Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 280.

Find Bodies Os 28 More White Persons Slain By Congolese Rebels Today

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPl)—White mercenary troops who drove rebels from the left °bank of the Congo River at Stanleyville today were reported to have found the bodies of 28 more whites massacerd by Congolese rebels. Reliable reports from Stanleyville sajd the mercenary task force found the bodies inside a church and that most of them were believed to be nuns and priests. The mercenaries also rescued eight white survivors. The reports said these included two men, two women and four children. The word of the new killings In-ought to 49 the number of whites reported slain by rebels in Stanleyville since Belgian paratroopers began a rescue mission Tuesday. In addition, 20 other whites were reported slain in Paulis and an unconfirmed 13 others in Wamba, for a possible total of 82 deaths in the rebel area. Diehard rebels stiffened thenopposition to government efforts aimed at crushing the leftist insurgency. A fierce battle local Restaurant Is Burglarized Os $475 An as yet unidentified burglar was counting his blessings Thanksgiving Day — his stolen blessings, anyway. Sometime early Thursday, Thanksgiving Day morning, the burglar forced his way into the Fairway Restaurant and made off with a total of $475 in cash. Mrs. Florence Engle, a Fairway employe, discovered the theft around 4:30 a. m. Thursday, reporting it to the police at 4:58 a. m. Mrs. Engle had found the front, door of the Fairway forced open when she came to work at that time. Upon investigating, city police discovered the front door had been forced open with what was believed to be a tire iron or a pry bar, as several large pry marks were found on the door. Upon arriving at the scene, the police thoroughly checked the restaurant, but found no one inside. Owner Cletus Miller was called to make an inventory of the loss. Miller said $235 had been taken from a cash register in the front dining room, although the loose change in the same register was left alone. Another $133 was taken from a cash register inthe Back Forty portion of the restaurant, and still another $5 was stalen from a money jar. Miller later informed police another $32 was missing, making the total loss $475. City police are continuing the investigation today.

Holiday Death Toll Nearing 300 Mark

By United Press International The accidental death toll moved toward 300 today on the third day of the long Thanksgiving weekend. Traffic accidents caused most of the .dea’hs. The worst was a two-vehicle accident near Olanta, S.C., that killed eight persons including six members of one family. There were no survivors. The United Press International count at 11:30 a.m. EST showed 276 people had suffered accidental death including 220 in traffic accidents. The breakdown: ’ Traffic 220 ■ 1 (

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was reported for control of Stanleyville. The rebels were apparently prepared to fight to the last man. Identify Americans The five missing Americans were identified only as Mrs. F.J. Gunningham and her two children, W. McChesney and Miss A. Chansler. Officials said all five were connected with the “Heart Os Africa’’ mission which has headquarters in Fort Washington, Pa. (Box A). (In Fort Washington, a spokesman for the mission today identified the five as Mrs. F.J. Gunningham, a former resident of the state of Washington, and her two children; William McChesney of Phoenix, Ariz., and Agnes Chansler, 63, a veteran missionary worker in the Congo from California. (The mission is sponsored by the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade in Fort Washington. (The Gunninghams were stationed at Malingwia, a mission outpost 250 miles north of Ibangi. (Miss Chansler, who has been in missionary work in the Congo for about 35 years, was doing general missionary work a* the mission station at Egbita, 45 miles north of Ibangi. (McChesney went to Africa •about four years ago. (The spokesman said they had not heard from the five since Juiy 30.) The rebellion appeared to be far from over. No Man’s Land Reports from Stanleyville said most of the city was a "no man’s land” with neither the rebels nor the white mer-cenary-led Congolese army in control. “If you walk in the streets you are liable to get a bullet in the head,” one government soldier was quoted as saying. Government forces controlled the airport but the rebels were en'renched on the left bank of the Congo River. They were armed with mortars and machineguns. An attempt by Congolese army troops to cross the river was reported to have been repulsed. Observers said rebel leaders would mobilize their fanatical followers to keep them fighting to the last man. “There is one mile around the post office in the center of Stanleyville that is safe,” Col. Jeremiah Puren, a white mercenary, reported from the former capital of the 1 rebel empire. “The rest is in big trouble.” Rebels Retake Town Unconfirmed reports reaching here said o'her rebels re-cap-tured the town of Punia, 300 miles south of Stanleyville. It was taken by government forces a week ago but no guard was left behind, it was reported. Some of the rebel-held hostages, including the five Americans, were believed captives in the eastern Congo towns of Bunia and Wamba. There were no announced plans for paratroopers to rescue them.

