Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 245.

Khrushchev Out - China Fires A-Bomb

Red China Sets Off First A-Bomb; Proposes Nuclear Weapon Ban

TOKYO (UPD—Red China set off its first atomic bomb today. It then immediately proposed a world conference to ban the use of nuclear weapons. The official New China News Agency (NCNA) said the blast was set off at 3 p.m. Peking time (8 a.m. EOT). It said the bomb was exploded in the “western region of China,” but did not pinpoint the location. However, observers believed it probably was detonated somewhere in the remote regions of Sinkiang Province or Mongolia, both of which border on the Soviet Union. (A spokesman for Fordham University in New York City said the seismograph there registered what appeared to be a “very strong quake” at 3:13 a. m. (EDT) between Mongolia and the Kurile Islands north of Japan.) In a statement issued by the Red Chinese government, Peking pledged that it never would be the first to use nuclear weapons in warfare. Then it called for a world summit to ban the use of nuclear weapons , and their ultimate elimination by destruction. Through its successful test, Red China joined the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain aad Frame as the WCyld’a atomic powers. It came 17 days after Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Red China would explode a nuclear device “at any time.” But Rusk pointed out that it would be a long time between such a test explosion and Red China’s possible possession of a stockpile of such weapons with a modern delivery system. Follows Khrush’s Ouster The historic explosion came less than 24 hours after the announced ouster of Nikita S. Khrushchev as premier and Communist party leader in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev had Idd the Russian dispute with Communist China over the best ■way to pursue communism and had been instrumental in withdrawing Soviet support from the Chinese nuclear program about five years ago. NCNA boasted that the successful nuclear test was “a major achievement for the Chinese t

British Labor Party Winner

LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s Labor party won the parliamentary elections today and party chief Harold Wilson was named prime minister by Queen Elizabeth. Wilson was appointed by the Queen only minutes after Sir Alee Douglas-Home handed the British monarch his resignation as prime minister and that of his entire Conservative government. The Labor party thus returned to power after 13 years of Conservative rule. But its final margin, when all 630 results are in, was expected to be so desperately slim that speculation already was mounting Wilson might be forced to hold new Elections within a year. Drives To Palace Wilson drove to the palace from Labor party headquarters where he had awaited the summons from the Queen. With him were his wife and his 81-year-old father. They waited downstairs while Wilson was received by the Queen and, under the age-old British ceremonial, “kissed hands” on his appointment as prime minister. Wilson spent 22 minutes at the palace and then drove directly to the prime minister’s official residence at 10 Downing St. Labor had to win 316 of the 630 seats in the House of Com-

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people.” It said the best strengthened Red China’s national defense and safeguarded its motherland. It added that it also was a “major contribution . . . to the cause of world peace.” It said the success, which makes Red China the world’s fifth nuclear power, was due to the hard work of Chinese engineers, workers and techhical personnel. Probably Primitive Device The announcement of the nuclear test did not say so, but observers felt it was most probably a primitive nuclear device exploded in Sinkiang Province —which borders on the Soviet Union. The nuclear test announcement was followed by a government statement saying that Red China had been forced to build a nuclear bomb because of a “nuclear threat posed by the United States.” At about the time of the blast as reported by the New China News Agency the seismograph at Fordham University in New Ivie Talbott Dies Thursday Evening Ivie C. (Juggle) Talbott, 72, of 122 South First street, died at 7:15 o’clock Thursday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, following an illness of three years. . Mr. Talbott had retired from the Krick - Tyndall Co. after 47 years of .service. He was born in Lawrence county Aug. 9, 1892, a son of Charles and Hattie Metcalf-Talbott, and had resided in the Decatur area for the past 50 years. Mr. Talbott attended the First Church of the Nazarene. Surviving are his wife, the former Myrtle 'Martin; one sister, Mrs. Mabel King of Detroit, Mich., and two nieces. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Gillig, Doan & Sefton funeral home, with the Rev. Wilmer R. Watson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

mons to win. With the counting still incomplete, the Conservatives had won 301 seats and the Liberals, 5. Thus Labor could not mathematically hope for a majority of more than nine, if that. It was Labor’s first return to power in 13 years. Wilson plans no basic changes in British foreign policy, which will continue to be based on friendship with the United States and adherence to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations. He plans however to junk Britain’s independent supply of nuclear weapons. He will ask for more NATO say-so in U.S. nuclear strategy. Thin Margin The new House of Commons will convene Nov. 3. But Labor’s mifrgin was so thin that it was questionable how long Wilson could remain in power before being forced to call another election. Wilson had said earlier today it would be his “duty” to govern, no matter how small his majority. Cites Precedent He was simply citing a longstanding precedent in British parliamentary custom. When Sir Winston Churchill, a Conservative, won by a 17-seat margin in 1951, he said, “a majority of even one seat is enough.”

