Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXL no: 238.

Hurricane Flora Moves Toward Open Atlantic; At Least 2,700 Killed

Two U.S. Marine Helicopters Crash

' SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) —Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters carrying 12 Americans crashed Tuesday night in the central highland jungles, possibly shot down by Communist ground fire. An American military spokesman said rescue planes sighted the wreckage of both helicopters today. There was no sign of survivors, and search aircraft were fired on by the Red guerillas, killing one wounding south Vietnamese and U.S. marine officer and two Vietnamese. The wreckage of the two Eowned Marine helicopters was sighted near the banks of the Thubon River, about a half mile from the wreckage of a T2B fighter - bokber plane which crashed under Communist fire Tuesday, killing an American army captain who was its pilot. If the 12 Americans on the two downed helicopters are dead, it would bring to 124 the total number of Americans who have died ifa this strife-torn country since the United States began all-out aid in the fight against the Communist Viet Cong rebels. - * Although the official U.S. military spokesman said it still was not. certain whether the helicopt- ; ers were shot down by the communists or crashed because of mechanical troubles, another military source said he believed they were shot down. Both helicopters were taking part in rescue operations in the rugged mountains near the Laotian border where a Vietnamese Air Force T2B fighter bomber was shot down, apparently killing a U.S. Air Force tapin and a Vietnamese observer. Search planes also reported no signs of survivors at the site on the T2B crash. . The spokesman said the Americans aboard the helicopters in-

Expect Wheat Sale Approval

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy was expected today to announce approval of a proposed multi-million-dollar “one slot” sale of surplus U.S. whedt to the Soviet Union. The President’s announcement may come at his news conference at 6 p.m. EDT. The conference originally was scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT, but the time was changed, possibly to coincide with the closing time of the west coast commodity markets. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman said today American traders had indicated the Soviet Union was prepared to buy about 140 million bushels of wheat for about $260 million. Other sources confirmed privately that . total sales, which would include the satellite nations, could reach 275, million bushels. Russia indicated to the U. S. government for the first time earlier this week that it is interested ir. buying between $l5O million and S2OO million worth of grain. Gold or Dollars The proposed sale, which would be handled by private American grain traders, would be for gold or dollars. A 1934 law forbids extension of any but ordinary commercial short-term credits to any nation that has previously defaulted on a debt owned the Uniteo States. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota who has favored such a sale, said the transaction might involve as much as 5 million tons, or about $375, million to S4OO milion worth ci wheat. But his total included possible grain purchases by Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bul-

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eluded four Marine officer pilots, five Marine enlisted crewmen, one Navy doctor and two Navy hospital corpsmen. Both helicopters belonged to a newly - arrived Marine Corps squadron based at Danang about 40 miles northeast of the crash site, which is 325 miles north of Saigon. An all-out air rescue search had been launched at dawn today when the two helicopters failed to return to Danang Tuesday night. They had last been heard from at dusk, heading back to the base from the site of the T2B crash. In Saigon, Rep. . William S. Broomfield, R-Mich., member of an eight-man U.S. congressional team touring Viet Nam, protested to President Ngo Dinh Diem against the beating of three American Newsmen by Vietnamese police. Lawrenceburg Child Is Killed By Truck LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. (UPI) —Christine Sizemore, 20 months, was killed Tuesday when struck by a truck which George Hayes,* 71, was backing out of a driveway ht the home of her parents, the George Sizemores. Two Cases Os Polio Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Two cases of polio were reported in Indiana last week, the first in this state in months. One case each in Kosciusko and Perry Counties represented as many as hed been reported previously in the state since Jan. 1. The four cases on Indiana State Board of Health records in 1963 compared with 20 this time last year. _ £ .

garia. Canada announced Tuesday that Communist Bulgaria had agreed to purchase more than 11 million bushels of Canadian wheat in equal amounts over the next three years, and an additional 5.5 million bushels this crop year if Canada can supply it. The administration was believed to have delayed a decision because of failure to obtain bipartisan congressional support for a wheat sale to Russia. But Humphrey said there were indications now of “broad support for a oneshot wheat sale.for cash or gold.” Move Already Started Despite the Minnesota Democrat’s claim a move was started in the Senate Tuesday to block the proposed wheat deal, at least until after Feb. 1, 1964. Under a resolution offered by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., and backed by five other senators, a committee would be set up to study the proposal. Dodd said the nine-member committee would report to the Senate by the Feb. 1 date—with no transaction to be concluded before then. - Co-sponsoring Dodd's proposal were Republican Sens. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, Peter H Dominick of Colorado, Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota and Hugh D. Scott of Pennsylvania, and Democratic Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin. President Kennedy has the power to approve an export license for sale of wheat to Russia v.ithout consulting Congress at all. But because of the obvious political implications the Chief Executive has been sounding out opinion for several weeks.

