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HERALD Vol. 84No. 239 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1963. Two Sections 44 PAGES-7 CENTS DI Scores Killed as Rain, Landslides Collapse High Italian Dam 1 Hurt; Auto Not Found for 15 Minutes Two persons were killed and a third seriously injured about 7:25 p.m. yesterday when two cars collided at a crossroads on the Elwin-iount Zion blacktop.

Earl Hathaway, about 40, a Water Floods Half-Dozen Kennedy Says Goldwater Can Win GOP Nod Will Cut Surplus Kennedy Okays Sale Of Wheat to Reds foreman at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass was pronounced dead Washington, Oct. 9 (AP) President Kennedy said tonight Washington, Oct. 9 (AP) Kennedy mentioned "several President Kennedy authorized imilljon tons of surplus American at the scene. He is from Dalton that Sen. Barry Goldwater of Ari- wheat or wheat flour" and a deal, zona has "a long road to go" but tonignt the sale ot subsidized, surplus United States wheat to Russia and various Eastern European involving $200 to $250 million injhe can win the Republican nomin ation for president in 1964.

countries. American dollars or gold. At the higher figure, this would take nearly 200 million bushels out of American storage bins and cut the surplus supply by more than City. Mrs. Linda Brandenburg, 23, of 1588 N.

Church was dead on arrival at St. Mary's Hospital, where she was taken by Decatur Ambulance Service. Her husband, H. Victor Brandenburg, 24, a draftsman for the Marvel Schebler Products Division of Borg-Warner was in serious condition in the hospital. Sheriff Charles D.

Peters said Belluno, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 10 (AP) The 873-foot high Vaiont Dam collapsed under the weight of torrential rain and mountain landslides Wednesday night and loosed millions of tons of water on sleeping Piave River valley communities, authorities reported today. The Italian news Agency Ansa said first information was that at least several scores of people were killed. It was described immediately as a major disaster. Longarone, a community of people close to the dam, was -y O'-V1 Asked at his news conference if he thought Goldwater could win the nomination, Kennedy replied: "I think he can do it." But, Kennedy said, Goldwater "has a trying seven or eight one tilth.

The surplus now is months ahead of him, which will Flora to Spend Self in Atlantic; Toll Mounting Miami, Oct. 9 (AP) about 900 million bushels. Kennedy announced at a news test his endurance, his perseverance and his agility." conference his decision on a trans The remark about agility drew action he said "has obvious ben-! laughter from the 258 newsmen in efit for the United States." He hari pnnmmr-Prl il nrpvinnlv tniine acaie ueparimeni auauonum. reported cumpletely submerged. At Hurricane Flora left at least fnnaroccinni ioari0rC uhitoi A newsman asked whether Ken- Inedv shared former President 200 dead in Cuba before darting into the North Atlantic and prob House conference and they let out the word before Kennedv did.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's view that both Brandenburgs were thrown from the car by the impact. Hath-away's body was found in his car, which was not discovered by sheriff deputies for about 15 min-tues after the Brandenburg car was found. Peters said the Hathaway vehicle had gone about 30 feet down an embankment and into a field, where it struck a tree. Ironically, the Brandenburg car was equipped with safety belts.

the position of Goldwater on sev least half a dozen other communities were hit by the gigantic gush of water crashing down into the Piave. Communications in the dam area 10 miles north of here were 'After consultation with the Na. eral issues is not clear. Suif photo by Bob Strongman i tional Security Council, and in- Kennedv noted that Goldwater ii ij uuiiuug uk cpinyiniatc ui extensivd and added; able self-destruction, radio messages intercepted here indicated today. Havana Radio officially mentioned 32 deaths.

But conversation on a Cuban rescue radio network heard in Miami indicated the higher figure. One radio message, from the completely wiped out and officials here said they feared the casualty toll must be much higher than Two Killed in Elwin Blacktop Collision Earl Hathaway, a Dalton City the Elwin-Mount Zion blacktop passenger in the other car. was employe of the Pittsburgh Plate about 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Linda also killed and her husband.