York City recorded a “very strong quake” between Mongolia and the Kurile Islands. A spokesman for the university said the initial shock occurred at 3:13 am. EDT. The government statement, which also was broadcast by NCNA, said Red China had developed its bomb to increase its “national defense capability and oppose the US. imperialist policy of nuclear blackmail and nuclear threats.” An “Inalinable Right” “To defend oneself is the inalienable right of every sovereign state,” it said. “China cannot remain idle and do nothing in the face of the ever-increasing nuclear threat posed by the United States. “China is forced to conduct nuclear tests and develop nuclear weapons.” The Red Chinese government statement said that its purpose in creating a nuclear bomb was strictly a defensive one. It added thht Peking would never be “the first to use nuclear weapons.” “The Chinese government hereby solemnly declares that China will never at any time and under any circumstances be the first tb use nuclear weapons,” it said. “The development of nuclear weapons by China is for defense and for protecting the Chinese people from the danger of the United States launching a nuclear war.” Two Youths Seized For Burglary Here A city police “stakeout” around midnight Thursday paid off with the apprehension of two 17-year-old boys, one a local resident. The two youths were apprehended by city police officer Victor Strickler as they returned to pick up the merchandise they had allegedly stolen. The Decatur youth was recently released from the state boys school, and the other 17-year-old is a Bluffton resident. Both are, now in custody of city police and' sheriff’s authorities, who are interrogating the two. It is believed that the apprehension of the two boys may clear up at least one other burglary in Adams county, and possibly some in Wells county. Find Burglary The incident that led to the capture of the youths began to unfold around 10 minutes after 10 o’clock Thursday night. Officers Strickler and Dick Mansfield were on routine patrol when they discovered a break-in at Treon’s Poultry Market, located at 651 N. 13th St. They called owner Norman Treon to the scene, and he said as far as he could determine, some beer and cigarettes had been taken by the thieves. Deputy" sheriff Harold August joined the city officers and they began a check of the other business establishments on 13th street in an attemot to see if there had been any other burglaries. Uoon checking' Adams County Trailer Sales, the officers found some beer and cigarettes and other articles stacked under a trailer on the west side of 13th street at the Trailer Sales location. Waft For Return The officers then left the scene, all but Strickler, with the articles still under the trailer. Strickler went into a trailer on the other side of the street and waited. Around midnight, the two youths came and began picking up the articles, when Strickler stepped in and took them into custody. This was around midnight. The youths, under questioning this afternoon, are being heldj on charges of burglary. —J

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a MWNfc a rx W.i I A AH# V HBi I B PREMIER AND COMMUNIST PARTY leader Nikita S. Krushchev (C) has been retired because of age and his posts have been taken oyer by first deputy Premier Alexie N. Kosygin (R) as premier and deputy patty leader Leonid I. Brezhnev (L) as leader of the Communist party. Khruschev, who was 70 years old last April 17, has been premier of the Soviet Union since June of 1957.—<UP1 Telephoto) - 1-

