Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1963 — Page 1

Vol. LXI. No. 215.

Says Some Os American Student Travelers Into Cuba Part Os Red Group

Coalmont Residents Confer With Welsh

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gover-nor Welsh suggested to the Shakamak School Corp, board of trustees today that it “make, a formal appeal” to Clay County law enforcement authorities to wrest control of the Coalmont school building from a group of parents who have blocked the building's use the past 12 days. Welsh made the suggestion to Mrs. Odema Rotman, president of the board, at the conclusion of a conference in his office with a group of 10 area residents seeking to straighten otit a school reorganization controversy involving one township each in Clay and Greene Counties. “Essentially this is a local problem,’’ Welsh said. “What we do depends upon the local law enforcement officials. If they don’t feel they can resolve this, they should seek our help.” The parents are blocking the Coalmont school in protest over the board’s decision to send their children to “unsafe” schools at Midland and Jasonville. Mrs. Rotman’s brother-in-law served as chief spokesman for the 3 men and 7 women whose visit followed by 24 hours a series of conferences with four top state officials by a group opposed to the school board’s action. Rotman warned that if the Shakamak situation is not cleared up, “it will discourage other

Sen. Dirksen Backs Treaty

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate GOP Leader Everett M, Dirksen’s all-out support of the nuclear test ban treaty today strengthened prospects that fewer Republicans than Democrats would vote against it. Dirksen teamed with President Kennedy to try swing “doubtful” votes behind the treaty. There was some unofficial indication that a couple of votes might have been shaken to the "aye” column. Among the known negative votes, Republicans trailed Democrats— with the South contributing virtually all of the treaty opFiling Deadline Delayed 10 Days INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The deadline for filing of quarterly returns on the new adjusted Indiana gross income tax was postponed Wednesday from Sept. 15 to Sept. 25. The quarterly filing affects only persons whose wages are not covered by withholding, such as professional persons. However, most doctors and lawyers and other professional persons filed them anyway. The new rules require persons receiving income from sources such as book royalties and stock dividends to pay quarterly. If the income amounts to more than S2OO a year, two per cent of the income is due to the state. James C. Courtney, state revenue commissioner, extended the deadline due to a lack, at times, of forms at the state office and to the usual confusion attendant to a new tax. In one way the new law, enacted by the 1963 Legislature, is unenforceable. Courtney said persons owing just a few dollars would probably pay byway of annual reports due from everyone next April. Courtney also said the state is not interested in tax payments of less than 25 cents. The taxes due ’ this month are only one per cent, allowing for six months the tax was not in force.

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small schools from reorganizing.” He said the problem is “not only a school problem but a problem of law enforcement.” “We want the help of the law,” Rotman said. “The people want to see their children go to school in safety with no harassment.” Rotman said the lives of some adults, who went to the Coalmont school intending to remove books for use in classes at the other schools, were threatened by picket? who denied them entrance to the building. “I can’t understand why in Greene County we have law enforcement but in Clay County we don’t,” Rotman said. “In the South they get more protection from state troopers than we get up here.” At Coalmont, the parents’ blockade continued as a protest of alleged “unsafe” conditions at Midland Grade School and Jasonville Junior High. Mrs. Rotman said she asked for the meeting with Welsh to “outline the facts in this case” after a group of 35 Lewis Twp. mothers presented their side of the school dispute Wednsday to Welsh, Lt. Gcv. Richard Ristine, Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers and School Supt. William E. Wilson. “We only want to talk to the governor,” Mrs. Rotman said. “That’s all wethink is necessary to solve this thing.”

