Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1964 — Page 1

Reported Raid By Turkish Planes Threatening Shaky Truce Reached On Cyprus

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD— A . reported raid by Turkish planes and charge that Turkish troops were landing on the north coast threatened today to upset a shaky Cyprus truce. Cyprus accepted a United Na' tions plea for a cease-fire, and Turkey said it would too, if Greek Cypriots withdrew from certain areas of the embattled island. Despite these concessions the outlook remained grim. Turkish planes were reported to have raided the Greek Cypriot village of Polis this morning. Cyprus was said to have told the United Nations Security Council president that Turkey was landing men and supplies on the island’s north coast. Cyprus demanded another meeting of the council to hear the charges. Although denying an attack on Polis, Turkey admitted its planes flew over the area before they could be advised of the cease-fire. Reports of casualties in Polis this morning were vague. The Cyprus news agency said 50 were killed and 50 wounded, but the Cypriot high commission in London said 10 civilians were wounded. Diplomats worked feverishly to smooth out the Cyprus crisis that threatened a direct clash between Turkey and Greece, fellow members of the North Atlantic Alliance. In the background of the threatened widening of the conflict was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s " announced support of the Greek Cypriot position. Khrushchev told Greek Cypriot iPra ident Archbishop Makarios that “the sympathy of the people and of the government of the Soviet Union is on the side of the people of the Republic of Cyprus.” The United Nations Security Council was deeply concerned with the crisis, Britains’ Prime Minister Douglas-Home appealed to Turks and Greeks alike to bring about a cease-fire, and President Johnson conferred with top aides over the fighting. The U. S. Sixth Fleet carrier task group moved into positions in the Mediterranean, presumably off Cyprus. In Athens, Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Kostopoulos announced that Turkey had made another raid today, at 8:02 local time (2:02 am. EDT). Warn Against Violations “Ts the violations continue, the Greek government will be unable to stop the Greek Cypriots from defending themselves," Kostopoulos said. In London, Lord Carrington, minister without portfolio, announced as he left a meeting with Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home at 10 Downing Street, “we have just had news that the truce has been broken. There has been firing again over Polis.” Polis is 55 miles northwest of Nicosia, near the seacoast. Reports of the raid were published shortly after President Makarios announced acceptance - of the cease-fire. . An official Greek Cypriot spokesman announced: “Presidept Makarios said this morning 1 ’ that tre Cyprus government will fully respect the U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Cyprus.” But later this morning the spokesman announced that Turkey had raided again. Hie raid apparently was made before Makarios announced acceptance of the cease-fire. The Greek Cypriot spokesman said Turkish planes machine gunned the center of Polis at 8 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT) but no casualties were reported. (The Cyprus high commission in London said 10 persons, “mostly women and children.” were wounded when two Turkish jets shot up the center of Polis). / No Invasion Evidence Sunday night the Greek Cypriot government accused the Turks of landing soldiers on the northwest coast, but Later withdrew the accusation. The United Nations said there was no evidence of an invasion. „ Pickup 9th Pgh: The chronic

