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MUNCIE Star THE WEATHEF Warm and Windy Details on Page 2. GRIN AND BEAR IT Comic Panel Appear Daily in The Star 'Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 VOL. 84 NO. 201 MUNCIE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1960 AT 8-6631 SEVEN CENTS ir Jl nm L3 dwiiral and Wife Die Air Crash THE ryn fYn JO o) KU KU V- 4 in lay Draft 650 Kennedy9 Man Calls at White House Shrubbery Doctors Unless Soviet Sets Higher Gold Kennedy Vote Lead Drops to 348,750 Ordinance Interns Join Up Out and In Rate Jan.

1 WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Defense Department Monday threatened to start a new doctor draft early next year unless more interns volunteer state gave Kennedy a 27,529 vote margin with more than 150,000 absentee ballots still to be lor reserve commissions and Counted in Nixon's column were Plane Hits Mountain Near Base Crew of 3 and Navy Officer Passenger Killed in Philippines MANILA, Tuesday (UPI) -Rear Adm. Arthur F. Spring, commander of U.S. Navy forces in the Philippines, his wife and four other Navy men were killed when their plane crashed into the Jungle-covered slopes of Mariveles Will Boost Yellow Metal Content to About One Cram City Councilmen, Traffic Division Plan Revision By BILL BRANTLEY Confusion and conflict over mat I -n mv -si A i I Hill WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. John F.

Kennedy's popular vote plurality over Vice President Richard M. Nixon dropped to votes Monday as the tally in one of the closest presidential elections in history inched toward completion. Kennedy's margin Monday was 45,000 votes less than he held Saturday. With a record-breaking votes already counted, it appeared the final count would make Kennedy the 12th man to three electoral votes from Hawaii and three more from Alaska. Complete but unofficial figures gave Nixon a 96-vote margin in Hawaii.

Nixon was leading by 134 votes in Alaska with 15 percent of the precincts still unreported LONDON (AP)-The Soviet Un ion announced Monday night a new heavy ruble, more nearly on ters of traffic control highlighted a short and routine City Council meeting Monday a par with the U.S. dollar in international trade, with an increase in the ruble's gold content. and none of the absentee ballots counted. The proposed ordinance to have Three races still -e undecided Now a dollar brines 4 rubles at shrubbery trimmed where it in the House where the Demo blocks the view of motorists at the official rate, or 10 rubles at a special tourist rate. Effective Jan.

be elected president without win crats won 258 seats and the Re ning a majority of the popular intersections was finally brought 1, the Soviet Union decreed, it will vote although he did win a plu out of committee after several months of languishing there and two years of active service. As many as 650 physicians may be called next March to enter active duty between July and September, according to the announcement by Dr. Frank B. Berry, assistant defense secretary in charge of health and medical affairs. The Defense Department has not drafted physicians since February, 1957.

Berry disclosed he had written letters to 4,500 interns who will complete their training next June. The defense department wants 1,700 interns annually to go on active duty for two years, out of an annual pool of 7,200 graduates. This year, 800 to 900 are entering service. An additional 200 doctors are being trained under military service programs, leaving a deficiency of about 650, Berry said. take only nine-tenths of a ruble to equal Jl.

publicans 176. Depending on the outcome of those three races, the Republicans will emerge with a net gain of anywhere from 22 to 25 seats. rality over Nixon. A UPI tabulation at 6:45 p.m. promptly was sent back to the Officials here were studying EST gave these totals: same place.

Tabulation, of absentee ballots the effect of raising the gold content to determine its meaning in relation to the dollar. Several of the eight Democrats Votes Percentage Monday gave Rep. Frank W. on the council said they believed Kennedy 33,862,866 49.96 Burke, victory by a 856- the ordinance, drawn by Council An official Soviet government Nixon 33,514,116 49.45 Others 396,933 0.59 vote margin in his bid for re-elec man William A. Sutton, the only statement broadcast by Moscow tion.

Radio announcing the change also Well over 300,000 votes possi Two other Democratic incum said the Soviet State Bank's purchasing price for gold will be es Republican, at the request of the police department's traffic division, would not be enforceable because of what they termed "not Monutain, the Navy announced today. They were aboard a Navy Albatross that crashed about 50 miles west of here after taking off shortly before midnight on a flight from Nichols Air Force Base near Manila to the U.S. naval air station at Cubi Point 50 miles northwest of Manila. Rescue teams parachuted to the scene this morning reported there were no survivors. In addition to the admiral and his wife the plane carried three crewmen and one officer who was not a member of the crew.

The Navy corrected its first report that there were two non crew officers aboard. The plane disappeared in good weather after taking off at 11:35 p.m. (10:35 a.m. CDT Monday). bents Reps.