ponents on the Democratic side. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., was the latest of the southerners to come out against the treaty. Friends of Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., a key figure in the treaty consideration, said they expected him to give it his ultimate support. Jackson deferred announcing his decision until Friday. But he said today that a letter from the President read to the Senate Wednesday “confirmed” assurances given by subordinates that Kennedy would carry out safeguards sought by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Kennedy, at Dirksen’s request, gave the Senate his “unqualified and unequivocal assurances” that U.S. security would be protected under the treaty. Dirksen read the President's letter to a crowded chamber. The GOP leader, complimented by fellow senators for his stand, told the Senate he would back the treaty as a display of his willingness to “go the second mile” for peace. Senate GOP Whip Thomas H. Kuchel, Calif., firmed up his support of the treaty today in a prepared Senate speech in which he said all his original reservations about the pact “have ( been answered.” Estimated Income Tax Due Sept. 16 Taxpayers paying estimated income tax are, according to district director Sterling M. Dietrich of the internal revenue office in Indianapolis, required to pay their third installment of tax due on 1963 estimated income by September 16. If the income expected to be earned during 1963 has changed, taxpayers may be required to file an amended declaration' of estimated tax. A bank form for use as an amended return is printed on the back of the bill which taxpayers receive for an installment of estimated tax, Dietrich pointed out. “If you have any questions on estimated tax, telephone your local internal revenue office,” Dietrich said.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — A volunteer undercover agent who joined some 50 American students in violating a ban on travel to Cuba this summer testified toaay that about a dozen of them were members of an organization identified as a Communist “splinter group.” The witness, Barry Hoffman, 26, a Brookline, Mass., real estate man, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities the students made no secret of the fact that they belonged to the organization, which is called the Progressive Labor Mo vement. Committee counsel Alfred M. Nittle described the organization as a “Communist splinter group” formed in 1962by “neo-Trotsky-ites.” Hoffman testified that all of the students who went to Communist Cuba were warned twice enroute by U.S. authorities that they would be violating State Department regulations if they made the trip. Hoffman said they were met at the airport in both London and Prague by U.S. Embassy representatives. Hoffman testified in the old House caucus room before a standing room only audience which included George Lincoln Rockwell and several of his American Naziparty stormtroopers. Also scattered throughout the hearing room were a number of bearded beatnik-like youths, some in shirt sleeves. Guard Against Demonstrations Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives stood by posts inside and outside the hearing room to guard against possible demonstrations. The committee had been told Wednesday there would be such an attempt. Hoffman started off his testimony by saying that he volunteered to be an undercover agent for the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) while travelling with the group of students. He said the students went to Cuba the long way by flying to Western Europe, then to Prague where they boarded a Cuban airliner for Havana. Upon arrival in Prague, he said, the Cuban ambassador congratulated them “on having defied their government.” Hoffman said he accompanied the student group to collect data for Gordon Hall, a national authority on extremist groups. A House judiciary subcommittee Tuesday recommended to Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy that he seek indictments against those who made the Cuba trip in defiance of U.S. regulations. A total of 59 Americans accepted Cuban Premier Fidel Castro’s invitation to visit Cuba at his government’s expense. One drowned while swimming in a hotel pool in Cuba; 50 have returned to the United States. The State Department prohibited travel to Cuba in January, 1961, -after the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the Castro regimeThe passports of those who returned to the United States were seized by federal authorities, and a federal grand jury at Brooklyn, N.Y., began an investigation of the trip. Refuse To Testify Several witnesses were reported to have taken the Fifth Amendment in an appearance before the Brooklyn panel Wednesday. The witnesses were said to have invoked constitutional privilege when the government rejected their demands to be told the purpose of the probe and whether any possible criminal laws were involved. Three of the six who appeared before the Brooklyn panel Wednesday refused to identify themselves to newsmen; the other three said they were members of the “Progressive Labor Movenflent,” with offices in New York. The three identified themselves as Milton Rosen, chairman of the organization; Fred Jerome, editor of its monthly magazine, and Mortimer Scheer, vice chairman of the group, which they said was backing "the building of socialism in this country.”

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Decatur,. Indiana, Thursday, September 12, 1963.

