Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 216.

Hurricane Ethel Turns 4 • From Mainland Course, Heads Toward Bermuda

MIAMI (UPI) — Hurricane Ethel sped toward the resort isle of Bermuda today on a course that should take its highest 95 m.p.h. winds slightly west of the island this afternoon. Ethel turned away from the mainland Friday night, a change that was welcomed by Florida East Coast residents who have been hit by two hurricanes in as many weeks.

British Jets Aid Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (UPI) — Malaysian forces aided by rocket-firing British jets flushed at least 11 Indonesians out of the jungles of Johore state Friday and today, it was, reported here. The bag of prisoners was the largest in any two- day period since Indonesian paratroopers jumped into the Johore jungles Sept. 2. At the same time, British naval reinforcements from - ■ the ' ” Middle East were, steaming toward Southeast Asia. More than two-thirds of the British fleet was reported east of Suez. Eight Hunter jet fighters from Singapore fired two-inch rockets into the dense tropical Eight Persons Die As Home Destroyed SPRINGHILL JUNCTION, N. S. (UPI) — Eight persons—sfeven of them members of one family—were believed killed in a fire that swept a bungalow here early today. Authorities said Laton Chisholm, 36, his six children and a friend of the family were thought to have perished in the fire in the Chisholm hbme. They said the death toll could not be determined until a medical examiner probes the ruins of the home which went up in flames shortly after midnight. Chisholm’s wife, a Halifax hos- = pital patient at the time of thej fire, survived. S Chisholm’s children were identified as three daughters and three s sons, ranging in age from 3 to 11. g The eighth suspected was an unidentified friend of theg family. ■■ 99 t g Decatur Ministers j Will Meet Monday | At 9:30 a. m. Monday, the Decatur ministerial association will resume its regular meeting schedule, convening at the regular place, the Zion United Church of Christ, cm the corner of Third and Jackson streets. The Rev. Wilmer Watson, pastor of the Nazarene church, will be presiding for the first time since election in the May meeting. Other officers assuming new duties are: the Rev. Fuhrman Miller, pastor of Decatur Evangelical United Brethren (Bethany), is the new vice president: and the Rev. Elbert A. Sm.th, Jr., Presbyterian pastor, will be serving as secretary-treasurer. The Decatur ministerial association welcomes the new ministers who have.come since the last meeting: the Rev. Melvin Seeger to First Methodist church, the - Rev. R. W.. Van Hoosen to First. Christian, the Rev, Leroy E«._ Rusher to First Missonary, andthe Rev. Robert Chidister in First Baptist. The ministers are reminded of the Associated Churches of Decatur meeting Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Zion United Church of Christ. Church representatives should be urged to attend.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

A late bulletin on Ethel warned Bermuda residents to take all precautions for the possibility of hurricane force winds of 75 m.p.h. winds around noon, or shortly thereafter. The late advisory, based on both land radar and reconnaissance aircraft reports, placed Ethel’s center about 165 miles southwest of Bermuda at latitude 31.2 north, longitude 67.1 west. It was moving

overgrowth near Labis, .site of the airdrop of 45 Indonesian guerrillas. It marked the first time the RAF had taken part in the hunt-and-kill search for the Indonesians. Results of the strafings were not revealed, but the number of Indonesians captured suggests they were effective. Police said six were taken Friday and at least five today. ’ Eight raiders have been killed and 25 to 30 captured. The defense ministry said the British jets sprayed the jungle with rocket fire after a local military commander had satisfied himself there were no local inhabitants in the area. The Indonesians also were readying for. a showdown. In Jakarta, the government Friday night ordered 21 million crush-Malaysia volunteers into a state of combat readiness. Indonesian President Sukarno has vowed to stamp out the federation of Malaysia because he regards it as British front for “neo - colonialist” aims which menace Indonesia. Alert Volunteers JAKARTA (UPI) — Indonesia alerted its 21 million “crush - Malaysia volunteers” Friday night for possible action “in connection with ... increased activities of Indonesia’s enemies.” The alerting order was - signed by Lt. Gen. Ahmad • Yani, commander of the army. ; “Volunteers throughout Indo- : nesia are ordered to maintain j the highest degree of readiness !in connection with . the worsen--5 ing political situation in South- = east Asia in general and in- ■ creased activities of Indonesia’s - enemies in particular,” it said. ■ The alert was issued as Brit- | ish air and naval reinforcet ments converged on Malaysia, g a one-year-old federation which ! Indonesian President Sukarno - has vowed to crush. A British naval squadron was sailing toward Indonesia. British anti-aircraft troops, were flown into the federation from West Germany Thursday. Britain ordered in the reinforcements after Indonesia landed guerrillas on the Malay peninsula by sea and air. Malaysia charged Indonesia with aggression before the United Nations, Indonesia did not deny the charges. Asks Six Counties Named Disaster Area INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Governor Welsh has asked the Depart- - ment of Agriculture to add six - additional countries to a drought . disaster area. ' Thirty-two counties were pre- ' viously designated a drought dis--3 aster area. The latest counties re--3 quested to be added to the list ~ were Cass, Dearborn, Franklin, - Montgomery, Ripley and Starke. ~ Under the program, farmers - would be permitted to let their - livestock graze or take hay from land retired under federal con- - trol.