MIAMI (UPI) — Hurricane Flora’s Caribbean death toll rose to more than 2,700 known fatalities and another 6,500 were feared lost today as the storm finally moved toward the open Atlantic and away from the U.S. mainland. - ' ' Radio reports, intercepted in i Miami, added 105 known dead and 4,000 missing in eastern Cuba tn previous reports of 2,500 dead and fears for 2,500 others in Haiti and at least 112 other dead in Cuba. In its nine-day rampage through the Caribbean and across the southeastern Bahamas, the hurricane which may turn out to be the most deadly of the 20th Century,, also claimed nearly 50 more lives in Tobago, Grenada, Jmaica and the Dominican Republic. A Cuban radio broadcast reported this morning that “two entire villages have disappeared, washed away by the flood waters, and there is fear that 4,000 students and workers have perished.” The villages were not identified. Although it may be weeks before the full extent of death and damage tan be determined, the Miami Weather Bureau said damage in Cuba alone would run into “several hundred millions of dollars.” Haiti counted nearly SIOO million in damages. Weather forecasters said the storm, one of the deadliest of the 20th century, eventually would dis- , sipate in the ocean's expanse. Boasting 100 mile per hour winds in its center, Flora passed over the island of where the United States has a missile tracking station, at 2 a.m. EDT. There were no immediate reports of damage to the island which was hard hit by hurricane Donna in 1960. The Miami Weather Bureau said winds of 75 m.p.h. struck Mayaguana. At 6 a.m., EDT, Flora’s center was located near latitude 22.5 north, longitude 72.0 west, or about 60 miles east-northeast of Mayaguana and moving toward the east-northeast at about 15 m.p.h. The storm was expected to continue this course during the day with a slight turn to the northeast thereafter. Behind Flora lay what the weather bureau called in a preliminary report the worst hurricane devastation to Haiti and Cuba “since the time Columbus discovered the New World.” Toll Might Double Haitian Health Secretary Gerald Philippeaux reported from Port au Prince Tuesday that 2,500 persons were dead or missing and that the toll of casualties “mieht | double.” He said cities had beCB swept away by Flora, wmen struck Haiti’s southwestern. Tiburon peninsula last Thursday night with 150 to 200 mile-an-hour winds. In Cuba, at least 112 were reported dead from the unprecedented four - day pounding Flora delivered before breaking away Tuesday morning on an eastnortheast course into the Bahamas. There were 48 other casualties in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, on the islands of Tobago and Grenada, ahd at Miami Beach, where j./ college student was presumed drowned in heavy surf flung against the south Florida coast in a two-day buffeting of Flora’s fringe gales. Her mounting death toll ranked Flora with the 1900 hurricane which killed 6,000 in Galveston, Tex., amont the century’s worst storms in this part of the world. Property Damage Tremendous The Miami '■ Weather Bureau said damage in Cuba probably would run into “several hundred millions of dollars.” Property damage in Haiti was estimated at nearly SIOO million. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who assumed personal charge of relief operations and almost drowned in a flooded river Tuesday, ordered the Cuban Red Cross to refuse any offers of aid from the American Red Cross. Such an offer from a country “ruining the Cuban nation. , .with a blockage and aggression”' would by "hypocritical,’’ Castro said. The weather bureau’s preliminary report on Flora’s damage ’ estimated that 40 inches of rain . had fallen in some parts ofrCuba Continued on Page Six

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 9,1963.

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAY'S DECATUR BOY SCOUTS V COMMUNITY FUND • girl scouts \ $5/793.00 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. Hl LITTLE & PONY* LEAGUES /lS The Goal Is u - s °* $28,993 SALVATION ARMY KKW MINTAI HEALTH W CmmX" Fund COMMUNITY CENTER y v 9,111 Needs AMERICAN RED CROSS $23,200.” Giw Tbs United Way

