Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII NO. 71.

Negro School Students In Jacksonville Clash With Police In Violence f ■

U.S. Ambassador To Japan Stabbed

TOKYO (UPD—U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer wag stabbed in the leg today by a 19-year-old Japanese who police said was mentally retarded. Embassy officials said the fourinch wound was serious but not critical. Reischauer, 53-year-old former Harvard professor, underwent surgery for more than two and one-half hours to probe and stitch the wound in his right thigh. He was given a transfusion because of “considerable” loss of blood. Reischauer was saved from possible further injury by two Americans who wrestled with his assailant, Kowa Shiotani, and held him until police—arrived, then gave first aid to the ambassador. Police said Shiotani had been a mental patient in his home city of Numazu, 100 miles from Tokyo. They said he appeared to have several grievances against the United States ‘for its postwar occupation policy in Japan. The government expressed regret for the incident, the latest in a series of political stabbings. Fort Wayne Bank Robber Sentenced FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— C. J. Pequignot, 37, a former Fort Wayne police officer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for his part in an abortive $60,000 bank holdup. Pequignot, who previously pleaded guilty, was sentenced by Federal Judge Jesse Eschbach in connection with the Feb. 21 holdup of an Indiana Bank branch. Larry Joe Chamberlain, 23, who actually robbed the bank, pleaded guilty last week and is scheduled to be sentenced April 6. Chamberlain was arrested with the bank loot minutes after the holdup. A bank employe touched an alarm button which summoned police and officers arrived at the bank just as Chamberlain was walking out with the money-filled sack. •It was the largest bank holdup in Indiana since the days of desperado John Dillinger. Pequignot, who lost his job on the police force several years ago upon conviction of burglary charges, was arrested several days after the holdup as a coconspirator with Chamberlain.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Charles M. Hill, First Christian Church) “And He Became Flesh” ® John 1:1-14 The testimony of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the church stands as evidence of the mighty acts of God in history. This text is only one of many which add to the verification of these acts Here Jesus Christ is acclaimed to be equal with God, and to our amazement, with man, at the same time. He came to dwell with man as man, and to know his problems, and at the same time He was the light of the world. He was not overcome by the temptations of the flesh, but He conquered them for man. Contemporary man does not understand, it would seem, that this Jesus was fully man just as He was fully God. They seem to think that He had special powers to overcome sin, which of course, He did not, for He was fully man. Only by this very fact can He become a sacrifice for our sins and save us from them. The Christian life begins when one attempts to make his life like that of Jesus. Jesus has been called the light of the world. He also proclaimed His followers to be the light of the world in the Sermon on the Mount. Man must spend more of his time becoming like Jesus and less in becoming like Satan. Yes, Jesus beoame flesh but it did not hinder Him from living like the Son of God. The Easter season challenges us again, and again to be like Jesus.

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Reischauer, who was born in Japan of American missionary parents and speaks fluent Japanese, is a popular and effective ambassador. Police said Shiotani told them he also had poured gasoline on a rug inside a U.S. Embassy house in January. They said he had been arrested on suspicion of arson but released. Today, Shiotani climbed a wall and entered the embassy compound. He approached Reischauer as the ambassador was walking out o f the building on his way to lunch. John Jerchak of Fairfax, Va., one of the Americans who seized the youth, described the scene that fnllnwpd: =ii== “I was getting ready to leave the chancery and saw the ambassador coming down the . stairs. I started to open the door but the ambassador beat me to it. TTie ambassador then stepped out. “At the same time, right at the doorway, out of nowhere came this man into the building. He brushed against the ambassador. The man came in and the ambassador said, ‘Who is this man?’ knife in his hand. I grabbed him from the back, forcing him to the floor and forced the knife from his hand. The knife was a short one with a triangular blade.” A "Marine guard, Sgt. Carl D. Macek of San Diego, Calif., helped subdue Shiotani. Another Marine guard, Cpl. Lester L. Wells, of Eaton Rapids, Mich., also assisted. I 4 I Shopping Days ’til "x I EASTER 7

