Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1960 — Page 1

Vai. LVIII. No. 105.

Report Light State Voting

INDIANAPOLIS 'UPI' — Idr.l sunny weather tailed to brtog out • *ub*tanUal early vote to Indiana** primary election* today From ail parla at th* Mate came word that the voter* tatted to throng the poll* drip*!** cloudlet* »kie» and faat-rising tempera torr* The light vote at the morning ted Democratic tender* to predict that the margin of Sen Jfho F. Kennedy over Vice - Preatdan*Richard M Ninon in the presidential Imitating will exceed the 75.000 total foreaeao by Secretary al State Jiton R Wal»h. • I>moThere were indication*, how.ever. that the vote total will ri*c to the afternoon after worker* leave the factorte* and farmer* quit the field*. «- .u Factory manager* in S-itn Bend will ditmiM their empire* at 3 p.tn. to vote. Balloting wu Kant there to the morning bourr Similar reports edme from »ucn widely scattered regions M EvansviUe. Terre Haute. New Albany. Indiana poll* and a number of rural cotrnbe*. In contra rt to Walsh’s prediction. Sen Marshall Kiser. Plymouth, Kennedy’s co-manager to Indiana, ha* predicted that Nixen will win by from 25.000 to 50.000 ' votes over the Massachusetts senator. Parker Cautious Gov. Crawford F. Parker, leading candidate for the Republican gubernatorial title, has estimated the Kennedy margin at the same total as Kizer predicted a Nixon * However. Governor Handley, a pioneer Nixon man. made the following non-commital forecast: -We expect Dick Nixon to make a good showing. But, regardless of his total vote, he will have toe entire Hoosier delegation to the totecan national convention just as he wiU be the overwhelming choice of all voters next November. “The situation is far different for Senator Kennedy. If Democratic vote expected because of factional fighting in all countie* does not materialize in Kennedy, his fate will be Officers Nominated For Decatur Lions Officers were nominated for the coming year Monday night by the Decatur bions club, which toen kwred ttta nw Industries building and the older assembly plant. Officers nominated tor the coming year are: president, Dr. Joe Morris; first vice president, J Clark May din; second vice president. Norman Steury; third vice president, Dick Mies; Measurer. Harry Knapp; secretary, Ed Highland; tail-twisters, Jim Beery and Dick Sullivan; Lion tamer, Gordon Hooper and Jay Markley; board members (four to be elected), Hugh Andrews, Bill McColly, Harry Schwartz, Frank Lybarger, Russell Owens, and Noah Steury. The report was made by Ron Parrish, chairman of the nominating committee, which included Herman Krueckeberg, Thurman Drew, Dick Mies, Bill McColly, and Roger Gentis. " ' Guests of Club Kenneth Erhart, of the KrickTyndall factory, and Allen Nucnael, of Central Soya company, were introduced as new members. Beet Wilson, of Chicago, 111., was > guest of Dick Mies; Roy Kaehr. manager of the Decatur Industries,, was a guest of Noah Steury. Steury explained that there are now 135 employes working for Decatur Industries on two shifts. More than 200 different types of trophy bases alone are manufactured by the company. Shown Plant The Lions were shown toe unloading dock at toe railroad, where boards of walnut, mahogany, white ash, oak, cedar and other wood is unloaded. It takes approximately eight hours to unload a carload of lumber, which tests about a week. Boards are cut to 12 foot lengths, and loaded on pallets, which allow large piles to be handled by mechanical equipment. Knots are sawed from toe boards, which are cut to standard length and thicknesses, and then glued together into board again. All types of mechanical automatic saws are used to cut toe . wood to shape, tollowing molds designed by the Steurys. The I business grew out of a garage project during toe second World War when Noah Steury worked with Wayne Novelty. After the tour of toe new plant, the group went to the old plant, where the trophies are assembled.