Radio Man Is Sought By Decatur Police Applications are now being accepted at the city police department for a new civilian radio operator to be added to the department’s staff. The vacancy was created recently by the city board of works and safety’s decision to move present radio operator Pat Nelson up to the uniformed ranks, filling the vacancy created there by Jay Minch’s 'decision to join ( the pension ranks. Applications may be received at the department, and when completed should be turned in to acting chief Grover Odle. The department’s pension board is' expected to meet this week and act on Minch’s pension application and the appointment of Nelson to a uniformed officer. The board of works continued its policy of moving the civilian radio operator into uhiform when a vacancy occurs. The precedent was established last year when Tom Hoffman moved from the- radio operator’s job into uniform and Nelson was hired to be operator’s job. The city council has appropriated funds for the addition of a uniformed officer to the force effective the first of 1964. Thus, if the policy is continued, the new; radio operator will work in that capacity until the first of the year and then be put into uniform. Community Fund Is Near $5,800 Total The Community Fund total swell-j ed to nearly $5,800 this morning as contributions began trickling in from various sources. The Red Men became the first men’s organization to report and I the Women’s Guild of the Zion United Church bf Christ was the first women's organization to report. Other women’s groups among the early donors were the Psi Oota Xi and the Catholic! Ladies of Columbia. Mrs. Mike Shannon was the first retail division solicitor to complete her work. Mr. and Mrs. David C. Wynn, registered the first coh-i tribution from an out-of-town ’ worker. 1 At this point, the Community Fund is still $23,200 short of its $28,993 goal. Today is the third day of active solicitation by }he| drive workers and many more of them should report within the next few days. | Persons who are not contacted this week but wish to donate to the drive may leave their contributions at the Citizens Telephone office. BULLETIN Lloyd E. Stevens, 57, of 1217 Patterson street, died at 12:40 P-m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been hospitalized for a week with a helrt condition. The body was removed to the Wtaterew-Linn funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. I

Vera Cruz School Plans New Building Construction of a 40 by 80 foot . multi-purpose building for the . Vela Cruz opportunity school for retarded children will begin Monday. [ State agencies have given the . building committee approval to , proceed with the building pro- , gram. Plans are to build as much ’ as possible for $15,000. It is felt that at least SIO,OOO more will be to ■ complete the building plans. • "At a meeting of the building . committee last Thursday evening, C. K. Reid, treasurer of the committee, reported $13,500 in the building fund. Friday evening the parent-teacher organization of the opportunity school voted $1,500 from funds on hand to be added to this amount; making a total of $15,000 in the building fund. Blue prints were shown by Andrew Schrock, builder and designer of Decaitur. <— The following officers were elected from the building committee members: Dr. T. O. Dorrance, president; Elmer Isch, vice president; Mrs. Leroy Wibel. secretary; C. K. Reid, treasurer. The committee plans to incorporate. The first step toward the building program was-taken in May of 1959, when $4,000 was allocated from the general donations fund of the school and $2,000 from the Wells county Society for Crippled Children and Adults to set up a building fund. Since that time individuals, organizations and churches have continued to contribute to this fund. The school’s present enrollment of 40 students is the largest since its opening in January, 1959. Five new students have been added to the enrollment so far this year. Students are coming from Wells, Adams and Huntington counties. TWO SECTIONS Sophomore Parents Night At Monmouth Sophomore parents night will be obsreved at the Monmouth high school at 8 o'clck Thursday evenlang, Oct. 17, John McConaha, school ‘ principal, announced today. Purpose of the meeting is to : discuss the school curriculum, . guidance and counseling, testing also an explanation of the guidance services available to I Monmouth students. - . Next week's meeting will be [siniiliar to the earlier meeting of the freshman parents, which was well attended and received by the parents and school officials alike. I-etters of invitation to parents of all Monmouth sphomores will be mailed later this, week, McCon- ‘ aha stated. The Monmouth principal will be aided in discussions at the meeting by Deane T. Dorwin and Mrs. Jack Schnepf, of the guidance departi ment of the North Adams communI ity schools.

