Muscatine Journal (Newspaper) - July 19, 1963, Muscatine, Iowa The Weather Partly cloudy through Sat Scattered ets tonight with chance oF locally heavy Lows to night 6772 highs Saturday 8794 High Thursday 88 low during night 67 noon today 86 Precipitation 198 River ft Established 1840 No 169 Muscatine Iowa Friday July 191963 2 Sections 14 Pages Price 7 Cents Inside Today Dear Abby 4 Editorials Sports 10 U Womens s Farm 12 13 Paperweight Collector 9 Church Schedules Strike Area Offers to Allow Foreign Inspectors in Russia Premier Khrush chev today offered to permit for eign inspectors to take up sta tions at Soviet airfields railroad stations highways and ports to prevent secret concentrations of sudden attacks The Soviet leader also pro posed an exchange of inspection teams between troops in West Germany and Soviet troops in East Germany He made the proposals for eas ing EastWest tension in a speech at the huge Kremlin Palace in which he expressed optimism over the for reaching agreement on a partial nuclear test ban Khrushchev said the Soviet Un ion also was ready to negotiate a reciprocal reduction of the numbers of Soviet and Western troops stationed in divided Ger many He said such moves would be a great contribution to the easing oi international tensions The Soviet premier also insis cd upon the signing of a price treaty with Germany that would settle the status of West Berlin He did not set a date on this signing In a reference to US British and Soviet talks now in Moscow Khrushchev said he has the iro that a partial lest ban can be achieved He quickly added that he would also like a ban on underground Discussed Moscow The United States Britain and the Soviet Union are reported discussing proposals for a pledge of non aggression in Europe at the same time they are negotiating a treaty to outlaw all nuclear weapon tests except those under ground Linking of the two issues in the Moscow test indi that Soviet Premier Khrushchev is still interested in a package deal Illia Seems Presidency Buenos Aires Argentina W Dr Arturo high man in the July 7 elections appears certain oi enough electoral col lege votes to elect him dent of Argentina Illias Peoples Radical party received about cent of the popular vote But the 169 seats his party won in the electoral college fell 70 short of the half majority needed to make him president The college will meet July 31 to elect a president The country doctor from Cor has been conduct ing some horse trading with for the additional nec essary votes He seems assured of 73 His candidacy has met with no substantial opposition from the other 22 par ties As the conference began its fifth day today Western diplo mats reported steady progress toward drafting terms of a treaty banning nuclear weapon sions in the atmosphere outer space and underwater U S Undersecretary of State W Harriman and British Lord Hail sham have instructions to nego only on the test ban However they came to Mos cow prepared to talk about other matters and each days conference communique has re ported that other matters were discussed It was learned that a agreement rope has been talked presumably on Soviet initiative Sofar as can be learned For eign Minister Andrei A Gromyko has not presented the Soviet pro posal for an EastWest non aggression treaty as a price tor a ban on testing The Soviet posi tion apparently is flexible Harriman c ou n t e r i n g the treaty proposal is understood to have suggested that Khrushchev President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan make a dec renouncing the use of threats of force in settling Euro pean problems Such a declaration around the big stumbling block created for the West by the treaty proposal Khrushchev in a speech in East Berlin July 1 proposed a national means of detection are sufficient to guarantee such a ban Khrushchev said the Ameri cans and Butsh are still insist ing that inspection teams be made a pait of any ban on underground tests They aie insisting on this he said they want the chance for intelligence work Khrushchev also said all the peoples of the world would break with capitalism sooner or later but the victory of social ism in every given country is decided by the people of that country This question cannot be solved by unleashing a world thermonuclear war This was a direct slap at Chinese views Obviously referring to the split with China Khrushchev said that those who disunite world communism are play ing into the hands of imperial ism He repeated his pledge that the Soviet Union will never be the first to use thermonuclear arms or to unleash a world war Khrushchev also accused the Chinese in a long departure from his text of attempting to revive the cult of the personality of Stalin Some people want to return to times when a worker went out to work and never knew whether he would return to his wue and children he con We people and we will continue