Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 281.

Russian And African Mobs Storm American, British, Belgian Embassies Today

Holiday Death Toll On Roads At 300 Mark By United Press International The Thanksgiving. weekend death toll from highway accidents reached 300 today as the long holiday moved into its second half. The final two days were considered critical. Accidents, particularly on the - highway, tend to shoot upward with travelers anxious to return home. Fires, airplane crashes and other accidents claimed more lives. The United Press International tabulation of total accidental deaths moved toward 400. The breakdown at 8:30 a.m. EST: Traffic 300 Fires 19 Planes 18 Miscellaneous 49 ' Total 386 Texas led the nation with 23 traffic Heaths. New York and California reported 21 each.

if 1 ’’“’■b •■tA*^-’ 1 - '--■M" jS ' ■> ■ ■ ■'<?•' i- ' i,?j i .>iS'??,. TICKETS GALORE— Ticket committee members for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus train prepare the packets of tickets which will be" distributed to the 100 Chamber of Commerce members participating in the event. Left to right, Ferris Bower, Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, W. Guy Brown and Mrs. Jack Harker.—(Photo by Mac Lean) - -'I '

Santa Claus Train Tickets Tuesday

■ticket distribution for the eighth annual Decatur Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus train will begin Tuesday morning as more than 100 chamber members* begin offering tickets to their patrons. Mor? than 3,000 area children are expected to make the 45minute ride with Santa on one ot the three Erie railroad trips scheduled for Saturday, December 5. Bozo the clown, who joined the cavalcade last year, is alsb expected to be on hand for the Decatur to Ohio City round trips. Hie Erie’s Decatur agent, W. M. Bumgerdner, has told chamber officials that the Decatur trip is the only Santa Claus ride being offered on the Erie line this The 100 participating Chamber of Commerce members will receive their tickets Monday and will offer them tor distribution Ttesday. ' Adults interested 4n accompanying children cm the trip

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Twelve men on a routine ice reconnaissance mission in western Alaska were killed when their Navy patrol plane crashed into a hill. At Woonsocket, R. 1., police reported that 30 motorists passed a gravely injured hit-and-run victim Without offering aid on Thanksgiving day. An ill-temperated motorist was still being sought today by Philadelphia police who said he shot a man and a boy when the man criticized the motorist's driving. A man, home for the holidays, was killed with his elderly step parents Friday when their car collided with a truck near Manchester, Ky. Four were killed and one injured in a two-car collision Friday at Portland, Ore. Five died in* a fire which destroyed their Lubbock, Tex., home. At Corpus Christi, Tex., health authorities were analyzing food samples to determine what caused the food poisoning Thanksgiving Day of more than 60 persons, 22 -of whom were hospitalized. A teen - age San Francisco mo her faced charges of abandoning her four-months-old child pn Thanksgiving Day.

may purchase tickets at the Chamber of Commerce office tor 11. e ..__Ticket chairman Fevris Bower said this morning that area residents should remember that downtown merchants usually run out of tickets first. He said that many tickets . will also be available from merchants and manufacturers in the outlying business 'areas. Bower also said that each child who receives a ticket will be asked to Write his age on the back. Tickets must be picked up by adults. 50 Tickets Each Each participating merchant will have 50 tickets to distribute for the trip. Each ticket will be marked for one of the three train trips. Departure times for the train rides are 10 a.m., 1:30 p m. and 4 p.m. More than 1,100 children are expected on each train. An advertisement listing the names of the participating chamber members appeared in Wed- : „<W ■

MOSCOW (UPI) - Howlir 6 , rock-throwing Russians and Africans s ormed the American, British and Belgian embassies today and broke into the Congo Embassy. Russian mounted police charges dispersed the mobs. The screaming rioters — protesting thjs week’s U.S.-Belgian Congo rescue operation — smashed windows and stormed the gates of the American and Belgian embassies, broke briefly into the Congo Embassy and then stormed toward the British Embassy across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. “Yankees go to hell” and “death to the imperialists” screamed the demonstrators driven off from the U. S. and Belgian embassies by Moscow mounted police. The demonstrators smashed every front window in the American and Belgian embassies but failed to break through INDIANA WEATHER Windy and turning colder today. Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Sunday. Low tonight in the 20s north, low 30s south. High Sunday in low 30s north, low 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy to Howdy with little temperature change. Brief period of rain south and snow north.

