Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXL NO. 265.

Says Viet Nam Coup Made To Win War

SAIGON (UPI) — Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh, chairman of the military junta that deposed President Ngo Dinh Diem, said Friday the war against Communist guerrillas could not have been won with Diem in power,—_—,— “If we had been winning the war, we would not have made the coup,” the burly six-footer said. “We made the coup with the hope of winning the war.” His remarks in an interview at junta headquarters in the general staff building contrasted sharply with statements made before last week’s coup d’etat by top U.S. military leaders, including Gen. Paul S. Harkins and Adm. Harry D. Felt. The American leaders had maintained South Viet Nam was winning its war against the Viet Cong guerrillas and that victory was in sight. Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were overthrown and subsequently killed during a mil-

Indiana Given Until 1966 To Reapportion

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana General Assembly, which has done nothing about legislative reapportionment since 1921, will get one more chance to carry out the long-ignored mandate of the Indiana Constitution. A special three-judge federal court ruled Friday night that the 1921 apportionment act was “invidiously discriminatory” and unconstitutional. However, the court majority deferred a final judgment in the case to give the 1965 Legislature a chance to act. The majority opinion by Judge Roger Kiley of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Judge William Steckler of Indianapolis enjoined state officials from holding legislative elections under the 1921 act but deferred the effective date of the. injunction until after the 1964 election for the 1965 Legislature. The legislature elected in November, 1964, would then have e chance to set up a new reapportionment with the threat of further court action if the legislators were unable to reach an agreement on a “just and constitutional” apportionment plan. Questions Constitution In a partially dissenting and partially concurring opinion, District Judge Cale Holder of Indianapolis agreed with the delay but questioned the validity of any apportionment under the present state constitution. He held that the sections of the constitution regarding legislative apportionment are invalid because they make no provision for counting women in establishing legislative districts. In a separate opinion answering Holder, Kiley and Steckler held that the question of the validity of the constitution was not before the court and could not properly be considered. They also noted that declaring the 1921 apportionment act unconstitutional was sufficient grounds for granting the relief sought by the plaintiffs in the , Robert Lough Dies After Long Illness ” Roubert Lough, Sr., 87, of Geneva died Friday at his home after an extended illness. He had resided in Geneva for many years. He was bom in Clinton county, Ohio January 29, 1876, a son of John and Nancy Lough. He was married to Vernia Sibery, who survives. Also surviving are foiir sons, Wilbur, Dayton, Ohio; Charles, Indianapolis; Edgar, Geneva, and Robert, Jr., Bryant; four daughters, Mrs. Norman Myers and Mrs. George Tyler, both of Muncie; Mrr?. Delphenia Reynolds and Mrs. Ernest Hannl, both of Geneva; sisf grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, three step grandchildren and six step greatgrandchildren. A son, Claude died in 1960. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home in Geneva, where friends may call "after 12 noon Saturday. The Rev. Wayne Bantz will officiate and burial Will be Gravel Hill cemetery at Bryant.

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itary uprising that took place Nov, 1 and 2. The action culminated nearly four months of crisis set off by Buddhist charges of religious persecution and sharp government measures to curtail protest aemonstrations. Minh, said that under Diem and Nhu, military morale was low because the Ngo family based promotions and the chain of command on loyalty to the regime, rather than on efficiency. Minh said the strategic hamlet program designed to defeat the Viet Cong in rural areas was being used to oppress the villagers rather than protect them. “In my own village, people had fled to live close to the Viet Cong,’’ he said. Reports from other Vietnamese general indicated the situation was widespread, he added. “On that basis we could not bear the Communists, because in order to beat the Communists you must first win public support,” Minh said.