Den Magnuson, and Morgan M. Moulder, D-Mo. were trailing. In the third bly as many as 500,000 still were uncounted. The unofficial UPI tally included votes cast for minor party candidates in some states.

tablished at one ruble per grani from Jan." 1. enough teeeth in it." ndecided contest for the seat The new rate, like the rate ft UPI Telfohoto Clark Clifford, left, President-elect Kennedy's liaison man, and Maj. Cen. Wilton B. Persons, President Eisenhower's chief assistant, pose for photographers Monday at White House after they met to discuss- transfer of powers from the present administration to the Democrats.

Clifford had a White House card dating from when he was President Truman's special counsel. Council President Gene Teal being vacated by retiring Rep, displaces, presumably applies only said "As it stands now it has no Of the popular votes counted for Henry Aldous Dixon the Demo to international trade. chance of passing." the two major candidates only, cratic candidate held a slight Back to Committee lead. Rivals Talk It was referred to a commit Kennedy had 50.26 per cent and Nixon 49.74 per cent. This was the smallest plurality percentage in any presidential election since Confesses GOP Asks tee composed of Dr.

Sutton, There was no mention in the announcement of the special tourist rate, which was fixed at 10 rubles to the dollar in 1957. The Moscow announcement said: "The U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers has resolved to increase gold content of the ruble and the ruble's foreign exchange rate as 63 Minutes Chairman Robert Bonshire, and Councilman Lawrence Voisard. Ohio Girl, 14, Slain Near Indiana Border 18S4, and the third smallest in Recount of history. The group is to meet with Capt to Arson Kennedy's numerical margin of Loren Alston of the police depart 348,750 votes over Nixon also was Jack Views Dick as 'Opposition Leader' ment to re-write the ordinance.

Chicago Vote Youth Admits Firing the smallest in any presidential from Jan. 1, 1961. Dr. Sutton maintained his pri PAULDING, Ohio (UPI)-Police in this tiny rural village Monday checked reports of Vstrangers in Spring commanded the big Su-bic Bay Naval Base, of which the Cubi station is a part The base serves as the key support link for U.S. 7th Fleet operations The officers spent all night hoping the girl would be found alive.

It could have been weeks before the body were found had not hunt vote since 1888. It compared with "The gold content of the ruble CHICAGO (UPI)-Top Republi MIAMI (UPI) President-elect Jay County Barns mary interest in bringing the disputed measure out of commit will be established at 0.987412 town" in their investigation of the the 594,188 margin by which Woodrow Wilson won re-election cans Monday filed formal pet! John F. Kennedy made an un ers Joseph C. Averance, 38, Route rape-murder of a 14-year-old girl tions for a recount of the top- precedented call Monday on Vice in, the South China Sea. PORTLAND, Ind.

(Spl) A 19-year-old Jay County youth Mon in 1916. He defeated Republican 1, Paulding, and Kenneth W. Nel ho was abducted while returning grams of pure gold and the purchasing price of the U.S.S.R. state bank for gold at one ruble per gram of pure gold." President Richard M. Nixon, the heavy Democratic Chicago vote Charles Evans Hughes by the son, 43, Paulding come across the home from a Sunday movie.

tee was to get a vote on it. He said he was acting at the specific request of the police department's traffic experts. Then the matter of overlapping man he defeated less than a week which gave Illinois 27 electoral Spring, 52, was a 1930 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he starred in football and day confessed to setting two barns afire after being questioned for narrow electoral vote margin of body.1 Residents of the village near the votes to John Kennedy. ago, and the two held a "cordial 272 to 257.

They thought from a distance Ohio Indiana border gave sheriff The Republicans charged that one-hour talk on foreign policy the better part of a day by George Scott. Jav County sheriff, and lacrosse. that it was a discarded Haloween Kennedy electoral margin ordinances on the definition of a Chicago's Democratic machine and the change of administration, John Keeler all the information they could remember which they over Nixon stood at 338 to 191 He Won the Navy Commenda costume. two deputy state fire marshals. stole the Illinois election for Kennedy described the post school rone for traffic-control purposes caused confusion.

with Mississippi's eight electoral tion Ribbon as gunnery officer on Marks on the ground and the Kennedy. election meeting at Nixon's vaca thought could help in the search for the killer. But it was scanty. votes captured by a slate of un the cruiser Louisville World Democrats retaliated with disarray of the girl's clothing indicated there had been a struggle. tion villa in the ocean-front Key pledged electors opposed to both, War II.

