Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1963 — Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. 275.

Wreckage Os Missing U 2 Plane Is Located In Gulf Os Mexico; Pilot Missing

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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPD— President Kennedy today defended his space program against critics of both parties, saying it would not drain off national resources needed to improve American living standards. The Chief Executive and his wife, Jacqueline, flew here from Washington to open a twoday, five-city Texas tour with a dedication speech at the AeroSpace Medical Health Center «...on- Brooks Air Force Base outside San Antonio. The trip, alternately labeled “political” and “non-political” by the White House, also put Kennedy in the role of a political healer. He hoped to unify divergent wings of the Democratic party in the state for a stronger showing in the 1964 election. Speaking against the background of the medical laboratories at Brooks AFB, the President said too many Americans assumed that space research was Without value here on earth. Points Out Example In his prepared speech, he pointed out, for example, that wartime development of radar gave the world the transistor and that “research in space medicine holds the promise of substantial benefits for those of us who are earth-bound.” “For our effort in space is not, as some have suggested, a competitor for the national resources needed to improve our living standards,” he added. BULLETIN ST. LOUIS (UPD—A passenger train and a freight train smashed together today and first reports indicated at least 25 persons were injured. • • Nine ambulances sped to the* scene close to the Bargalil plant in the Natural BridgeGoodfellow Boulevard area in northwest St. Louis. Strike Threat Hangs Over Phelps-Dodge - FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — A strike threat hung over the Phelps-Dodge Co. plant today after contract negotiations broke down. A walkout would affect about 400 production and maintenance workers. . ■ • Officials said a 5-day strike notice expired Wednesday, but operations continued on a day-to-day basi.s The workers are members of Local 963 of the International Union of Electrical Workers, George Gould, international representative for the IUE, said negotiations with the company broke down because “they have made exactly no offer to us.” Gould also predicted that similar strikes would be called at other Phelps - Dodge plants across the nation.

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“It is instead a working partner and co-producer of these resources.” , Sen. J. William Fulbright, DArk., has led efforts to cut the space budget for fiscal 1964 and has been critical of the projected cost of the moon-shot program, saying some of these funds could be better spent on earth programs such as education. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower also has been highly critical of the amount of money being committed to the moon program. • Cut Space Funds Shortly before the President left Washington, the Senate went along with the House in cutting space agency funds for next year to $5.1 billion from the $5.7 billion requested by the administration. While expressing determination that the space program would move ahead, Kennedy cautioned against expecting too much too soon. “Let us not be carried away with the grandeur of our vision,” he said. “Many weeks and months and years of long, hard tedious work lie ahead. There will be set-backs and frustrations and disappointments. There will be pressures for our country to do less and temptations to do something else. But this research must and will go on. The conquest of space must and will go ahead. That much we know. That much we can say with confidence and conviction.” Joking Bandit Robs Bank Os $1,445 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A west-side savings and loan company branch office was robbed of $1,445 by a joking bandit Wednesday minutes before an Indianapolis man was sentenced for his part in a holdup 18 months ago at the same office. The casual bandit who took the money from teller Marjorie Ellis at file West Side office of the First Federal Savings & Loan Co. seemed in no hurry and interrupted his robbery twice while customers were waited on. He told one customer “Sorry, but there’s no money in the bank, so you’ll have to come back.” The customer said he was coming to make a deposit, Another man came in to open a Christmas savings plan and finally the bandit got impatient and ordered the teller and both men into a back room, while he escaped with the money. Just minutes before, Oscar L. Schwartz, an Indianapolis barber, was sentenced to a 6-year federal prison term for supplying a pistol used in a $2,325 robbery of the same office in August, 1962. The two bandits who were accused of committing that robbery didn’t escape. One is in federal prison serving a 10-year-term and the other is on probation.