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Top Advisers Meet Johnson

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson called Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and other top advisers to the White House today for a discussion of the Cyprus crisis and the situation n Southeast Asia. The President also scheduled a ceremony for later in the day to sign the resolution adopted Cash Gain Shown By Hospital For July Despite a hot-weather slowdown in number of hospitalized and out patients, the Adams county memorial hospital showed a cash gain for the sixth consecutive month, the longest “run” of gains since May-October, 1959, Thurman I. Drew, hospital manager, announced today. The gain of $1,859.47 for July lifted the cash gain for the year to •$17,677.50, just SSOO short of the big gain of $18,175.87. Last year’s cash gain has been reinvested by the hospital board in an improvement program that includes a larger paraking area for visitors. Deposits Total $38,781.14 T total of $38,781.14 was deposited for July, with bills of $13,591.62, and a payroll of $23,330.05; this meant total expenses of $36,921.67 for the month. The cash operating balance grew $47,832.84 to $49,692.31. Part of this will soon be spent on improvements, as authorized by the hospital ’board, county commissioners, county council, and state board of accounts, following public advertisement of the expenditure. In the last five years, July has usually been a good month, with cash gains of $4,135.61 in 1963; $2,227.26 in 1962. $4,289.79 in 1961; and $313.34 in 1959; in 1960 there was $1,998.97 deficit. 191 Admissions A total of 191 adult patients were admitted and 42 babies born. . during the month, Drew reported. This comoares with 212 patients admitted a year ago, and 63 babies born; in June, 215 patients were admitted, and 43 babies born. The Adams county memorial hospital is not air conditioned, exceot in the operating rooms, and thus patients frequently wait until fall if they can put off surgery, or go elsewhere. Nine adults and one baby died during July, compared with 10 deaths in June, and seven a year ago. Oatpatients Dip There were 49 adults and seven babies in the hospital on July 1. 179 adults were dismissed, with 42 babies, leaving 52 adults and six babies in the hospital August 1. after admissions, births, and deaths are taken into account. Os the 42 newborns, 21 were boys and 21 were girls. Out natients treated took a «M«ht din. with 391 being served by the laboratory, x-ray, and emergency rooms in Julv. Last month 467 were treated, and a year ago, 408. This is _the first month to show a decrease over a year previously since August of 1962.

at his request by the House and Senate which gives him full backing in steps he may take to resist Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. Press Secretary George E. Reedy told newsmen that Johnson who returned Sunday night from a two day trip to his Texas ranth spent this morning “going over various reports on the world situation.” Reedy said Johnson called the meeting with Rusk, McNamara “and other senior advisers” to discuss Southeast Asia, Cyprus and “other matters . affecting the world situation.” Reedy said he did not know whether Johnson had received replies to the strong personal appeals he sent Sunday to Greek Turkish and Cypriot leaders for an end to fighting which could lead to mass bloodshed on Cyprus. State Department officials said Johnson was in telephone consultation with his diplomatic aides early today on the Cy■pfus pYobienrr ■ — —*-*"*-' Johnson also scheduled a lunch meeting today with a group of business leaders—one of a series of such sessions he has had with delegations from various walks of life to discuss pending national issues. From his ranch near Johnson City, Tex., Sunday, the President held a series of emergency telephone talks with Rusk, undersecretary of state George W. Ball and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. He also called Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson to discuss the dangerous developments involving Cyprus. Presidential Press Secretary George E. Reedy noted that “a considerable number of Canadian forces are committed to the United Nations peacekeeping force” on that Mediterranean island. The White House did not make public the messages Johnson sent to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreau, Turkish Premier Ismet Inonu and Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, other than to say he urged them to exert every possible effort to head off a threatened holocaust. 'Touch Os Fun' On Page 5 A3 all informed Americans know, the Flaming George is located right here on earth. Specifically, it’s the rcently completed dam and reservoir on the UtahWyoming border. Who has been invited to dedicate the Flaming Gorge this week? You’ll find the answer, as well as other questions and answers, in the new quiz on page 5. Answer to the news quiz are on the reverse, page 6, so you can clip the questions and answers handily for review. A scrapbook of news quizes will help every adult keep well informed during the year, and prepare him or her to vote intelligently 'his fall. Know the problems, issues and personalities — it’s an ’entertaining way to use your newspaper intelligently! A

