Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1962 — Page 2

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Three Wealthy U. S. Fugitives In Brazil

WTO DE JANEIRO (VPt)-Bra zH, the wealthy fugMive’a home •way from home, is currently bartering at least three Americans accused of multi-million-dol-lat swindles. ' Earl Belle of Pittsburgh, tewell Birrell of New York and Ben Jack Cage of Dallas have Mete living high in this country tpr years because Brazil does not MM* an extradition treaty with the United States. All three men say they were framed, and all three ’say they will return to the United States some day to clear their names. Brazilians violently oppose capital punishment, and this country has consistently refused to conclude an extradition treaty with any nation which executes crim-

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U.S. negptiators succeeded recently in breaking down this attitude to the extent of persuading the Brazilian government to agree to extradite fugitives who do not face capital charges, but the treaty has not been ratified by Brazil’s congress and it is not certain how soon it will be — if ever. In any case, the treaty is unlikely to affect the Americana already here since its provisions probably will not be retroactive. Father* CNM Belle certainly has no cause to worry. He has made himself ex-tradition-proof by fathering a child born in Brazil. Under Brazilian law, no one who is provid-

ing-for a native-born citizen can te-Yxpeßed from the country. “* The Pittsburgher, who has been indicted On 31 federal counts : of embezzlement from three banks, came here with his first wife, Noemia. She bore two children in Brazil before they separated and She dropped out of the picture. The whereabouts of the first ehild are uncertain, and some sources say it died. However, the second child is living with Belle and his second wife in their comfortable home here. Belle has talked at various times of sugar interests in Bahia State and cattle-raising in Goias, but no details of any business activities he may be engaging in here have been made public. , Lives Alone Birrell, who is wanted on 69 counts of defrauding stockholders on a total of sl4 million lives alone in a comfortable Rio apartment. He frequents the bars of the Copacabana beach resort strip. His American girl friend runs a tourist agency here. Birrell maintains an office in

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Rio and describes himelf as a “business consultant.’* He speaks of activities in oil. farming and diamonds, but like Belle he gives no details. He has a reputation as a good tipper and gets preferred treatment in Rio’s night clubs and restaurants, but so far as is known he has not gained entree to the private clubs where Brazil’s high society gathers. Cage, a dapper, graying Texan who looks more like an ambassador than an embezzler, the pattern for the modem version of “flying down to Rio.” Gets 10-Year Term. He came to Brazil when his financial operations began to run into trouble, returned to the United States against his attorney’s advice to stand trial, then jumped bail and returned to Brazil after he had been convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to serve 10 years in prison. He wears, almost as a uniform, a black suit, black shoes, black socks and a black tie. He is a non-drinking pipe smoker Who shuns night life and does not

own a car. Although his Brazilian base is the southern industrial city of Sao Paulo, Cage makes frequent trips to Rio and his wife spends most of her time here. Belle and Cage work together to further their “mutual interests.” Friends in Sao Paulo say Cage looks after Belle’s interests thete while Belle keeps an eye on Cage's interests in Rio. Use Aliases The two men use aliases for, reasons that are not hilly clear. Cage calling himself “Sullivan” While Belle uses the name “Costa.” Cage and Belle explain their reluctance to talk to newsmen by saying they have sold their “literary rights” to a New York firm. They say their contract requires them to charge S4OO for an interview —a price that no newspaper is known to have met "We did it because we need the money,” Cage says. There i sno indication, however, that the Texan is feeling the pinch of poverty. He spends $8,520 a year just for rent—s29o

a month for his apartment in-Seo Paula -and S4OO a month for his wife’s apartment in Rio. Shortly after coming to Brazil, Cage organized a land company called Panlanco which at various times has had options on as much as 2 million acres of land in sparsely populated Mato Grosso State. Cage says he gave up that activity in 1960 to go into a “rubbe'r deal,” But he is believed still to be masterminding Panlanco operations. He owns two ranches, and has sidelines in < the sale of topaz and "ampliphoneS” for conference telephone calls. Publishes Booklet The Braziliah Landowners* Association, a "non-profit” organization founded by Cage, publishes a $1 booklet entitled “How to Make Money in Brazil.” Its 42 pages are full of facts about the country, but the booklet offers no specific advice on ways of making money hfere. At the height of his success in the United States, Cage operated a 74-company business empire. He was regarded as one of the the fastest-rising “business wizards” in the Southwest. His financial operations, which at one time included a one-month option ’on the services of actress Anita Ekberg, ranged from Texas to New York and even to Tangier. But Cage soared too high and drew too heavily on his far-flung businesses, taking out as much as $250,000 a year for personal expenses. He was found guilty in October, 1957, of embezzling SIOO,OOO from one of his companies. NIPSCO Seeks To Intervene In Case Northern Indiana Public Service company Monday requested permission from the public service commission of Indiana to intervene in the application of the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company to directly serve the Corning Glass Works new plant at Bluffton. NIPSCO also filed a petition requesting a certificate of convenience and necessity to provide natural gas service to rural areas in Wells county, including the site of the Corning plant. Protect Public Interest In filing the petition to intervene, Dean H. Mitchell, NIPSCO chairman and president, said, “Our action is prompted by a need to protect the public interest. The direct Serving of the new Corning Glass plant by the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company is not in the public interest because it would inevitably result in higher gas rates for the people of Bluffton.” “Direct sales to industry by pipeline companies take away a very important element in helping to pay for the over-all cost of serice to the community,” Mitchell said. “Each type of customer — residential, commercial and industrial — must bear a proportionate share invested in pipelines and equipof the cost of the millions of dollars ment needed to serve a community with natural gas. Industrial customers pay a large portion of this cost. Naturally, residential and commercial customers benefit greatly when industry helps pay the bill.’ ’ “But when pipeline companies skim the cream of the local market for natural gas by directly serving industrial customers, the residential and commercial customers must bear a greater share of the cost of service through increased rates. Not Legally Qualified “Furthermore,” Mitchell said, “Panhandle Eastern is a Deleware corporation and as such is not qualified to provided utility service