two suits. Kiley and Steckler turned down a suggestion by the plaintiffs that they order an at-large election for the legislature in 1964. Such a step, they said, would “burden the Indiana electors with the obvious confusing and disrupting consequences” of an at-large election. Noting that the plaintiffs asked as an alternative that the court, itself, reapportion the legislature. they said, “This relief the court must grant in the absence of just and constitutional rpapnortionment legislation by the Indiana General Assembly. “It is unfortuante that federal courts in general have of neces-' sity been drawn into assuming - legislative responsibility because of the failure of representatives elected by the people to abide by their sworn duty under the constitutions of the states,” the judges wrote. Take Middle Ground They said , their decision to give the legislature one more chance represented a middle ground between ordering an atlarge election and accepting a resolution adopted by the 1963 Legislature to amend the constitution to change the reapportionment procedure. They noted that even if the amendment were approved by the required two legislatures and by the voters in a referendum reapportionment under its terms, could not be completed until 1975. “To accept the resolution as satisfactory would unduly delay justice for the citizens of Indiana,” the judges said. The filing of the opinion Friday night came as something of a surprise. The judges had been scheduled to confer Friday but had indicated no final decision would be forthcoming. But after a two-hour closeddoor meeting in a private room at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the three judges returned to the Federal Building and began writing their opinions. Holder filed his shortly after 8 p.m. and the majority opinion was filed at 9:30 p.m. Grandchild Os Berne Woman Is Drowned Mrs. Jacob L. Inniger, Berne, received a cablegram Thursday informing her ,of the accidental drowning of a grandchild, Marcia Jacobsen, 2, at Kashiwazahi, Japan. The child was the daughter of Rev. Morris and Kathleen Inniger Jacobsen, missionaries in Japan. The child was born at Fort Wayne. January 26, 1961, while Rev. and Mrs. Jacobsen were in this country on a furlough. Mrs. Jacobsen is the daughter of the late Jacob L Inniger and graduated from Berne high school. Her husband is a nat iv e of Canada. Surviving besides the parents are a brother, Wesley, 10, and three sisters, Sharon, 8, Joan, 6, and Shirley, 4. The Jacobsen family returned to Japan in October of 1962 to resume their mission work. They reside about 200 miles north of Tokyo. Funeral services for the child were held Friday in Japan.

Rotary, Ladies To Hear India Consul Sunie K. Roy Sunie K. Roy, consul general of India in New York City, will be the speaker at next Thursday's Rotary ladies night, to be held at Cutter’s Chalet in Fort Wayne. Lowell Harper, club vice president, will be chairman for the evening and has arranged the program. Mr. and Mrs. Roy will arrive by air Wednesday from New York and will be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harper. The consul general is a personal frignd of the Harpers. Harper visited India a year or two ago on a business trip .concerning Indian hemp. A tour of Decatur industry for the guests is being planned. The ladies night program is a part of a world-wide observance of Rotary foundation week. The objective of this program is to promote understanding and friendly relations between peoples of different nations through projects such as Rotary foundation fellowships. The local club is very near a 200% record of support for this program. Roy was born in Calcutta and educated at the Bishop Cotton school, Simla; Modern school, Delhi; and University College, London. He was commissioned in the Indian Army and served with the second Bengal Lancers from 1941 to 1946. He joined the Indian foreign service in April, 1947, and served in the high commission of India, Karachi, until September, 1948. He served as charge d’affaires at the Indian embassy in Bangkok and later as special officer for the Indo-Tibetan border area. In 1957, he established the first Indian embassy in Poland, where he served in Warsaw until 1960. Besides his present poet in New York, he has also served in various posts with the United Nations. Rotarians who may want to bring guests or check out for this event, should contact the club secretary by Monday noon. Huntington Youth Killed In Accident By United Press International Three persons were killed within a brief period Friday night and early today in Indiana traffic accidents which raised the state’s 1963 fatality toll to at least 1,120 compared with 1,009 a year ago. A three-car accident on the Northern Indiana Toll Road near Angola killed Thomas William Polk, 16, Cleveland, Ohio. His brother, James, 20, was among five persons hurt. Robert H. Cunningham, 19, Huntington, was killed when a car in which he was riding smashed into a tree along Indiana 3 south of Fort Wayne. Harold Eugene Milton, 33, Washington, was killed when a car veered off U. S. 50 near Vincennes on a curve and struck a utility pole. Polk was killed when a car containing the two brothers smashed into the rear of another car which had stopped in the driving lane of the superhighway because of mechanical difficulties. Polk was taken from the wreckage and laid in the roadway beside the damaged cars when a third vehicle came along, hit one of the cars and ran'T>ver Polk. The third car was driven by Gerrold J. Swaggert. 26, Dubois, Pa. The car which stopped and triggered the wreck was driven by Clarence J. Perkins, 28, Cleveland, Ohio, police said. Cunningham was riding with Paul E. Reed, 20. Huntington. when the car left the road at - high speed Reed crawled more than 750 feet to get help for Cunningham. Milton was riding with Patrick Charles Ottanner, 19, Campbell, Ky., when the car left the highway 13 miles east of Vincennes on a curve at the bottom of a hill.