Fires 18 Planes 6 Miscellaneous 32 Total 276 New York led the nation with 21 traffic deaths, followed by Texas with 19 and California with 12. In South Dakota, Harlan T. Palmer, 39, secretary of the state Public Utilities Commission, was killed when his car struck a train to. set an alltime toll of 249 for one year. In New Jersey, four persons, including David Down, 48, vice president of Airway Corp., were killed when their single engine plane crashed in a rainstorm at Millville.

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Hilty Child Sixth Traffic Fatality

Adams county’s traffic fatali-e ties doubled over the 1963 toll— p with a month still remaining in! 1964—with the death of an infant! Amish girl Wednesday afternoon.L Margaret Hilty, four-month-oldg daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ElmerE iHilty, route 2, Berne, was pro-T nounced dead on arrival at they Parkview memorial hospital ini Fort Wayne where she was taken! shortly after the Wednesday after-L noon crash. Ki The fatal mishap occurred on ft the Tile Mill road, county road 33,-1 at 2:45 p. m. Wednesday. Death* I was believed caused by a frac-g tured skull. Funeral services for the infantg were held at 1 o’clock this noon at the Hilty home, located!; four miles north of Berne. was in the Schwartz cemetery. Auto Strikes Buggy The accident victim was riding? in 3, buggy with her mother and£ father when the horse-drawn ve—hide was struck in the rear by* an automobile driven by Regina i A. Steiner, 24-year-old resident of route 1, Berne. Hilty suffered cuts and bruises ", in the crash, and his wife, 26- ~ year-old Lydia, received a scalp"h laceration, a sprained right ankle® and multiple bruises. - All three were rushed to the* office of a Berne physician im-® mediately after the crash. The,parents were treated there and the baby was transferred to Park-^ 1 view hospital, but died enroute. L The mishap occurred as the j buggy was traveling south on the* Tile Mill road. Mrs. Steiner wasalso southbound and ttpe buggy from the rear. She was starting to pass theffl buggy and thought an northbound auto, operatedl by*;

INDIANA WEATHER • Cloudy with occasional rain . beginning this afternoon and n continuing tonight. Warmer ! tonight with southeasterly * winds 15 to 25 miles per hour. s Saturday cloudy with rain | ending during the day, poo- ; sibly becoming mixed with j snow in northwest portion j Saturday morning. Turning ! colder Saturday afternoon. Low tonight ranging from ; mid 30s north to lower 46s = south. High Saturday 37 to 44 north, 44 to 56 south. Sunset 1 today 5:23 p.m. Sunrise Sat- ' day 7:44 ajn. Outlook for : Sunday: Mostly cloudy and j moderately cold. Lews ranging from low 26s north io ; low 36s south. Highs 38 to 48. I

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■ Charles Minch of 128 N. Third 9 St., Decatur, would clear the ■ buggy in time for her to pass. B She apparently misjudged the i other auto’s sp>eed, however, and | was unable to pass, and her auto B crashed into the rear of the Hilty buggy. jg Total Loss |j As she saw she would be unabie 1 ■ to pass, she applied the brakes LI and the auto slid some 94 feet before striking the buggy. The bugi; gy was totally demolished, while V the car received SSO damage. * No charges were filed as the a case is being turned over to the ’ grand jury, now in session, for ? investigation. State trooper Dan J; Kwasneski, along with deputy i Warren Kneuss, investigated the !■> fatal crash. ~ Six Deaths With slightly more than a 4 month remaining in 1964, Adams,, t county’s traffic death toll has already doubled over last year... > The death of the Hilty infant was? ■ _ * Jacob Keiper Dies ■■ Wednesday Evening ; if. B Jacob Keiper, 79, a resident of| " the Adams county home since | B 1955, died at 8:30 p.m. Wednes-B [J day at the South View rest home £ ’at Bluffton. He was born inS ■ Union townshio Feb. 13, 1885 S l( There are no known survivors. « 4 Funeral services will be con--s ducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at- " the chapel at the Adams countyt! home, with the Rev. William - jj C. Feller officiating. Burial will--be in the Ray cemetery. The - L body was removed to the Winter- * egg - Linn funeral home where’? > friends may call after 7 p.m. to-S ■ day. , ■ £