north - northeast at about 8 m.p.h. “This position is considered more accurate than that given in the last advisory,” the weather bureau said. Earlier, weathermen said the “eye” would pass directly over or barely west of the island. “Highest winds are 95 miles per hour” in a small area around the center, the weather bureau said. Storm Widespread Gales kicked up by Ethel extend out 200 miles to the northeast and 150 miles to the southeast of the center of the storm. The two hurricanes which have hit Florida in the past two weeks — Cleo and Dora—have chalked up $315 - million damage. Cleo caused slls-million damage along the south Florida Gold Coast, and Dora cut a S2OO-million swath of destruction across north Florida. In addition, Dora caused about $4-million damage to the Georgia coast. Johnson Checks Damage President Johnson made a quick survey of hurricane Dora’s damage to the Jacksonville, Fla., and Brunswick, Ga-, areas Friday and before flying back to: Washington said: < “The damage I have seen is serious ... I want to reassure every property owner and every businessman — large or small — indeed every citizen in the communities ravaged by these terrible storms, that the necessary steps for rapid rehabilitation are already being taken by the proper government offices. “We are going to put all the facilities of the government at the disposal of these people,” the President pledged. The remains of Dora were centered today near Albany, Ga., and the weather bureau said the blustery weather would drift northeastward through Georgia, South Carolina and into eastern North Carolina by Sunday night. Dora’s winds were generally less than 30 m.p.h., except for slightly higher gusts in a few squalls. Forecasters warned, however, that Dora would spread heavy rains as she moved' northward. Humphrey Visits Mother In Dakota HURON, S.D. (UPI) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey pays a visit to his aged mother this morning and stops by the family drug store where he used to fill prescriptions. It was a poignant end to Humphrey’s triumphant return as Democratic vice presidential candidate to the eastern South Dakota prairie country where he grew up. Humphrey stopped over in South Dakota during a swing into the West. He was to leave here at mid-morning by plane for Denver with a short stop at Rapid City at the foot of South Dakota’s Black Hills. Humphrey made a -pitch here on behalf of the Johnson administration for the farm vote by saying that. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican presidential candidate, was qo the farmers’ friend. But for the most part, politics was put aside for his visit. Never before has a South Dakota lad cut so wide a swathe in the political big time. Thousands cheered his return at Doland, a wee town where he went to school, and at Huron, a town of 20,000 along the banks of the James River — “The Jim,” as the randhers call it. At Huron, which hosts the state fair and boasts of irrigation plans that will make South Dakota’s prairie soil produce 10-foot-high corn. Hubert and Muriel Humphrey were childhood sweethearts.