One girl recalled that a man Apprehended on the preliminary charge of probation violation, Alan Wayne Shank, 19, R.R. 4, formerly of Lynn, confessed that he set fires to barns owned by In the first ordinance the school zone was defined as a three-block radius around all public and pri charges that voting irregularities Biscayne Hotel as "very benefi- Counted in Kennedy's column cial" and his defeated Republican were Californias 32 electoral had been turned up in downstate counties outside Chicago where had offered her a ride home, too, but that was a long time ago and she did not remember what he But the only blood on the scene was found in a pool under the girl's head, indicating she was killed after being taken from the vate schools. He assumed command at Subic In February, 1959, after serving as chief of staff of the 7th Fleet. His wife, the former Clare votes. The latest figures for that opponent as "very cooperative The.

second defined it as a two- Vice President Richard M. Nixon Nixon in turn told reporters that looked like. block radius. scored heavily. car.

Most of the local policemen and xAIakes Air Catch Kennedy's "very gracious act" in coming to see him was 'notice Capt. Alston said the first was They said any recount of the Leaves on the ground obscured typographical error and that it sheriff's deputies had never before investigated a murder. Cook County (Chicago) vote any tire tracks. should be two blocks. to all the world that there will be no differences in the next of Capsule After should be part of a statewide Deputies said the murder of The hunters stopped a passing patrol cruiser.

The body was 100 tally. Types of Schools Murphy, also was 52. 152 Children Die in Movie House Blaze 31st Orbital Pass Nancy Eagleson resembled in a number of details the slaying of a four years that will be based on personal considerations." feet from county road 176. The Dixie Crowd Boos Negro Pupils9 Entry NEW ORLEANS (AP) Four Negro girls, protected by U. S.

marshals, entered first grade classes in two formerly white New Orleans public schools Monday, breaching a racial barrier that had lasted since Reconstruction days. There was no physical resistance to actual integration in the Deep South's largest city despite, the presence of 75 state policemen working for the Louisiana legislature. Nor was there violence among the racially-mixed crowd hovering outside the schools. The whites booed and jeered when the marshals took the girls and their parents into the buildings. They cheered and applauded as white VOTE CANVASS, BALLOTS Then there was the matter of hunters found it at 2:30 a.m.

RAISE KENNEDY LEAD VANDENBERG AIR FORCE i-vear-old girl in Chicago about Kennedy pointedly referred to what was meant by "public and private schools." Dr. Everitt Fer- It fell to local policeman Ed BASE, Calif. (AP) An Air Force Herbert Bye, R.R. 4, and Maurice Lunn, also of R.R. 4.

Both Barns Destroyed Scott said the Lunn barn was destroyed by flames in the middle of September and the Bye measuring 52 by 72 feet, destroyed Nov. 8. He said Shank was among the spectators at both fires. Scott said the men from the state fire marshal's office would get a written statement from Shank Tuesday. He did not know what formal charges would be filed against Shank.

According to Scott, Shank had "drawn attention to himself" and CHICAGO (UPI)-Vote-canvass eight hours earlier and 250 miles west of here. Rosselet, a cousin of Nancy's plane, swooping over the Pacific, rill said Ball State College would ing reports from 59 counties, plus Nixon as leader of the opposition party when newsmen kept asking whether the Democratic victor The sheriff's office here was in mother, to tell the parents of the murder. tabulation of 13 Cook County pre be included under the "public section. Monday made history's second aerial catch of a capsule kicked contact with the Cook County, The father broke down when he sheriff's office in an attempt to Councilman Tom Brown wanted from an orbiting satellite. cincts, raised president-elect John F.

Kennedy's lead in the Illinois election by almost 2,000 votes pool their information. DAMASCUS, Syria -AP) A roaring fire set off by a movie projection room explosion killed 152 school children at a special showing of an educational film to be sure the parochial schools A big C119 Flying Box Car, heard the news. He was under sedation all day Monday. But there was no real evidence of the Roman Catholic Church dubbed Pelican II and piloted by Monday night. The father works in a tractor Capt.

Gene W. Jones, of New With returns from all the state St. Lawrence and St. Mary's-would be included in the "pri that the murders had been committed by the same man. Neither Body Hidden Sunday night in the town of York, snagged the parachute of 10,015 precincts counted, Kennedy factory in Fort Wayne during the day and in a local bowling alley at night.

The mother, Betty, vate" designation. an instrument package from Dis Amude, officials said Monday. It was described as Syria' The body of the Chicago victim had 2,374,794 Illinois votes to 2,367,870 for Vice President Rich had offered Nixon, a post in his new administration. And Nixon, sidestepping all questions on the prospect of any appointment, said he and Kennedy agreed that the Republican Party will have the responsibility of putting up "vigorous and constructive" battles when it disagrees with the Democratic administration. Exactly on Schedule Kennedy, who set the meeting Then the question came up cove re XVII a sophisticated had been under surveilance since the Lunn fire.