WASHINGTON (UPD—Navy divers today located the wreckage of missing U 2 plane in the Gulf of Mexico, the Defense Department disclosed. Informed sources said the high - flying craft had been on a reconnaissance mission of Cuba. The Pentagon said the pilot was not immediately found. The wreckage of the plane was discovered in about 100 feet of water, 40 miles northwest of Key West, the announcement said. The Defense Department made no mention of what the U 2 was doing when it disappeared. The Navy divers who located the wreckage were operating from a PT boat. The Navy said it had started salvage operations to raise the craft. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) will appoint an accident investigation board to try to determine the cause of the incident. Informed sources said earlier that the plane had conducted a reconnaissance mission of Cuba but that there was “no indication” it was downed by ground fire or by any other plane. The sources said it was believed a malfunction caused the plane to go down in the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot was Capt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. of Leland, Miss., and La Grange, Ga. The Defense Department said nothing about the U2’s mission at the time it was lost. The Pentagon announcement followed disclosure earlier by SAC that an oil slick and bits of debris were found where the U 2 was believed to have gone down. The Strategic Air Command said there was no evidence of hostile action and theorized the jet plane experienced mechanical trouble. “Search planes located an oil slick and many bits of unidentifiable junk about 40 miles northwest of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico," said Capt. Joe Hingson, chief of staff at the Key West naval base. There was no sign of the pilot, identified as Capt. Joe E. Hyde Jr., 33, LaGrange, Ga., Hingson said. Navy and Coast Guard ships and planes searched the area in hopes of inding Hyde alive. Mostly clear skies, calm seas and mild temperatures made search conditions- ideal. Military sources in Washington did not discount entirely the possibility of a Cuban attack on the U 2. If it had been shot over Cuba, the high-flying plane could have glided as far as the area where it crashed. SAC headquarters in Omaha, Neb., announced the crash. Sources said the pilot did not radio any indication of trouble, but the lack of such a report was inconclusive since the radio cuts off when the engine of the U 2 fails. It was the second known crash of a U 2 “spy” plane during a Cuban overflight. Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr., 35, of Greenville, S.C., was killed when a U 2 went down in Cuba on Oct. 27, 1962, during the height of the Cuban crisis. It was a camera in a sleek black U 2, described by Allen W. Dulles, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as the most important espionage breakthrough of the 20th century, that first spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba in October, 1962. The missiles were withdrawn after a tension-packed showdown between the United States and Russia but the U2s have continued to fly over Cuba to make certain the weapons aren't returned.* INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and a Httle cooler tonight. Friday cloudy and mild with rain Mkety. Low tonight in the 40a. High Friday 58 to 66. Sunset today 5:25 p.m. Sunrise Friday 7:37 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and rain with little temperature change. Lows upper 40s. High mid to upper 80s.

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Grand Jury To Resume Blast Probe Monday INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A Marion County grand Jury investigating the Halloween explosion which killed 71 persons at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum may wind up its work next week. Meanwhile, a legislative committee seeking possible law changes to prevent such disasters in the future will hold its first session Dec. 5. The grand jury, which heard seven witnesses in a session Wednesday, will meet again Monday. The jury could wind up its work at that time if a report is ready from Purdue University scientists studying liquid petroleum gas tanks taken from the scene of the explosion. Deputy Prosecutor Leroy K. New said Wednesday, however, that he has no assurance the report will be ready by Monday and that the jury will meet again whenever the report is available. “I would recommend that someone from Purdue present the report in person since it probably will be technical,” New said. _ Witnesses before the jury Wednesday were Melvin Ross, general manager of Indiana Coliseum Corp, which operates the building under a lease from the state; Indianapolis Fire Chief Arnold Phillips; Chief Charles Hill of the Indianapolis Fire Prevention Bureau; Det. Sgts. Stanley Young and Jack Larsen of the Indiana State Police; Director Ralph Newman qf the Indiana Bureau of Mines and Mining and Paul Sims, Indianapolis, both explosion witnesses. New said the Monday session would include testimony by one new witness and a second appearance by a witness who appeared before the jury previously. The six-member legislative committee was appointed Wednesday to study the operations of the state fire marshal’s office with a view to recommending changes in existing laws. Several possible changes were suggested by Fire Marshal Ira J. Anderson in an appearance Wednesday before the Indiana Legislative Advisory’ Commission which named the study group.'

Remove Troops In Viet Nam

United Press International HONOLULU (UPD—Approximately 1,300 American troops now serving in South Viet Nam will be returned home within the next two months, according to top-level foreign policy planners for the United States. The announcement was made Wednesday at the close of a secret one-day meeting of highranking U.S. military and civilian leaders at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of Adm. Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief. Pacific. The planners; led by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, issued a brief formal statement at the 'close of the meeting — which apparently entirely to the future position of the United States in South Viet Nam. The statement, given to newsmen by McNamara's public affairs officer, Arthur Sylvester, said that a contingent of 300 U.S. troops would leave South Viet Nam Dec. 3, and an addi- . t ion al 1,000 would leave near

