Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI NO. 237.

Hurricane Flora Crosses

Cuba For Third Time; Heads To Bahama Islands

Valachi Resumes Crime Testimony

WASHINGTON (UPD— Underworld informer Joseph Valachi resumed his tales to senators of crime’s inner sanctum today under increased protection of federal agents after the FBI received . anonymous threats on his life. Chief U. S. Marshal James McShane said telephone tips were received over the weekend warning that a bomb would be placed in the Senate hearing rcfom and that several spectators would try to shoot Valachi. Consequently, McShane said, “extra precautions” were taken to insure the safety of the talkative mobster-murderer. There have been reports that underworld chiefs have placed a SIOO,OOO price on Valachi’s head for breaking the Cosa Nostra syndicate’s code of silencd. McShane told newsmen before today’s erime hearings began that the Washington metropolitan police bomb squad experts checked the marble-walled Senate Caucus Room this morning to make sure there was no bomb planted. Check Spectators Besides increasing the bodyguard of U. S. marshals surrounding Valachi, authorities checked spectators carefully and allowed no one in the hearing room with a briefcase or camera. As an additional precaution, McShane ordered news photographers not to take pictures directly in front of the witness. McShane said anonymous telephone threats were received by the FBI in both Washington and New York City. “We just don’t want anything to happen,” he said in explaining the additional safeguards. Valachi seemed to be aware of the reported threats. He sat nearby as reporters discussed them with McShane. This was the fifth day of public testimony by Valachi before the Senate’s investigations subcommittee. After relating murders and intrigue within the Cosa Nostra mostly in the 19305, he is expected to gradually bring his stories of its inner workings up-to-date in testimony this week. Chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., hoped to Valachi’s testimony this week.' Testimony on narcotics, “shylocking” on high interest loans, and other underworld profit-making operations is expected to follow

Ohio Congressman Lashes At Mme. Nhu

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Rep. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio, said today his Foreign Affairs Subcommittee would try to determine why Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu was issued a' passport to visit the United States. Terming her “an evil woman,” Hays said Mme. Nhu insulted the United States by calling its troops in Viet Nam “little soldiers of fortune.” Since she is neither a diplomat nor a government official. Hays said she should not have had a diplomatic passport. Hays said it was "bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles" and insults the United States at will. But it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady to do it under our very noses-” The Ohio Democrat said he suspected that every parent of a iT.an in uniform is wondering why "this woman” is allowed in the country. Other developments: Taxes: Sen Maurine B. Neuberger, D-Ore., said today she had been severely criticized for her campaign to withdraw tax exemption status from the Daugh-

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his public account of gangland killings dating back to the 19205. The senators, however, wanted to bring Valchi’s account of murders in the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate up to date before moving on to other fields. Need Legal Weapons The aim of the senate investigation is to show the need for new legal weapons to fight crime, including a broader wire tap law and authority to grant immunity to witnesses in racketeering cases. Authoritative law enforcement sources said Monday that the grand ruling council of the Cosa Nostra had tenuous connections with foreign diplomats, congressmen, movie stars, prizefighters, union officials, local government officials a'nd a few business leaders. The sources also said the total membership in Cosa Nostra, while changing constantly, is considerably greater than the 4,000 persons mentioned in some reports. All of the syndicate’s five major “families” are about the same size, they said, with one in New York believed to have more than 1,500 members. One source estimated total Cosa Nostra membership at 6,000. On the connections the overlords of organized U. S. crime have with other figures, the sources mentioned the name of world heavyweight boxing champion Charles (Sonny) Liston. Decided Proceed Dispute The Cosa Nostra’s grand council, consisting of the leaders of 12 leading "families” in the organization, decided a dispute among its members over Liston’s first proceeds before he won the heavyweight > championship on Sept. 25, 1962, the sources said. Joseph P. Barone of Allentown, Pa., a close friend of Frankie Carbo and fight promoter Frank (Blinkey) Palermo, .was said to have been the first to obtain an interest in Liston. Later, John Vitale of St. Louis, SJo., gained an interest in Liston’s contract, they said. In testimony before a Senate committee in March, 1961, Vitale said he was “going to handle my fighter (Liston) as I have before.” An official of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) also was reported to have obtained a financial interest in Liston’s contract.

