Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1964 — Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1964

SOCIETY

\ -SOUTHEAST P. T. A. J MEETS THURSDAY The Southeast P. T. A. held a meeting Thursday evening. Bruce Lybarger led the pledge and Mrs. Don Cochran gave the devotions. Special music was presented by a group led by Larry Merriman and consisted of several barber shop selections. - - - President, Lauren Arnold, introduced yr. and Mrs. Roy Kai ver. Mrs. Kalver explained the March of Dimes in this county. Then a movie entitled “The Edge of Life,” concerning arthritis, birth defects, and polio, was shown. MISS SHAHNAZ QURESHI GUEST SPEAKER The general meeting of the Union Chapel W. S. W. S. was held at chur/h<Thursday evening. Betty Miller, Resident, was in charge of devotions. The guest speaker for the evening was Miss Shahnaz Qureshi from Rawalpindi, West Pakistan, who is presently staying with a former W.S.W.S. member, Mrs. Eunice Parker, 'Fort Wayne. Miss Qureshi is teaching English at Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne. She told of how her country gained its independence and spoke of the women of the country, their clothing, food, and duties. She was dressed in her native costume and illustrated how the garment is draped around and also showed the group a sari and slippers. A qirfsbon and answer session followed. At the close of the meeting, the Charity Circle served refreshments to the 19 members and six guests present. MT. PLEASANT W.S.C.S. MEETS RECENTLY The Mt. Pleasant W.W.CS. met at the church recently for their January meeting. The president, Mrs. Bell Fifer, opened the meeting with prayer. Mrs. Harlen Shaffer gave the devotions. Mrs. Brice Sheets was lesson leader and used as her topic “What It Means to Belong to the W.S.C.S.” Mrs. Fifer conducted the business meeting and read a letter she had received from Maxine Coleman, Methodist missionary. Mrs. Clyde Butler, key woman for this area, gave a short talk. The group decided to have co-hostesses for the coming year. The closing thought and prayer was given by Mrs. Robert Fuhrman. The hostess, Mrs. Iva Fuhrman, served refreshments- Jq -.the, 14members, -.-two children, and two guests, Mrs. ■ Clyde Butler and Mrs. Bill Wolf, present. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Don Shaffer. meeting of the Pleasant Mills &.S.C.S. to be held Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Beonit Johnson at 7:30 p.m., has been postponed for the month.

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The Misses Madge and Fan Hite will be hostesses to the MaryMartha Circle of the Presbyterian church, Thursday at 2 p.m. The Friendship Village Home Demonstration club will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Blue Crjeek conservation building. The W.S.W.S. of the Methodist church will meet at the church Monday at 7:30 p.m. The theme for the meeting will be “Our Mission Today” and the hostesses will be the Mesdames Stanley Callow, Joe Elzey, Clyde Harris, N. C. Nelson, and Nilah Neil. The Adams county Home Demonstration club chorus will meet in Monroe at the Farm Bureau building, Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Evangeline Circle of the Zion United Church of Christ scheduled to meet Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Fred Isch will meet at the chinch at 7:30 p.m. Locals Mrs. Florence Schnitz will enter the Parkview hospital, Fort Wayne, Tuesday and will undergo throat surgery, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Swearmger have returned from a visit with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Gahey of Deerfield Beach, Tex. Miss Joyce Meyers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Meyers, 417 Line street, recently observed her a l6th birthday. Miss Meyers attends Decatur high school. A Decatur high school student, Miss Judy Cortney, celebrated her 16th birhtday recently. Miss Cortney is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Cortney. Schooner Sinking With Five Aboard MIAMI (UPD — The aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and an expanded air-sea armada searched the storm - tossed Atlantic Ocean today for a 58foot schooner which reported it was sinking with five persons aboard. Planes and ships searched the waters about 160 miles east of Jacksonville,. Fla., where 45-mile-an-hour winds kicked up 15-foot waves, but authorities said they have had no success in spotting the stricken vessel. “The results so far have been negative,’ - a Coast" Guard spokesman said. The schooner, the Enchantress, departed Charleston, S.C., on Friday for St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Manager C.H. Keel of the Charleston Municipal Yacht Basin said the boat’s owner, John Pelton, 42, his 21-year-old wife arid his two sons, ages about 11 and 12, and a crew member named “Grabowski” were aboard the blue, two- masted sailing ship. Keel said Pelton listed his home as Whittier, Calif. He said th® schooner remained in port at Charleston from Dec. 13 until Jan. 10 and put enough supplies aboard to make the trip to the Virgin Islands without stopping. The Enchantress radioed a distress message saying its decks were awash and the five persons aboard .had climbed atop the ship’s cabin to escape the rising waters. First word of the disaster was received by the Jacksonville Beach Coast Guard radio sta tion which picked up an inter national “Mayday” distress signal on its radio at 4:06 p.m. EST “Oak Island Coast Guard, Oak Island Coast Guard, this is the Enchantress, this is the Enchantress. Mayday, Mayday, Ma day.” Oak Island is off the North Carolina Coast. / • Trade in a good town — Decatur