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Decatur, Indiana, Satur day, November 9, 1963.

Scores Os Jap Miners Are Killed By Explosion And Hundreds Feared Trapped

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAY'S DECATUR BOY SCOUTS V COMMUNITY FUND GIRL SCOUTS Ik $19,456.12 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. f LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES LJA The Goal Is Uso 101 $28,993 SALVATION ARMY Ml MENTAL HEALTH W Comm ¥ °“' F „„ d COMMUNITY CENTER JL Still Needs AMERICAN RED CROSS $9,536.88.” Give The United Way

Coliseum Blast Death Toll Is Increased To 69 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Ira Anderson, Indiana state fire marshal, requested specific information Friday from Purdue University experts on liquid petroleum gas tanks thought to hold the key to the Halloween explosion that took the lives of 69 persons. The toll reached 69 Friday with the death of Dora Currens, 53, Indianapolis. Marion County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy made a special trip to *Purdue Friday to urge the university’s president, Frederick L. Hovde, to have the tanks examined as soon as possible. A report on the blast that rocked the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum a week ago Thursday night cannot be completed until the tests are completed, Anderson said. One of the things Anderson requested the Purdue experts to determine was whether safety valves were present and what pressure would release such a valve. This is part of the theory that heat, possibly from a heat lamp or other tank nearby, caused a safety valve to release some of the gas into the windowless enclosure under the stands where the blast occurred. The tanks were taken to Purdue Monday but tests were not made, pending specific directions from official investigators in Indianapolis. Other data sought included: —Kind of gas present in the tank. It variously has been called propane and butane, which vary slightly in composition. —Were there any defects, and if so, what was their relative age? —Were any leaks found, and it so, what was the rate of flow? —What is the pressure usually found in this type of gas cylinder? —The exact weight of each gas cylinder *and contents, with a recheck Os weight after a 48 hour period to determine loss of contents, if any. “Our primary concern,” Anderson said, “is to prevent future problems of this nature. It is vitally important that any evaluations made in regard to this disaster be made objectively with no possibility of bias, so that life, limb and property of the citizens of * our state may be protected.” Mrs. Mabel Striker ' On State Commission INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Governor Welsh dipped into the resources of both major political parties Friday to appoint three new members of the Indiana Commission on the Status of Women. The new members were Mrs. Mabel Striker, Decatur, Democratic state vide chairman, and Mrs. Esther Guthridge, Fowler, her Republican counterpart. Mrs. Mary Terry, Logansport was also named to the commission.

Says Highway Fund Was Never lost' INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Deputy State Auditor Allen Lindley . charged today that the $16.7 million which the Indiana Highway Department reported “found” Thursday, had never been “lost.” Lindley pointed to a ledger bearing a Sept. 30, 1959, entry and said the transfer of funds from one account to another represented “an error in judgment.” The transfer was from a regular account to a restricted revenue account. “That money wasn’t lost, it has been in the banks all the time. The state treasurer has had it on deposit/? Lindley said. The state treasurer in 1959 was Albert Steinwedel and his deputy was Don Hilt? Lindley said he assumed some of the money' which has laid unused until the fund was discovered in a recent check drew interest but that it would be impossible to say how much since all money is “pooled” when it reaches the treasurer’s office. Some money is invested and returns interest, while the treasurer keeps other funds available for withdrawal which do not draw interest. Lindley noted also that with the expenditure of $11.9 million of the newly “found” money in highway maintenance, the department has gone about 50 per cent beyond the amount specifically earmarked for this purpose by the 1963 Legislature for 1963-64. -A The budget had set aside $24,808,478 for this purpose. However Lindsey commented that the Budget Agency was empowered in at least two places in the budget bill to spend more than the appropriated amount for road maintenance. One is a proviso to spend any “unencumbered cash” for maintenance, and the other provides for emergency spending.