Army Crushes Brief Revolt In Brasilia By LUIS MENEZES United Press International BRASILIA (UPI) — The army today quickly crushed a pocket revolt of enlisted men of the three armed forces in this capital city. First reports said one rebel marine was killed and at least two others wounded. A government statement said the rebels “surrendered unconditionally.” Capt. Helio Trevisan said army troops had recaptured the central telegraph exchange and the Navy Ministry. The Brasilia airport, about eight miles from town, also was reported retaken. But it was still closed to commercial traffic. An Air Force Ministry spokesman said “there are still some points of agitation,” but this was understood to refer to a lone marine corps unit still holding out. Army troops surrounded the group and demanded its surrender. At 11 a.m. (EDT) the presidency reported the restoration of order and said all public services had been re-established. First firing broke out at. 3:30 a.m., (2:30 a.m. EDT) on the famed Esplanade in front of the Congress Building. Enlisted men were firing tommygun bursts at the Air Ministry and navy staff building. This correspondent went to the telegraph exchange and found it occupied by rebels. They had cut all communications. They ordered me out of the building at tommygunpoint. Communications with Rio de Janeiro were re-etablished shortly after 9 a.m. (8 a.m. EDT) by using the telegraph annex building which the rebels had overlooked. Navy Capt. Renan Soares said the revolt movement started in marine ranks in Brasilia. He said air force sergeants joined the movement as did other enlisted men. The rebels, flushed out of each government building they seized, finally made the Navy Ministry their stronghold. They surrendered unconditionally when loyal army troops surrounded the building and prepared an all-out attack. The War Ministry said the revolt was at least ostensibly inspired by the Supreme Court’s refusal Wednesday to consider the appeal of an army sergeant whose election to the Rio Grande do Sul state legislature was not recognized by the local election board. South Adams Board To Advertise Bids The South Adams shool board has announed plans to advertise for bids for a school bus and a large supply of fuel oil. Beause the reorganization invalidated several bus route contracts bids by individuals interested in driving any of three bus routes will be considered at a special meeting in the Geneva school September 17. At the same meeting bids for a 72 or 78 passenger bus will be opened. The bus will be used to replace one of the obsolete buses on a regular route. It is also planned to use the bus extensively for extra-curricular activities due to its larger seating capacity and more riding comfort than found in conventional type buses. ' The third group of bids to be considered at that time will be for 50,000 gallons of No. 5 fuel oil to be delivered to the Berne school. Information and bid forms are available at the office of the Berne school superintendent.

Joel Moser Barn Is I Destroyed By Fire Estimates of loss following an early morning fire in French township reached several thousand dollars today, as the fire completely destroyed a barn on the Joel Moser property west of Berne. Th huge barn was burned to the ground asr/efforts by the Berne fire department were unsuccessful''in halting the blaze, which broke out about 1 o’clock this morning. The barn is located on the farm owned by Joel Moser of Berne, and Harold Zeigler is the. farm’s tenant. His son, Jerry Zeigler, has been managing the farm. The barn and a modern milking parlor which was new when installed in the barn a year ago, were destroyed. Also lost were an estimated 1,500 bushels of oats! and a large amount of hay. A! small number of implements and other items also went up in smoke, although no livestock was lost, Berne firemen battled the blaze for several hours but were unable to bring it under control. No definite cause for the blaze was known today, but .it is suspected that it was started by some defect in the wiring. Severe Hailstorm Hits Columbia City COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPD— A severe hailstorm featuring stones as big as 2% inches in diameter and weighing as much as two ounces swept across this Whitley County seat city today, leaving a trail of heavy damage. Telephone and electric lines were severed by the pelting hail, and two greenhouses suffered heavy losses. Frank & Sons Greenhouse estimated 8,500 to 9,000 panes of glass were shattered or cracked and the West Side Greenhouse said half of its panes were ruined in the worst hailstorm in at least 40 years. Townspeople who watched the barrage of hail during an eightminute storm said it ranged in size from peas to walnuts to golf balls and many of the stones were elliptical in shape. The hail stripped green leaves off thousands of trees and the rain washed the leaves into sewer catch basins, impeding the runoff of the rainfall. There was little damage only a short distance from the city. The hail belt was reported to have been not more than two miles wide and concentrated On the city area. Neon signs and a few building windows were shattered and car tops were pock marked by the heavy stones. $500,000 Fire At Indianapolis Church INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-A $500.000 fire swept the Lynhurst- Baptist Church on the city’s southwest side today, injuring three firemen. The loss was estimated by the Rev. Maurice C. Wright, who said the church was last used late Wednesday night for a prayer service and pastoral counseling. The blaze broke out in the early-morning hours. Firemen swarmipg to the scene kept the flames from spreading to the large sanctuary of the 1,500-mem-ber church but the worship center was-damaged badly by smoke and w a ter. ”' • «•

Fire Lt. Fred Kirkendoll, 36, and Fireman Emery Curl, 35, were overcome by smoke and Fireman Carl Lowe, 55, was hurt on one hand by a nail. The brick, frame and stucco structure had rooms on three floors.