r. U. S., New Soviet Heads Pledge Peace

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson announced today that he and the new Soviet leadership have exchanged pledges to continue seeking •steps toward a “solid peace.” Jdhnson issued a formal statement after conferring with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on the sudden shift in the Kremlin high command and the deposing of Nikita S. Khrushchev as premier. The President, appeared before television cameras to report that Dobrynin had broughtto the White House the first message from the new Soviet government. Johnson said the message “stated the desire of the Soviet government to continue in seeking for steps toward a more solid peace.” Cole Porter Dies In Hollywood Today HOLLYWOOD (UPD — Cole Porter, an Indiana farm boy who rose to the top of America’s musical theater by writing such songs as “I Love Paris,” “Night and Day” and “Begin The Beguine,” died Tthursday night. He was 71. Death came at 11:05 p.m. (PDT) 2:05 a.m. (EDT) at St. John’s Hospital in nearby Santo Monica, where he underwent surgery last Tuesday night for removal of a kidney stone. He hacL been a patient there since , Sefl. 22. Stanley Musgrove, a spokesman for Porter, said the composer died from complications following the operation. “I was with him a few minutes before he died,” Musgrove told United Press International. “He seemed conscious, but not lucid.” Also with Porter were his valets of six years, Henry Burke and Eric Lindsay. “Mr. Porter always wanted to go that way, just like that, and that’s the way be went, suddenly,” Burke said. Musgrove said he believed that Porter stipulated in his will that he be cremated and that no funeral services be held. Porter’s gay, sophisticated lyrics and hauntingly beautiful melodies became his trademark in the Broadway era that saw the rise of such fellow composers as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart and Oscar Hammerstein. TWO SECTIONS Funeral Sunday For Young Traffic Victim Funeral services for seven-year-old David A. Brorein, who died Wednesday night of injuries susstained when he was hit by an auto in Geneva Sept. 25, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist church in Geneva. Burial will be at Buckland, O. Friends may call at the Yager - funeral home in Berne tropi 7 p.m. today until 12 noon Sunday, X when the body will be removed to - the church to lie in state until S time of the services. i

Johnson said the United States detected the explosion of a “low yield” nuclear device in western China this morning. He said there was only "limited significance” to the Chinese feat. In a quickly arrange nationwide television address, Johnson said the triggering of a nuclear device and the development of a weapons system to deliver a nuclear bomb were two entirely different things. There is “no fear H will lead immediate danger of war,” ’ Jdhnson said. But he termed it a “tragedy,” nevertheless. The Chinese people were the ones who suffered because the Communist government deprived them of a better standard of living by using “scarce resources.” Johnson said the • fact that Red China now had the capability to explode a nuclear device would not alter the United States’ commitments to the free nations of Asia. He said the U.S. “readiness to respond” to a call for help had not been diminished by the fact that Red China now became a member of the nuclear family. He also said as he has before that in the period it would take Red China to develop a nuclear

Hw ' ■ TEEN DEMS FOR BRANIGIN is the impression you get as the Adams county Teen Dem officers descend from the Teen Dem bus at Berne Thursday night. More than 91 from the various townships, towns, and cities of Adams county turned out for the planning session, getting ready for the HHH-LBJ Day in the USA which will be celebrated throughout Indiana with an unprecedented distribution of material explaining LBJ to the Hoosiers. Pictured above from left to right are: Miss Janet Winteregg, Decatur high school senior, vice-president; Miss Sandy Stucky, Berne sen- ' Ibr, secretary; Terry Winteregg, Berne freshman, treasurer; and Roger Geimer, St. Joseph’s eighth grader, president. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Fund Contributions Suggested By Table Decatur Community Fund chairman Mrs. Mabie Murray . today released a table of suggested donations which is the basis of united fund activity in a number of communities. The table lists suggested donations proportionate to the donor’s income. The amounts listed in the table are usually considered as a “fair share” donation. Hourly Income Suggested One Hour’s / Pay Per Month , Income Pledge SI.OO $12.00 1.25 15.00 1.50 18.00 1.75 21.00 2.00 {..... 24.00 2.25 ,„ 27.00 2.50 30.00 2.75 33.00 3.00 36.00 Annual Income Suggested Yearly Gift Income Pledge $3500 s2l 00 4000 24.00 4500 27.00 5000 30.00 5500 33.00 6000 36,00 6500 T 39.00 7000 42.00 Over S6OOO — In Proportion arsenal, the United St at e s would be continually increasing its own strength.