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the sixth to occur in this county this year, as compared to just three last year. Sheriff Roger Singleton said this morning that traffic accidents in Adams county are also “up” from last year, as of November 1. In the first 11 months of 1963, there were 173 traffic accidents on county highways and roads, as compared to 217 prior to November 1 of this year. The sheriff added that part of this was due to an increased number of motor vehicles in ; the county. Decatur alone has about 300 more vehicles registered this year than last, and the sheriff estimated that registration in the rest of the county has probably increased by another 200 or so. Grand Jurors Back Jn Session Today V After a day off for Thanksgiv£ing Thursday, the grand jury of November term of the Adams court reconvened today. The casgPof the traffic accident J;that claimed the life of an Amish £ infant Wednesday has been tumSed over to the grand jury for its 1 investigation. Also submitted to B the grand jury for investigation 8 was the September 25 mishap in ""Geneva that claimed the life of 2 seven-year-old David Brorein. « a Fund To = End Drive Saturday - Decatur Community Fund * chairman Mrs. Mabel Murray - said this morning that she ex- ? pects the drive to close Saturday, a Mrs. Murray is completing final 5 tabulations and mop-up work toil day. -

Steel Union's Wage Policy Group Meets . PITTSBURGH (UPI) —Wages . . .cost of living. . .pensions . . .grievance procedures. . . These will be much-heard words come next Wednesday when the United Steelworkers* (USW) Wage Policy Committee begins a two-day meeting.to set guidelines for expected contract talks with the basic steel industry early next year. The struggle for power between incumbent USW President David J. McDonald and-Secretary-Treasurer I. W. Abel for the union’s top post in next February’s election will introduce another word to next week's proceedings — politics. Somehow it encompasses all the others. The cries of dissatisfaction with the present contract are many; most include a denunciation of McDonald. Few are heard in defense of the silverhaired USW chief. Donald C. Rarick, a McKeesport, Pa., steelworker who made a surprisingly strong showing against McDonald in a 1957 bid for the presidency, said: Good Contract A Must "You can say bye-bye Davy, if this contract isn’t the best ever negotiated by a labor leader.” Where does the dissatisfaction lie? Chiefly in the following areas: Wage£: the rank-and-file workers have had no hourly boost since Dec. 1, 1960, when they received 9.4 cents an hour won in the 1959 settlement of a 116-day strike. The Wage Policy Committee (WPC) is expected to press for a 15-cent across the board hike. This would come- near the figure won by the United Auto Workers in their recent thr.eeyear contract with the automobile industry. The UAW settlement, which included some hefty fringe benefits, ran above the non-inflationary guidelines set up by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Cost of living: one union source said “feeling on this issue is unusually strong despite the lack of publicity it has received.” The USW negotiators agreed to freeze an 18%-cent-an-hour cost of living allowance Tn the 1959 pact. Opponents counter that this ■ move is now costing each steelworKpr 18% cents an hour. They want the freeze thawed and want the current 18% cents made a permanent part of the hourly wage. Pensions Big Issue Pensions: increased pensions and hospitalization programs for pensioners are not solely the concern of the older workers, as one might suspect: The younger millworkers realize that if pensions were made more attractive ' and the retirement age lowered, there would be morejob security for them. Grievance procedures: “Settlement of union grievances is dong with about the same speed that* the states are carrying out the Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation order," one union leader said. This certainly is exaggeraged but it is a fact that two years is not an uncommon wait before grievances are resolved. Charges are heard that McDonald personally ignored these local grievances, and often dispatched Abel to smooth over the differences. One union leader said,, flatly that it is these visits by Able that will unseat McDonald in next February’s election. The WPC meeting next week predictably will inform the steel companies that the USW wishes reopening talks after the first of the year on a new labor contract. A May 1 strike is possible if no agreement is reached.

Auditor-Elect Plans No Early Changes Adams county audi\>r-elect Lee Neuen, the only victorious Republican in the county election, said this morning that “for the time being” he does not intend to make any changes in the auditor’s office personnel. Neuen said that he believed it wise to keep “experienced help” in the office, at least until he has had time to familiarize himself with the job. He has been making regular visits to the auditor’s office and has already attended one meeting of the state association of county auditors. He plans to attend an Indianapolis meeting of the association in December.