to arrest those who should be arrested he said But he said that his regime was not arresting people without good reason under the law Peace talks which began July 5 have been as a reportedly remains is issuance of a com ending the conference The two sides were reported still sharply divided on wording oi the communique Quake Rocks Riviera No One Hurt Turin Italy Ml Three strong earthquakes rumbled across Italy and the Italian and French Riviera coasts early to day sending thousands of pa tourists and residents fleeing to open ground A number of persons fainted from fright bu there were not reports of injuries The Turin Regional Meteoro Heavy Damage Reported From 70 MPH Winds By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violent winds and heavy rain lashed a wide area of northern and eastern Iowa Thursday night ripping up trees and utility lines and causing extensive damage to buildings More than five inches of rain fell in the Davenport area between 10 pm and sunrise Winds were estimated at about 70 miles an hour after the velocity gauge at the Airport blew apart when gusts hit 48 miles an hour At Oelwein 57 inches of rain were reported the most in that city since June 14 The winds toppled two light towers at the Davenport pal Stadium esti mated at nearly A tow Light Tower Wrecked by Storm is a lighting tower at the Davenport Municipal Stadium which was blown during a wind and rain storm which ht the Qua City area early this morning Emil pork estimated the damage at between and Storm Blacks Out All of Waterloo Waterloo The city of Waterloo learned Thursday night what its like to be without lights in anear total blackout Television and radio sets went dead all traffic lights went out streets were darkened and the only illumination came from flashlights or lights of p m to p m i Mes which after lightning caused a a north of the main plant of the Iowa Public Service Co and shut down the boilers in the The downtown area especially nation Not all NATO allies favor such a treaty would in effect formalize the present division of Europe storm over the moun frontier was centered in the Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps Washington Walter P Reuther urged to strengthen president Kennedys civil rights program Among he sug gested direct payment of dam ages to persons discriminated against in public facilities Not only the patron but the proprietor will benefit from an enforceable pub lic measure Reuther told a House Judiciary subcommittee Mediating Committee Holds Off Entering Cambridge Cambridge Md The threat renewed tions hung over this city today as a state proposed mediating com delayed stepping into the racial dispute Negroes called off further dem Thursday when State Atty Gen Thomas said the racial relations commit tee of the Maryland Bar As would try to find a com mon ground said the lawyers group would come to Cambridge by Saturday at the latest However William McWilliams chairman of the committee said he had not been contacted by either Fman or of fice about the committees lole before he read about it in the newspaper Thursday morning McWilliams an Anne Arundel County lawyer and former judge said his group would meet Wed m to decide whether or not it would enter the Cambridge picture bemoaned the misunder standing saying I had been contacted by the president of the bar associa tion about the existence of such a committee and that they could help in racial they would be glad to do so Jinan said Stanley Branche field secre the NAACP from Ches ter Pa and leader in the Cam bridge de to comment he talked with McWilliams who was out of town Thursday night Gov J Millard Tawes an he will address the peo ple ra dio and the racial problems confronting the state There were indications that the would discuss tle fea of having the National Guard stationed in Cambridge federated Kennedy Lands In Texas fo Mexico El Paso Wl With mingled emotions residents on both sides of the bolder here learned Thursday that Mexico is going to recover El Pasos stockyards district in settlement of a boundary dis pute Under agreement made public by presidents of both countries the United States is pledged to return the Chamizal Strip This is a sliver in a shift oi course by the flooding Rio the two nations elsewhere Once a worthless stretch of the sector lies between the El Pazo business district and the city across the river f Since the stream chose a Jew route in 1864 the area has 3750 resi dents nearly all of Mexican de scent and 382 buildings In common with the two heads of slate El Paso leaders ap plauded the international pact as long overdue in payment of a just claim Not all the reaction was favor able Some Chamizal residents dont want to see their homes the border and said theyre dubious about obtaining fair compensation v Tourists who cross the inter national El Paso to shop and see the bull i fights in Juarez know the