The Bye farm was about business schools, TV-repair worst fire disaster in memory. was left in a woodland area. There was no attempt to hide it. ard M. Nixon.

works in a drive-in restaurant and was not at home while the children were at the movie. new moonlet expected to become a work-horse in various United just across the road from the schools, and the like. The ordin The canvass report from down- Nearly every family in Amude, on the Turkish border 400 miles The body of Nancy was found ance was finally refered to com States satellite programs. farm where Shank was working and the Lunn farm was about one parents started taking their children out. by two men hunting raccoon in the state counties outside Chicago ad ded 1,720 votes to Kennedy's col mittee for study.

The gold-plated, 300-pound cap Alleges Spy Planes northeast of Damascus, lost child in the blaze. woods near this village. It was not mile from the Bye farm. One Negro girl was taken to the It sought to fix a 20 mile-per- sule was ejected on the 31st or- umn, while tabulation of the 13 hidden. Shank was questioned about the NEW DELHI (UPI)-Commu- William Frantz elementary schooL hour speed limit in the school bital pass, a little more than two The fire swept the wooden thea Cook County (Chicago) precincts The evidence indicated that she Adair Hotel fire in Portland and days after its rocket was launched ter building and burned on for nist China, in a note to India made public Monday, accused the the last to be tabulated in the As she went a white woman in the crowd yelled again and had been shot in the head after at this West Coast space base hours.

up by calling Nixon Saturday evening, flew here from his family's seaside estate 68 miles away at zone what ever it may be during the time flasher signals were working or when "traffic control systems" were in effect. state took the edge still farther being dragged out of a car and about several barn fires in nearby Mercer County in Ohio. Scott said Shank denied having any part in Reverse rockets slowed it, then possibly raped. The Chicago girl, its parachute blossomed and United States of sending spy planes deep into Chinese territory from bases in Bangkok, Thailand. 'Palm Beach, Fla.

His motor car Gloria Kowalewicz, had also been to 1,991. Kennedy's statewide a i over Nixon went to 6,914. the fires. What the "systems" were was About 20 youths, screaming in agony from burns, fought their way outside. Firefighting units that rushed to the scene from floated down over the ocean near avan drove slowly along palm- shot in the head.

Shank was released from the also debated. Hawaii. An autopsy in a Fort Wayne, The speed in the school zones lined roads in order to pull Into the hotel grounds exactly on state farm In September, 1959 after serving six months for forg The plane crew spotted it 10 hospital Monday showed that neighboring towns rescued 20 oth- at other times would be 30 miles minutes later, snatched it with schedule at 11:30 a.m. EST. the girl had been raped and shot ers.

The Country Parson ing checks in Redkey. He was per hour if there were any trapeze-like device, and 'headed with a small-caliber pistol. released and was given two years They then walked a short dis Government officials were flown to the area along with a planeload for Hawaii. The kidnaD-murder was the first Turn to Page 2, Column 4 probation. tance to a yellow stucco villa next door to the white villa where of its kind in this community of Maj.

Gen. O. J. Ritland, com of medical aid and a team of doc Shank was taken to the Jay ander of the Air Force's Ballist- 2,300 persons. Nixon and his family are stay County Jail and was to be ques tioned further Tuesday.

tors and surgeons. The victims were buried in ic Missile Division" in Inglewood, Four-year-old Sherill Eagleson, again: "They ought to take Judge Wright out and hang him by hit toes." It was U. S. Dist. Judge J.

Skelly Wright who issued the original desegregation order last May. But even as integration was taking affect, the state was taking legal action to halt it. Civil Dist. Judge Luther Hall in New Orleans signed an order asked by the state against four members of the five-member New Orleans School Board. The order restrained the four from taking any action "whatsoever in interfering in any way with the operation of the school system by the legislature." Hall set Nov, 18 for a hearing.