ters of the American Revolution. She said she had been attacked with the implication that she was a “Communist” in a flood of mail sent to her office after she requested the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw the tax exempt status from the DAR. Latin America: Rep. Armistead Selden, D-Ala., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, urged Congress not to make tooquick a judgment on the new regimes in Honduras and the Doihinican Republic. He said it is not known yet whether the new governments . will block the “interest of the people in those countries.” Civil Rights: The Senate Commerce Committee today approved the administration’s Public Accommodations Bill. However, it exempted, the neighborhood shops and stores which do not cater to travelers. The vote was 14-3. The committee’s bill included a "Mrs. Murphy’s” section to eliminate the small tourist homes within a city. The committee bill was somewhat more limited in its language than originally proposed by the administration.

MIAMI (UPD — Hurricane Flora crossed Cuba today for the third time, heading for the Bahamas and leaving a trial of destruction across three Caribbean islands which counted more than 4,100 dead. The Weather Bureau urged emergency hurricane precautions be taken in the southeastern Bahamas islands at once. It predated the center of the deadliest storm in 63 years would cross Crooked Island a few hours later. Flora went on the prowl today after spending an unprecedented four days pounding Cuba where the death toll mounted to more than 100. It left the economy of Premier Fidel Castro’s regime reeling and the government ordered tight new food rationing. The hurricane crossed into the Atlantic at 11 a.m. EST near Cape Lucrecia, the Miami Weather Bureau said. Its center was located near latitude 21.1 north, longitude 75.7 west, or about 80 miles north-northwest of Guantanamo Bay. This was 440 miles southeast of Miami. The Weather Bureau said Flora would move generally toward the northeast at about 10 miles per hour during the day. A Cuban government broadcast monitored here said the town of Santa Cruz del Sur , on the southeast coast of Camaguey Province was being flooded by ocean tidal waves. The broadcast said urgent help was needed. A tidal wave that crushed Santa Cruz de Sur on Nov. 9, 1932 killed more than 3,000 persons. Crop damage in Cuba was in the millions of dollars. Fidel Castro assumed personal command of relief operations. The Miami Weather Bureau said the storm was centered midway between Santiago and Camaguey. Havana Radio announced that ail coffee distribution had been suspended in Havana because of losses to the coffee crop in OriContinued on Page 8) City Police Chief Home From Hospital City police chief James M. Borders was released from the Adams county memorial hospital today after a stay of ten days. Chief Borders suffered a very mild heart attack about 11:10 p.m, Friday, Sept. 27, and was hospitalized. Electrocardigrams have not turned up any damage to the heart. The chief is expected to rest at his home at 1621 W. Monroe street for at least a month before returning to his duties;

Suggest Donations As Based On Income Decatur Community Fund chairman chairman Gene Rydell today released a table which is the basis of united fund activity in many communities. The table suggests donations proportionate to the donor's income. Rydell said that he was releasing the table as “food for thought” and as a means of showing the citizens of Decatur the basis upon which other united fund drives are conducted. i The amounts listed in the table are usually considered a “fair share” of the donor’s income. Hourly Income Suggested One Hour’s Pay Per Month Income Pledge SI.OO $12.00 1.25 .. 15.00 1.50 .... 18.00 1.75 21.00 2.00 24.00 2.25 27.00 2.50 30.00 2.75 ... 33.00 3.00 36.00 Annual Income Suggested Yearly-Gift Income Pledge $3,500 $21.00 4,000 24.00 4.500 27.00 5,000 ". 30.00 5.500 33.00 6,000 36.00 Over $6,000 In Proportion