Driver Uninjured In One-Car Wreck A car-guard rail collision at 3:10 p.m. Sunday on the curve on highway 27 just over the Loblolly ditch south of Geneva resulted in total damage to a 1953 model car, and SSOO damage to the guard rail, but driver Arthur Runyon, 36, of near Portland, was uninjured. ■ , Runyon, who was arrested and charged in Decatur JP court with reckless giving and improper registration of his car, was reported to have driven into the guard rail at a high rate of speed. He had left the Veteran’s hospital at Marion without being dismissed, and has been returned there. ' The accident was investigated by state trooper Gene Rash and deputy sheriff Harold August, When they arrived, Runyon had already been taken to the Jay county hospital, but he was released from there, and returned to his parents’ home in Jay county before being apprehended by Rash and August. The damage to the guard rail was reported to the state highway department by August. The car dropped over the 20-foot ditch just south of the Geneva city limits, and it was a wonder th syt the driver wasn’t’ Kifled, August reported. Ed Liechty Edits Berne.Witness Berne school teacher Ed Liechty began his second week of editing the Berne Witness as Simon Schwartz, editor, is on vacation, and Menno Lehman, publisher, is in Europe on the Berne-to-Bern tour.

Reports Red China Troops In Viet Nam

CAP ST. JACQUES, Viet Nam (UPI) — Prime Minister. Gen. Nguyen Khanh said today he had “definite reports’’ of Communist Chinese troops movements in North Viet Nam. Khanh at a news conference also reiterated that at least 15 • fighter planes from Red China had moved into Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital. But he said he was uncertain whether they were piloted by Chinese or Vietnamese. Khanh was asked if he had actual reports of Chinese Communist troop movements in Nor'h Viet Nam. “No exactly, on the 17th Parallel (the frontier with South Viet Nam), bpt let’s say in North Viet Nam,” he replied. He said the reports were from “intelligence” sources. Asked how the Chinese Communist were moving, Khanh replied, “they move by any kind of route. They have railroads coming from Yunnan (a province in southwestern China) to Hanoi.” He declined to estimate the number erf Red Chinese troops he thought were involved. There was no word, meantime, on the first U.S. civilian official ever to fall into Communist hands here. Joseph L, Granger of Sumer, N.C., was captured by Viet Cong guerrillas on Saturday. The 39-year-old aid adminisa

Ditton Funeral Is Held At Fort Wayne T'uneral services were held this afternoon at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home. Fort Wayne, for Mrs. Hope H. (Uhrick) Ditton, 66, of Decatur, who died Saturday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient five weeks. . She was a native of this city, but had lived most of her ilife in Fort Wayne, moving back to Decatur five months ago. Surviving are her husband, Georgage Ditton; a son, William E. Uhrie-k -of Fort Wayne; five daughters, Mrs. Adeline Ruch, Mrs. Ethel Meyer and Mrs. MiL ’ dred Borton, all of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Anna Belle Clark of Garrett, and Mrs. Lillian of Arc<fla; three stepsons, Henry Ditton and Louis Ditton, Jr., both of Fort Wayne, and Clarence Ditton of Parris, France; two sisters, ~ Mrs. Mildred Coulter and Mrs. Margaret Smith, both of Fort Wayne: a brother, Fred Hoopengardner of Fort Wayne; 34 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren, and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Eleanor Brumbaugh of Boulder, Colo., and Mrs. Mary Barhite of Goshen. < The R?v. Odie Murrell officiated. at the services, with burial in Greenlawn memorial park. Attend Funeral Os Sister-In-Law Mr. and Mrs. Roy ,L. Price, of Washington township, returned Sunday evening from Owensburg, Green county, where they attended the funeral Saturday of Mrs. Roy Hudson. 70, wife of Mrs. Price's brother. She died of complications following surgery.

trator and two persons with whom he was traveling in a Jeep, a Filipino aide and a Vietnamese farm manager, •were ambushed and captured in the central highlands. Vilages said the Communists led the three men away at gunpoint. “ Eleven U.S. servicemen and three members of a private medical mission have ben reported captured by the Communists in the past, and so far as is known all 14 are still prisoners of the Reds. The Reds have not previously interfered with the work of aid officials like Granger. There was speculation here that his capture may signal the start of a Communist drive against Americans who are trying to improve the lot of the South Vietnamese people. Granger, whose parents live in Hartford, Conn, is married and has four, children. Mrs. Granger is living in Tuy Hoa, Sou‘h Viet Nam. The Communists’ other American prisoners include a woman, Dr. Ardel Vietty of Dallas, who was a member of the medical mission which operated a clinic for lepers in central Viet Nam. The Reds" are believed to have seized her because they needed the services of a doctor. So far as is known, Dr. Vietty has not been harmed.