Glass" lies dead in his Brandenburg, 23, of Decatur, a Victor, was injured, smashed car after a collision on the Ansa report indicated. but Peters said thev were not in u.c v- don't think he's been decep-formal statement at the news'tive" session "I have concluded that! py said Goldwater such sales by private dealers maJe dear hfi fa or American dollars or gold, either) Tve tten the Kem)ed cash on delivery or normal com-iy and think that Gma mercial terms, should not be pro- Eisenhower wil as tim egoes on. Hospitals in communities sur rounding the stricken area report 5 commander of Santiago military headquarters to Fidel Castro, expressed fear for the lives of more than 4 000 coffee Dickers, includ hibited by tne government. whether he fa a candidate Russia reportedly has been for president in 1964 or when he making feelers for purchasing jwfl announce, Kennedv grinned ing students, in the Sierra Cristal. use at the time of the collision.

So far as could be determined last night, the Brandenburg car was eastbound on the blacktop, about three miles east of Elwin. and the Hathaway car northbound on a country road crossing the blacktop at right angles. Peters said it could not immediately be determined whicn car struck the other, but the collision apparently occurred in and got a laugh with a reply $250 million of American wheat. Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bul In Haiti, the president of the "I think I'll wait. Next year I can afford to wait longer." Red Cross said the estimate of i saw Henri was not based on a garia are understood to want an other $60 million worth.

Kennedy But there were other items of count but on the fact that "you ed receiving a growing stream of injured rising into the hundreds. In Rome, Interior Minister Mariano Rumor ordered all public security forces in the stricken area, in Italy's northeast Alps between Venice and the Austrian border, on emergency duty to rush aid to the victims. Third-Highest Dam The Vaiont Dam, finished in 1960, was the third highest concrete dam in the world. A high, tapered structure narrowing down to a thin base, it was situated about 10 miles north of Belluno. The dam was not on the Piave I ruled out sales to Cuba or Red broad import just don't see any people" where China.

Prices Kennedv said the ad the eastbound lane of the black ministration is watching with con cern price increases that have top. Dep. Coroner Garland Lockart Private Dealers Kennedy said the Commodity Credit Corp. would sell from government stocks enough stock to taken place in various industries. His Consumer Advisory Council said Hathaway's wife told him her husband was en route to his announced today it is going to take towns and villages stood.

"You can't find the bodies," Dr. Jacques Fourcand told the Miami News. "They are buried in the mud and debris, or washed away by the sea." A greater disaster still could be in store for Haiti because of the ruin of her crops. "Nobody suffers too much from replace the amount that private a look at increases in the steel, job at the time of the accident. dealers would sell to the Rus sians.

electrical, aluminum, chemicals The Brandenburgs' destination River itself but held back water in and other manufacturing indus Kennedv said the Commerce a side reservoir. tries. was not known. Dep. Coroner Earl Lynch said Brandenburg told him a car pull DeDartment would make neces Coups "We did the best we The Piave River valley, scene of the Italian's Army's stand sary arrangements to see to it Sufi photo by Bob Strongman ed out on the highway and that said, to avert coups which over- Car From Which Brandenburgs Were Thrown thp txnvprnmpntc fit Hnn- He said the sale of the wheat, n.mini.an PonK.

hunger the first week because there is food in the market places," Dr. Fourcand said. "But two weeks later, if there is no more produce coming in from the fields we feel our disaster all the more." he struck a post while attempting to avoid it. Brandenburg was in shock at the time, however. Lynch said.

Hathaway's body was taken to for about $250 million and the He said Unjted states fc opposed to coups as self defeating Cosed Session Accord Near on Birmingham Men Convicted In Bomb Case ditional income tor American shipping will reduce the balance of trade deficit and provide in and wants a return to democratic An offer by the American Red governments. against the Austrians after the Ca-poretto defeat of World War was familiar to millions as the setting of Ernest Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms." Civil authorities in Belluno and in Venice, about 65 miles south of the dam area, reported that in the past few days thousands of tons of earth and rock on Mount Toe above the dam had been loosened by torrential rains. The volume of water released by the collapse was so great that, the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home in Mount Zion pending funeral arrangements. Mrs. Brandenburg's body had come for Americans.