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One of the most reliable indicators of public opinion, the Communications Workers of America poll, indicated that medical care under social security as advocated by President Kennedy has solid public backing. This opinion survey was conducted in the same manner now as it was in 1948 when the Communications Workers predicted former President Truman’s victory, and since then has been accepted as a most accurate indicator of public opinion. This may be welcome news to our senior citi-

zens that the majority of Americans favor the President’s plan for health care for the aged, but all the polls in the world will not remove the fear that millions of our senior citizens walk with every day—a fear, as Secretary Ribicoff has spelled out time and time again, "that serious illness R»p. O'N.tfl wtn th* flrtf Democratic Speaker of the ManachmeHt State Legiilature. Ho wot elected U4. Congrou io 1952, filling the seat vacated when John I*. Kennedy was elected to the Senate. Currontly, Rep. O'Neill is working in dose cooperation with th* Whit* Hous* and th* Democratic loadonhip to bring about *nadment of legislation designed to provide a program of medical ear* for our tonior cit izont within th* social totvrity system. Rep. O'Neill is recognized a* on* of th* nation's mast ditfinguished members of the United States Hous* of R*pr*s*ntativ*s. can wreck their independence and force them to spend their remaining years in poverty and debt.” ~ - r . The only way this fear among the aged can be eliminated is to do something about it. President Kennedy has done something about it and that is why the President is wholeheartedly behind the King-Anderson bill. We have the finest medical care available in the world here in the United States ... at a price, a price that millions of older people just can’t meet. The i problem, then, is how to bridge I the gap between the aged per- i son who needs medical care, and the suppliers of medical care. i We reject charity as the main i bridge. Charity should be re- i

in Indiana.” Mitchell pointed out that the supreme couts of Indiana and Michigan, and the United States supreme court —in two dfiferent case — have previously denied Panhandle Eastern’s request to directly serve industry, and have based their decision on the adverse effect this would have on the public interest. “These decisions,” said Mitchell, "establish controlling principles applicable to Pahhandle’s petition to sell gas to the new Corning plant in Bluffton.’ John L. Metz. NIPSCO’s Bluffton manager, said that NIPSCO’s second petition requesting a certificate of convenience and necessity would enable the Gas company to provide service to the new Corning Glass plant and to a number of other customers in the adjacent rural area. He said that further extensions of gas distribution facilities would be made in that area whenever such extensions are needed to provide gas service to customers.

TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1962

I JFK Health Care For Aged Program Has Public Support. By U. S. Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) Sponsor of Legislation Identical to KingAnderson Health Care for Aged Bill

served to meet emergency situations, and special needs. Health insurance under social security would not be charity. On the contrary, it would guarantee extensive health care in later years of life as an earned right, just as cash benefits under social security are an earned * right. The President’s program would work like this: Workers would pay, on the average, about a dollar a month more in social security contributions while they are working. At age 6S, they and all social security beneficiaries now 65 or older would, in effect, receive paid-up health insurance under social security. This insurance would provide for: , 1. Payment of all costs of up to 90 days of hospitalization for a single illness, with the patient paying only $lO a day for the first 9 days. I 2. Payment of all costs of up to 180 days of skilled nursing home care following discharge from hospital. 3. Payment of all costs over and above, the first S2O for out-patient diagnostic services. j 4. Payment of all costs of up to 240 days of home health service visits by nurses and other health specialists. The King-Anderson Bill is no more and no less than away oi bringing together people whe need health care and people wb« provide health care... a way ol removing the money barrier th.? now prevents this in too manj instances.

Prayer Breakfast Attended By 17 Men Seventeen men from the churches of Decatur met for a prayer breakfast at the Country Charm Restaurant Saturday morning. Hie Rev. C.E. Lykins, pastor of the Decatur Nazarene church, spoke to the group on the subject of the need of deep prevailing prayer in the life of the Christian. The men then divided into prayer groups, after which breakfast was servedThese prayer breakfast meetings are held every first and third Saturday and all men of the community are invited. Recover Body Os Drowning Victim GARY, Ind. <UPD — City and Civil Defense scuba divers today recovered the body of James Session, 18. Gary, who drowned while swimming in a pond in the north end of the city .

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