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Doctors Fight Dread Poison

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPD — Doctors fought a silent battle against a little-known killer today — hoping they have caught it in time. A prominent businessman and his 10 - year -old daughter died Monday. A university professor, his wife and two children lay ill with the same disease. A chemical engineer and his wife also fought for life. The suspected killer was type “E” botulism. Rare but deadly. Doctors and public health officials conferred through the night at University Hospital and called for scarce supplies of anti-toxin located in Washington and Canada. David S. Cohen, 35, a vice president of the Berkline Corp, of Morristown, Tenn., and Amy Beth Cohen, 10, died shortly before 8 a.m. Monday. Saturday morning they had eaten smoked whitefish bought at a Kroger Co. supermarket in West Knoxville and packed by Dornbos Bros. Fisheries of Grand Haven, Mich. Ate Same Type The others in the hospital had eaten the same type of smoked fish from the same store. Rudolph Paluzelle, 42, was in critical condition. Mrs. Lawrence Silverman, 39, and her two children, Matthew, 10, and Rachel, 8, were in serious condition. Paluzelle’s wife and Mrs. Silverman’s husband, a history teacher at the University of Tennessee, were in satisfactory condition. Cohen and his daughter had been admitted to the hospital late

Approve Plans For Repair Os Ceylon Bridge The Adams county commissioners Monday approved specifications for the repair of the Ceylon covered bridge, the last remaining covered bridge in the county. Hie specifications call for a new roof and a new siding, with all work done “so as to conform as nearly as possible to the original lines and general appearances of the original structure." The specifications were prepared by the county highway department. Highway supervisor Lawrence Noll told the commissioners that he had contacted Earl Dawaid, Geneva area historian and lawyer, to determine the color which the bridge should be painted. The county highw’ay department recently repaired the floor of the bridge. The old structure is in fairly good shape but has suffered from time, neglect and numerous bullet holes. The tin roof is liberally perforated with holes made by rifles and shotgun blasts. The commissioners were also informed that the wage rate had been set for work on the installation of an elevator in thq courthouse. The wage was set at a meeting of the required wage commission which included a representative of the state, a representative of the union and Phil Sauer, representing the county. The meeting is usually just a necessary formality, as the union usually has its wage requests prepared i well in advance and lhe state usually concurs with those requests. The wages set at the meeting ranged from $3 per hour for common labor to $7.30 an hour for painters working more than 100 feet above the ground. The commissioners also received a petition in regard to the Weidler levee. The petition requests cleaning of the ditch which drains under the levee and replacement of the collapsed 60-inch pipe as part of the ditch repair. The com-

Sunday night. No others in their family had eaten the fish. Several others reported to Knoxville hospitals for observation. Kroger ordered the suspected product removed from its 1.375 stores in 22 SouAmrn and Midwestern states. The fishery was shut down while Michigan Agriculture Department investigators ran tests on its inventories. “Horrible, Horrible Debacle” “This is a horrible, horrible debacle.” H. J. Dorntxis, president of the firm, said. Botulism, caused by the microorganism “clostridium botulinum” in improperly processed preserved foods, is fatal in twothirds of the cases. It is hard to treat because anti-toxin must be administered for the specific type of botulism involved — and there are at least five types. Each type causes identical symptoms. Type "E generally is associated with fish products. Type “E” botulism killed two Detroit women last March. Health authorities think it also was responsibile for the death 1 d*t Thursday of Chester O. Mitchell, 64, and his wife, Blanche. 62, of Kalamazoo, Mich. The suspected product, packed in vacuum-sealed plastic bags, bears red and white labels reading: ■ Vacuum-packed. Ready to eat. Keep under refrigeration. Dornbos smoked white fish (or smoked white fish chubs). Dornbos Fisheries, since 1889, Grand Haven, Mich.” missioners took the matter under advisement. A protest was received from Otis Buckey against the building of a ditch near Geneva. Buckey registered his objection to his assessment for the work and the necessity of constructing the ditch. He said that the assessments were unfair. He pointed out that one property owner, who would derive the most benefit from the work, was assessed SI,OOO for the 31 acres which he had in the drainage area. Another resident with only two and a half acres was assessed SBOO. Buckey’s protest also said that county surveyor Herman Moellering had said that there was no need for a ditch because no flooding condition existed in the area. Moellering, Tilman Affolder and Hugh David Mosser were the engineer and viewers for the specifications on the work. They signed the papers which said that the work was necessary and that the assessments were fair and just. Demolay Chapter Is Planned In Decatur The local Masonic Lodge initiated ]ilans in their meeting Monday evening for a Demolay chapter in this city for local boys, it was announced this morning by Robert S. Workinger, worshipful master. Fred E. pivelbiss, Huntington. and Buddy Faulkner, of Indianapolis, met with the local Masons and discussed arrangements for starting a Demolay in Decatur, for young men 14 through 21 years of age. Initial plans were made and further plans will be made at a meeting at 8 p.m. next Monday, at which time various committees for the organization will be made. Further plans will be announced in the future, according to Workinger. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little cooler tonight. Wednesday fair and a little warmer in afternoon. Ix>w tonight in the 40a. Highs Wednesday 73 to 82. Sunset today 8:17 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:49 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly fair and a little warmer. Lows in the 10s. Highs mid 70s north to mid 80s south.