Nikita Is Out As Red Boss; No Changes

MOSCOW (UPD—The Soviet Union rushed to assure the world today that its policy of peaceful coexistence will continue without Nikita S. Khrushchev. At the same time the Soviets began a housecleaning of Khrushchev’s top aides from the government. Within hours after Khrushchev was relieved of his posts as premier and Communist party chief,, others in his “kitchen cabinet” of his trusted assdciates were reported to have suffered the same fate. The chiefs of the Soviet communications agencies were said to have been ousted. - - Khrushchev himself had not been seen nor heard from, and he was believed to be in total political disgrace or completely broken in health. To Continue Policies In its foreign relations the new government headed by Leonid I, Brezhnev as Communist party chief and Alexei N. Kosygin as premier promised to continue Khrushchev’s policies. The United States was one of the first to be reassured that there would be no change in the Russian peaceful co-exist-ence line. Soviet Ambassador Antoly F. Dobrynin made the announcement to newsmen in Washington after conferring with President Johnson. The Soviet ambassador to Japan had made the same statement •to the foreign office in Tokyo earlier. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Federenko went to see United Nations Secretary General Thant at his home in New York to inform him that the Soviet foreign policy would remain unchanged. China Nuclear Blast Explosion of Communist . China’s first nuclear device was announced today less than 24 hours after disclosure of Khrushchev’s ouster. The immediate speculation was that the test played a part in blasting Khrushchev out of office. By his vitrialic attacks on Red Chinese leaders Khrushchev apparently had gone beyond the point of no return in his relations with Red China, and the Kremlin may have decided that it would be the better part of valor to prepare for dealings with a Communist China that has a nuclear capability. So Khrushchev had to go. One by one his aides were being dismissed, informed sources said. Among the first reported to have been fired was his son-in-law, Alexei Adzhubei, who was editor of the government newspaper Izvestia. Overnight the world’s number one Communist faded into obscurity, and at least six other top government officials were reported to have been given the axe along with him. Pravda Editor Fired Editor Pavel Satyukov, editor > of the Communist party newspaper Pravda, and Mikhail |- Kharlamov, chairman of thefState Television Committee, were reported to be among them. The cleaning out of Khru-|« shchev lieutenants was under-2 taken by the country’s newjj leaders—Leonoid I. Brezhnev, g Commpnist party chief, andfs Alexei N. Kosygin, premier. The successors promised to 5 continue Khrushchev’s policies, |

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including peaceful co-existence with the West, a hard line toward Peking, and a better life at home. In a call on the Japanese foreign minister in Tokyo Soviet ambassador to Japan Vladimir M. Vinogradov gave assurances of a continuance of the peaceful co - existence program. A Foreign Office spokesman in Tokyo said Vinogradov emphasized that Russia would seek peaceful settlement of international disputes. Paying The Price The aides being dismissed were paying the price for being too close to a Kremlin leader who lost his job for reasons of health and politics, the sources said. At 70, Khrushchev was considered an unsteady hand at the helm of power. Other Khrushchev cronies reported to have been fired in-, eluded: —Oleg Troyanovsky, Khrushchev's private secretary and adviser .on American affairs. —Vladimir Lebedev, a former journalist who was chief of the premier’s research staff. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. A little cooler- southeast tonight, a little warmer south Saturday. Low tonight in the 40s. High Saturday mostly tai the 70s. Sunset today 6:05 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:57 a m. Outlook for Bunday: Fair with little temperature change. Radio Station Head Is Rotary Speaker Joe Klarke, manager of radio station WADM, entertained the Decatur Rotary Club last night with a rapid-fire talk about Decatur's new station and then introduced two of his colleagues. Louis Van Poppel, WADM sales manager and farm director, said he enjoys living in Decatur. He explained that he had been in the feed business. A fire ruined that business and Van Poppel began working for Joe Klarke at Bryan, O. He is a 1952 graduate of the Reppert auction school. Van Poppel said that agriculture is an important part of the economy of Adams county which accounts for over twelve million dollars annually; so the local station felt it should emphasize farm programs. Ted Covert who is announcer at the station, began in radio about 15 years ago. He enjoys a reputation as a country music entertainer. Klarke mentioned that his station plans to rebroadcast many area basketball games this season. He also said that there was a possibly of an FM station which could broadcast after sundown. Mike Reynolds, son of Mr. . and Mrs. Pete Reynolds, and _ Dave Braun, son of Mr. and Mrs. - Carl Braun, were the high school guests at last night’s meet- * ing. ; President Lowell Harper said ; that the Rotary district governor j will make his annual visit to the S Decatur club Nov. 5. All comIfnittee chairmen were urged to prepare their reports by next Tuesday.