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=< » I Ju tOB NATIONAL GUARDSMAN patrols at Jacksonville Beach, Fla., to guard against looting along area where several beachfront homes were shattered by Hurricane Dora. Guardsman is Richard Harvey. — (UPI Telephoto)

State Traffic Toll Nearing 900 Mark By United Press International A new wave of traffic mishaps accounted for seven weekend deaths in the first 10 hours of the 54-hour period and pushed the state-wide highway toll for the year to at least 895 compared with 878 a year ago. Roger Dale Robinson, 16, Bloomington, was the latest victim. He was found dead near his motorcycle along old Indiana 37 about six miles north of Bloomington early today. Authroties said he apparently crashed into a tree after getting off work at a supermarket last midnight. A man identified by his social security card as Edgar Donald Burton, Jr., 27, Louisville, Ky., was killed today in a crash in Beech Grove when his car struck a tree. It was Beech Grove’s first traffic dea*h since 1948. Delores Butler, 18, Indianapolis, was killed today in a twocar collision at an Indianapolis intersection. She was a passenger in one of the cars. One of two runaway boys from Gibault School at Terre Haute was killed and another seriously injured early today. Dead was George Applegate, 14, Indianapolis. The injured boy, also 14, was David Michniak, Detroit. He was hospitalized in serious Condition. State police said the boys ran away from the Catholic correctional schoql and stole a pickup truck belonging to Norall Shopmeyer, Poland. Four miles West of Cloverdale, on Indiana 42, the truck failed to make a curve and struck .two trees. Police said Michniak was driving “at the time and Shopmeyer and state police were trying to catch the truck. Sue Ann Marsh, 26, Attica, was killed Friday night when her car skidded on a Warren County road 5 miles northeast of Williamsport and hit a concrete abutment. George Muldray, 38, Auburn, was killed early today when his car went off Indiana 3, four miles north of Fort Wayne. He was thrown from his auto when it wen* up an embankment and the vehicle ran over him. Steven Huff, 19, rural Walkerton, was killed just after the weekend period began Friday night in a two-car collision one mile sou’h of Walkerton on Indiafifi 23. Police said he swerved his car to miss a dog and collided with a car driven by Henry Smith, 19, also of rural Walkerton. Before the weekend period began Leroy Reichert, 21, South Bend, was killed in another twocar accident, one mile north of South Bend on a St. Joseph County road. He was thrown

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through tonight, Sunday fair atnd contained cool. Low tonight 42 to 50, high Sunday near 70. Outlook for Monday: Fair and continued cool. NFO Sitdown At New Castle Ended NEW CASTLE, Ind. (UPI) — National Farmers Organization officials, whose drive - in, sit-down closed the New Castle livestock yards for most of the week, ordered the demonstration abandoned Friday. Tracks driven up the unloading ramps at the yards Tuesday forced the market’s shutdown when the lead truck developed “engine trouble.” The farmers stayed with their trucks around the clock, keeping independent farmers away from the market. About 20 trucks which were blocking the ramps Friday were called away while NFO officials said they would decide later what additional action to take in effects to boost livestock prices by keeping animals off the market. Await Resumption MADISON, Wis. (UPI) — State officials anxiously awaited the resumption of National Farmers Organization (NFO) demonstrations today. Two farmers died under the wheels of a truck during demonstrations earlier this week. NFO President Oren Lee Staley met with Wisconsin Gov. John W. Reynolds for six hours Friday and said he would tell demonstrators not to block roads, violate private property or disregard law officers. * But Staley withdrew the temporary moratorium that had been imposed in Wisconsin since two NFO members died at Bonduel, Wis., Thursday. Staley said it was up to the local NFO units to decide whether to demonstrate. The presidents of 12 Midwestern state farm bureau organizations asked the NFO to stop its holding action because of violence. In a joint statement Friday issued at a regional meeting at Brainerd, Minn., they said NFO officers and leadens “must accept moral responsibility for property destruction, community bitterness and tragic loss of life.”

from the car and the vehicle rolled over him. Two victims who died of earlier accidents were added to the list Friday. Mrs. Julia Burgess, 70, LaFontaine, died in an Indianapolis hospital of injuries suffered Tuesday. Glendon Silvers, 17, Bloomfield, died in Freeman -."Greene County Hospital at Linton about 14 hours after he lost control of his ear on Indiana 67 about, two miles north of Switz City.

