapped in plastic—under some trees. "I saw a pile of one-pound ($2.80) notes wrapped in sticky brown paper like I have seen in a bank," she said. "We couldn't think of anything to say to each other,” Ahern told the Express. “I remember the raid and said to Mrs. Hargrave we didn't touch wnyI thing because rtf fingerprints.” I Some passing motorists called i the police. A (xilice dog found another packet of bills near the side of the road, and it took two i bank tellers six hours to colint all the money.

assured the three-committee group handling the treaty he is cinfident the "safeguards” sought by the military themselves will be provided. Sen. Howard W. Cannon, DNev , said that if the bill of particulars does not resolve senatorial questions about the treaty, hey migh “requre a very specific satement from the President on these safeguards.” During testimony Friday before a closed session of the prei>aredness committee, Gen. Curtis E. LeMay joined Taylor and other military chiefs in supporting the treaty. Sen Barry Goldwater, RAriz.., and other seantors gave reporters a consensus of the Air Force leader's views following the hearing. 1 It indicated that while LeMay urged ratification of the pact, he had more reservations than other military leaders. Recommends Filing For Office By August ll INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Commissioner Edwin M. Steers of the Indiana Election Board issued a recommendation Friday that candidates filing for independent tickets or vacancies in municipal elections do so by August 31, instead of thejegal Sept. 1 date. He pointed out that Sept. 1, this year comes on Sunday and the day following — which normally would be the deadline — when the legal date is on a holiday — also is a holiday. Steers said the deadline for the filing of independent tickets or filling of vacancies would be better done by Aug. 31 so as not "to raise any legal questions” should the filing be done Sept. 3. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and pleasantly cod. Low tonight in the 50b. High Sunday upper 70a. Outlook for Monday: Fair to partly cloudy J and a little warmer.