Plane Victim Found FRANKLIN, W.Va. (UPI)-The the victim's sister, ran to the Upton Close, Author, Dead in Mexico Crash HOLLYWOOD tft-Upfon Close, 64, author and former radio commentator, was killed Sunday in an auto-train accident near his home at Guadalajara, a son here said Monday. Close, whose true name was Joseph Washington Hall, was born in Kelso, Wash. He had spent many years in China and Japan, and was known as an expert on Oriental affairs. mass funeral Monday afternoon.

home of John Larson, a neighbor ing. They sat beside the window of a screened-in sun porch, facing each other from eight or ten feet away, and chatted alone for an said Monday night the capsule carried instruments to record sun spot activity in space. He said The United Arab Republic's Executive Council said the disaster is a "tragedy for every to report that a "man in a big car" had forced her sister into his hour and three minutes. the satellite was circling the earth during an intense period of sun car after the girls had refused a home throughout the U.A.R." After the meeting was over. ride home.

spot activity and may produce re Asks for Referendum UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, wv-Deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba asked the United Nations Monday to supervise a referendum in the Congo as a prelude to election of a new president. Trailc Across Oder The council announced nearly $35 million has been earmarked Kennedy went to a press room Five and one half hours later, markable data on the aurora set up at the hotel and talked to the body was found. Iborealis. Inside Today Star Classified Ads 11-12 Comics II Editorials Junior Editors 13 Markets 10 Obituaries 2 Puzzle 13 Sports Statistics 11 Stelncrohn II TV 4 Weather 2 Winchell It Women 7 for a relief operation in Amude. reporters.

Nixon did the same a short while later, after Kennedy Larson, "who often had been a babysitter for the sisters while their parents worked, called the had taken off by helicopter for Astrid Willi King Olav and Her Fiance sheriff's office after hearing the airport where his plane await WARSAW, Poland (AP) Po- v- Ira SheriU's terrified tale. ed to take him back to Palm land and East Germany have body of Robert F. Bell, Annap- Sheriff John Keeler mobilized Beach. 1 signed a new. agreement providing olis, who had been aboard "You can run a country his three man force, the village Problems of Transition' for an 11 per cent increase in a still missing plane, was found trade between the two countries.

I Monday west of here. police and patrolmen from two by majority vote but you can't run God that way." "We had an opportunity to talk state Highway Patrol posts. about some of the problems of i transition, problems which face the United States, between now Absentee Ballot Uimotarized; American in Congo Tells Why and next January 20, and also some of the problems which face the United States around the secret ballot designed to be count-1 He also wanted to have his bal Notaries are scarce as polar STANLEYVILLE, The Congo ed in a foreign election I would lot counted. world," Kennedy said. (UPI) In this town where the There is absolutely no possi surely be arrested on the spot, bears in The Congo.

Authorized officials are equally hard to As for whether they discussed "The United States is not represented there. The British consul dropped dead about a month ago and the Belgian vice-consul was expelled as an imperialist. "The United States is in par mob rules, Edward J. Robrecht a conscientious U.S. citizen, the campaign, Kennedy laughed and said: come by in Stanleyville where undisciplined soldiers run wild.

So with his ballot Robrecht, 29, sent was determined to cast his ballot in the presidential election. 'I might mention that a European living in Buta, a bush outpost a few hundred miles north of Stanleyville, was recently arrested for possessing an electric "Yes, we discussed It from He risked arrest and the fact professional point of view. I this excuse: ticularly bad repute since the the ballot might not be accepted asked him how he took Ohio, but word has been put out that the toaster. It was perfectly obvious that he was using his strange de he did not tell me he must be keeping it a secret for 1964. in his home town of East Orange, N.J.

He mailed the ballot Oct. 23, filled out as to choice of candidate (Nixon) but not notarized, at state law requires. It bore only Robrecht's signature. When Nixon was asked later if he gave Kennedy any tips on how ble way of my obtaining a witness for my signature," he told the board of elections in Newark. N.J.

"and you will simply have to accept my word that I am indeed the person 1 purport to be. "I sincerely hope that my voting rights will not be hindered because of this." Postscript from Newark: The ballot was counted. "The facts as represented by him were sufficient to influent the board," said an official. 1 vice to transmit secret messages to foreign imperialist powers." Robrecht, an oil company employee, has been arrested. "The only other American in Stanleyville is a missionary.

traveling in the interior. The only authority here consists of unruly soldiers and police roaming around with rifles and doing whatever comes into their heads are no foreign'consular officials of any kind in Stanley- he "performed that seeming mir United States has several thousand armed paratroopers in Brazzaville (in the former French Congo) waiting to attack and pillage the Congo. "Naturally this sort of things is believed implicitly. And if I should ever present myself to any acle" of taking Ohio, Nixon also drew a laugh by replying, "Well The ballot stated plainly it must bear the signature of a notary c-earched and robbed so many times he has lost count. But he is prepared to stick it out "as I would say since he won the election, he does not need any public or "other authorized VPl TelfDhoto Princess Astrid of Norway is flanked by her father, King Olav left, and her commoner fiance.

Johan Martin Ferner. I long as the firm wanjs me to." government official here with a I ville at the present time. tips." official.".