Top Scientist Defects From Reds To U.S. WASHINGTON (UPI) -Prof. Heinz Barwich, a Stalin prizewinner and a leading atomic physicist who held top posts in Communist East Germany and Russia, has defected to the United States. The State Department disclosed Friday that Barwich is now in the United States. But the department refused to pinpoint his whereabouts or give any details of his defection. The 53-year-old Barwich is an East German who until early this year served as deputy director of the Soviet Union’s Dubna Institute, a research center used by the Russians and 11 satellite countries. An atomic energy expert in Washington said there was no doubt Barwich is “an important man.” European sources described him as a distinguished scientist, one of the few outstanding old generation physicists in East Germany. When Barwich fled to refuge earlier this month, he was serving as director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Research at Rossendorf, East Germany. Authoritative sources in Geneva reported that he asked U.S. officials for political asylum during the international atoms-for-peace conference there. He led a team of observers from his country to the conference, which ended this week. Early this year, Yuri I. Nossenko, a security officer with the Soviet delegation to the disarmament confer-i ence in Geneva, defected. He also was taken to the United States. He was reported to be one of the most valuable escapers to the West since World War 11. A State Department spokesman declined to say whether the refugee scientist would work on American nuclear projects. He also refused to indicate to what extent Barwich might might have been involved in Soviet nuclear weapons- development.

Barry Elated At Reception In Illinois WASHINGTON (UPl)—Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater, “elated” at the response to his first intensive campaign trip, made plans today for a second vote-hunting foray — this time through the once solidly Democratic South. Goldwater flew back to Washington Friday night after a day of campaigning in Illinois. In a Chicago speech before the American Political Science Association, he suggested that the Supreme Court resorted to “raw and naked power” in its decisions on state legislative reapportionment and school prayers. He coupled his comments on the hight court with criticism of “a power-wielding, arm-twisting President,” and said the use of power by whatever branch of government must be legitimate before it can be beneficial. “There has been only the most half-hearted effort, either within or without the court, to jusify these decisions (on school prayer and reapportionment) on the basis that they were within the intent of the framers' of the 14th Amendment (to the Consiution),” he said. “Insead, the decisions are defended, implicitly or explicitly, on the grounds that the results are desirable: That it really is not good for children to say prayers in school, and that it reaily is desirable to have state legislatures, in their entirety, apportioned on a one man, one yo’e basis. “Now there is raw and naked power,” Goldwater said. Zeroing in on his opponent, President Johnson, he said: “We hear praise of a powerwielding, arm-twisting President who ‘gets his program through Congress’ by knowing the use of power. “Let me remind you that there have been other such wielders of power. There have been dictators who regularly held plebiscites, in which their dictatorships were approved by an ivory soap-like percentage of the electorate. But their countries were not free, nor can any country remain free ander such despotic power.”

Division Chairmen Os Community Fund

Division chairmen for the 1964 Decatur Community Fund drive were announced this morning by Mrs. Mabel Murray, chairman of this year’s campaign. Sixteen chairmen head the various divisions of the drive and the efforts that they and their workers put forth bring them into contact with hundreds of Decatur residents. Each division chairman will now select workers to assist in putting the drive over. These chairmen and their workers will attend the Community Fund kickoff breakfast October 5, the opening day of the drive. Each division chairman has five captains and each captain has five workers, As a rule, each solicitor is responsible for only one other person, plus himself. This affords ample opportunity for the solicitors to see their assigned individuals and to talk to them about their contributions.

Johnson Inspects Hurricane Damage

WASHINGTON (UPl)—President Johnson apparently scored some political gains from his flying tour to inspect Hurricane Dora’s damage in Florida and Georgia. The Chief Executive held out hope of promppt federal aid to help Citizens in the two states rebuild their storm - shattered homes and businesses. He missed no chahce on Friday’s eight-hour trip to show his and the federal government's concern for human hardship as he surveyed coastal dama'ge. Democratic officeholders were always at his side. Johnson took time out from scrutinizing losses inflicted by Hurriqane Dora tojHtake hands with hundreds of persons who welcomed him to the Jacksonville, Fla., and Brunswick, Ga., areas Friday. Good Omen Local political leaders said a heavy turnout in the Georgia coastal city was a good omen for Johnson's chances at the polls in November in his race against Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, his Republican opponent. The outcome in Florida, which has not gone Democratic since 1948, is considered more doubtful. Yet it was obvious that the