Jaycees Plan For Santo Claus Phone Initial plans for the annual Santa Claus phone of the Decatur Jaycees were announced this morning by president Ralph Biggs and chairman Pat Nelson. Tentative dates for the Santa Claus phone are Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 18, 19 and 20, from 6:30 to Bp. m. The Santa phone number will be 3-2135. The local Jaycees initiated the Santa Claus phone two years ago and it has proven quite successful in previous years. More details will be announced later, Nelson, whp is chairman of the project, said this morning. Pair Os Gangland Slayings In Chicago CHICAGO (UPD— ‘two slayings, one of them done in classic gangland style, brought new charges of incompetence against local law enforcement officials today and demands of a probe of the connection between a Chicago municipal judge and the underworld. The latest victim was found Wednesday in a rain-soaked for- ' est preserve north of Chicago. A “love letter” had been t scjrawled with a ball point pen , on the young man's naked t body. Chicago police, who cooperated with suburban Glencoe au- , thorities on foe rase;-'said- the man’s fingerprints were not on file in Chicago records. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington was asked to check the prints. The victim was between 20 and 25 years old. On his arm was scribbled a message which said: “Ray Eil 5264, I love you, from Bonnie?" Police said they did not know the significance of the cryptic note.The first of the two victims was petty racketeer Leo S'. Foreman, whose body was found Monday shot, stabbed, beaten and stuffed into the trunk of an abandoned car. His death was the sixth gangland style slaying in Chicago this year and the 979th such unsolved killing since 1919. - ■ -1 --V . I ‘ The investigation into Fore- • man’s death centered on a ■ diary he kept, in which were ’ reportedly listed the names of > other hoodlums and Municipal Judge Cecil Corbett Smith.

the end of the year. Officials said there are at present 16,500 U.S. troops assisting and training the Vietnamese. ~ The statement said reports received by the planners “indifcated establishment of excellent working relations between U.S. officials and members of the new Vietnamese government.” ‘Tn general, information received at the conference indicates' an encouraging butlook for the principal 'objective in South Viet Nam — the successful prosecution of the war against the Viet Cong Communist,” Sylvester said. He was joined in the press briefing by Robert Manning, deputy secretary of state for public affairs, who said every aspect of the situation in South Viet Nam was covered during the morning session of the meeting. “Nothing was reported or said which indicates any forthcoming major change in U.S. policy,” he added.

Alan D. Coppes Local Man Killed In Hunting Accident

Herman G. Hoffman, 72, of 223 North Uth street, was killed Wednesday in a hunting accident near tjhe Lortie road, two miles east of Monroeville. Mr. Hoffman, a. retired Pennsylvania railorad employe, left his home here at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning to go. hunting alone. His body was found about 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, draped over a fence along Pennsylvania railroad tracks about 1,000 feet east of the Lortie road. The body was found by two railroad maintenance workers. The Decatur man was apparently fatally wounded when his .12 guage shotgun became snagged on the fence and discharged, the blast striking him in the neck. Dr. E. N. Mendenhall. Allen county coroner, said the shooting was accidentia!. His verdict was given following his investigation . with, deputies; of the. Allen, county sheriff's department. Funeral Saturday Mr. Hoffman was a car inspector for the Pennsylvania railroad for 48 years until his re-

United States Aid To Cambodia Ended

WASHINGTON (UPD — The_ United States today wrote “finis” to an eightlyear effort to •bolster Cambodia's neutralist government with military and economic, help. It had no other choice. State Department officials said a note was en route to Prince Norodom Sihanouk bowing to his demand for termination of the S2B million-a-year aid program and withdrawal of American military and economic missions. More in sorrow than in anger US. officials predicted dire difficulties ahead for the 41-year-old prince who has sought to walk a tightrope between the Communists and the West. They expressed feat that leftist pressure?' ed" suspicions of the United Sites, was pushing the strategic Southeast Aslan country into the Communist orbits. Agree to Request The American note officials said, rejected ' Sihanouk's allegations that the United States was supporting exile “free Cambodia" rebels plotting his overthrow. But it agreed to his request for an end of programs which siiye 1955 have given Cambodia $365 million in U.S. aid, including $95 million in military assistance. j. . Authorities here viewed SihaM* nouk’s actions with grave concern for Cambodia would be a rich prize for Communist China in its drive to gain the resources of Southeast Asia. Red domination/ of "Cambodia would drive a wedge between pro-Western Thailand .and South Viet Nam and flank what is left of anticommunist Laos.. Sihanouk must .... find some source of aid to fill the vacuum left by the end of American assistance, which has provided 40 per cent of the pay of his armqd . forces, virtually all their military' equipment, and contributed substantially to the nation’s economy. Obvious » and presumably eager candidates to take off the slack are Russia and Red China both of which have been wooing Sihanouk with considerable

tirement in 19(50. He was born in Howard T.ake, Minn., Aug. 29, 1891, a son of John and Malinda Miller-Hoffman, and married to Frances Smith Sept. 5. 1912. Mr. Hoffman was of the Z'on Lutheran church in this city. Surviving are his wife: three sons. William H. Hoffman of Dayton, 0 John G. and Fred R. Hojfmai. both of Decatur: three daughters,. Jdrs. Virgil 1 Helen 1 McClu.x of Decatur, Miss Virginia Hoffman of Owensboro, Ky., and Mrs. Fobert <Margaret) Par-rish-of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and one sister. Mrs. Rose Summers of rHoagland. One daughter is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwic’ funeral home, Ase -R?v v Ji Ludwig offieiaTing. Buriat wifi., be.. in (Ke Decatur cemetery. Friends may call i 'he funeral home after 7 p.m. today until tri me of the services.