One-Day School Boycott Called For Chicago By United Press International Seventeen civil rights groups today called a “massive one-day school boycott” in Chicago Oct. 22 in protest of the Chicago Board of Education’s refusal to accept the resignation of Supt. Benjamin C. Willis. “The demonstration will show the Board of Education the policies of de facto segregation will not be tolerated by Chicago parents after Willis leaves,” Lawrence Landry, Coordinating Council of Community Organizations official, said in a statement. Landry said parents would be asked to keep their youngsters out of school "in anticipation of final freedom from Dr. Willis.” Landry spoke after an emergency meeting of the CCCO executive board Tuesday night Board of Education President Claire M. Roddewig named a committee of three board members Tuesday to meet with Willis in an attempt to work out a satisfactory relationship. Elsewhere on the integration front: St. Louis— The Board of Education unanimously elected the Rev. John J. Hicks Tuesday as its first Negro president. The Rev. Mr. Hicks, pastor of the Union Memorial Methodist Church, was consistently aligned himself with efforts for greater integration. Peoria, lll.— About 90 sign-car-rying. singing Negroes demonstrated for open occupancy in private housing Tuesday in front of the Pere Marquette Hotel housing delegates to the Illinois Association of Real Estate Brokers. Grand Rapids, Mich.—A group ' of Negroes asked the City Com- ' mission to cooperate in the inte--1 grated Fuller-Swept housing det velopment in an all-white neigh- ! borhood. “We have faith in your J judgment,” the Rev. W.L. Patterson said, "but we are being systematically squeezed in housing.” Huron, S.D.— William P. Mahone. new chairman of the South Dakota Civil Rights Commission, said a fair housing , bill was the commission’s next goal in South Dakota, but he did not know what success it would meet in the 1964 state elgisatifre. Anti-Toxin Is Flown In To Fight Botulism KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPD — Supplies of a scarce anti-toxin were flown from Canada and Denmark today to combat a suspected outbreak of botulism, apparently stemming from packaged smoked fish, that already has claimed six lives. All of the known supply in the United States of the anti - toxin for “E” type of food poisoning has been brought into use and appeared to be effective ij. helping eight patients here' in Nashville. The anti - toxin was flown here Tuesday by military jet plane from Bethesda, Md. A special commercial airline flight arrived early today with five pounds of the antidote from the Connaught Medical Center in Toronto, Ont. Doctors still have been unable to make an ironclad diagnosis in the death here Monday of David Cohen, 35, and his 10-year-old daughter, Amy Beth. The same is true in the death qf Nashville is true in the death of Nashville Sunday of Mrs. Anna Belle Phelps. 51. and on Sept. 30 of FW. Pruter, 36. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Mitchell died last Thursday in Kalamazoo, Mich. The victims all had one thing in common. They had eaten smoked fish from Michigan. Vanderbilt Hospital officials in Nashville said Tuesday night that Eric Charles Dalton, 5, of Huntsville, Ala., had been admitted to the hospital with apparent symptoms of botulism. Dr.' Richard Cannon, hospital director, quoted the child's mother as saying that Eric had eaten some of the suspected, smoked white fish last Friday. Cannon said the mother said soine of the symptoms had shown up Saturday and had grown progi essively worse before he was brought to Vanderbilt. He said Eric was in a respirator to help fight the paralyzing effect of the poison. Cannon said the boy’s condition was listed as critical. ’ — I

Modern Languages Approved For Mass

VATICAN CITY (UPD — Ecumenical Council fathers today overwhelmingly approved a series of proposals authorizing introduction of modern languages to replace Latin in large portions of the Mass. Eight separate amendments to the documnt on the worship of the church were ratified at today’s session of the council by top-heavy majorities. The largest negative vote on any of the amendments was 96 out of 2,227 votes cast. Four of the amendments concern the use of vernacular — the everyday language of the people —in the Mass where this is desired by national or regional conferences of bishops. Endorsed Last Fall The general principle of allowing Catholics to worship in their own language was endorsed by the council at its first session last fall. Today's voting was on specific amendments to the draft document on providing for this and numerous other reforms in the liturgy. The effect of the amendments approved today is to make it clear that the use of modern languages in optional with the bishops of each country and those who wish to continue an all-Latin mass may do so. They also provide for a wider use of vernacular than the original text would have done. For example, the original text would have restircted modern languages to the reading of the Gospel and Epistles and certain other portions of the so - called “foreMass.” An amendment approved today by a vote of 2,212 to 47 says that if local circumstances warrant, modern languages may be used i in all parts of the Mass which ■ “belong to the people.” That is those chants and responses in »