Club Schedule Telephone 3-2121 Mias Kay Shaffer Society Editor Calendar itemi tor each day** publication must be phoned to by U a.m OT3O' TUESDAY Active Tri-Kappa, Mrs. Al Conrad, 1015 Quinn Court, Highland Park, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel Study Club, Mrs. Herman Alberding, 8 p.m. Dutiful Daughters class, Mrs. John Meyers, 7:30 p.m. Missionary Circle, Church of God, Fellowship Hall, 7:30 p.m. Xi Alpha Xi Sorority, Business meeting, I & M building, 8 p. m. Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles Hall, 8 p. m. Delta Theta Tau Sorority, Mrs. Lyle Mallonee, 316 Stratton Way, 8 p. m. Decatur chapter, Vaplo Guild, Bethlehem, Ossian, 8 p.m. Olive Rebekah Lodge, Red Men’s Hall, 7:30 p.m. St. Dominic StMv Club, Mrs. Harmon Gillig, 7:30 p.m. ; WEDNESDAY Shakespeare Club, Mrs. Milo Black. 2 p.m. Emmaus Guild, Parish Hall Evangeline Circle of the Zion United Church of Christ, 7:30 p. m. church. THURSDAY Friendship Village Home Demonstration club, Blue Creek Conservation club, 1 p.m. Mary-Martha Circle of Presbyterian church, Misses Madge and Fan Hite, ,2 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration club C. L. of C. Hall, 1:30 p.m. Order of Rainbow for Girls, Masonic Hall, 6:45 p.m. St. Paul Missionary society, Mrs. Lyle Franz, 7 p.m. Lincoln P. T. A., Lincoln school Gals and Pals Square Dance, Community Center, 8 p.m. beginners class. 7 p.m. , Caliente Home Demonstration Club, I & M Bldg., 7:30 p. m. MONDAY W. S. W. S. First Methodist church, 7:30 p.m. Adams county Home Demonstration club chorus, Farm Bureau buldg., Monroe, 7:30 p.m. * Spends Night In Town To Assist Stork Decatur-area surgeon. Dr. John C. Carroll of St. Mhry’s township spent Sunday night in Decatur so that he could assist the stork in delivering baby through the snow. Dr. Carroll was expecting to preform a Caesarian section Monday, and spent the night in town, so that hewouldn.’t.±i&-‘* > snowed in” at his farm home. However, the stork decided on an early ar* rival, so his services were needed in the middle of the night, when it would have been impossible to drive through the howling snowstorm.

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Births At the Adams county memorial hospital: Amos and Sarah Schwartz Eicher, route 2, Geneva, became the parents of an 8 lb., 9% oz. baby girl, Monday at 5:53 p.m. Promise Full Inquiry Into = Florida Deal WASHINGTON (UPD—Senate investigators today promised a full inquiry into the Florida land deal in which Sen George A. Smathers, D-Fla., and former Senate aide Robert G. (Bobby) Baker were associated. L. P. McLendon, special counsel for the Senate Rules Committee investigation of Baker’s outside business interests, said the matter would be thoroughly pursued. It was a highlight of testimony Monday as the committee resumed public hearings - McLendon told newsmen he cuuid iror say whether Smathers would be asked to testify in the inquiry. He said he thought it probable that Scott I. Peek, a former Senate aide involved in the deal would be asked to appear. Smathers Involved Tax accountant Milton L. Haupt, a former internal revenue expert who prepared Baker’s tax returns for 1961 and 1962, testified Monday that Smathers was associated with Baker in the land venture. Smathers confirmed the association, but said he had offered Baker a chance to invest in the land deal because he knew Baker was in difficult financial circumstances and “had a young and growing family.” Haupt said Baker made about $4 000 from the Florida venture in each of the two years. Haupt said Baker had a onefifth share. Smathers disagreed with some of the figures. He said Baker and Peek, Smathers former administrative assistant, each had one-eighth shares and each received a return of about SI,OOO a year over a seven-year and Peek each invested $1,500. Smathers said. The investment consisted of undeveloped acreage which was sold off in lots. Smathers said the last of the lots will be sold in the next several months. Got Monthly Payments The Senate committee also heard testimony that: —Baker received a total of $5,600 in monthly cash payments over a 17-month period from Capitol Vending Co. for helping it to land a vending machine franchise at Melpar, Inc., a Falls Church, Va., electronics firm. —Baker once telephoned Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va„ on behalf of Capitol Vending, because Byrd was chairman of the sub...committee .which - would < charge of contracts for vending machines in Senate corridors. Capitol Vending did not land a Senate contract. —Rail* L. Hill, former president of Capitol Vending, asked Carole Tyler —Baker’s beauty coritest winning secretary to use her influence with Baker in retaining the' Melpar contract for Capitol Vending. Capitol Vending lost the contract and now is suing Baker for $300,000. —Hill said he was accompanied by a business associate when he went to see Miss Ty}®” He said he understood that when the suit was filed, Baker planned to accuse him of improper conduct with Miss Tyler until he learned that a witness had been present. .