aid programs. Russia Supplies Arms Russia earlier this year supplied arms for the first time—-anti-aircraft ' guns and other equipment. The Kremlin also has offered' to build a S4O million hydroelectric dam and a technical institute. Chinese Communist assistance has been even greater. Peking has supplied Cambodia with textile, cements metal working and other plants. Even the East European satellites — Czechoslovakia. Poland and Hungary — have contributed sortie aid. Administration officials said Sihanouk, always nervous and plagued by dark fears of intrigue against his’ rule, apparently.. had been convinced the _ United States was supporting insignificant “Khmer Seri” (Free Cambodian) exile' groups in Thailand and South Viet Nam who broadcast threats against his regime. Iranian Civilian Plane Shot Down TEHRAN, Iran (UPD — A Soviet MIG fighter plane ac- > companied by two other Soviet military aircraft shot down an Iranian civilian plane Wednesday in Iranian territory, killing two aerial map surveyors, officials said today. Government officials said Iran was protesting "strongly” to the Soviet Union over the shooting which they, said -carnewithout warning. . They said it had been “indubitably establistibd" that the Iranian plane was shot down at least 15 miles away from thy Soviet border and that the first indication the pilot had that he was being followed came when the MIG opened fire on him. Witnesses-among a crowd of about 50 persons said they saw the three Soviet .planes cross the Iranian border and chase the twin-engine survey aircraft.

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Coppes Is Appointed Detective Sergeant State trooper Alan D. Copes of Decatur, has been promoted to the rank of detective sergeant, it was announced this morning by state police Supt. George A. Everett. Coppes will replace former detective Sgt, Walter V. Schindler, Berne resident, who was recently elevated to commanding officer of the Fort Wayne post. The local trooper, who resides at 1019 Central Ave. with his wife, Virginia ,is a native of Nappanee. He joined the Indiana state police in May of 1955, working out of the Ligonier post. A short time later he was transferred to the Fort Wayne post and Adams county, where he has served as trooper for nearly eight years. Coppes is a graduate of South Bend a Central high school and attended Arizona State College.— Effective Dec. 1 His appointment as detective sergeant is effective December I; He will be working in both Adams and Wells counties as a plain-clothes investigator. Whether or not he will be assigned Allen county also is not yet known. Schindler, while detective sergeant, worked in Wells and Adams counties, but was given Allen county also sometime later when the detective sergeant •for that county resigned. The promotion for Coppes will leave Adams county with just two state troopers assigned to this county. Gene Rash and Dan Kwasneski, from the Fort Wayne post. No replacement for Coppes in this county has been announced. ‘ ~ — Historical Society To Hear Berne Man David J. Schwartz. Berne resident, will present the program for the Adams county society Tuesday evening. I The meeting will be held at til Decatur public library, beglnninl at 8 o’clock. Schwartz will speak on Frenct township in Adams county. Ai a neighbor, he is quite well-acj quainted with, residents of thl township, their activities, institul ‘WW td'hWlf!:' I He will give the names of a.J many of the early residents asi possible and will also make spec-1 ial mention of the several church-1 es which were founded in the I township, two of which are still I operating. I French is the fourth township to I be studied by the local Historical I society. Others are to follow I when arrangements can be made. ’ Gerald Durkin, president of the organization, said guests are wel J come to attend the meeting andj that there is no admission charge. Liechly Featured In State CROP News Gordon Liechty; Berne businessman, is featured in the November issue of Indiana CROP news as a new member of the state speaker's bureau for CROP. Bom and reared in Adams county, he is married and the father of five children. He vs senior partner in the Berne Hi-way Hatchery, Inc., a pullet and commercial egg production business which he started. Liechty has just returned from the Congo where he spent part of a two-year assignment with the Mennonite central committee on a self-help agricultural mission with emphasis on pullet product tion. He knows what CROP does to help others overseas. Liechty feels so strongly on CROP that he donated his services earlier this year, and spent several months in organizing CROP in Pennsylvania, previously unorganized. At present, he is serving as campaign director for the south half of Adams county, and also serving on the state speakers bureau. He will make seven breakfast speeches in Marshall county for kickoff CROP meetings in different in a novel new approach there. Affiliated with the First Meninonite church, Berne, he. teaches a Sunday school class, sings in the choir, and is a jnember of the church board. The Sunday school has 1.200 pupils. He is a past president of the Berne Chamber of Commerce. South Bend Educator Appointed By Welsh INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Governor Welsh Wednesday appointed Joseph Luten, a South Bend educator, to the Advrisory Council to the Commissioner of Correction.