nesday’s Decatur Daily Democrat. Members of the Delta Theta Tau sorority, aided by Girl Scouts and high school girls, will sell pop corn on all cars’ of the three trains. Proceeds of the popcorn sale support the sorority’s Good Fellows Christmas project, which aids needy area families. A mimeographed Christmas newspaper, published by the Chamber of Commerce and "editor” Roy Kalver, will be distributed to children making the free trip. A registered nurse and Red Cross assistants will be present on each train. Members of th? Decatur police force will heln handle the large crowds expected at the Decatur Erie railrnM station. Local Boy Scouts will help clean the train after each trin. Santa Claus, who will arrive from his North ’’ole h-ad^'ari****, tor the trip, will make his way through the entire train and talk with the children making the trip.

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their iron gates. before the horsemen and dashed to the Congolese Embassy where they scrambled over the fence, scaled a balcony and broke in through a plate glass window. Tass Touches Lightly Tass, the Soviet News Agency, reported briefly that “foreign students approached the building of the U.S. Embassy.” It called the protest a “spontaneous demonstration.” Russian police, at first gentle with the demonstrators who had burned one American automobile and chanted “assassins .. . assassins . ..”, threw rioters off the 15-foot balcony •at the Congo Embassy and hurled others from the embassy garage. “On to the British Embassy! On to the British! screamed the demonstration leaders outside the Congo Embassy. The mob dashed down the street to the British Embassy, already guarded by mounted police and five truck-loads of foot police. Form Living Barricade The screaming demonstrators charged a dozen mounted policemen in front of the embassy. Sixty policemen formed a living barricade in front of the gates.

Mariner Fired On Mars Probe

CAPE KENNEDY (UPD— The United States today launched a Mariner - 4 camera probe on the first leg of a IVi month voyage to inspect Mars and i‘s puzzling “canals.” The spacecraft, with its battery of electronic eyes and sensors, is America’s last hope to explore the planet before 1966. Its predecessor failed on an identical picture-taking mission 23 days ago. Besides producing the first closeup pictures of. Mars, the pioneering probe is expected to make studies vital to U.S. plans to land robots in 1969 on the planet, which scientists feel is the most likely to harbor life. Mariner-4, launched at 9:22 a.m. EST after a flawless coun down was first aimed toward an earth orbit and when its Agena upper Stage coasts into position 32 minute later over the Indian Ocean, it will act as a flying launch platform to rocket Mariner on its curving, 325-million mile course to Mars. If all goes well, the probe will swoop within 7,000 to 10,000 miles of Mars next July 14. Its camera will peer through the thin Martian atmosphere to snap 22 pictures while its scientific instruments try to unlock some of the secrets of the planet. The windmill - shaped probe, wearing a new metal nose cover in place of the fibreglass shroud that ruined the Mariner -3, launched Nov. 5, raced into the sky atop an Atlas - Agena rocket. TTie shot had been postponed from Friday because of

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: "My Work Is Through AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE For Another Year. B Qy SCOUTS Today's Decatur Com- GIRL SCOUTS munity Fund Total Is CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. $931.15 Over The LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES $29,834 Goal. My g g q Thanks To All Os You SALVATION ARMY For Supporting Th' MENTAL HEALTH Ton Community Fund 1 COMMUNITY CENTER Charities." z AMERICAN RED CROSS ---—Rhe Tbs Wd W< -

Behind the mob lay a trail of rubble and minor destruction. There were no reported injuries. Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy used trucks to block the gates against the horde. puring the 15-minute siege of the U.S. Embassy—the first hit . by the demonstrators — .U.S. Minister Walter Stoessel, in charge during the absence in Washington of Ambassador Foy D. Kohler, telephoned the Soviet Foreign Office and lodged a "strong” protest. He said the Russians would be held responsible for damage. Safety Guaranteed A foreign ministry spokesman said the government would guarantee the safe'y of the embassy. The mob burned a sedan owned by the New York Times which was parked in front of the embassy. After breaking the windows and smearing ink on the walls of the U.S. building, the rioters trooped six abreast to the Belgian Embassy. There they smashed more than 50 windows and hung up large portraits of slain Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba —whose slaying inspired attacks on the Belgian and American embassies in 1961.