» “ Valachi Tells ' Os Defiance

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gang--1 land informer Joseph Valachi re* lated today how two underworld ' kingpins defied a Cosa Nostra ban on narcotic trafficking in order to reap huge profits. In testimony before the Senate investigations subcommittee, the husky - voiced Valachi identified the two defiant leaders as Vito Genovese and Albert Anastasia. Valachi said Frank Costello, then head of a New York Cosa Nostra "family,” imposed a "no narcotics” rule on members of his gang. In 1957, Valachi said, all the "families” in the crime syndicate were told to stop dealing in narcotics by the Cosa Nostra bosses. They feared that narcotics traffic would lead to arrests and heavy penalties for syndicate members. But the rule was violated "because of the chance to make money — big profits,” Valachi said. Several bosses i>eddled narcotics through their "soldiers” or henchmen, he added. For the second day in a row, the Senate hearing room was searched for a possible bomb before Valachi was ushered in under heavy guard. Nothing was found but special precautions for his protection continued. The subcommittee planned to explore details of the bloody gangland battle between Brooklyn’s rebellious Gallo brothers and legions of the late Joe Profaci. Crime syndicate experts for the New Police Department were ready to supply details of the warfare which has resulted in a dozen underworld murders and 9 “disappearance” in ’recent years. They have bamed the murlder two months ago of Louis Mariani, a Gain underling, on the feuding within one of the Cosa Nostra syndicate’s families. There was a possibility that today’s appearance before the subcommittee would be Valachi’s last public testimony. Chairman John L. McClellan, D-Ark., said the subcommittee was driving to complete its public questioning of the squat Cosa Nostra alumnus. Still to be heard, however, in addition to the saga of the brothers Gallo, is Valachi’s testimony on the personnel of Cosa Nostra families outside New York City. Valachi and New York police spokesmen gave a rundown on the five New York families Tuesday According to the testimony, until his death from cancer in 1962. Giuseppe Profaci, known as "Joe Profach, The Old Man,” was the head of one of the five "family” sub • organizations operating in New Xork City. About 1959, however. trouble was started by three Profaci soldiers — Larry, Joseph (Crazy Joey) and Albert (Kid

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which the congregation is supported to participate, such as the Credo and Sanctus. Wider Use * Possible Another very significant amendment, approved 2,149 to 67, says that a still wider use of modern languages may be permissible if proposed by the bishops of a country and approved by the Pope. This opens the door for possible future introduction of modern languages even in the Canon of the Mass—the most sacred portion of the service in which the priest re-enacts the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary. Other amendments approved today strongly commend the reception of Holy Communion by the faithful each time they attend Mass rather than only on special occasions, and authorize the reception of communion in both species—that is, wine as well as bread —by the laity on certain special occasions. As a consolation of traditionalists in the church, the fathers also adopted an amendment urging pastors to teach the faithful how to make their responses in Latin even though the service is normally conducted in a modern language. The amendment says this is desirable so that Catholics can take part in mass when they go to another country. One amendment stresses the importance of worshippers taking part in the "service of the word," that is, the sermon and scripture —reading portions of the Massas well as the actual Eucharist It says that the obligation to attend the entire service is especially great on Sundays and holy days. Vatican sources predicted before the vote almost unanimous approval of the proposals. Pickup 4th pgh: They noted

- Blast) Gallo Jr. Valachi said that the dispute 1 developed into "a war among i themselves.” He said Profaci was i "deadly wrong in shaking down his soldiers” and added that the shakedowns were “to the extent ' of sl,Boo.’’ The ruling commissioner of Cosa Nostra did not back Profaci for that reason. Valachi said, but the Gallos fared poorly in the warfare which featured kidnapings as well as the killings and presumed killings. Joe Gallo is currently in prison. The others have been lying low with their henchmen to avoid reprisals from Profaci forces who are now under a new boss, hefty Giuseppe Magliocco, also known as Joe Malyak. List Officials For Benefit Horse Show The list of officials for the De- , catur benefit horse show, being sponsored by the retail division i of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, was announced today. Proceeds of the show, which will i be held at noon Sunday in Bellmont park, will be used to purchase new Christmas lighting for the streets of the Decatur business district. The officials are: project chairman, Ferris Bower; project cochairman, Dick D. Heller, Jr.; treasurer. Dale Morrissey; adver* Using manager, George Litchfield; food tent chairman, Kay Boch; work detail chairman, Tom Weis; work detail co-chairman, Bill Snyder; registration booth, Rhoa Tricker; gate. workers, Morris Begun. Outside traffic chairman, Harold Thieme and Palmer Schwartz; sign chairman. Bud Wertzgerger; track traffic chairman, Ted Hill; parking chairman, Earl Sheets; stabling horses, Carl. Braun; track manager, Ed Gerber; equipment chairman. Paid Reidenbach; ambulance, Winteregg-Linn; ribbon girls. Jane Anspaugh and Nancy Swickard; clean-up chairman Joe Murphy. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. A little warmer tonight. Low tonight 42 to 50. High Thursday 74 to 82. Sunset today 6:15 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:50 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and a tittle warmer. Lows 40q north to low 50s south. Highs upper 70s north to mid 80s south.