Knew Nothing Os Firm's Operations NEWARK, N.J. (UPD—The president of Chicago Refining Corp., one of the many firms involved in the $l5O million edible oils scandal, testified in bankruptcy court Monday that he knew nothing about the operations of his firm. The tesimony came from Leo Bracconeri, who also was plant manager of Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp., which triggered the financial puzzle when it went bankrupt in November. Bracconeri refused to answer 30 questions about the operations of Allied Crude, leading Nathan Ravin, attorney for Daniel Delear, court-appointed receiver of the firm, to move for a contempt citation against him. Bracconeri pleaded the Fifth Amendment to the questions about Allied Crude, which was headed by his brother-in-law, Anthony De Angelis. Both De Angelis and Ben Rotello, controller of the firm, have been cited twice for contempt of court for refusing to -answer questione abottt the company’s affairs. In addition, De' Angelis has been indicted by a federal grand juriy for transporting forged warehouse receipts representing about S4O million worth of edible Oils that apparently never I existed, across State lines. ~ j Chicago Refining, a vegetable oil firm, has filed for bankruptcy under chapter 10 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Bracconeri testified that he had nothing to do with the com party’s policies, that he had visited its facilities in Chicago only once and that he had never signed any company checks. Ravin read him testirhony by the Allied Crude plant superintendent, Frank Vivenzio, who had testified that Bracconeri ordered him to falsify the weekly inventories of 60 edible oil storage tanks in Bayonne, N.J. Most of the tanks were Subleased by Allied Crude to American Express Warehousing Ltd., a subsidiary of the American Express Co. * The subsidiary has been forced to seek protection under the bankruptcy laws because of pressure from creditors holding warehouse receipts against oil that was supposed to be stored in its tanks. The oil, however, is either missing or never existed. It you nave something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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Madame Nhu Asks For UN Probe Os Coup PARIS (UPD — Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu has asked for a United Nations probe of the coup d’etat which overthrew her family’s regime in South Viet Nam and has speculated her husband may still be alive. Emerging from a period of relative seclusion in exile here Monday, Mme. Nhu again accused the United States of complicity in the coup. She released a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary General Thant and member nations in the world organization. It requested an international commission to investigate the events which preceded, the military overthrow last November of her -brother-in-law, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem and Mme. Nhu’s husband, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were said 1 to have beerrkilled by rcvulu-Ex-Police Chief Is Honored With Gifts The city police department held its first squad meeting in the new station Monday evening, and presented former chief James M. Bo ders with a gift. Following a short business meeting, presided over by chief Grover Odle, patrolman Victor Strickler -presented a completely automatic slide projector to former chief Borders, on behalf of the entire department. The automatic slide projector was purchased by the officers of the department in appreciation of the 25 years of duty which Borders completed last year, and the 20 years he served as chief. Six slide trays accompanied the projector. $400,000 Loan To Manchester College WASHINGTON (UPD —Manchester College has been awarded a $400,000 federal Community Facilities loan for college housing, the funds to be added to by the school with $300,000. Laundry Series To Open January 20 Because of the impassable roads Monday, the first session of the . young homemakers’ laundry series r in Deaatur will be held January t 20 as was originally scheduled, in the I&M auditorium in Decatur.

tionary troops during the coup. Nhu was Diem’s younger brother and chief political adviser. The military leaders who ousted Diem announced at the time of the coup that the brothers were killed while attempting to escape from a Roman Catholic church where they had sought refuge in suburban Saigon. Later pictures were released allegedly showing the bodies of Diem and Nhu. Mme. Nhu has accused the revolutionary leaders of murdering her husband and Diem, but her letter Monday indicated she is not entirely convinced the brothers are dead. '‘The facts surrounding the disappearance of president Diem and his brother are far from convincing,” the letter said. The 38-year-old -beauty claimed the two men “were tortured” and said photographs allegedly showing their bodies “were not recognizable.” At the time of the coup, Mme. Nhu was making appearances in the United States to drum up support for her family’s regime in the face of mounting opposition from South Viet Nam’s influential Buddhists. She has been living in Paris since December.

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Trading Post Sale To Open Thursday The annual January half-price sale at the Psi Ote trading post opens Thursday, it was announced this morning by Mrs. Roger Stevens, president of the Psi lota Xi. The half-price sales are held by the local organization each January and July, and featurt numerous bargains for Decatur and area residents. All funds raised by the Psi Otes at their trading post go to various focal drives and charities. The trading post is open week from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Georgia Fought, Mrs. Ronnie Garner, Decatur. Dismissed Rev. Roger Budde, Master Michael Budde, Mrs. John Roth, Mrs. Richard Roudebush and baby boy, Decatur; Fred Cress, Miss Reta Bowen, Mrs. Dale House, Monroeville; Mrs. Julian Kramer and baby boy. Van Wert, O.; Mrs. Ernest Schwartz and baby girl, Berne; Mrs. Enos Girod, Mrs. James Wilson, Monroe.

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