Funeral Tuesday For Mrs. Gerald Durkin * * ' Mrs. Gerald Durkin Bishop Leo A. Pursley will deliver the sermon at the funeral Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock for Mrs. Gerald R. Durkin, with her brother-in-law, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Durkin officating, at St. Mary's Catholic church, it was announced this morning. The Rev. Charles Ueber will serve as deacon, Patrick Durkin as sub-deacon and Daniel Durkin as master of ceremonies. Suffered Acute Attack Mrs. Durkin suffered an acute heart attack at her home at 616 Mercer avenue at 10 p.m. Friday She was seated in a chair and told her husband and son that she was fainting. They caught her, to protect her from any broken bones, and then realized that she hadn’t just fainted.. The physician arrived and stated that she was clinically dead, but he gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and two shots of adrenalin, and finally started her pulse and breathing. In more than 100 cases of administering adrenalin following clinical death, this was only the second in which he had been able to start the heart and breathing again, the doctor g ated. , She was then taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, and •placed in special oxygen equipment, but apparently she had had a massive heart attack, following a buildup of arteria-sclerosis over a period of time, which made recovery impossible. Mrs. Durkin, baptized Velma Lucile Ervin in St. Mary's Catholic school, St. Mary's College, at Notte Dame, and the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. Before returning to Decatur she taught grade school in Morris, 111., and grade and high school in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. She also taught the third grade in St. Joseph school, Decatur, for nine years. She was a member of the Catholic Ladies of Columbia, the Rosary Society, the Decatur Woman’s Club, the Rose Garden club, the Decatur home demonstration club, ' and the St: Vifident de~ Pa'uT so-’ ciety. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ed Heimann, Richard Rumschlag. T. C. Smith, James Lose, James Murphy and Dale Morrissey. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. The Rosary sosiety will recite the rosary at 8 o’clock this evening. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with a few scattered showers northwest late tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers and warmer south and east. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday from upper 70s extreme northwest to upper 80s southeast. Sunset today 7:48 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:53 a. m. Outlook tor Wednesday: Generally fair and pleasant. Lows from the low 60s north to the low 70s south. Highs from the 70s north to mid 80s south. Mrs. Bessie Ladig Is Taken By Death ’ Mrs. Bessie M. Ladig, 52. of New Haven route 1, died Saturday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient since July 29. She was a native of Blackford countv and had. resided in the New Haven community since 1945. Mrs. Ladig was a member of the New Haven Nazarene church. Surviving are her husband, Lawrence; two sons, Dennis Ladig of Bluffton, and Charles Ladig of Leesburg; a daughter, Carolyn, at home; six grandchildren; two sisters Mrs. Audrev Spencer Os Leesburg, and Mre. Marie DeLong of Decatur, and two brothers, William Huston of Monmouth,, and ■Raymond Huston of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the E. Harper & Son funeral home in New Haven, with burial in the Decatifr cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral ttome until time of the services. ’