Chami zal strip as a largely drab sec tion to homes shacks apartments and business structures Hospitals were able to operate on auxiliary power The police and fire departments were swamped with telephone calls and every available police man was called out on duty resembled a London wartime i The blackout occurred during a blackout I severe thunderstorm Urges Congress Strengthen Civil Rights which would outlaw discrimina tion in privately owned business es serving the public Reuther stressed the need for a strong that will let those who open their facilities to everyone do so with confidence that others will have to do likewise Toward this end we would urge that the committee consid er to the sanctions now in the providing that anyone who has been wrongfully excluded from a public facility or be entitled to recover a Reuther the AFL United Auto Workers said the Presidents proposals pro vided strong first step to wards guaranteeing all Ameri cans equality m law and equality in fact He told the congressmen in his prepared statement Your committee cannot do less than he has asked it to domore Among other proposals which Reuther said the group should add to the Presidents seven poirt civil lights package were 1 A federal fair employment practices commission 2 Federal voting registrars who will make to vote an 3 Broad authorization for the attorney to protect all constitutional of and 4 An immediate start in all districts on desegregation The hearings which began shortly after Kennedy his pro gram June 19 marked the only action on the civil rights front today The Senate Commerce and Judiciary com are in recess until next i week In his vigorous the public proposal v Defer Launching Of in damages in public fa has been a national dis grace for far too long Reuther ending it now bypro every human being from Maine to California against the colossal indignity of a refusal of service the Congress will catching up at long last Heaviest Rain Of Year Falls Muscatine received 198 inches oC rain heaviest of the year in thunderstorms Thursday night and early but escaped any serious damage The fuse on one transformer was blown by the mu electric department said Northwestern Bell Telephone Co said no severe damage resulted to its lines and the city street de likewise said nothing serious had come to its attention boat on the Mississippi River re ported to the US Engineers that winds were up to 100 miles an hour One boat reportedly was blown into an island At deputies youngsters who Predicts Rockefeller Will Lose Miami Beach Fla W chairman of the National youngsters wno Conference predicts that on M island in the Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New Lf Named Head Of Patrol Mississippi River LeClaire re ported 307 inches of rain The storm blew down a large tent where the Cedar Rapids Community Theater was ing the Broadway musical Car nival about two hours after some 1000 spectators bad left the tent An earlier thunderstorm had delayed the performance during the second act Kennedy Gets Report On Rails Washington President Kennedy today was handed a special report on the railway work rules dispute and announced its contents will be made public Saturday The report pinpointing facts and issues in the fouryear con will be used by the President in preparing tion he will recommend to Con gress Monday in an attempt to avert a nationwide railroad York will he defeated in a bid for a showdown on the civil rights issue during the conference which opens this weekend the Demo era tic governor of Washington said Thursday that Rockefeller would lead a hot floor a strong statement on civil rights But well be ready for any thing Rosellini said Rockefeller who was consider ed a frontrunner for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination is believed by many to have lost some support following his remar riage and the gathering strength of the movement backing Sen Barry Goldwater The New York governor issued a statement Sunday blasting the right wing of the ty and insisting that it must take a strong stand on civil rights Meanwhile a Miami Negro said the civil rights issue will be kept in the spotlight with small but carefully aimed racial demonstrations during the gov conference Albert Moore head of the Mi ami Congress of Racial Equality said that the main target will be two staunch segregationists Ross Barnett of Mississip pi and George C Wallace of Al abama Jap Warships To Visit Europe Tokyo the first lime in 26 years a squadron of Japa nese warships is en route to Europe on a good will and train ing cruise US Tightens Controls After Grain Diversion Washington W The U S government has put a new lock on the bain door since 24 million bushels of American gram van ished m the sleight of hand of European trade The huge amounts of feed grain were destined for Austria out were last seen officially at West German ports Apparently the gram