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waled” _ Kennedy apparently ha* a hard core of vote* that may be recorded before toe poll* ctoae at S pm, according to a number of observer* The light morning voting led 1 never*) poMticoa to predict th*’ the balloting total may not reach 700 000 In ronraat to hr 955.000 marie of he 19M primary. Kennedy H*. Two Foe. Because both candidate* have ( insignificant opjxwitwm in their retpecttve primarw* and arc sure of winning them, the big toterert w»« in whether Kennedy, a Catholic. could uirpaaa Nixon • Quaker, in this former stronghold ' of the Ku Ktox Klan The Massachusetts senator has 1 two rival*, both of scant political ( stature—Lar Daly. Chicago. Amer- 1 ica Firater who campaigns in an Uncle Snm suit, and John H. ( Latham. unknown retired con- j struetton worker of Rockville. Ind, ( Nixon, who ha* toe backing of , Gov. Harold W Handley and the Republican state organization, with recent fervent activity, has I only one opponent, Frank Beckwith. Indianapolis Negro attorney, who has few acquaintances out- j side of Indianapolis. Democratic leaders said that the weather favored Kennedy because sunny skies may keep GOP : farmers too busy in the fields to - go to toe polls I Walsh Say* Kennedy - Indiana’s highest ranking Demo- ’ cratic state official. Secretary of 1 State John R. Walsh, a gubernatorial aspirant, predicted that 1 Kennedy would beat Nixon by at 1 least 75.000 votes. 1 Republican bigwigs wrre silent ( on vote predictions, although a < formidable drive for Nixon was ( launched by them in the closing ( days of the campaign. Walsh charged that this activity included the tacking of Nixon porters on poles along Hoosier roads by State Highway Department maintained that similar ! action by the road workers in 1958 hurt Gov. Handley, when he was overwhelmingly beaten for United States Senator by Sen. Vance Hartke. All observers agreed that Nixon would fall tar short of the 1956 primary indlorsement of President Eisenhower when toe standing , was 351,913 tallies tor the Prest- ( dent and only 222.842 for Democratic Sen Estes Kefauver. There are indications that Ken- ( nedv has spirited support among , Indiana women, similar to that enjoyed by Ike to j this factor may be nullified by the religious question which led to the heckling of Kennedy to two Hpo- 1 sier cities during his three inva- 1 sions of this state. - Nixon Absent < Nixon has not appeared in Indi- ] ana for many months, in contrast j to Kennedy’s tours to nearly all j parts of toe state. The voters today also nominated ( 22 candidates for Congress from ( among 57 aspirants, inlucding all incumbents— eight Democrats and three Republicans. Five of the nresent members of the national House have no opponents. The chief interest in congressional contests centers about whether 10th District Congressman, Randall (Front Porch) Harmon will be renominated. He has eight opponents who may split the opposition vote enough to give toe nod to HarHoosiers also chose candidates for toto houses of the State Legislature from among 545 aspirants for the 100 House nominations and the 26 Senate nominations. t£x>n<inued on page alx) Advertising Index Advertiser _ Pag | A & P Tea Co., Inc — £ Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop — Burk Elevator Co ® Butler Garage, Inc — » Buick rz-LT-”"* Boardmans Sewing Machine Shop -- * Citizens Telephone Co — * Decatur Ready-Mix Co;p 2 Decatur DriVe-In Theater —-— 3 Ehinger’s “Bostdh Store” 3 Fasteeth _„,i—? Fort Wayne Tent & Awning Co 2 Gerber Realty - 5 Haugks “ Holthouse Drug Co 7 Johnson & Schnepf, Auctioneers 5 Kocher Lumber & Coal Co —— 2 Kohne Drug Store X-- 2, 5 Klenks 7 Kohne Window & Awning Co - 2 Oldsmobile 7 Phillips “66” ——- 6 Petrie Oil Co —- 2 Rash Insurance Agency —l-— 2 L. Smith Insurance Agency 5 Smith Drug Co —4, 5 Shaffer’s Restaurant 7 Teeple Trwk Lines — Uhrick Bros —-—- 6 Wemhofi Marble & Tile 2 Yost Gravel-Ready Mix, Inc ... 2