19 Killed As Ships Collide

NEW YORK (UPI) — The mystery of how the Israeli liner Shajom and the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali, both equipped with radar, could have collided will be explored by a bi-nation admiralty court, it was learned today. The pride of the Israeli merchant fleet knifed through the Stolt Dagali in darkness and fog early Thursday off the New Jersey coast, sending the tanker's aft section to the bottom. The 300-foot bow section was taken in tow by a tug for eventual salvage. . Israeli and Norwegian officials were expected to confer shortly to set up an investigatory court to determine responsibility for the tragedy which claimed 19 lives aboard the Stolt Dagali. Thirteen bodies are accounted for and Ihe Coast Guard called off an unsuccessful* search of the Atlantic for six missing men at midmorning. • Major Sea Disaster Twenty-four tanker crewmen survived the worst northeast coast marine disaster since the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956. Only one of the 1075 holiday-bound passengers and crew of the Shalom was injured. The collision took place in international waters 25 miles southeast of Asbury Park, N.J., so that the United States has no jurisdiction in the case. Israel took the initiative Thursday in inviting the Norwegian government to coope.rate in establishing an admiralty court to hear testimony on the navigating errors—human or mechanical—which put the ships on collision, Course. The hearing probably- will be in New York, also scene of the pre-trial hearings which led to an out-of-court settlement of damages in the Andrea DoriaStockholm • collision.

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Second Mars Probe Launch Postponed

By AL ROSSITER Jr. United Press International CAPE KENNEDY (UPD—The United States today postponed an at'empt to launch its second Mariner Mars probe because of troubles within the delicate picture-taking spacecraft. A space agency spokesman said Mariner-4’s problem, which cropped ~up one hour before launch, was not immediately known. A new launch date was not immediately set. The ' deadline for rocketing a probe to Mars this year is Dec. 9. After that date, the space agency would either have to cancel the shot or wait until Mars again moves * into shooting range in December, 1966. The first U.S. Mars shot failed shortly after launch Nov. 5 when the nose cover over the Mariner-3 spacecraft failed to jettison as planned. A new metal cover was built and installed on Marfner-4. Today’s launch attempt was first set back two hours by a cable in the nose cope’s Separation mechanism that was not, properly seated. Scientists finally decided that the cable wo.uld not affect the launch. A few minutes later, the spacecraft trouble develope and the shot was postponed. Mariner-4 was programmed to swoop within 10,000 miles of

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Gave Incorrect Position One of the questions which will undoubtedly arise at the hearing is why the Shalom radio gave an incorrect position for the liner in its SOS. The Coast Guard said the longitude was almost correct but the latitude given would have plcaed the Shalom 15 miles north of its actual position on impact. A Coast Guard spokesman said the Stolt Dagali gave the correct position in its distress messages. Another crucial question is why radar—the most up-to-date in the world in the case of the nine-month-old Shalom — did not prevent collision. It is a well-known fact, underscored by testimony at previous maritime disaster hearings, that radar cannot insure against accidents at sea unless navigators plot the position of images seen on their screens. Coast Guard experts said many navigators are lazy about making these computations and use radar only as a visual aid. The accident ended a 10% day Thanksgiving cruise to the Caribbean for those aboard the Shalom within four hours after it began. But most of the passengers were thankful to walk off the ship safe and sound when it returned here Thursday afternoon. An injured crew woman, Mrs. Marge Postalico of Haifa, Israel, was reported in good condition at a New Jersey hospital where she was treated for injuries caused by the slamming of a door at the time of impact. .

Enters Guilty Plea To Shotgun Theft Talmadge Festes Smith, 36, of Fort Wayne, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of theft in the Adams circuit court Wednesday afternoon. Smith is charged with the theft of a shotgun from the Myers Firestone store in this city Saturday, November 7, and has been held in the county jail under SI,OOO bond since that time. His attorney, Robert S. Anderson, appointed as Smith’s pauper defense, presented evidence in mitigation Wednesday afternoon after the guilty plea was entered. Testifying were Mrs. Carl Drake, a neighbor of Smith in Fort Wayne, Smith’s wife, chief of police Grover Odle, and Smith himself. Odle testified that Smith cooperated with officers during the investigation and willfully turned the shotgun over to them. Judge Parrish is expected to hand down sentence within the next few days.

the red planet next July 15. It is designed to snap 22 pictures during its brief glimpse of Mars and make important scientific measurements. The United States scored the world’s first planetary success two years ago when its Marin-er-2 passed Venus. That shot also v followed an unsuccessful Mariner launch. American space officials believe the Soviet Union, which has already had an estimated dozen space probe failures, is also planning to launch Mars explorers' during the 1964 launch period. Besides its lone television ~,«amera, Mariner-4 carries instruments to map radiation, space dust and magnetic forces near the planet and during the craft’s long journey in interplanetary space. ° Only 3 More Days To Give A Present SHAREJOUR CHRISTMAS WITH A MENTAL PATIENT