pur chased at a discount of 7 5 to 9 per cent was diverted by the Austrian importing firms to more favorable markets in not eligible for the shipments a violation of the contracts the im porters had with the Agriculture Department Since discovery of the deal the department has tightened its res requiring the buyers to i prove the commodities reached proper buy Canaveral must provide bonds to assure J mt launching of the Syncom 2 com compliance satellite has been Also delayed until officials m emiK jia d until Wednesday be Vienna said Thursday that Aus of minor technical troubles tria has been dropped from the second stage of the Delta barter program involving Indus us farm products pending tion of what happened to the grain Barter deals involving surplus U S farm products are more or less sales deals In the case of barter the government gets paid m strategic of dollars and limits destination of the commodities to areas which otherwise would not buy U S product In the case of the Austrian deals 1959 the department agreed with Austrian traders to sell them or strategic materials of equal value As the transactions went for ward the department provided the grain to concerns which for their ship ment to German ports The de in turn received pay ment in the strategic materials The department said supplied as documentary evidence the grain was shipped to the German ports for transport overland to Austria Des Moines Lt T R Mikesch 50 of Des Moines was named chief of the Iowa High way Patrol Friday by State Safe ty Commissioner William F Sueppel Mikesch a veteran of 26 years on the patrol succeeds Col Dav id Herrick who effec tive July 31 The report was prepared by a committee headed by Secretary of Labor W Wil lard Wirtz Committee members represented equally government management and labor committee bers conferred about 40 minutes with the President when they de livered their report at the White House Wirte stayed on for an other 10 minutes None of the members would comment on the meeting or whether any side attempts had been made at settling the pute The President probably will take the report with him for study at Hyannis Port Mass over the weekend He plans have his recommendations ready for presentation to Congress Monday FBI Says Iowa Crime Rate Rising Faster Than Washington I o w as crime rate last year showed a 73 per cent increase over 1961 compared to a national increase of 6 per cent the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today The uniform crime re port for 1962 indicated that in Iowa as elsewhere a higher proportion of the crimes were committed in the larger cities Iowa like the nation as whole showed a decrease in murders negligent man slaughter cases Iowa had 36 such cases in 1961 and 31 last year a drop of 139 per cent while the national 2 per cent All crimes in but the pic ture was slightly different in Iowa Iowa also showed declines in robbery and aggravated assault but increased in forcible rape burglary larceny of goods worth 50 or more and auto theft The seven listed offenses in Iowa totaled 15108 in 1362 and 13846 the previous year Forcible rapes climbed from 105 or 191 per cent Burg laries increased from 6356 to 7326 or 132 per cent Thefts of goods worth or 54 per cent from 4907 to 5 186 Auto thefts increased from 2037 or percent The number of robberies in Iowa slipped from 291 in 1961 to 238 a 182 per cent and the number of aggravated assaults dropped 213 percent from 235 to 185 The Iowa crimes also increased in proportion to population Of the seven es there were 498 per 100000 population in 1961 and 544 per 100000 last year The crime rate than the Iowa lation in burglary larceny of and over and auto the rate com pared to population dropped in murder and man slaughter robbery and assault The cities and towns had more than their share of Iowa crime on a headcount basis The FBI figures indicated that areas containing cities of 50 100 or more population had 339 per cent of the population but 519 per cent of the crimes last year Top Negroes Bonds Set Over Million Charleston S C Bonds totaling nearly million have been placed against Negro dem arrested during nearly six weeks of ac Negro leaders viewed the bond assessments as an at tempt to break the tions which have occurred al most daily since June 9 Magistrate George T Runey added to the total Thursday when he set bonds totaling 000 for 68 Negroes arrested on riot charges The 68 were arrested Tuesday night when and a fireman were injured some by bricks thrown by Negroes dem in front of the Charles ton News and Courier Building Runey Rev I De Quincey Newman state for the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People and James Blake an NAACp youth director to post bail of each The other were held under bonds Negro protest leaders had pledged property to cover bonds of more than placed against some 600 arrested in pre vious demonstrations