District Librarians Meet Here Thursday Approximately 10 0 member* from dislrirt two of the librarian* •nd library truatac* a»aoci«uoo of Indiana will meet tn Decatur Thuraday. MH* Bertha C. Hellar, Decatur librarian and hMtexa for the affair, said today. Member* will attend from It counties of northeartrrn IndianaAdam*. Alien. Wells. Huntington. Wabash. DeKalb. Steuben. LaGrange. Noble. Whitley. Kosciusko and Elkhart. The group will meet first In the Decatur public library at 9 a.m. for registration, coffee hour and inspection of the rcmcxieled building. Exhibit* At Center At 10:15 p m. they will go to the Community Center for the program and luncheon. Doubleday, Polk. E. M. Hate and Co.. Collier Encyclopedia and Golden Book*, and the Sturgi* Library Product* Co. will have exhibit* at the center. _ Patrick Murray, presided? of the association, will preside at the 10:15 meeting. Lowell J. Smith, chairman of the library board, will welcome the group. Following the introductions, toe business session will include the nomination and election of officers, reports from committees, announcements. and acceptance of invitations for the next meeting. Young Adult* Mrs. Ralph McCaffery, of the young adults room. Fork WayneAllen county library, will speak on j "young adult library need*.” At 11:30 the group will discuss the topic, and adjourn at noon for a recess and the viewing of exhibits. At 12:30 p.m. the luncheon will be held, with an invocation by Lowell J. Smith. Following dinner the groups will be introduced by counties. A symposium on the strengthening and extension of present library services by various group representatives will take place at 1:30 p.m. Miss Folk On Panel Speakers will include Miss Lois Folk, of Adams county, representing rural views; Wirt Fairman, librarian of Indiana Technical College, Fort Wayne; O. M. Ramsey, Fort Wyane electrical contractor and Patrick Murray, representing the senior citizens. At 2:30 p.nv, Mrs. Reid B. Erek■son of Decatuf wifi present “The Music Man.” At 3:30 p.m. the group will evaluate the meeting, and then adjourn following refreshments. Smith Co-Chairman Lowell Smith, of Decatur, is cochairman with Murray of the district this year. Mrs. Evelyn Culp, Nappanee librarian, is secretarytreasiirer. Miss. Eva F- Sprungert of Berne and Rachel Filer of Geneva are on toe registration committee. The welcome and hospitality committee includes Miss HeHer, Mrs. Martha Heller. Miss Etta Mallonee, Murray, and Carl E. Luginbin; Os Berne. - - An attractive 8-page booklet on the meeting has been mailed out to member libraries. Monthly Reports On County Home, Roads The monthly report from toe county home ,the county highway supervisor, and a letter from toe gasoline distributor supplying the county with kerosene were made a matter of record by the county commissioners Monday. - County home superintendent Frank Kitson reported that 18 men and eight women are residents of the county home, the* same as for toe previous month. During the month seven of the residents of the home paid all or part of the cost of their residency. During the month the farm sold 16 hogs for $570.14 and five sows for $274.80. William W. Wile, Jr., of the National Oil and Gas company of Bluffton, Phillips 66 dealers, wrote to the commisioners that price of kerosene purchased by the county by tank lots has been reduced 1% cents a gallon, effective April 26. Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent, reported that during toe month of April the county highway trucks traveled 24,612 miles. A total of 3,111 miles of road was graded, and 5,458.12 tons of stone was hauled on toe roads. The men spent 908 hours patching blacktop, 180 hours cutting trees and brush, 561 hours hauling stone on roads, 523 hours on ditches, culverts, and catch basins, 31 hours repairing and maintaining bridges, 57 hours constructing new bridges, 25 hours constructing new road base, 776 hours grading, 188 hours of miscellaneous work, 31 hours of special roadway work, 118 hours servicing equipment, and 275 hours repairing equipment. Equipment was in use for 2,305 hours. The' report covered the period March 22 to April 22. t" •

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Light Vote Reported In Decatur; Heavier Voting In South Part Os County

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SUNDAY SCHOOL SPEAKERS—TTie Rev. Laytand Smith, left, end the Rev. George Failing, right, will be Mie principal speakers at the fifth Indiana Sunday school convention, to be held Thursday and Friday at Berne. Rev. Smith, of South Bend, is state president and Rev. Failing is editor of toe "Wesleyan Methodist at Marion. More than 1,000 persons are expected to attend the convention toe first to be held at a small Indiana city. Others have been at South Bend. Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis. Techniques of teaching Sunday school wiH be discussed. The meetings will start at 1:30 Thursday, and will run until about 10 p. m. each day. Sunday school workers of all denominations are invited to inspect the latest aides in teaching. .

Annual Meeting Os Red Cross May 10 A special fund campaign award, plus other awards, will be made at the annual meeting of the Adams county Red Cross next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, Wilbur Petrie, president, ed this morning. A special invitation to the meeting is directed to the county fund chairmen, township chairmen, and township and city workers. A fund campaign "report will be made, and Miss Selma Berstein, district director .will be -on -he nd for the -presentation of a special award to Adams county. Officers will be elected for the coming year.

Foreign Protests Over Chessman

United Press International United States embassies were mobbed, picketed or badgered with false threats and United States law was assailed as “cruel” and “inhuman” in a wave of foreign criticism of the execution of Caryl Chessman. The death of the sex-kidnaper was headline news around the world, largely as a result of the wide circulation of books he wrote _jn the In Rome, a French-born American named John Laurent said he and his wife were giving up their U.S. citizenship in protest against toe execution. In Copenhagen, a telephone tipster told a newspaper a bomb had been planted in toe U.S. embassy- The building was searched, but no bomb was found. The Swedish tabloid Expressen, Scandinavia’s biggest newspaper, called the execution “legalized murder by the state of California.” England’s Manchester Guardian called the execution an “outrage,” and former Appeals Judge Lord Birkett said it seenjed “rather cruel” to take Chessman's life after so long a time. Protests were inspired in some measure by opposition to capital punishment, but for the most part what horrified foreigners was toe judicial delay that kept Chessman in toe shadow of death for 12 years. A stone-throwing mob broke’ several windows in toe U.S. Embassy library in Lisbon, Portugal Monday Mobs besieged other embassies at points as far separated as Stockholm, Sweden, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Mob Shout “Murderers” The mobs in Montevideo picketed not only toe embassy offices but the ambassador's residence, shouting “murderers! v and “assassins !*’ ? - • 9 ’

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To Award First Aid Certificates To Class Standard first aid certificates ■. will be awarded Wednesday to 10 ; members of the first aid class con- ‘ ducted at Geneva recently by Roy ’ Gilliom, of Berne, for the Adams county Red Cross. The class will complete its les- ’ sons Wednesday night. Any person interested in first aid class I should contact Darrel S. Brown or Harold Schlagenhauf. Classes will be arranged at a later date. Those completing the course ari .' Nolan D Kfmns il. Gerald E. Buckey, Mrs. LaVhun Muth. Mrs. Darrol Smttley r Mrs. Steve Armstrong, Mrs. Logan Baumgartner, Russell Hirschy, Mrs. Luella Everhart, and Mrs Helen Buckingham.

‘ (Chessman’s final stay of exe- ! cution was toe result of a State * Department report to California’s 5 Gov. Edmund Brown that Uru- ; guayan opposition to the execution might erupt into anti-Eisen-hower riots if the kidnaper were r killed before the President Visited ? that country.) r Bi Milan, an enraged Italian 3 telephoned the UPI bureau to bel- .. lawt = —- “Shame on the United States! I ? wiU spit in the face of the next r American tourist I meet in the 1 sreets! Barbarians!” -No official comment was forthe coming from free-world governj ments but ,the execution was - widely criticized by private citi- , zens Only a handful of persons recalled the shocking nature of . his crimes. “Crimes Were Hideous” i Among these was London news- ■- paper columnist John Jelley, who said Chessman died “for the horn rible obsessions of his infancy." ’ “Let us brush the sentimental i bouquets aside.. Jelley said in r his Daily Mail column. “His - crimes were hideous.” London’s Labourite Daily Herald e said Monday was a “day of 1 shame,” and the Conservative t Daily Telegraph commented that e Chessman had been treated like n a “human yoyo . .there must be 2 in the hearts of most honest-to goodness Americans a great e tjbame over the execution.” - y A Finnish prosecutor called the 1 execution “cornpletely inhuman. ' - and a Swiss attorney said it was i “unworthy of a constitutional - state.” French novelist-biographer Andre Maurois said the execution ;- was “very unfortunate” because s there 'Was soiffe question about Chessman’s guilt, and in any case. - he "was not the man be was 12 years ago,”> /

I. M*4 of Decatur’* precincts | registered a lighter vote at 1 p. m. today than in the *pecial dty election a week ago. which saw a les* than 55% turnout, a check of the polls showed today Voting was reported heavier in the southern Adam* county precincts, especially in Geneva, where 25% of the voter* in one precinct had voted by 9 a m. In Decatur the vote, with tart . week's figure in parentheses. wa». ; between 12:30 and 1 p.m.: 1-A quonset. 119 (112) of 443: 1-B, cannery, 70 f BB > of 357; 1-C. jail. 94 ( 89' of 344; 1-D, Kaehr build- ' ing, 109 'loß' of 427; 2-A. court house, 165 ( 200» of 537 : 2-B, fire station, 100 <loo* of 314; 2-C. I Worthman field. 55 ' 64) of 294; 1 3-A, Runyon home. 140 <l34' of 496 ; 3-B, Case home. 110 < 94> of I 430: 3-C. Sheets garage, 60 <7O) of | 297; Decatur - Root, Decatur Equipment. 86 ' 70) of 397. A delegates and two precinct races in Geneva may be responsible for the heavy vote there The early vote in Berne indicated | a strong Democratic vote, despite the fact that Berne in recent elections has carried strongly Republican. Election results should be available precinct by precinct, as they are reported, starting about 8 p. m. Two ballots, with a number of candidates on each, must be counted. Those wishing results should call 2-3171; if toe line is busy, call back. Do not attempt to call other numbers, as that will block the lines reporting in with the returns, members of the newspaper staff cautioned. More than 3,500 calls were recorded during the power election last week on the Citizens Telephone companyDecatur Daily Democrat news recorder. Indiana-Michigan Petitions Purchase INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Public .Service Commission was petitioned by the Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.. Monday for permission to buy the electric system operated by the City of Decatur. Indiana & Michigan said it would pay Decatur $2,099,100 for the system, which serves 4,000 customers in and near toe city. The Decatur City Council approved the sale price late last year. The utility said it would put into effect “the same respective schedule of rates the petitioner now has in effect for similar classified service throughout its Indiana territory and . . . placing in effect of such service will result in over-all net savings to the customersan amount estimated at $85,(t00 a year.” Eisenhower Visits = Huge Army Center COLUMBUS, Ga. WPD—President Eisenhower arrived at the Army’; huge infantry training center at Ft. Benning today for a first-hand briefing on toe role of the riflemen in atomic war. The President’s jet plane also carried Secretary Jcrf Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr. ’ The President planned to spend about six hours watching what toe Army called “the most impressive military display and demonstration ever conducted in the Southeast.” Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Lyman L. Lmenitzer and 630 top civilian and military leaders from all over the free world are attending the Army’s “Project Man” demonstration which began Mons, Eisenhower will see only a part of toe three-day display of “modern aimy which is designed to show manufacturers;, scientists, engineers and military leaders how comptex toe infantry has become in the atomic age.

Asks Congress Approve Plans

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presl- ' dent Eisenhower today calk’d upon , ‘ Congress to avoid "electioneering" ’ and give swift approval to Ma Mreign aid program, new form teg- ’ Islation. gas tax and postal rate increases and other priority mot- ■ ters. ■ The chief executive said in a ■ special message that amounted to fI a mid - session State of the Unf ion report that the admlnisf tration’s new proposal on health r care for the aged will be sent to Congress this week. I He urged Congress to exercise - restraint and prudence in examining programs designed to proI vide benefits for large groups of . Americans or sections of the coun- . try. Noting that there are only about two months left in tlu? session of Congress, the President said: "We should jointly resolve that , the shortness of time and political rivalries will not be allowed to ’ prevent us from serving the Amer--1 ican people effectively. i Discusses Health Care 1 “Matters are still pending that . are vital to the health of our econ|r omy and to the nation’s Securiy and world peace. None of us can _ afford to electioneer at the ex- . pense of these.” In his two-paragraph remarks on ’ health care, the President said the administration program will take advantage of and support 1 progress made by private plans and “enable older people truly in need of help to meet the calamity of catastrophic illness.” He said it would recognize traditional federal-state relations in such benefit programs, and be far superior to what he termed “compulsory schemes which over ape- . riod of years would blight Amer- , tea's unexcelled medical stand- ; ards. • The President has vigorously opposed Democratic proposals for compulsory medical insurance as part of toe social security program. Eisenhower stressed these items . in his message: Foreign aid: He asked Congress i to approve the full four billion dollars he is seeking for this program and not bypass mutual security in favor of domestic projects backed by special interests. Farm Legislation: The President recommended that Congress act , now to face up to difficult problems faced by farmers and ease federal controls in this area but

Radio, TV Silent In Conelrad Test

WASHINGTON (UPI)—AII radio and TV programs will go off the air and key government officials will leave the capital for secret hideaways today in a nationwide test of civil defense preparations Warning signals opening "Operation Alert 1960” will sound at 2 p.m. e.d.t. Federal officials left it up to each city to determine how they would participate in the test. The exercise conlnues until 4 p.m. e.d.. Thursday. At least one protest was planned on grounds that civil defense is “futile and misleading” and the only real defense in toe nuclear age is peace. Conelrad Takes Over AM regular radio and television programs will, go off the air from 2 to 2:30' pm. e.d.t as part of the seventh annual test. The airwaves will be taken over by Conelrad, the radio system over which. instructions would be broadcast in a national emergency. — President Eisenhower, Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. and Civil and Defense Mobilizatibn DiteCtor Leo A. Hoegh arranged to make recorded speeches over the special Conelrad frequencies, 640 and 1240 kilo-

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he gave no specific solution* He also urged • four-rear extcmuun of the sugar act with authority for the President to adjust quotas. Minimum Wage: He backed extension of the federal floor under wages to about three million more workers and supported a moderate increase in the doilar-an-hour minimum. But he urged rejection of an “excessive” increase. Judgeships: He asked Congress to create 40 new federal judgeships to handle a greatly increased caseload and reduce delay in federal courts. \ Interest Ceiling' fie reiterated a former plea that Congress lilt the statutory interest rate ceiling of 4¥« per cent on long-term government bonds. Gas Tax: The chief executive again recommended a %-cent-a-gallon boost in the gasoline tax to keep the highway program on schedule and supported an additional aviation fuel tax, extension of some excise texes atui an increase in postal rates. He wants to raise first class mail rates from 4 to 5 cent and increase air mail from 7 to 8 cents. Area Redevelopment: Tfrß type of legislation needs “priority attention,” the President said, tart must not be a simply federal subsidy for distressed areas in IMU of aid to create new sources of jobs. „ - School Construction: He opposed Democratic-backed tails which he said would basically conflict with his standards for providing federal assistance only to meet genuine need and fjta infringe on state and local responsibilities. He wain recommended Congress approve the administration plan to help state and local governments finance school construction. INDIANA WEATHER — Fair this afternoon and tonight, a little warmer south. Wednesday fair south, partly cloudy north with chance of scattered thundershowers northwest in afternoon or evening. Low tonight 43-50. high Wednesday in 70s. Sunset 7:40 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 5:43 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Showers and a little cooler north, partly cloudy with no important temperature changes south. Low Wednesday night 48 to 53, high Thursday & to 75.

cycles. One of the most eleaborate local tests was planned in New York City. . When the three-minute takecover siren sounds at 2:15 p.m. e.dt., plans called for persons to clear the streets in the nation’s largest city., thousands of office , workers to seek shelter in their buildings and passengers to leave their busses for cover- ' “7 Plan Sitdown Strikes A group called the “civil defense protest committee” planned a sitdown strike in New York’s City Hall Park. The group said mothers, children and others would not move to shelter unless ordered by police. —•- Some protesters promised not to move even under police order. They said they would subject themselves to arrest and 3 penalty of up to a year in prison and a SSOO fine under the state Emergency Defense Act. In Washington, many federal agencies arranged to send teams of key officials to emergency hideaways outside the capital. ‘The men would operate from these centers, up to 300 miles from Washington, in case of an enemy attack, o