The chief executive said Russia Cross to aid the Cuban victims was rejected as "hypocritical," but the meaning was not clear. The United States, he went on, Birmingham, Oct. 9 (AP) has given no response to his proposal for a joint try to send men has always responded for appeals not yet been removed to a funeral Maximum sentences were Dovnstate Remap The radio quoted the Cuban Red to the moon. home. for food from those needing it, if it was assured the food went levied by a city judge today on Cross as calling the offer "hypo He said that in Viet Nam he has Lynch said an inquest will be two white men accused of illeeal- critical." But Carlos Lechuga, cago now has 23 districts and the! where intended and that the re Iv oossessine dvnamite during the iheld but n0 date has been set.

seen no significant changes in personnel and policy in the direction Cuban delegate to the United Na cipient knew about its origin. He suburban areas seven. Republicans insist that two of recent Birmingham racial bomb- n'ght's was second jnrs multiple-fatality accident in Ma- here in Belluno, the level of the said these conditions would be ful he has desired. By Ralph H. Johnson Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers Legislative Correspondent Chicago, Oct.

9 Tentative agreement on a Down- tions, said that it would be a hypocritical policy" for Cuba to accept aid from this country. Recorders Court Judse Earl i 0011 -unty in tne past 10 days. the Chicago districts must I filled. Kennedy said it would be fool Piave suddenly rose 16 feet, flooding fields and roads in this area before subsiding. be shifted to the suburbs to reflect Langner convicted Robert E.

Flora made probably her last ish to halt direct sales of U.S. SCHOOL BUS DRIVER KILLED King William, Oct. 9 (AP) un bept. 29 three persons were killed in a two-car collision at Bulldog Crossing on Illinois 48. landfall today when she hit a few The disaster recalled the trag population changes.

59, and John W. Hall, Democratic spokesmen Dotn of the Birmingham area. wheat when friendly countries can buy American grain, turn it into edy of Frejus, on the French Ri W. Dunne. Chicago, declined com- "he judgment was the same as A King William County school flour and sell it to the Communist that rendered by Langner Tues- viera, where nearly four years ago 443 people perished in thun bus ran off the road and struck ment on his party's stand on the bloc.

dav for Charles Cagle, 22, of Cook County districts. A Demo thinly populated islands in the southeastern Bahamas. Then she sped toward the North Atlantic where cold air and water will rob her of tropical character. Her course could bring fringe gales to Bermuda on Thursday. state remap has been reached by! the bi-partisan commission on Illinois House reapportionment, but a deadlock continues on the allocation of districts in Cook County.

The 10-member commission held its fifth meeting today behind closed doors as in previous meetings. The correspondent for Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers who sought to attend the meeting was an enbankment today, killing the 16-year-old student driver and in At the world market price of suburban Gardendale. Jail Term Given James Milton Ishee, 23, of 242 E. Condit was given a 7-day jail term and assessed S25.50 court costs yesterday cn a charge of driving without a lriver's li- dering torrents of mud and water unleashed in the collapse of the nearbv Malpasset Dam on the The three men, all with Ku Klux juring 12 other students. about $1.30 a bushel, the sale ot $250 million of wheat to Russia would translate into more than Klan backgrounds, were arrested cratic proposal will be submitted to the commission next week, he said.

Democratic leaders are sensitive to any plan that will reduce Reyran River. in the wake of several racial State police were investigating the possibility a truck may have run the bus off the road, causing 192 million bushels. bombings including one which cense. Ishee was also fined $29.80 killed four Negro girls as they on a second charge of driving a The cost to the U.S. taxpayer! it to go out of control.

the power of Chicago in the state asked bv members to leave. attended Sunday School. jcar without license plates. Following the 2i hour session. oi itepreseniauves.

mosi would be in excess of $115 mil-j lion, since this country has been subsidizing wheat exports at a rate of about 60 cents a bushel. spokesmen for the two political districts send two Demo- Community industries Bomb Thrown Into Sullivan Warehouse; Arson Foiled Darties held an informal news crais ana one itepuDiican xo me legislature. At Greenville Blast Reduces Water Use That 60-cent differential takes no conference. Fred S. Gurley, Chicago Repub- It is regarded as certain that account of a rise in the price of Fair DECATUR AND VICINITY: Generally fair Thursday and Thursday night.

