Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 247.

Diplomat Kills Wife And Self

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (UPI) - A Czech United Nations diplomat, who killed his wife and then led police on a chase through three states, died today in St. Luke’s Hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Karel Zizka, 40, shot himself in the head Thursday at the end of a wild 25-mile chase at speeds up to 110 miles an hour. The attache was speeding from the Czech U.N. mission in New York, where he had (tilled his wife earlier in the day, when his automobile careened off the highway near Easton, Pa. He died at 9:20 a.m. CDT. When a s tate trooper approached the wrecked car, Zizka pulled out a pistol. The trooper fired a shot, hitting the diplomat in the shoulder. Zizka then turned his own gun on himself and fired a shot into his head. The bullet was removed in a 2 1 ,4-hour operation Thur s da y. Chief n euro-surgeon Dr. David Eaton warned early today, “It’s not a question of if (he will die), but when." The single shot fired by Zizka into his left temple had shattered a lobe of the brain. He never recovered consciousness. The apparently crazed Czech caused consternation among fellow diplomats when the body of his wife Vera, 40, clad in a nightgown, was found sprawled on the floor of their apartment at the mission in New York. In her head was a bullet fired from the same German pistol Zizka later pointed at a Pennsylvania state trooper in Easton and then discharged into hi s own temple. Also found in the disheveled apartment was a note indicating his intention of committing suicide. Fled In Car It read, in part, “I think I am crazy." The slaying, police said, took place about «:9O a.m. EDT. Zizka fled shortly afterward in a black 1961 Cadillac sedan belonging to the mission. It was early afternoon before Czech officials broke into the locked third-floor bedroom, upon hearing radio reports of their colleague’s capture after a chase through three states. “Members of the mission and their families became suspicious,” according to mission spokesman Milo Vejvoda, “because his wife had not been seen all morning. When she did not answer the telephone or knocking on the door, the members broke the door down by force. “Mrs. Zizka was found dead in the bedroom. The flat was in a terrible state — it wa s demolished,” he said. Smashed w ine and liquor bottles were found in the kitchenette. Not until late afternoon did details of the slaying become public, hours after the capture of Zizka. This was when United Nations officials called police asking how to get a death certificate for a dead woman in the Czech mission. Entrance Granted Though the mission is protected by diplomatic immunity and technically Czech property, entrance was granted to Inspector

Ranger Spacecraft Attempt Is Failure

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPt)An $8 million power failure has ruined a U.S. attempt to send a Ranger-5 spacecraft on a collision course to the moon to get the world’s first close-up lunar snapshots. The 755-pound probe, hurled away from earth by a 10-story Atlas-Agena rocket Thursday, is expected to miss the moon layabout 300 miles and then swing into orbit around the sun around midday Sunday. Ranger-5 failed t o get solar power and its own batteries ran down—and, like its four Ranger predecessors and six earlier U.S. moonshots, it is a failure. The moon remains America’s most elusive target in space. The United States, still desperately short of the vital lunar exploration information needed to plan manned flights to the moon later this decade, won’t get another moonshot opportunity until _ early 1963. The gold-and chrome - plated Ranger-5 that scientists painstakingly built at a cost of $8 million on the ground was turned into a

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George Galagher of Manhattan’s Fourth Detective Division, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Milton Helpern, and other officials. Diplomatic immunity would preclude prosecution of Zizka in this country for the slaying. But Czech officials said his recovery would mean return to Czechoslovakia and a trial there for the crime. Only diplomatic immunity prevented the apprehension of the attache on a Manhattan street minutes after his f light began. Driving the sedan, with diplomatic license plate DPL-41, he collided with another automobile blocks from the mission. Zizka did not stop. A police cruiser caught up with him a few blocks further north. The Cadillac careened around the police vehicle and struck another car before stopping. When Zizka produced diplomatic credentials, the officer was obligated to let him go. Baced Toward Bridge The next official brush with the car was on Route 22 in Clinton, N.J., where a state policeman gave chase when it sped by. As two other New Jersey cruisers joined the pursuit, the powerful sedan raced toward the Delaware River toll bridge between Phillipsburg, <N.J. and Easton, Pa. The big car smashed through an unused toll gate and across the bridge, and Pennsylvania troopers took up the chase, reaching speeds of 110 m.p.h. Finally, near Easton, the hurtling sedan bounced off an abutment, went through a guard rail, and plunged down a 40 foot embankment. The smoking and crumpled wreck came to rest upside down, almost 25 miles from the start of the pursuit. Cpl. John E. Euditis, a Pennsylvania state tr oope r, approached the car with pistol drawn after other officers reported the fugitive was inside loading a weapon. Sprawled inside was Zizka, quietly s moking a cigarette and staring at him. Ignored Orders Zizka’s r ight hand was conc cealed under his body. Silently, he ignored the trooper’s orders to ' reveal it, then suddenly brought out the pistol and pointed it at Euditis. The trooper fired once, striking the attache in the left shoulder. Then another shot was heard, as Zizka put a shot in his brain. He was rushed to an Easton hospital and then to St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem for brain surgery. Inside the car, officers said, were two smashed bottles of Rus-sian-made vodka, a “large roll” of U.S. currency and more than 100 bullets for Zizka’s pistol. Zizka and his wife, married for 19 years, were the parents of an 18 year old daughter and a 15 year old son, both of whom are in Czechoslovakia. At the mi ssion, Vejvoda said their married life was considered a “quiet and happy one.” “This tragic event,” the Czech spokesman s aid, “can be explained only by-a sudden mental breakdown.’’