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPD —Dozens of Negro high school students engaged in a bottle and rock throwing melee with police today. They overturned and burned one automobile. The new violence followed a bloody night of demonstrations in which whites were beaten, slashed and shot. One Negro woman was killed by gunfire during the height of the disturbance in the city’s Negro area. Roving gangs of Negroes hurled bricks, bottles and rocks at whites who ventured into the area on the city’s northside. Reinforced police units finally restored order about 1:30 a.m. EST. Several hours of calm descended on the city, only to be shattered by the new incident at New Stanton High School. It lasted about 30 minutes. Police Capt. J. -B. Mashburn said the angry young Negroes turned the car over and burned it. The school was adjourned for the day and dozens of students remained on the scene while firemen poured water on the smoking, burned out automobile. It belonged to a local newspaper, the Florida TimesUnion. Some of them taunted white newsmen on the scene and one white reporter who wandered into a Negro neighborhood was told: “Get out of here before you get in bad trouble." In Tallahassee, the state capital, a spokesman for the governor’s office said Gov. Farris Bryant was being kept informed and advised of happenings in Jacksonville. Bryant, however, had no immediate comment bn the Monday night outbreak. WilMam Leroy James, a 25-year-old white man who was tied to a tree Monday night and cut by razors, was returned to his home today. His mother said doctors took 169 stitches and that his wounds were mainly superficial. Much of the violence was done by gangs of Negro youths who threw firebombs at whiteowned stores and rocks at passing cars. The youths apparently were angered by the arrests earlier in the day of 127 racial demonstrators in downtown Jacksonville. State troopers sped to an expressway leading through the section and blocked all traffic from entering the area. Reinforced police patrols gradually restored order and city police Capt. Leslie Canderson said around I'3o a.m., EST that “all is quiet.” “We don’t see any trend in this thing,” Anderson said. “It’s just one of those things that happen every so often.” Quiet Since 1960 It was the first such violence in the state’s second largest city, near the Georgia border, since a 1960 racial flareup when organized bands of Negro youths staged hit-and-run violence strikes through the city. The gangs Monday night attacked motorists and pedestrians—all white, with one apparent exception. Three sailors, including two Negroes were fired upon by a Negro man as they sat in a parked car. Two of the sailors were wounded slightly. A Negro woman, Jonnie Mae Chappell, was fatally shot in the stomach from a passing car as she searched for her purse outside a suburban grocery. Witnesses were unable to identify the car or its occuoants. Billy James, a 25-year-old white man. said his car was forced to the curb by a. carload of Negroes and he was dragged out, tied to a tree and slashed with razors. “He was cut so; many times I couldn’t Count all; the stitches,” said a nurse at! Baptist Hospital. James was re-! leased after treatment. Cuban Shot A bullet creased the head ofi (Continued on Page Six) i