Airliner Hits Mountain Peak, 40 Are Killed PERPIGNAN, France (UPI) — A chartered twin-engined airliner carrying Britons on a cut-rate Mediterranean vacation crashed into a mountain peak during a violent storm early today, killing all 40 persons aboard. Parachutists who dropped at the crash site—3,4oo feet up in the rugged Pyrenees Mountains—, radioed that all 36 British tourists and the French crew of four were dead. The parachutists dropped from helicopters dispatched after the Viking airliner, owned by the private French Airline Airnautic, was reported missing on a flight from London. The search planes spotted the wreckage on Rouquette Mountain near the village of Py, 40 miles west of Perpignan, near tfie French - Spanish border. It was still raining and a heavy fog blanketed the area. It was the second major crash in Europe in the past two weeks; Last week, a Swissair jetliner crashed near Zurich, killing all 80 passengers and crew members. The Viking, chartered by a British travel agency for one of its “vacation package” tours, was reported missing shortly after midnight. It had taken off from Gatwick Airport shortly after 8 p. m. Wednesday and was last heard from by French traffic control about 30 minutes before it was scheduled to land at Perpignan. Heavy storms were lashing the region—meteorologists at the airport said the weather was “incredibly bad.”

DeVoss Appointed School Attorney John DeVoss was unanimously selected to be school attorney for the North Adams Community Schools district Tuesday night, but his appointment was unintentionally omitted from the school board meeting story Wednesday. The problem of securing a school attorney with experience was discussed at length in the meeting. Louis Krueckeberg proposed Robert G. Smith, Decatur attorney, for the job. It was mentioned that he was school attorney for Adams Central community schools, and that since the two were adjacent, there might be conflicts of interest. Gail Grabill pointed out that during the past decade or so DeVoss and Robert S. Anderson were the only two who had served as school attorney in Deactur. DeVoss’ experience in school forms, duties, laws, etc., ’ was matters, and knowledge of proper stressed by Herbert Banning, and he was nominated for the job by Banning. His work was praised by other board* members who had wroked with him on school matters.

Three Persons Die In Head-on Crash By United Press International A head-on crash killed three persons Wednesday night near Greensburg and raised the Indiana 1963 traffic toll to 881 compared with 795 this time one year ago. The victims of the accident, the worst in Indiana since the Labor Day Weekend .were 'identified as Mrs. Ross Heck. 42, of Burney; her daughter, Mrs. William Oliphant. 25, Burney and Joyce Myers, 19, Greensburg. Mrs. Heck was driving one of the cars. The driver of the other car, Betty Hardebeck, 20, Westport, was rushed to Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis in critical condition. Authorities said the car driven by Miss Hardebeck crossed over into the wrong lane and was completely in that lane when the cars collided on a straight stretch of pavement on Indiana 3-46. Authorities have been unable to determine why the car crossed "the center stripe. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and much cooler with diminishing winds tonight. Friday mostly fair and cool. Low tonight to 50 north. 48 to 56 south. High Friday In the 60’s north 68 to 76 south. Runset today 6:59 p.m. Runrise Friday 6:24 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and not so cool. Lows in the 50s. Highs In the 70s.

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BREAKFAST GUEST — Bob Boley, left, of Warsaw, lieutenantgovernor of the Indiana Optimist club, confers with Tom Sefton, right, president of the Decatur Optimist chapter, Boley was a guest this morning at the weekly breakfast meeting of the Dedatur club. He spoke briefly to the group, congratulating them on their efforts to boost attendance and membership. Dr. William Free by showed the members a 40-minute filtn entitled "Better Medicine for a Better World.”