radio trouble. , About 4 minutes after the Atlas booster climbed into the partly cloudy sky on a bright column of flame, a space agency spokesman said “everything looks good at this time.” Today’s launch climaxed an unprecedented effort to salvage the sll2 million program that appeared in danger of being canceled after the Mariner - 3 disaster. An around-the-clock effort to solve the problem before the Dec. 9 launch deadline produced the stronger metal cover that was installed over Mariner4. After Dec. 9, Mars moves out of shooting range until December, 1966. The long-awaited launch attempt Friday was halted one hour before liftoff by troubles that appeared to be in the spacecraft’s radio system that will receive crucial flight commands after launch. Scientists, used to making last-minute decisions, ..decided Friday night that the radio problem_was the result of a minor drop in signal strength in ground gear and would not affect the flight. The United States scored the world’s first planet fly-by two years ago when its Mariner-2 passed Venus and reported that it was unlikely the hot planet could support life. Mariner-1 blew up during launch in July, 1962. Besides its telescope-equipped camera, Mariner-4 carries instruments designed to map radiation, space dust and magnetic forces near Mars and to chart interplanetary space for future voyages.

Only 2 More Days To Give A Present • » Usl * 3 " Hff,. SHARE YOUR CHRISTMAS WITH A MENTAL PATIENT To Attend Parley On Assembly Problems State representative Burl Johnson received a personal call from Governor-elect Roger Branigin Friday inviting him to a noon luncheon Monday op legislative problems, Johpson announced Friday afternoon. Johnson plans to leave early Monday to attend the meeting, and will stay over most of the week to attend the three-day prelegislative session with John A. Hatchett, budget director. • Johnson is quite interested in Branigin's proposed program, as well as in the proposed budget for the 53 state agencies, and plans a number of personal conferences with the leadership of the new legisfature to protect the interests of the people of Adams and Wells counties. This is just one of a number of special meetings that Johnson will attend for which he receives neither remuneration or mileage, but he points out that he is more than happy to do it to assure the best possible representation for local people in their state legislature. The Indianapolis Athletic club, where the noon luncheon will be held, is a long-time Democratic meeting place, where for more than 30 years Democratic strategy has been worked out in long hours of consultation among Democratic leaders, Johnson added.

To Turn Christmas Lights On Tonight The Christmas lighting in the downtown area will go on in full force this evening, according to an announcement this mom- - ing by Paul Strickler, chairman of the lighting project for the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Strickler said the retail division had been hoping to have both the downtown and 13th street areas strung with the lights and turned on at the same time. Today’s rain ended those hopes, however, and the retail division decided to go ahead tonight and throw the switch on the lighting in the Second street area. According to Strickler, stringing on the 13th street lights hasn’t started as yet, but weather permiting, they will go up the first of next week and be turned on Wednesday night. R. E. Gantz of Decatur is putting up the lights and decorations for the retail* division. Many new lights and decorations have been purchased by the retail division, through funds raised at the second annual horse show this summer. Congo Rebel Head Flees Info Sudan KHARTOUM, Sudan (UPD— Congo rebel “president” Christophe Gbenye fled the Congo into the Sudan today, a provincial governor announced. Ahmad Hassan, governor of Equatorial Province, said Gbenye and his top "general,". Nicholas Olenga, had arrived in Juba, in the Sou’hern Sudan. • The Middle East News Agency from Cairo that Gaston Soumialot and Pierre Mulele, other rebel leaders, also fled to the Sudani. Hassan said the rebel leaders entered the Sudan after Belgian paratroopers, white mercenaries and the Congo armv entered their capital of Stanleyville. Medical care is being given to rebel refugees, Hassan said. He said he was waiting for instructions from Khartoum on whether to hold the refugees in the Equatorial Province or send them to Khartoum. (Mena said the Sudanese government was discussing the Congo situation "prior' to adopting necessary measures.”)