Ship On Fire, Crew Rescued

NEW YORK (UPI) —Flames swept a Navy-chartered freighter in the Atlantic today while the ship which rescued its crewmen and a naval vessel stood by helplessly. The burning hulk of the 13,-795-ton American-owned Globe Explorer pitched on the high seas about 270 miles east of Cape Charles, Va. Most of its superstructure was reported "engulfed in .flames.” The 37-man crew of the vessel safely took to lifeboats Friday afternoon. All were picked up Friday night by the Panamanian freighter La Pintada. Coast Guard headquarters here said the La Pintada and the U. S. destroyer escort Maloy were standing near the Globe Exploree, which was under charter to the Military Sea Transportation - Service. an arm of the Navy. A Coast Guard officer said

NOON EDITION Local Man Victim In Fort Wayne Robbery Calvin W. Caston, 21, of Decatur, reported to Fort Wayne police Thursday night that he was stopped by two men while driving his car in the 1900 block of Edsall avenue, and robbed of $5 at knifepoint. Caston told police he saw two men standing in the street, waving their arms. He stopped, thinking they needed help, and one of the men pulled a knife. After taking his money, they threw his car keys into some bushes and fled. He described the men as well dressed, about six feet tall and about 26 to 28 years of age.

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The chairmen and the divisions which they will handle are: Louis Jacobs, retail A. Ferris Bower, retail B. Elmer Winteregg, Jr., retail C. Alan Zoss, retail D. Gene Rydell and Dick Schauss, industry. Dr. H. R. Frey, professional. Gail Grabill, schools. Rev. J. O. Penrod, clergy. Mrs. Laura Kohne, city offices. Ed Jaberg, county offices. H. H. Krueckeberg, special gifts. Mrs. Pearl Whetstone, out-of-town workers. Mrs. Kaye Schwartz, women’s groups. Mike Kohne, fraternal groups. John Boch, post office. Thurman Drew, hospital. The newly appointed division chairmen will meet with Mrs. Murray September 23 at 7:30 p.m. to make final plans f<#*lhe drive.

President’s inspection tour in the company of Gov. Farris Bryant and Sens. Spessard L. Holland and George A. Smathers, all Democrats, did him no harm. Clambering over muddy beaches and crumbling seawalls, Johnson saw some of the estimated $204 million damage caused by tropical storms in the two states. Brings Task Force He brought a junior - sized federal task force ■ with him to see that government aid would be forthcoming immediately to the hurricane-lashed region. Welfare Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze, Deputy Defense Sec- . retary Cyras R. Vaijce, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry and Agriculture Undersecretary Charles S. Murphy were part of the Washington delegation. They backed up Johnson's pledge, made in Jacksonville, that: "I want to reassure every property-owner and every businessman — large or small — indeed every citizen in the community ravaged by these terrible storms that the necessary steps for rapid rehabilitation are already being taken by the proper government officials...”

the stricken ship was en route from Norfolk. Va., to Holland with a cargo of coal. It was reportet still aflame shortly before dawn, he said. The Maloy was dispatched to the scene as a "safety precaution” and to aid in communications between planes and ships in the area and the shore, he said. The Coast Guard was maintaining an air surveillance of the area and a cutter was expected to reach the ship about noon today. The salvage tug Lambert Point was to arrive Sunday morning from Norfolk. Coast Guard Lt. Steve Duca, the pilot of one of four planes first dispatched to the area, said after arriving back at his base here early today that the superstucture of the 555-foot ship was “engolfed in flames” when he flew over it last night. "It was dead in the water, and the whole rear end of it was engulfed in flames, from avast of midships to the stern,” he said. “The forward part of the vessel was in pretty good shape. It was burning when I left.” Duca said that when the the Globe Explorer was sighted “right about dark,” he “put out a broadcast on an emergency frequency for any vessel in the immediate vicinity to proceed to assist the burning vessel. “Very fortunately, there was this tanker about 10 miles away. So one of the aircraft laid a line of parachute flares from the distressed vessel to the other vessel to give him a line to follow.” The Globe Explorers, owned by Bulk Ships, Inc., of New York, left Norfolk, Va., at noon Thursday for Rotterdam with a cargo of coal and coke. The Coast Guard said it sent out an SOS at 4 p.m. EDT Friday.