worthless chunk of space debris shortly after it had leaped from earth on the start of a 70-hour, 231,500 - mile flight toward the moon. Ranger-s’s electronic death was spelled out in its failure at that point to "lock on” to the sun—a maneuver to keep its huge solar panels in the right position to pick up electricity-producing solar energy. Without solar help the spacecraft was left powerless when its short-lived batteries wore out. The result was revealed by a terse line in a federal space agency announcement 10 hours after blast-off: “. . .The 755-pound s pacecraft will not be able to accomplish any of its mission objectives.” The objectives were several—to try to get some 150 close-up photographs of the moon from altitudes ranging from more than 2,000 miles to within a few thousand feet of the lunar surface; and to attempt to “crash-land” a capsule loaded with scientific instruments on the mpon itself.

Confessed Red Spy Sentenced For Slayings KARLSRUHE, Germany (UPI) ■ — The West German supreme 1 court today sentenced confessed Soviet agent Bogdan Stashinskiy to eight years at hard labor for i killing two Ukranian exiles in t Munich on orders from the Krem- ’ lin. Stashinskiy, 31, was convicted ' of using a bizarre cyanide poison spray gun to slay his victims in- • stantly with hardly a trace. s The victims w ere Prof. Lev ) Rebet and Ukrainian nationalist • leader Stefan Bandera. Stashin- ■ skiy said he killed Rebet in 1957 - and Bandera in 1959 on orders of ! the Soviet Ministry of State Secui rity (KGB). The prosecution had asked for i a double life sentence, one for , each murder. West Germany does > not have the death penalty. Stashinskiy also was found guili ty of spying for the Soviet Union. , Chief Justice Heinrich Jagusch, ; in reading the sentence, said the real murderers were those who had planned and ordered the killings. i But he said they are in Moscow - and could not be apprehended at • present. Hie week-long trial evoked a • strange-as-fiction story of espio- ■ nage, murder and finally flight by ■ Stashinskiy and his wife to escape i what he feared would be his own . death at the hands of his Soviet bosses. * i Defense counsel Siegfried Seidel 1 had pleaded for leniency on i grounds that Stashinskiy was not . a free agent but had followed Moscow’s orders out of fear for • his own and his family’s safety. He and his wife rode the elevated train into West Berlin Aug. ■ 12, 1961, and gave themselves up 1 to Western authorities. L : Albert Scheumann ■ Is Taken By Death k i Alb ert Scheumann, 74, of Decatur route 1, former Decatur banker, died at 11:20 o’clock Thursday morning at the Adams county ■ memorial hospital. ■ Mr Scheumann, a lifelong resi- ’ dent of Adams county, was cash- ’ ier for a number of years at the Old Adams County Bank. Since ’ retiring from that position, he had ’ been engaged in farming. He was a member of the Zion ’ Lutheran church in this city. Surviving are his wife, Helen; one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Marjorie) Meyer of Decatur route 1; two grandchildren, and three sisters, Misses Marie and Clara Scheu- ’ mann, both of Fort Wayne, and ’ Mrs. Charles Berning of Adams i county. The body was removed to the • Wellman funeral home in Fort i Wayne, where friends may call as- • ter 7 p-m. today until 11 a.m. Sun- ! day. The body will lie in state • at the Zion Lutheran church in this 1 city from 12:30 p-m. Sunday until 1 services at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Richard Ludwig will officiate, and 1 burial will be in the Decatur cemei tery . Arrest Two Youths On Burglary Charge Gareth Nussbaum, and 18-year-old resident of west of Berne, was arraigned in the Adams circuit court this morning on two separate 3 charges. 1 Nussbaum is charged with petit ’ larceny and breaking and enter- ; ing, after confessing to a burglary at the home so Clifford R. s Brown, route 2, Berne, on Septemt ber 17. i Howard Baumgartner, Berne r attorney, was appointed pauper at- > torney for Nussbaum, who is a • student at a college in Kentucky. A 17-year-old juvenile who was • involved in the burglary with Nuss--5 baum has appeared in juvenile • court; and his case was continued 1 until hext week. The juvenile boy e also resides near Berne. 8 Nussbaum, a graduate of BerneFrench high school, is expected to t enter a plea next week, at which 1 time a date for trial will be set by Adams circuit court judge Myles F. Parrish. p The two youths were arrested 1 after an extensive investigation by 1 sheriff Roger Singleton and de- " puties Harold August and Robert ’ Meyer. The boys had taken a watch and a gun from the Brown home.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 19,1962.