Register Now For Scholarship Tests All 1965 graduates of the North Adams community schools who wish to enter the 1964-65 national merit scholarship competition should register now with the guidance office at the Decatur or Monmouth high school, according to an announcement today by Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur pricipal, and John McConaha, Monmouth principal. > The national merit scholarship qualifying test will be given in the schools at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 10, or Saturday, March 14, 1964. Students who will complete secondary school in 1965 and enter college in the same calendar year are eligible for scholarship consideration in the 1964-65 merit program. To receive consideration, the student must take the test when it is offered in his school. Participating students pay $1 on the day of the test. Any interested student who is unable to pay the fee should consult the guidance office, phone 3-3617. Awards in the merit program are granted on the basis of intellectual merit, but student financial needs determine the amount of individual stipends. The stipends are renewable each year without further testing. A student’s performance on the qualifying test also procides him with information that is useful in career planning or in selecting courses in high school and college. To Meet Wednesday The junior classes in both the Decatur and Monmouth high schools will meet Wednesday for information regarding the tests. After the test, each participating student receives a handbook for merit program participants, prepared by Science Rearch Associates, the testing agency. The handbook is designed to help students understand their individual test results, to make comparisons with scores of h i g h seßbelitudants across the country, and to use this information in making educational and vocational plans. Thus, McConaha and Andrews said, students can learn more about their educational strengths and weaknesses, whether or not they plan to attend college. In addition to the awards made by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, about .175 business corporations, foundations, colleges, professional associations, unions trusts, and individuals give scholarships through the merit program. A considerable number of other scholarship agencies utilize the services of NMSC in awarding their scholarships. NMSC was established in 1955 through grants from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. An additional Ford Foundation grant to extend the merit program through 1970 was announced in 1962. In the period of 1056-63, about 7500 students have received merit scholarship awards and thousands of other high-scoring students have been assisted in obtaining financial aid from other sources. Funeral Thursday For Wreck Victim Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home for Harrison N. (Dutch) Sudduth, 66, of Decatur route 3, who was fatally injured in an auto-truck crash north of Decatur Monday morning Mr. Sudduth, a lifelong resident of Decatur and area, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Adams county memorial hospital from injuries sustained when his auto collided With a truck driven by Donald E. Elser, 27, of Roanoke, at the intersection of two county ttone roads in Root township, near the Adams-Allen county line. Elser escaped with minor injuries. The accident victim was born 'in county Nov. 26, 1896, a son of Elias and Sarah Gilbert Sudduth, and was Whittenbarger in December of 1921. — Mf\ Sudduth was employed by several Decatur coal dealers until his retirement a year ago. Since that time, he had served as janitor of the St. Peter’s Lutheran church and school. Surviving in addition, to his wife arer his mother, Mrs. Sarah Sudduth of Decatur; One brother Aaron Sudduth of Decatur., and a sister, Mrs. Jess (Jeanette) Plasterer, also of Decatur. Two brothers preceded him in death. Final rites will be conducted at 2:36 pm. Thursday at the Win-'teregg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. Eugene Suman and the Rev. Floyd Suman officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends jjnay call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