President Tito To Meet With Kennedy

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The White House announced today that Yugoslav President Tito will meet here with President Kennedy Oct. 17 for a “whole exchange of v iews.” It will be Tito’s first trip to Washington and his first meeting with Kennedy. Although the get-together was described as “informal,” administration officials viewed the meeting as important because it Will give Kennedy a chance to gain first hand impressions of the Yugoslav leader. Tito, although a Communist, plays a significant role within the neutral bloc in most East-West issues. Tito will visit Washington folkwing a Latin American tour. It will be his only trip to the Western Hemisphere except for a visit to the United Nations in 1960, when

More Tension In Viet Nam

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) —Heavily armed troops and police today blocked anti-govern-nient demonstrations by more than 1,500 higt} school and college students and* arrested several of their leaders. The second consecutive day of student protests to the government’s crackdown on the Buddhists came amid increasing tension between South ' Vietnamese and U.S. officials because of the policies of President Ngo Dinh Diem. U.S. military officers also were concerned with the apparent growing confidence on the part o*f the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas as a result of the government's troubles with the Buddhists. A Vietnamese officer described as “our greatest victory” a government counter-attack against the guerrillas after they overran two district capitals Tuesday. Yank Calls I (Disaster But an American officer on the scene noted the heavy government casualties and said: “Victory hell —a disaster.” The government lost 76 soldiers and 23 women and children in the twin attacks on the towns. Another 27 persons were missing end many wounded. Vietnamese marines who pursued the guerrillas claimed 122 were killed. U.S. observers, while not casting doubt on the figure, said they personnally had counted about half that number. In other developments: —Reliable sources said President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother and political adviser. Ngo Dinh Nhu, have ordered security agents to keep close watch on officials who have frequent contact with Americans. The sources said they fear tho United States may be trying to plot a coup against them. t . —Diplomatic sources said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Ixxige "strongly advised" Diem to get rid ©f Nhu during their hour and one-half meeting Monday, putting his advice in the “strongest possible terms” but making no outright demand's. Rejects Lodge's Advice The sources said Diem rejected Lodge's advice and expressed astonishment that he should be asked to dismiss Nhu. After the meeting, • they said, - Diem and Nhu got,increasingly angry and ordered the security measures. U.S. military officers noted that the twin offensives Tuesday were the first coordinated attacks launched tyy the Viet Cong on such a large scale. The attacks were accomplished by probing op-

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he met with then President Dwight 0. Eisenhower. Recently, Soviet I’iemier Nikita Khrushchev went to Yugoslavia as Tito's guest. Tito has influential views on East-West issues ranging from Berlin, disarmament, nuclear testing. to how the West should deal with the Russians. He advocates* tnat the major powers spending less on arms and more on aid to underdeveloped countries. It is expected that all of these subjects will be discussed by Kennedy and his visitor. The Kennedy administration also hopes to give Tito an insight into U.S. policy and better acquaint him with members of Congress. Congress has treated Tito with almost hostile aloofness since he sponsored a neutral bloc meeting in Belgrade two years ago, where the United States was assailed on I nuclear testing and other issues.

erations at four outposts, presumably as a diversionary tactic. Vietnamese military officials said their troops had retaken the two captured towns, Cai Nuoc and Dorn Doi,and inflicted high casualties on the Communists in battles in the Camau Peninsula 165 miles south of Saigon.

American military sources were less optimistic. They said the Reds had occupied the towns and caused heavy" losses among government troops in their first "well-planned. coordinated attacks” since the beginning “of the war in Viet Nam. Expect More Attacks Observers said it was not unlikely that the Communists would follow up with more attacks in an effort to exploit the government's preoccupation with the Buddhists and its dispute with the United States. (In Washington, it was reported that lienry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to Saigon, had made clegT to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem the dissatisfaction of the United States with the president’s brother and principal adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu. (The Kennedy administration largely blames Nhu so r recent events, beginning with the violent crackdown against opposition Buddhists, which have plunged South Viet Nam into turmoil at a time when it is battling Communist guerrillas. (The intended implication in Ixxige’s talks with Diem Monday, Washington sources said, was that the United States would be happier if Nhu were removed from his position of high influence. Several members of the U:S. Congress have demanded a reduction of American aid to South Viet Nam unless reforms are made.) Foui* 3 Decatur Girls Receive Scholarships Fojpr Decatur girls are among 38 in the area awarded the second annual nurses’ training scholarships by the Scottish Rite Villey of Fort Wayne. Twelve of the scholarships are renewals for the 1963-64 school year. The awards are made from applications by high school graduates with the 23 northeastern Indiana counties comprising the Scottish Rite Valley. The local girls receiving the scholarships are Martha Peck, Ball memorial hospital at Muncie; Kay Stevens, Parkview hospital, Fort Wayne; Mary Lou Lengerich and Louise R. Wilder, St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne.