Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1937 — Page 1

Vol. XXXV. No. Two.

DRUG ADDICT IS SOUGHT IN KIDNAP CASE Addict Hunted in Mattson Kidnap Case; Ransom Still Unpaid SSBacom.-i, Wash., Jan. 2 —(U.R) — A known drug addict a.nd car thief was sought by police tdoay for questioning in the Mattson kidnaping case. H> was described as a 37-year-old|Tacoma musician, last seen[ .ent»rta)ning in a tavern u week ago, the night before Charier Mafison. 10-vear-old son of Dr. and Mrs William W. Mattson, was kidnaped. ■»The suspect’s appearance was sMd to ta.’ly closely with a description given by three children ■w4n witnessed the abduction. In seeking the drug addicted auto tMef police were following a report by the children that the kidntper appeared under the influe*c.‘ of drugs or liquor. Meanwhile detectives held ahother suspect. ,'Near Olympia. 30 miles from here, finding of an abandoned cjpnpfire in the woods put officws on the trail of a man and boy said to have been seen going i®to the brush. Demands Proof Wash.. Jan. 2 —'U.R) — Dr. William W. Mattson is demanding absolute proof of the rr«»n who co’lects $28,000 ransom ' that his captive 10-year-old son is alive, it was reported reliably today He feared that a. crank or a second criminal might be attempting ta,eolb ■ t the ransom demanded by the bearded kidnaper who stole Ms son last Sunday night. tWhil. police questioned a sus- * pect. (frenzied activities at the Mattson home ea.rly today indicated that a "break” might be near..'that the kidnaper had given or was about to give proof that he actual:.- possessed little Chaylaa and the child was alive and well. Dr. Mattson was understood to have demanded a note in his child’s handwriting. The suspect, Halbert Reynolds. 33. a sea,man. was arrested while • attempting to pawn a ring at a local pawn shop. Police said he had a police record and resembled somewhat the description of the kidnaper given by the three children Who witnessed the a.lxiuction of Chari. < But there seemed little beyond that to connect him with the case, and police said he would be released today provided he : MKOunicd satisfactorily for his movements during the past

six days. G-men. in quiet charge of the kidnaping, questioned Reynolds, then, no longer interested, turned him back to police. While this was going on. the two mm mentioned as probable intermediaries between the father and the criminal holding his son, called at the beautiful Mattson home and conferred at length with the doctor who notified the i kidnaper in a newspaper advertisement Thursday that he was ready to pay the masom. A short while before Dr. Matt-; sen made several automobile trips to undisclosed places. Once he was accompanied by his other son, William. Jr., who witnessed the kidnaping. Paul Sceva, I esort manager, and LiePt-Col. Gus B. Appleman, the possible Intermediaries, after their conference W'ith the father, said no progress had been made in ob taining the child’s release. The boy’s grandmother. Mrs. Charles Fletcher, said no word had been received from the abductor. While some minor officials expressed fear for the child's safety and a few considered the possibility that he had been murdered, the family apparently had reason to believe otherwise. An atmosphere of optimism seemed to pervade the Mattson home where the parents and their friends stood vigil at five telephones.

Two Brothers Drown In Fall Through Ice Knox, Ind., Jan. 2.— KU.R> —William and Fred Shiplock, 14 and 12-year-old brothers, who disappeared' from their home on Christmas af--ternoon, were found drowned in Eagles Lake on their parents' farm near here, apparently having coasted to their deaths on a sled given them as a Christmas present. The parents, believing the boys had gone to the home of relatives nearby, asked no search until last Sunday, when the cap of one of •*n» boys was found near the lake shore, Etugging oT the lake startled immediately, a dozen boats and 30 volunteers joining the search.

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Liquor Store Owner II el fl. After Shooting Anderson, Ind., Jan. 2. — (U.R) — Herbert Cartwright, 40, liquor store owner, was in jail today for investigation into the death of gunshot wounds of Melda Carter, 26, early last Monday. His arrest was ordered by Coroner S. J. Stottlemyer, who first had said that Miss Carter’s death was accidental and had indicated Cartwright would be released. Yesterday, however, Stottlemeyer said new evidence had been discovered leading him to believe the shooting was homicidal in intent, and would so indicate in the inquest verdict. No charge has yet been filed.

GROSS INCOME PAYMENTS DUE Reports For Year Os 1936 Must Be Paid By January 30 Indianapolis. Jan. 2—(Special) — Citizens and corporations in all sections of Indiana whose income during 1936 amounted to more than SI,OOO today began filing annual state gross income tax returns. It was estimated by gross income tax officials that before the taxpaying period ends January 30, between 375.000 and 400.000 returns will have been filed. This estimate compares with 350,000 returns filed last year and 302,000 filed in 1934. Great advances made in all lines of business were expected to ewell not only the number of returns but also the volume of revenue. As the new annual taxpaying period opened, it was revealed that gross income tax collections during the twelve-month period which ended December 31 amounted to $18,060,808.36, an increase of 23.3 per cent over collections in the same period in 1935. Included in collections up to December 31 were tax payments which 1935 annual returns, filed in January of 1936, la.nd quarterly tax payments for the fltst three quarters of 1936. .Return forms and information for the current annual taxpaying period have been made available at 147 state a.uto license branches and 250 sub-bianches in addition to the gross income tax division headquarters at 141 S. Meridian street, Indianapolis. Regulations require that ajl income received in 1936 be reported on the annual return, regardless of any quarterly returns filed. The SI,OOO exemption then is deducted from income and the full year’s tax computed. If quarterly payments have been made, they aj-e deducted to find the balance of tax due with the annual return. It was pointed out by Clarence A. Jackson, director of the gross income tax division, that gross income tax revenue will be called upon in 1937 to provide SSOO of the salary of each of more than 20,000 teachers in the state, as compared with $425 a teacher last year, and also will carry a large (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Meeting Os Christian Church Is Postponed The annual meeting of the Christian church congregation has been postponed one week and will be held Sunday, January 10. —o To Confer Sunday On Auto Strikes

Flint. Jan. 2—(UP) —Auto union leaders moved into this industrial center today for a major conference on a collective bargaining agreement to be offered the strike ridden General Motors corporation. Nine General Motors plants were closed and 27,000 men out of work as a result of strikes sponsored by the determined United Auto workers union and other shutdowns were threatened unless General Motors executives agreed to recognize the union.

Added Employment Noted In District Fort Wayne, Jan. 2.—((U.R) ; —A 38 ' per cent increase in employment l ' in this district by the Indiana state employment service was announcJ ed for 1936 by W. S. Foster, Fort Wayne manager. The local gain : was 17 per cent above the increase I for tfie state as a whole. • | —o 1 , Schools Resume II Classes Monday t All schools in the county, rural, i city and parochial, will resume ■! classes on Monday morning after I: nearly a two weeks holiday vacaj tion.

OVER 200 DIE VIOLENT DEATH OVER NEW YEAR Auto Accident Deaths, However, Are Lower Than Christmas Toll (Copyright 1937 by VP.) , j The United States ushered in the New Year with more than 200 1 violent deaths in accidents, murders, and suicides. Reports from 30 states and the District of Columbia early today showed 194 fatalities in the wildest New Year's celebration since 1 1929. Another dozen states re--1 ported no fatalities, but expected 1 .to hear of some later in outlying districts.

These and deaths of others critically injured were* expected to send the final toll possibly to 250. The death list was about 100 less than that of Christmas, however, and considerably under that of last year’s. At least three-fourths of the deaths occurred in automobile accidents. Added to these were a scattering of suicides, explosions, fires and murders, many of them connected with wild New Year's parties. An oil cloth factory explosion in New- Jersey took three lives. Gangsters killed a man in South Dakota with five tons of high explosive. Four or five men were involved in a boat explosion in Lake Michigan. Absence of snow and ice on highways and the fact that many celebrators remained indoors combined to hold automobile traffic considerably under that of Christmas. Illinois, California and Pennsylvania had the most deaths. New Jersey was among the leaders, while New York state reported one of its smallest violence tolls of many holidays. Deaths by states: Alabama 3, California 20, Colorado 1, Connecticut 10, District of Columbia 1, Illinois 20, Indiana 3, lowa 3, Kansas 3, Louisiana 3, Massachusetts 5, Michigan 13, Minnesota 1, Missouri 8, Nebraska 3, New Jersey 12. New York 6~Ohio 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE' Two Armed Bandits Rob Clinton Case Clinton, Ind., Jan. 2 —(UP) —Two bandits yesterday robbed the Del Rio case and escaped with $l2O taken from the cash register and from the purses of two women. Both men were armed.

POPE SUFFERS RENEWED PAIN Renewal Os Pain Causes Anxiety In Vatican Household Vatican City, Jan. 2. —<U.R>— Renewal of pain in Pope Pius's swollen leg caused intensified anxiety in the Vatican today. Vatican officiate said the pope's sleep was interrupted by intermittent pains, though they added that the pains were not so acute as those of a week ago and that aside from them the pope passed a fairly good night. This morning the pope had his usual talk with Cardinal Pacelli, vatica nsecretary of state, regarding current affairs. Then he received Archbishop J. A. Chollet, of Cambrai, France. Cardinal Pacelli tried to persuade the pope to permit Prof. Aminta Milani. the Vatican physician and his sole me<ical attendant, to consult another doctor. The cardinal would not say what the pope decided. For 48 hours, it was said, the pope’s condition had been stationery. Blood circulation had improved, somewhat, it was said, and the pope was getting more rest. But fear of complications was revived again, and the atmosphere about the Vatican was a sorrowful one. The feeling Is that everything possible has been done for the pope and yet he has not improved. Hence, those in the Vatican felt increasingly the handicap of the pope’s age — nearly 80 years—and the tact that he has been losing strength for weeks. Despite the slight improvement in the pope’s general condition due to diminution of pain in recent days, it was thought necessary yesterday to transfer to the government palace square the traditional New Year day concert of the Palatine guards bands It was feared that if the concert were held as usual in the courtyard of St. Damasu sthe pope might be disturbed.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 2, 1937.

Heads Board • I Lit Phil Sauer was re-elected president of the board of Adams county commissioners at the annual organization meeting this morning. AUTO LICENSE PLATE REPORT Total Os 2,324 Auto License Plates Are Issued To Date IA total of 2,324 auto license plates had been distributed this morning by Dee Fryback, manager of the local license bueau, as the rush for plates continued unabated. More than 400 truck plates were also distributed. Long lines of car owners have waited for plates during the last few days as it became apparent that no extension of time would be granted for the securing of platesState police officials Friday announced they had no orders to begin a campaign against persons driving with 1936 plates. However, it is expected that instructions to make arrests will be made in a short time, if a procedure similar to that in the last few years is carried but. Many persons over the state who attempted to get pla’es on the last day were unable to obtain them because of the long lines ahead. It is probable that the rush will not have been completed until the middle of next week.

McMurray To Guide Vocational Education Indianapolis, Jan. 2. — XU.R> —The state’s vocational education activ--1 ities will go under the direction of Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction, in the near future, it was announced today. The work previously had been in charge of Dr. Z. M. Smith, | Lafayette, agricultural education director. I The change will be made to coordinate vocational education with J a new federal law effective July ' 1. The state vocational education board will supervise vocational work and administer the federal funds. McMurray also said that the state board of education has approved the placement system now operated by teaching training institutions, a free service to teachers and school officials. o COUNTY BOARD ELECTS SAUER Phil Sauer Is Re-Elected President Os Commissioners Phil Sauer was re-elected president of the Adame county board of commissioners at its organization meeting this morning in the court . ’ house. Moses Augsburger was reelected vice-president. Frank Lini- ' ger is the other member of the board, taking office Friday, Immediately following the election, the board went to the county infirmary to make their annual in- '■ ventory of the .place- The commissioners previously appointed C. C. Beer, of Berne, and David J. Schwartz, of Monroe, as appraisers in ' making the inventory. , I Most of the day is expected to be ' taken up by the work at the intirm- : ary. Monday, the board will receive bids for the furnishing of county , supplies for the year 1937, and on Tuesday and Wednesday the board . will meet to consider the purchasing .' of road materials. I Several appointments, including • i that of trustee of the Adams county < 1 memorial hospital, road superinteni dent, custodian of the courthouse • ■ and matron of the ladies rest rooms, | are to be made by the board-

CUB CHARTER TO BE GIVEN Decatur Cub Pack To Be Presented (’barter Tuesday Night A charter will be presented the Decatur Cub pack number 61, and awards ma.de the boys and officials at a meeting of the cub pack, pack officials, and the sponsoring organization, the Decatur PTA council, at a meeting to be held in the Central school house Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The charter and the owants will be presented by Clyde Hendricks. Cub committeeman for the Anthony Wayne Area council of the Boy Scouts. Other area officials from Fort Wayne also are expected to be present. Meeting with the members of the pa,ck will be the PTA council, all members of the pack committee, the assistant cub masters, the den chiefs, the denners, the par- ' ents and the den mothers. Awards to be made at the meeting are certificates to the officials; yellow and gold brajd to the four , older boys who are serving as den chiefs; two gold stripes to each of the four cubs serving as denners, and recognition to the den ■ mothers. Badges and den nunrer- ; als may be obtained by the boys : at the meetings. Registration cards will be given to the cubs, ■ who have not yet received them. Games will be played and con- . tests held by the boys under the. direction of the area council offf- . cials. Mr. Hendricks, a former resident of the county, is well known here. Principal of the Adams school in Fort Wayne, he is prominent in boys work. A short program is being ari ranged during which time Mr. Hendricks, in behalf of the area , council, will present the charter to the PTA association as the , sponsoring organization. After this the various individual awards will be made. 0

George Wood Injured By Sheep Thursday George Wood, of near this city, is reported recovering in the Adams county memorial hospital today after being butted by a sheep i Thursday noon. An operation was necessary to close an intestinal rupture. COMMITTEE FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Severin Schurger, Charlotte Elzey On Ticket Committee Severin Schurger and Charlotte Elzey will be co-chairmen of the ticket committee for the Birthday Ball for the President, it was announced today by Edwin Kauffman and Dorothy Young, general chairmen. Other members of this committee will be selected next week. The Birthday Ball for the President wi’l be held here January 30, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birthday. Funds raised from the affair will be used for the cure and elimination of infantile paralysis, a disease which once afflicted the President. Thirty per cent of the ne f profits will be used in a national fund for research in an effort to find a preventative for the disease. Seventy per cent will be added to *he fund which has been growing here for two years. It is to be used to help some child, who by immediate medical attention, may be partially cured from the disease. Similar birthday parties will be held in hundreds of communities in the United States January 30. t» i) H on I ' ' <• Nd LMan Knows ;*Z’Hdw His ;; .Business •• Be'Until It Is n* 'Advertised / OS »» •» »• | . S» • »»»»♦ | II «| *• I H Hsi ,• f-dFUAXJ ” * • * ! M I J/w nrirff ; g >.........—..

ICE PREVENTS RESCUERS FROM REACHING SHIP At Least Five Men On Flaming Tugboat In Lake Michigan Chicago, Jan. 2.—(U.R) — Eighty five ieet of ice separated three ' coast guard crews from a flaming tugboat on Simmons reef in northern Lake Michigan, they reported to regional headquarters early today. At least five men were believed • to be on the tug, the Harold Bird, • at Charlevoix, Michigan. ' Coast guard boats from Charle1 voix, Beaver Island and Mackinac Island circled the burning tug helplessly, trying to find a channel in the great sheet of ice surrounding it. The ice was too heavy for light ! coast guard boats to break, but not ■ heavy enough to support the weight of men if they ventured across it • on foot. A narrow band of open water surrounded the hull of the ’ tug. i Army headquarters here dis--1 patched an airplane to aid in the ■ rescue. i It was believed the tug’s crew ■ may have ventured out in the ice 1 field in lifeboats. Smoke from the i flaming tug and the abandoned . gasoline freighter, J. Oswald Boyd, defied searching attempts before ■ dawn, and the guardsmen conceni trated on efforts to break a chan- ■ nel through the ring of Ice separating them from the Harold Bird. The tug was identified as the i Harold Bird, which has a regular i crew of five. First reports to coast • 1 guardsmen said there were additional men on board. The Bird apparently caught fire . as its crew sought to remove gasoi line from the Boyd, which was ■ abandoned in November after un- • successful salvage attempts. A • spark of static electricity or the i tug’s engine or exhaust ignited the film of gasoline which lay over the water. A woman in the village of EsPiousette, six miles from the reef, ■ saw flames shoot in the sky, and smoke billow up over the water. Villagers and fishermen watched ’ the drama through field glasses until smoke obscured the scene. , Their own fishing tugs had been i laid up for the winter, and villagI ers feared to venture out on the choppy shoals in the only small boats available. The Boyd, owned by the Dunham Marine corporation of New York, went aground Nov. 3 in a blinding snowstorm as it raced through Machinac Straits from Detroit to Indiana Harbor, Ind., with 1 2,000 tons of gasoline. Coast guardsmen from Mackinac, Beaver Island and Charlevoix, Mich., sought to refloat the freighter, but gave up on Nov. 9 and removed the captain and crew of 20 to Mackinac. Abandoned for salvage, the Boyd’s cargo became free booty for all callers. Fishing tugs with a short enough draft to clear the reefsf requently stopped beside the Boyd and siphoned off a supply of gasoline.

DEATH CLAIMS M.B. COSTELLO Brother-in-Law Os Local Man Dies This Morning In Chicago Word has been received here that M. B. Costello, 63, Chicago, 111., died this morning at St. Bernard’s hospital. He has been ailing for some time. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o’clock at the St. Bernard’s' Catholic church in Chicago. Burial will be made | in Chicago. He had been a marble contractor for many years. He was a broth-er-in-law of Joseph B. Brunnegraff, and has visited in Decatur on many occasions. His wife has been confined to the St. Bernard’s hospital for the past month. o .— Christianer Babe First Os New Year As far as was known today, the honor of being the first baby born in the city in 1937 gees to Donald Gerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Christianer, of route three, Decatur. The baby, weighing six pounds, five and one-quarter ounces was born at the Adams county memorial hospital at 10:57 o’clock last night, | January 1.

New War Threat ! Is Feared After Seizure Os Ship I

POLICE SEARCH FORMURDERERS Officers Os Five States Seek Men Who Set Off Blast Sioux Falls. S. D. Jan. 2— (UP)— Police of five states searched today for three men who bound a man and a woman beside five tons of high explosives and left them to die in a blast that shook the countryside for 50 miles. The man, Harold (Ed) Baker, Sioux City, la., was believed dead, police said they found a fragment of hls body- The woman, Helen Seiler, 25, Sioux City, dragged herself away just before the blast, and survived. The explosion shattered several thousand dollars worth of store and residence windows in Sioux Falls, rattled dishes in fr-rm homes for 25 miles around, hushed New Year's

Eve revelry. An hour later, police traced It to an isolated shack four miles from the city, where the Larson Hardware company had stored 3,300 pounds of dynamite and 7,500 ■ pounds black powder for WPA ! work. Where the shack had stood : was a hole 50 feet across and 20 feet deep. Splinders were scattered for a thousand yards. Ed Lacey, a farmer, found Miss Seiler crawling beside a highway a half mile from the scene- In Moe ; hospital, she told this story; In Sioux City, she, Baker and j three men robbed the Ehlerman Jewelry store of $36,000 in gems and SI,OOO in cash Dec. 22. She wanted ' to surrender to police. Three of the gangsters, whos- names police chief Harry Morstad did not disclose, feared he and Baker would talk. "Ed Baker and 1 were put on the [epot,” she said. New Year’s eve they drove her' and Baker to the Sioux Falls powder house and ordered them from the car. They slugged Baker and shot him. She started to run, was ; slugged with a hammer, and shot i twice. The men thrust Miss Seiler and baker into a snowbank beside the powder house, lit a fuse attached to the dynajnite and fled. Pain from her wounds awoke Miss Seiler. “When 1 came to. I saw a powder fuse burning a few feet from me,” , She said. "I could see Ed Baker lying beside the shack. I dragged myself away. There was a flash, and I was thrown forward.” o Two Os Escaped Prisoners Caught Richmond, Ind., Jan. 2. — (U.R) — Two of nine prisoners who escaped from the Dayton, O„ jail last night were caught here hiding in a stolen car a few hours later and were returned to Ohio authorities. | The men were Wendell Hoop, 23, held on an automobile theft i charge, and James Nayer, 19, charged with burglary. Police intercepted them 45 minutes after receiving word of the jailbreak and a description of the car. Several shots were fired at the car before Hoop and Nayer halted. o

Brandishes Gun, Taken In Custody Fort Wayne, Jan. 2.—<U.R> —With ’ a gun used just "for making noise , on New Year's eve” Ray M. Fagan, 20, was accused of threatening four I youths last night. Fagan was charged with drawt ing a deadly weapon after he was , brought to police by the four young men who overpowered him, beat- . ing him so badly about the head) that he had to be treated at a hospital. ; o Conservation Club ’ Will Meet Monday The country conservation cllb will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday evening. January 4.' 1 at the St. John's school house, road 27. north of Decatur. P’ans for a banquet will be d'ecussed at the 1 meeting. i o WEATHER Cloudy southwest, rain in east and north portion early tonight; much colder tonight, : moderate cold wave northwest I and west central portions; , Sunday fair and decidedly colder.

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German Warship Seizure Os Loyalist Ship Seen As Most Direct Act Os Intervention Yet. PROBE REPORTS London. Jan. 2— (U.R) —Great Britain may prepare to mediate I between Germany and the loyalist I Spanish government, the incident I caused by a, German warship's seizure of the Sipanish loyalist steamship Soton. The seizure seemed the most direct and most open intervention by a foreign nation in the civil war that has yet occurred, according to unofficial British circles. Because Great Britajn is eager to avoid danger of international conflict, it was believed the gov- ■ ernment might indicate willingness to comply with any authorized request that it act as go-he-tween for Germany ajid the Madrid government to settle the Issue. The threat of new trouble in the Spanish situation rose today when it was semi-officially confinned that Germany had informed Britain and France she would never tolerate a communist Spanish government. This news came immediately after an editorial in yesterday’s Giornele D’ltalian in which Virginia Gayda, regarded as mouthpiece for Premier Mussolini, argued that establishment of a communist "base in Spain would I force modification of the territorial and political status quo in the Mediterranean. Confirm Seizure Berlin, Jan. 2— (U.R) —Germans Imperturbably awaited an expected storm of foreign reaction todty as official quarters confirmed that two Go-man warships had “provisionally” seized two Snanish loyalist steamships off the Spanish i coast. The Koenigsberg. the agency I said, then proceeded. This seemed to constitute the "provisional” seizure and to satisfy nazi honor. It was said that no member of the Soton's crew f remained aboard the Koenigsberg. Speculation in diplomatic quar- ' ters centered on the possibility that the seizures might delay Fuehrer Adolf Hitler’s reply to a French-British plea for cessation I of the dispatch of ‘‘volunteers’’ to I fight in the Spanish civil war. Before the seizures, it was believed the reply was imminent. Reports were that Germany’s reply would be similar to Italy’s, which imposed several conditions as a necsesary part of any agreement on “volunteers.” Sign Agreement Rome, Jan. 2 —(U.R) —An ItalianBritish agreement for cooperation in the Mediterranean was signed at noon today a,fter months of negotiations. Count Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister, and Sir Rric Drummond, British ambassador. signed the treaty. Premier Benito Mussolini was still absent, resting in his favorite retreat at Rocca Della Cam inate. It was expected that the agreement. officially called "exchange of assurances, ’’ would be published simultaneously in Roane and Loudon Monday or Tuesday. Diplomats believed that the agreement might have important bearing later on the general European situation and particularly on Italy’s relations with nazi Germany. Under it, Italy and Great Britain define their interests in the Mediterranean in such manner as to show that there is no clash of i interests—interests such as sent a ' gigantic British battle fleet to tile Mediterranean during the Ethiopian crisis and caused tens of thousands of soldiers to be sent to Italian Libya and to Egypt, adjoining it. Some diplomats feel that the agreement may improve chances for a general European understanding. They believe that Mussolini may seek to make himself mediator between Germany and France. Probe Reports Washington, Jan. 2 —(U.R)—The United States government has begun an investigation of reports that airplane shipments from this country to Mexico are being transshipped to Spain for use in the civil war there, it was revealed today. Officials of the sta.te department confirmed that the mundtioM control board had issued export licenses within the past two weeks for shipments of the planes to ' 'CONTINUED on PAGE THREE)