Judges Rule Indiana To Conduct Elections For Legislators On Nov. 6

Fail To End Deadlock On Berlin Issue

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy an d Secretary of State Dean Rusk failed to crack the Berlin deadlock in marathon talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko which lasted until early today. Kennedy and Gromyko talked for two hours and fifteen minutes at the W hite House Thursday evening. The Soviet official and Rusk continued the discussions at the State Department until 12:15 a.m. EDT without producing any softening of the stern Soviet demands for Allied evacuation o f West Berlin. A State Department spokesman said early this morning that Rusk and Gromyko, during their “working dinner” which lasted for four hours and 15 minutes, ' talked “solely on Berlin” and there was “no perceptible progress.’ ’Diplom atic sources... the earlier meeting at thewlHTe House, which touched on Berlin and other subjects, was equally unproductive. The talks, officials said, provided no clue as to whether Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is actually planning a trip to the United States, which would give him an opportunity to confer with I Kennedy. Gromyko told newsmen as he left the State Department that it was important for both countries to work for “improved relations between them.” But he made it clear that the Soviet Union was still insisting on solving the Berlin problem on its own terms. Officials said Kennedy and Rusk repeated their refusal to accept these terms and emphasized the Western determination to fight if necessary to stay in Berlin and keep open the access routes to the city across Communist East Germany. The United States and its Allies insist they cannot pull out of West Berlin until there is a final German settlement based on reunification of the country under free elections—a proposal the Russians reject. The expectation here was that Khrushchev, who is known to be inclined to visit the United Nations in New York in late November and create the opportunity for a talk with Kennedy, would