■ r ■>“* J'*-*. 4 • I ■ j f if F la fl i M BBa \ I i■ ' I TEEN CHAIRMEN — Philip Dawson, 18. and Judy Meyers, 18. both of Jamestown, N. Y., are co-chairmen for the 1964 Teen-Age Program (TAP) of the March of Dimes. They get right down to work by meeting little Virginia Paige of New York, who was torn with a serious defect, which no one would know about today, thanks to March of Dimes.

Cut Commercial Aid To Viet Nam

SAIGON (UPD — The United States has suspended nearly sl2 million commercial ald~~pgyntents to South Viet Nam since the August crackdown on the Buddhists end is considering further cuts, informed sources said here Monday. The plan to further reduce aid is aimed at forcing political reforms the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the sources said. It is reported now under consideration in Washington. The payments suspended since Aug. 21. when Buddhist leaders were arrested and pagodas closed, covered aid to imports. This program costs the United States $95 million a year, out of the total $203 million economic aid. It finances more than 60 per cent of South Viet Nam’s imports. The sources aid further suspension of this commericial aid would amount to a reduction in the economic aid to this nation and could seriously affect its economy. This might have the effect of bringing policy or personnel changes on the part of Diem's government, they added. Related Developments (In related developments, the 1 Soviet • Union Monday tried to block U. N. approval of a factfinding mission to South Viet Nam Diem’s government offered to accept a teain of U. N. members to investigate the Buddhist dispute. But the Russians insisted that they and the British, as cochairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference on Indo-China, carry out the probe. (Diem’s siter -in Vlaw, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, arrived in New York Monday night to begin a 20-day tour of the United Stales She said she hoped to explain her government’s viewpoint to Americans.) The American-owned Times of Viet Nam, which is close to the Ngo family and often critical of U. S, policies here, was the first to disclose the commercial ‘ aid cuts. Its article Monday said the United States was using the cuts to put pressure on Diem. U. S. Embassy officials declined comment, but it was learned Diem's government has not been told of the reasons for the aid suspension. Support Vietnamese Currency The, commercial aid program helps support the Vietnamese currency. If it is suspended for a long period, the government will

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be forced to print more currency without -reserve backing or dip lino tts own considerable foreign exchange reserves. Until the suspension, the. Uniteci States was given dollars to Viet Nam to pay for essential imports; "importers were buying the dollars at the official rate of exchange; and the local currency was being used by the government to pay for the military budget. In effect, this meant that more than 60 per cent of the nation’s essential imports were being financed by the United States. A continued suspension of this aid would lead to inflation — either through the printing of paper money or the reduction of foreign exchange reserves — and this in turn could turn Viet Nam’s middle classes against the government, the sources said. They said the alternative would be for the government to relax its policies against the Buddhist leaders and other opposition factions. Pleads Not Guilty To Receiving Goods Larry Gene Baumgartner, 21-year-old 216 N F<®th St., resident. entered a plesLOpf not guilty to a charge of stolen goods in the Adams circuit court this morning. Baumgartner, represented by Richard J. Sullivan, is the second person involved in a case of five automobile transmission thefts to enter a not* guilty plea. r James Plasterer, 24, of Van Wort, entered a not guilty plea to a receiving stolen goods charge recently. Ronald Eugene Myers, 18, route 6. Decatur, and Roger Dale Death. 18. 818 Adams St., were given a one-week continuance in court this morning before entering their pleas to charges of second degree burglary and grand larceny. Death is represented by Lewis L. Smith, and Myers by John L. DeVoss, both of Decatur. ' The case concerns the theft of five auto transmissions, valued at approximately SI,OOO, from the Highway Service station owned by Francis Ellsworth, on August 19.