Barbershop Singers In Decatur Sunday “Barbershop Harmony" will be presented by the Adams county chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement so Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. Sunday afternoon. The show will be held in the Decatur high school auditorium, beginning at 2:30 pm., and tickets are priced at $1.25. Included in the program will be “The Adamizers,” the local chapter's chorus, and all quartets of the Adams county-chapter. Eddie Ewell is the general program chairman. Guests Will include the Hub City chorus from Union City,'’With two quartets; the Summit City Serenaders chorus ' from Fort Wayne, one quartet; the Wayne Beaus, the Harmony Chaps and the Cardinal Chordsmen. Master of ceremonies will be Don Tobey, of Muncie. One of the features of the will be the awarding of the charter to the local chapter by Bill Terry, cardinal district president.

OMUTA CITY, Kyushu, Japan (UPI) — A gas and coal dust explosion ripped through a mile-deep underwater coal mine today, trapping hundreds of miners and killing scores. By midnight (10 a.m., EST', mine officials listed 171 known dead. 200 believed sealed inside the mine and feared dead, and at least 80 injured. Officials said about 1,300 miners were at work when the blast occurred. Nearly 1.000 of these men escaped. There was no immediate explanation of what caused the explosion, which occurred at 3:20 p.m. (1:20 am. EST). But police theorized that it may have been set off by a spark from electrical equipment or a mine railroad car. The- mine, owned by the Mitsui Mikawa Co.,- was among the most modern and heavily mechanized in the world, and equipped with the latest safety devices. Runs Under Water The explosion occurred about 1.500 feet inside the mine, which actually runs under water and is part of a threemine complex operated by Mitsui Mikawa in this industrial area of Japan’s southernmost home island of Kyushu. The blast was so powerful that it turned pithead buildings into a shambles,” blasting away two huge power transformers and all the mine's ventilating equipment. It shattered windows a third of a mile away from the pithead, and its shock wave was felt four miles away. Eyewitnesses said the blast sent tremendous plumes of heavy black smoke shooting into the sky from ventilation shafts. Cave-ins Follow Mine officials said there was no fire inside the pit after the explosion. But there weir numerous cave-ins, including one that sealed off a horizontal gallery 2,100 feet underground. Rescue efforts were hampered by poisonous gases ( flooding through the seaside mine and by- loss of -all electric power inside the pit. Rescue workers wearing gas masks were making a threepronged drive through shafts connecting with two adjoining pits of the three-mine complex to reach miners believed still alive. Most of the injured were among workers in the mine office, directly atop the pithead, and in transportation services located near the mine's mouth.

Basic Agreements Made On Wheat Deal ■ - , ■ ~ ■ - - .1 WASHINGTON (UPD — Historic American wheat sales to Russia appeared near reality today, following a series of basic agreements be t w ee n the United States, the Soviet Union and American shippers. Administration —officials —said they expect 4 million tons, or $250 million worth, of U. S. surplus wheat to be sold to the Soviet .bloc by June — 2A4 million tons of it to Russia. The - first actual export 11cense, involving 100,000 tons of wheat worth $7.6 million for Hungary, was announced Friday night. The first actual sale to Russia may be licensed in the next few days. Officials said there still could be hitches. But a series of "understandings” announced Frlday appeared to have broken the major deadlock: Russia's refusal to pay high American shipping costs. The terjns of the agreements Wf3*e: ‘—Fifty per cent of the wheat will be shipped in American vessels. —The U.S. shipping industry agreed to charge somewhat lower rates than it had been asking. In some cases these will work out to sl6 to $lB a ton, 20 per cent less than shippers have been getting for hauling U.S. foreign aid wheat.