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Red Cross Drive Is Near Halfway Mark The Red Cross rural campaign fund drive eased over the SI,OOO mark, and edged almost halfway toward its goal of $2,655 as 17 more sections reported, the total to 90 out of 336, John B. Faurote, Red Cross drive cochairman announced this morning. The 90 sections have raised sl, 135.92, with just $1,519.08 to collect, Faurote stated. 11 From French Included in the latest reports, as of Monday morning, were 11 new sections from French, raising the total to 14 of 24 reported; four from Kirkland, bringing their totol to 6; and one each from Preble and Union, raising their totals to nine and eight,- respectively. A successful campaign will assure the continuance of Red Cross disaster assistance, and the many Red Cress service programs, such as the first aid courses. Gray Ladies, and many others, Faurote said. The American Red Cross, through its many active chapters such as the Adams county chapter, has spent $2 million to proi vide assistance to disaster victims in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, 1 West Virginia and Pehnsylvani'JTs2oo,o96 Already Spent To date, the Red Cross has already spent more than $200,000 ' providing emergency shelters, food, clothing, and medical care for more than 20,000 flood victims and emergency workers in the five states, and on individual family help to those who have returned to their flood-wrecked homes. In approximately 100 disaster relief offices, Faurote pointed out, in the five states, more than 241 Red Cross disaster specialists from all over the nation are assisting local chapters in helping flood victims determine the extent of their disaster-caused problems. More than 6,000 families have already registered for assistance more than 30,000 families are affected, and 24,000 homes have been damaged in those five states alone. Much relief work goes in the form of food, fuel, clothing, household furnishings, and medical care. Red Cross assistance may also include repair and rebuilding of homes and occupational supplies and equipment. Section Reports Reporting from French township were: B. A. Seesenguth, section 2, SB, 100%; Mrs. Alonzo Smith, Sec. 1, sll, 100%: Mrs. Harry ' Tonner, Sec. 14, sl6; Ervin Isch Sec. 15, $11: Mrs. Carl Kipfer, Sec. 23, $8.75, 100%; Mrs. Roy Balsiger, Sec. 25. $5; Sec. 26, sl7; Palmer Moser, Sec. 27, sls; Mrs. Godfrey Bertsch, Sec. 34, $4, 100%>; Mrs. John Bertsch, Sec. 28 & 33, $18.60. In Kirkland, Mrs. Homer Arn--1 old. Jr., Sec. 24, $2; Roy Aschliman. Sec. 22, sl4; Mrs. Milliard Aeschilman, Sec. 27. $lO, 100%'; Albert Roth, Sec. 23,'58. Preble township, Louis Reinking, Sr., Sec. 34A, $6; Union township. Mrs. Edgar Thieme, Sect. 25. $11; Union Chapel Ladies Aid, $5. Litchfield Is Head Os Sidewalk Sale Mrs. Kay Boch, president of the retail division of the local Chamber of Commerce, announced this morning that George Litchfield will again be chairman of the annual Sidewalk Sale this year. 2! The sale will be held in the ’month of July again this year, ’and the retail division is begin- ' Zoning to organize plans for one of a the big highlights of the summer season in Decatur. Litchfield served as chairman S for the affair last year, and did Sa fine job, Mrs. Boch said, and ■Solans are to make this year's a sale another great event.

Rumor Russia Pledges Aid To Cypriots NICOSIA, Cyprus <UPD — Greek Cypriots sources today refirmed report that Soviet Prefused to comment on an unconmier Nikita S. Khrushchev has promised military action against Turkey in case of Turkish intervention in Cyprus. The report came as hopes for early political negotiations toward a Cyprus settlement rose with the agreement on former Finnish Premier Sakari Tuomioja as United Nations mediator here. U. N. Secretary General Thant said in Geneva he wants Tuomioja to go to Cyprus “as soon as possible.” The rightwing weekly Kypros, regarded as having good contacts among Cypriot government ministers, said Monday that Khrushchev had guaranteed “Soviet protection for Cyprus by all means at Moscow’s disposal in the event of a Turkish invasion, with war not confined to Cyprus but being taken to the Turkish mainland.” The weekly, quoting an unnamed Greek Cypriot minister, said the top secret Soviet note to President Archbishop Makarios also offered “every financial ' assistance needed, wi t h ojx t strings.” The minister was quoted as saying “the message was the most wonderful ever received by Makarios. None of us expected Khrushchev to offer what he has offered.” Construction Worker Is Killed By Beam WARREN, Ind. (UPD — Enery Brush, 61, Marion, a construction worker, was killed Monday when a steel beam fell on him as he worked on a bridge at the site of the construction of Interstate 69 near here. Klumb To Speak To Decatur Rotarians George H. Klumb, director of the Culligan Water Institute, will address this week’s meeting of the Decatur Rotary club and guests at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday at 6 p.m. The meeting will begin earlier than usual so that members may still attend church services later that evening. Clarence Ziner is program chairman. Members of the Decatur Optimist and Lions clubs have also been invited to attend. Several Culligan dealers from Northeastern Indiana will also attend. Mayor Carl Gerber has invited the Decatur board of works. “Water is becoming increasingly important to every community and its condition in Decatur has been frequently discussed recently,” Ziner commented, “and here is an opportunity to learn more about it from a recognized authority.” « George H. Klumb has been director of the Culligan Water Institute since it was created in 1950. For eight years prior to that time he was technical director of Culligan Inc., manufacturer of water conditioning equipment. He is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and holds degrees from Marquette University, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin. His major fields of interest were the biological sciences, chemistry and education. After spending several years in pharmaceutical chemistry and a san educator he became interested in water conditioning. He has done research and development work in water conditioning and holds a number of patents in this field. 1