Increasingly cloudy Friday. Minor temperature changes with the high Thursday in the 80s. Low Thursday night in the mid-50s. the commission's plan will give a second district to DuPage and wheat in anticipation of the Pres ident's action. the downtown square burned Sept.

Junior Chamber of Commerce Lake counties, of which now constitutes a district. That would lican, said Downstate agreement had been reached, but that details would not be made public until the commission irons out the Cook County problems. Seven of the 10 members must 15. Cause of that blaze is still not Greenville, Oct. 9 (Special) An explosion destroyed a pump house and shut down Greenville's known.

members used loudspeakers to caution residents against using too much water until repairs are EFFINGHAM MAN 'FAIR' AFTER COMBINE MISHAP mean two Downstate districts must come from some other part principal water well, substantially Today attempted arson was WEDNESDAY TEMPERATURES Sullivan, Oct. 9 (Special) A makeshift time bomb was found in a warehouse of Community Industries of Sullivan today after it failed to start a fire. The gasoline and oil mixture in the bomb splattered against cardboard when the glass container broke after being thrown through agree to a remap plan. In effect. of the state, presumably Southern I reducing water use today.

Effingham, Oct. 9 (Special) Thomas Means, 64, a veteran discovered' at 11 a.m. when employes smelled the bomb's mix Illinois. this means that the plan must be Natural gas had seeped into the well casing and apparently was ture and investigated to find the acceptable to both parties, since each has five members. The original Democratic and Republican remap plans called for ignited by a spark from the auto broken gas jug.

Effingham policeman, was in fan-condition in St. Anthony Memorial Hospital tonight as the result of a combine accident completed. Greenville gets its water from five deep wells, but the one shut down today is the principal supplier. The explosion shattered the 12-foot-by-15-foot concrete block pump house two miles south of Greenville. The natural gas which Southern Illinois to lose two dis matic electric pump motor when Redistricting Mandatory a window of the building on West The warehouse contained of the firm's Garden Tools it started at 5 a.m.

today, ac Reapportionment of the 59 House Jefferson Street. Firemen said an in which one of his feet was cording to a bomb squad from districts is mandatory under terms Division. The building is owned by tricts. However, a revolt by Southern Illinois Republicans forced the GOP leadership to revise its bill. As a result, a Republican bill was attached fuse had been lighted, the Armv Ordinance Depot at of the Illinois constitution.

Earl Walker of Sullivan. 7 a.m. 53 7 p.m. 71 Noon 77 11 p.m. 65 High 83 Low 49 Precipitation: none Today sunrise 7:00, set 6:25 (additional weather on page 37) Inside Today William Street bridge closed seven hours after being hit by truck Page 3 Valachi tells more about gangland power struggle Page 4 Television and radio Page 14 smashed.

Means was working on a farm Granite City. The bomb was taken to the state crime laboratory in Springfield, Cook County is allocated 30 of the Community Industries is owned passed which gave an additional he owns in the Shumway area. He districts and the rest of Illinois 29 and operated by members of the but no clues have been found. City Manager Norman Tufford said a new motor arrived this afternoon and it is hoped the pump districts each district sending district to DuPage, but not to Lake was combining soybeans. Church of Jesus Christ, the Harsh- Another Community Industries thrpp mpmbers to Sorincfield.

County. After the accident he drove his had seeped around the well casing is believed to have come from a nearby gas field foitnerly operated by the Bond County Co. That field has been closed several years. by finrW ronfessed "we have Another meeting of the commis-; can be back into operation truck to summon help from one warehouse was gutted in a fire mamte sect. The firm now pro-less than a month ago.

Thejvides about 200 jobs for members firm' Lurv Ellen Candy Di- of the faith and for others in the of his farm employes who took perplexing problem" with regard jsion has been set for Oct. 17 in early Thursday morning. to Cook County. The city of Chi-1 Springfield. I Following the explosion, local him to the hospital.

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