Big Jewel Robbery In New York City

NEW YORK (UPI) — The FBI said Friday night it has joined the search for five bold stickupmen who pulled one of the biggest jewel robberies in the nation’s history. Estimates of the value of the loot, hijacked from a station wagon of the AAA Jewelers Messenger Service in midtown Manhattan early Friday afternoon. ranged between $1 million and $1.5 million. Howevef, approximately half of the jawels was recovered about six hours later in the messenger company's station wagon which the bandits used in their getaway and later abandoned. Police said the loot consisted of necklaces, rings, broaches and other jewelry in addition to a gold shipment. At least half of the jewels and nine bars of gold were recovered. The robbery compared with one on Feb. 10 at , Pompano Beach. Fla., where thieves broke into the Leonard Taylor jewelry store and fled with $1.75 million in gems. ‘ The FBI said it entered the case because some of the shipment was consigned out of the state. Described As Smooth The robbery, described by detectives as a smooth operation, was staged on the West Side of Manhattan along the customary route taken by the messenger service in transporting jewelry from the midtown jewelers' exchange to a downtown firm for delivery and distribution. The jewels were carried in 2,000 separate white envelopes. Six guards were in the station wagon at the time. Max Kreisman, manager of

Urges Foreign Aid Approved

NEW (UPD — Presi- £ , dent Kennedy urged Congress Friday night to approve his foreign aid program lest the "growing gulf between rich and poor’’ bring conflicts that could result in world war. Kennedy told a group of Protestant leaders that this country, "along with its major allies, must do better — not worse—by its foreign aid program." 4 He said the gulf between wealthy and underdeveloped nations “which divides the family of man is an invitation to agitators, aggressors and subversives. It encourages the ambitions of those whose desire to dominate the World threatens the peace and freedom of—us all." Gets Protestant Award The President made his plea before an audience of 3.500 persons at the annual banquet of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, which award-, ed him its distin£|iished service award. He was the first Roman Catholic to be so honored. About 100 civil rights demonstrators picketed the New York Hilton Hotel while Kennedy was speaking there. In a scuffle with police, who were maintaining unusually tight security, six of the marchers were injured. They were treated at Roosevelt Hospital and released. The Congress of Racial Equal ity said the six were hurt when police charged the picket line, which was formed across the street from the hotel. The pickets were dispersed after about two hours. Attends Party After the address, Kennedy attended a party at the home of his brother-in-law, Stephen Smith, and then shortly after midnight went to his hotel.

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the service, told police thC station wagon was turning on 41st St. to go south when a car resembling an unmarked police cruiser pulled along side. Kreisman and Ixjuis Moots of Ridgefield, N.Y., the driver, -said two men in police uniforms waved the station wagon to -the curb, and Kreisman said he thought they were being stopped for a traffic violation. Suddenly one of the policemen got out of the car and pulled a gun, and the messengers noticed — too late — that the uniforms had “SP” collar insignias, of the type used by special ixilice or watchmen. Pulls Shotgun Simultaneously, his partner, his face covered with a halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the station wagon with a sawed-off shotgun. The hijackers herded the six guards into a panel truck which pulled up to the curb and locked it. The victims said they were handcuffed to a railing inside the truck which was then driven off by one of the robbers, A second one stayed -inside watching the guards. Two others drove the station wagon away, and the fifth drove the bandits’ car. Police said the panel truck was driven several blocks away from the holdup scene to a dock area where it was left abandoned with the victims inside. One of the six men freed himself several minutes later and called )x>lice. ■> Police cars converged on the scene and improvised roadblocks were hastily set up at highway entrances, bridges and tunnels, but the robbers made a clean getaway.

He was scheduled to leave ff’.om Idlewild Airport around 11:45 am., EST today, and planned to spend the weekend with fiis family at ‘ their new home in Atoka, Va. In the speech, Kennedy called on Congress to adopt a non-par-tisan approach to his program and sharply criticized those who "find it politically convenient to denounce foreign aid with one breath and the Communist menape with another." The House cut his original request for the foreign aid program from $4 5 billion to $3.5 billion. The Senate already has cut its version from $4.2 billion to $3.7 billion, and still is debat- - H>g the program--BULLETIN YOKOHAMA, Japan (UPD —Two heavily loaded commuter trains crashed into the wreckage of a derailed freight train tonight on the main rail • line to Tokyo. At least !)8 persons were re-, ported killed in the collisions, and at least 1(M) were Injured. NOON EDITION INDIANA WEATHER Mostly, cloudy with no Impnrfaiit " temperature changes tonight and Sunday. Some brief showers likely north today. Low tonight 36 to 45. High Sunday 58 to 65. Outlook for Monday: Generally partly cloudy with not much temperature change.