Cyprus Calls For UN Meet

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPl)—Cyprus today called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the latest reported Turkish air attack on Greek Cypriot positions. Council President Sivert A. Nielsen of Norway promptly began consultations with other delegations on the time for such a meeting. A spokesman for the Norwegian delegation said it might be possible to set one up for this afternoon. C|ypriot Zenon Rossides called Nielsen this morning to ask for another emergency session ofter reports reached U.N. headquarters of a fresh Turkish air attack on the Cypriot village of Polis. Turkey was reported to have announced following the attack that it had been carried out by a unit which had not yet received word of ’ the cease-fire. U.N. sources said they expected to have in hand by this afternoon a report on the latest situation in Cyprus from Lt. Gen. K.S. Thimayya of India, U.N. commander there. The Norwegian Spokesman said this would also be discussed if a meeting could be arranged on Rossides’ request. Greece and Cyprus demanded an immediate reconvening of the council late Sunday night after a report that Turkish invasion forces had landed on the island. They withdrew their requests after the reports were denied, but the council remained

Pope Paul Condemns Communism Dogma

VATICAN CITY (UPI) — Pope Paul VI, in his first atcyclical, today condemned the "blind dogma” of communism and offered to intervene directly in conflicts threatening.-world . peace. ■a, in PAoul reference to J otptw the Pope 1 said the movement "destroys f at the ’ root of any social system which attempts to base ite self, upon it.” ’ In offering to work directly ’ for peace, the Pope said: i “We shall be ready to inter- ' vene, where an opportunity presents itself, in order to assist the contending parties to find ' honorable and fraternal sblu- ’ tions for their disoutes.” I The pontiff did not mention '—■any specific dispute -and -his . re-., (narks were interpreted as a general reminder of the church's permanent stand that it is willing to mediate in international disputes' if invited to do so. r The Pope’s attack on commu- • nism was one of the strongest political statements ever made by a pontiff. "For the Ipver of truth, discussion is always possible, but under Communism dialogue in such conditions is very difficult, not to say impossible,” he said. Paul said the Roman Catholic Church in countries behind the Iron Curtain "speaks only by its sufferings, and with it speaks dlso the suffering of an oppressed and degraded society in which the rights of the spirit are crushed by those who control its fate.” On the "great and universal question of world peace,” the pontiff said he would devote all

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in a state of suspended animation. • By “suspending” Sunday’s emergency session rather than recessing it, council President Sivert Nielsen ,enabled himself to call the council back into session at an hour’s notice. He set no time for today’s meeting however, pending word from Thant that he had received Thimayya’s report. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche spoke With Thimayya late Sunday night following the invasion scare. It was not known if Thimayya gave a complete progress report then. Sunday the council voted to make an urgent appeal to all parties concerned in Cyprus to observe a cease fire. It • did so over the objections of Cypriot Ambassador Zenon Rossides, who said the council’s resolution should specifically condemn Turkey as an aggressor, and of the Soviet Union and Communist Czechoslovakia who charged the whole crisis was a NATO plot. BULLETIN Adrian Coffee, 64, retired city police officer, died of heart attack about 12:30 p.m. today at his home, 503 North Fifth street. He had suffered an attack several months ago. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral " home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

of his efforts toward that end while remaining “of course within the limits of our ministry and so utterly divorced from purely temporal interests and strictly political forms.” He said he would work for peace by "educating mankind to sentiments and ways of acting contrary to violent and 1 deadly conflict.” The 15,000 - word Latinlanguage encyclical, addressed to Roman Catholic prelates, will be known by its opening words “ecclesiam suam” (his church). In addition to the attack on communism, it deals with such subjects as relations with nonChristian religious groups and the Pope's “hopes for the current ecumenical council. Jp their.. attacks.. on commanism, Pope Paul’s predecessors generally 'have avoided mentioning it by name. Today, however, the pontiff singled out “atheistic communism'’* as the chief of "the ideological . systems .which deny God and oppress the church.” In the light of growing Vatican interest in improving relations with Jews, Moslems and other non-Christians, the Pope’s remarks on that subject surprised some observers. "We recognize and respect the moral and spiritual values of the various non-Christian religions and we desire to join with them in promoting and defending ' common ideals of religious liberty, human brotherhood, good culture, social welfare and civil order,” he said. "But honesty compels us to declare openly our conviction that there is but one true religion, the religion of Christianity.”' 7 -