Sunrise Service On Easier Sunday * * John Steiner John Steiner a 1963 graduate of the Fort Wayne Bible College, will be the featured speaker at the annual sunrise service for young people of Decatur, to be held at the Church of God Easter Sunday morning at 6 o’clock. The service is under the auspices of the Associated Churches of Decatur. Steiner received his high school training at Flint high school in Flint, Mich., and is now a teacher in the Hoagland elementary school in Fort Wayne. He is the son of the Rev. Armin Steiner, pastor of the West Missionary church at Berne. Many youths from area churches will participate in the Easter service, and the churches will hold get-togethers after the joint service. Those who are participating in the service are asked to attend a special meeting this evening at 7 o’clock to complete plans for the sunrise service. Suspend Business During Three Hours , Practically all business will be suspended in Decatur during the Three Hours Good Friday from 12 noon to 3 p.m., a survey this morning revealed. All business houses and offices will close during the threehour period, with most of them reopening after 3 o’clock until the usual 9 p.m. Friday closing. All offices in the county courthouse and the city hall, however, will be closed for the entire day, as will the auto license bureau, the Gas Co., and Indiana and Michigan. Announcement was also made this morning that the city’s retail stores will forego their usual afternoon closing this Thursday, and will remain open until- the usual late afternoon closing .time. The First State Bank will close at 12 noon Friday, but the sidewalk window on Monroe street will be open from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The bank will also be open Thursday afternoon along with retail stores. The Decatur public library will be closed from 12 noon until 3 p.m.'Friday, and wjll also close at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. > The union Good Friday services will be held at the First Methodist church from 12 to 3 p.m. Friday, will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic church from 12:15't0 3:15 p.m., and the Zion Lutheran service will open at 1 o’clock. Mrs. Minnie Heller Dies This Morning Mrs. Minnie Jane Heller, 79. of Preble, died at 8:45 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for several years and hospitalized for the past six weeks. She was born in Adams county Aug. 23, 1884, a daughter of James D. and Rebecca CochranBrown. and was married to Orville Heller Nov. 8, 1908. Her husband preceded her in death April 21, 1959. Mrs. Heller, a resident of Preble most of her life, was a member of the First Methodist church in Decatur. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Wayne (Verea) Johnson of Decatur route 4: two sons, John V. Heller of Preble, and Vearl Heller of Decatur route 5; six grandchildren a-nd three greatgrandchildren. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. A. C. Underwood officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Sunrise Service On Easter Sunday

First Lady Speaks At Space Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (UPD — Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson said today the space age had lifted the South from a “40 acres and a mule” economy and given the region a future “as bright as the stars.” In a speech prepared for delivery upon her' arrival for a visit at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Mrs. Johnson said Alabama and the South are playing a “vital role” in the nation’s space program. “ . . . This is the birthplace of our flight to the moon,” she said. “The men who ultimately will go to the moon will be there because of you and because of facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Cape Kennedy, Fla. “Space research and development already have enriched the economy of the South and the future for the South is as bright as the stars and as vast and boundless in its promise as the far reaches of outer space JT she said. The First Lady flew to Huntsville to view the static firing of the eight engines of Saturn I —the rocket vehicle scheduled