" 1 — Community Fund Is Well Over Top

A $1,600 donation by the personnel of the North Adams community schools system this morning put the 1964 Decatur Community Fund drive soaring $931.15 over its $29,834 goal. The local school system's portion of the fund drive was headed by North Adams community schools superintendent Gail Grabill, who contacted staff members in each of the five Schools of the. system. Assisting Grabill in the work of contacting the teachers and employed of the system were the five school principals, Hugh J. Andrews at Decatur high school, John McConaha at Monmouth, Floyd Reed at Northwest, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., at Lincoln and Sylvester Everhart at-Southeast. The 1964 drive opened only eight weeks ago with a kickoff breakfast on October 5, and since that time Community Fund solicitors, captains and division chairmen, led by drive chairman Mabie Murray and vice-chairmen Norm Steury and Ted Hill, have worked at contacting the hundreds of donors who contributed to this year's drive. Kickoff Oct. 5 Division chairmen and captains attending the breakfast heard a short talk by Tom Witherspoon, editor of the Portland Commer-cial-Review and publicity chairman of the Jay county United Fund drive. Witherspoon stressed the importance of a positive approach in the work of soliciting. Soliciations.of Decatur business and professional people began immediately after the breakfast, with captains and solicitors working from previously-prepared lists of last year’s donors. * - Preparations for the drive had been underway since August, with c Mrs. Murray, Steury and Hill C handling the mountain of correspondence and arrangements which t- precede each year’s drive. £ The Citizens Telephone com- " pany building was headquarters “for this year’s drive. It was a ? drop-off point and clearing house ? for the contributions delivered by the drive’s 13 division chairmen. In the first week of the drive the building was open at night and

Belgians Pull Out Os Congo

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congofl (UPI) — Belgian paratroops E pulled out of the northeastern | Congo today, leaving perhaps E as many as 1,000 whites unac-E counted for in rebel-held terri-| tory. About 60 U.S., British and? Canadian missionaries in jungle ’ villages around Stanleyville and * Paulis-*-cities where Corrimunist backed rebels massacred white • hostages this week—w ere among those whose fate is unknown. Most of the others are Belgians settled in small towns and villages. Two Americans had been reported killed by the rebels. Alfred Larson of Brooklyn, a spokesman for the Unevangelized Fields Mission of Philadelphia, added a third name to the list of American dead ..today. Killed By Rebels Larson said Bill Scholton, a Floridian, was beaten to death by rebels in Stanleyville. - Premier Moise Tshombe’s white-led forces appeared to be gaining in the battle for Stanleyville, the rebel "capital.” but there were some indications the Communist - backed insurgents might be regrouping in the jungle for renewed assaults on key cities. Rebel "President” Christophe Gbenye and his chief aides still were at large and it was believed they might be reorganizing their forces. Tshombe was reported preparing to fly to Paris for talks with President Charles de Gaulle before going on to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly session that opens Tuesday. Rescue Operation Ends The paratroop rescue operation officially ended Friday after an estimated 1,800 whites had been flown out of the revolttorn territory. American planes wete ferrying the Belgians to Kamina in Katanga Province. Latest reports estimated the

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Mrs. Murray served coffee to the chairmen as they delivered their reports. Thanks From Chairmen Commenting on the success of the drive, Mrs. Murray said this morning, “I wish to thank each and every one who has given so generously, including those who have given so much time in the work of the drive — the division chairmen, their workers and my two co-chairmen. Norm Steury and Ted Hill. They have all done a tremendous job.’ She expressed special gratitude to the Central Soya and General Electric companies, both of which contributed more than $5,000. These donations were combined totals of employe and company gifts. The chairmen and their divisions 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. Virginia Houk, 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 and special assignments; Thurman Drew, hospital. Division Totals The record of contributions in the 1964 drive, by divisions, is as follows; Retail A $ 961.20 Retail B 3,058.25 .Retail C 996.50 Retail D „ 1,148.70 Industry ... 18,692.09 Professional — 1,045.00 Schools 1,627.00 Clergy ’ 159.50 City Offices 216 00 County Offices --— 243.00 Special Gifts — 1,750.98 Out-of-town Groups 160.43 Women's Groups —— 307.00 Fraternal Groups 161.50 Post Office 116.00 Hospital 122.00 NOON EDITION

’f U.S.-Balgian rescue mission R failed to save" the lives of 96 B white hostages—most of them g victims of-massacres in Stanley- * villi*, Paulis and Wamba. £ The worst orgy of murder—in j which 28 whites died—was disI covered Friday when white ‘ shock troops launched an attack *on rebel guerrillas on the left bank of the Congo River. When the white assault force drove across the river-r-which runs through the heart of Stanleyville—they found the bodies of 28 whites in a church. Survivors Tell Story Five survivors of that massacre flown back to Leopoldville Friday night said rebels killed the 28 by cutting their throats and then mutilated the bodies. One of the survivors, Camille Borry, said they bought their lives by bribing the rebels with beer. "We had a large stock of beer and, incredibly, enough of it saved us,” Borry said. Reliable sources said 35 o’her hostages, were killed in Stanleyville during the week since the paratroopers landed.

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