More Surgery On MacArthur

WASHINGTON (UPl‘—Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s doctors reported today the old soldier is “progressing as well as can be expected” from his second major operation in 18 days. But his doctors disclosed that in addition to a six-hour operation Monday to halt severe internal bleeding, it became necessary early today to perform a tracheostomy op the 84-year-old war hero. This entails insertion of a tube through an incision in the throat to aid breathing. A team of doctors headed by the Army’s surgeon general examined MacArthur this morning and issued a brief statement saying only that he was progressing as well as could be expected. But other hospital sources said the general’s heart beat and blood pressure were normal — encouraging signs — after anesthesia wore off. Issue Statement MacArthur’s doctors issued this statement at about 8:45 a.m. EST after examining him: “General MacArthur is reacting to his surroundings and progressing as well as can be expected following the surgery he went through yesterday. “A tracheostomy was performed late last night to assist his breathing.” It was reported that the tracheostomy — which differs slightly by' medical definition from a tracheotomy operation —was performed after midnight although the medical statement mentioned the time as late Monday night. Before the general’s earlier operation this month when his gall bladder was removed along with a quantity of gallstones, doctors at the hospital observed that any major operation on, a person of his age must be considered serious. Given Much Blood Further illustrating the seriousness of the hemorrhaging experienced by MacArthur was the fact that he received blood transfusions amounting to a full ' two gallons—l 6 pints—during the operation. And his spleen was removed. In a medical bulletin issued shortly before midnight Lt. Gen- Leonard D. Heaton, the Army’s surgeon general and the man who headed the surgical team, said: “Considering the seriousness of 1 the operative procedure, Gen. MacArthur continues to react satisfactorily. The vital signs, which include pulse and blood: pressure, are holding up well.” Hours after the operation MacArthur was in the hospital recovery room, still unconscious from the effects of anesthesia. Sources warned that his . condition might worsen once he regained consciousness.

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to carry men to the moon in this decade. She also was to inspect the center, meet many of the women working on the moon shot project and lunch with a group of her Alabama relatives. “I ,am particularly pleased that my personal exploration of our space program should begin here in Alabama—a part of the world that is almost second home to me," Mrs. Johnson said. Her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Taylor, were natives of Autauga County, Ala. She noted that since 1958 her husband has “made the establishment of our national program for the peaceful exploration of space one of his major thrusts. The depth and intensity of his interest has, very naturally, stimulated my own and I welcome this opportunity to see how our objectives . . . are being met.” She praised the role women have played in space activities. She noted that nearly 20 per cent of the center’s employes are women, with jobs ranging from clerk-typist to aerospace engineers.

Spleen Isn’t Necessary ~ The spleen, which is located in the upper gastrointestinal area, is not necessary to life and can become a threat to life * if diseased or damaged. It acts as a Wood reservoir tor the body and also is believed to play some part in the body’s disease defenses. The general’s wife, the forJean Faircloth, and his son 1 Arthur were keeping vigil along with Army doctors. On March 6 MacArthur underwent major surgery at Walter Reed tor removal of his gall bladder and several gallstones to alleviate a jaundice condition. He had been recuperating so well that the hospital planned to release him by month’s end. But early Monday his condition worsened suddenly. Doctors discovered that MacArthur was bleeding from ruptured yeins in his esophagus — the tube which connects the throat with the stomach. The general’s breathing was eased for four hours with a resuscitating machine before the decision was made to operate. Removed Spleen To ease the internal hemorrhaging, the doctors removed his spleen and rerouted the internal blood flow to the kidneys. This relieved the pressure of Wood on the veins of the esophagus wall and slowed the hemorrhaging. A Sengstaken tube also was used to ease the pressure on the ruptured veins. This involved inserting a tube through the general’s mouth, down his throat and along the esophagus wall. An inflated balloon was attached to the outside end of the tube to exert pressure and collapse the veins, halting the bleeding. In the March 6 operation, the surgical team, also headed by Heaton, found that MacArthur’s gall bladder showed “marked, chronic inflammation with many gallstones.” The liver showed the effects of a longstanding bile obstruction. No cancer was found, however. When brought to Walter Reed from his New York City home, MacArthur, who cut a dashing figure in his younger days, weighed only 140 pounds and appeared haggard and gaunt. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday, chance st a little rata or snow tonight, becoming more Hkely Wednesday. Low tonight 25 to 32 north, around 40 south. lUgn Wednesday 34 to 40 north, hi the 40s south. Sunset today 7:01 p. m. Sunrise Wednes- ’ day 6:41 a, m. Outlook lor Thursday: Mostly ctoody and a little warmer with ahoyw* likely. Lows 30 to 40. Highs 45 to 55. . —"