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come to some definite decision after receiving Gromyko’s report on the gruelling total of six and one-half hours’ talk with Kennedy and Rusk. Gromyko headed back to New York this morning and said he planned to leave Sunday for Moscow. He told newsmen at the White House h e c ould not t alk about the possibility of a Khrushchev visit “at this moment,” which i mplied there might be some Soviet announcement forthcoming later. John G. Heller To Quit Democrat Co. John G. (Jack) Heller, vice i president of the Decatur Democrat ! Co., will become affiliated with the Fremont Tribune in Fremont, Neb., m November. Heller has been an employe of the Democrat tor more than ten years, and has been an officer of the company for four years; The Fremont Tribune is published by Lester A. Walker. Walker is currently starting construction on a completely new plant in downtown Fremont, a city of over . 20,000. Mrs. Heller, the former Col- | leen McConnell, and the Heller’s 1 three children, will move to Ne- , braska later. 148 Pints OF Blood Contributed At Berne A total of 148 pints of blood, well over the 125 quota, were collected at Berne Friday, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Adams- county Red Cross chapter, said today. For the past two years, Berne has been equaling or over the quota for collections almost every time. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with chance of some showers late Saturday or Saturday night. A little cooler Saturday. Low tonight 46 to 52 north, 49 to 57 south. High Saturday 65 to 72. Sunset toa.m- Outlook for Sunday: Mostday 6 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7 ly cloudy with rain and cooler. Lows 43 to 48. Highs 63 to 68.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A panel of three federal judges ruled here today that Indiana can go ahead with its election of state legislators Nov. 6 as scheduled. But the judges kept a hammer over the state, aimed at encouraging prompt reapportionment, by reserving judgment on other motions in the case. Lameduck State Sen. Nelson G. Grills, Indianapolis Democrat who filed the suit against Governor Welsh and the State Election Board in Federal Court, immediately announced that if Welsh does not halt the election he will challenge the legality of the 1963 Legislature. The ruling will permit the election of 126 members of the legislature two weeks from next Tuesday. The ruling was brief. “The motion for summary judgment is denied insofar as it prays for a preliminary injunction to restrain defendants from conducting the election for members of the General Assembly. The court reserves judgment and ruling on the other issues in the motion for a summary judgment and upon the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint.’ Grills, who was waiting in the court clerks office for the decision, held an i mpromptu news conference at which he declared that the failure to dismiss his suit “puts the issue squarely up to the governor.” “I still have the opportunity to prove the election was illegal,” he said. Grills, who has been fighting a battle for r eapportionment for several years, said “if the governor does hold the election, I intend to contest its legality in this federa court.” The judges had taken the matter under advisement Thursday after a hearing on Grills’ suit to force reapportionment, a step not carried out for 41 years. The three judges, Roger Kiey of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Chicago, and William Stec»kler and Cale J. Holder of the Southern Indiana U.S. ~ District Court, had two different motions before them. One,-offered by Grills, would prohibit the State Board of Elections from conducting the scheduled election of 100 members of the House and 26 members of the Senate. The other would allow the election and le ave reapportionment up to the 1963 session. Deputy Atty. Gen. Addison Dowling, representing the board, pleaded for another chance for the legislature and added, “I’d be the first to say that if the legislature did meet and did not reapportion next January, it would be time for the federal court to take a hand in the matter.” He maintained that if the election were halted and no legislature were elected it would be impossible to enact any reapportionment. Grills claimed, however, that under present statutes a special session could be called “72 hours after this court acts” and that the rules could be suspended to allow passage of a reapportionent act within 48 hours. He maintained that “everyone agrees the legislature has been illegally constituted for 35 years. The question is, shall we permit these men to retain their ill-gotten power t o spend another bi Ilion dollars? If anyone is entitled to equity, it is the taxpayer, not the men who have refused to obey the law for 35 years.” Ground Broken For Purdue-I. U. Center FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) —The presidents of Indiana University and Purdue University broke ground Thursday at a 200- acre site in northeast Fort Wayne for a combined university center which wil cost $5 million and is scheduled for completion in February, 1964. Elvis Stahr Jr., president of IU, and Purdue President Frederick Hovde turned the first shovelfuls of dirt for the project.

Slight Dip In Economy Seen In Early 1963 HOT SPRINGS, Va. (UPI) — A “great majority’ of the nations top business consultants predicted today that t here would be a slight dip in the nations economy in the first half of 1963. The prediction, which differed from that of government economists, was made public by Frederick R. Kappel, board chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., at the opening session of the Business Council. The council, made up of 175 of the nation’s top corporation officials, began a three-day work and play meeting here today. Kappel said most of the councils’ 20 technical consultants expect economic activity “to peak out by year-end and turn down in the first quarter of 1963.” Administration offi cia 1 s in Washington are forecasting either continued small gaihs for the | economy or a leveling off on a high plateau. Like the corporate economists, the government experts do not anticipate any substantial pickup in the rate of economic growth before the second half of 1963. Kappel said the decline in the nation’s business activity in the early part of next year is expected to be less than $2 billion. Government economists feel a dip of that size in a $560 billion economy is really no dip at all. Both government and corporation economists h ave a strong feeling that the economy needs the stimulation, as quickly as possible, of an across-the-board tax cut for individuals and corporations promised for next year by President Kennedy. As is customary, newsmen were barred from the council’s meeting. But, in an un precedented step, Kappel made available a synopsis of his presentation even before he finished speaking. Child Hurt Fatally In Fall From Auto SALEM, Ind. (UPI) — Sherry BeCraft, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Porter BeCraft, Pekin, was injured fatally late Thursday when she fell out of her mother’s car and was run over in the family driveway. She died a short time later enroute to a Louisville hospital.

Ella Moving Away From The Mainland _

WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) — Hurricane Ella increased its high winds from 90 to 100 miles an hour today and started moving slowly away from the mainland. The high winds menaced shipping in the area and whipped seas to a frenzy virtually the length of the seaboard. At 11 a.m. CDT the storm was centered about 315 miles south southeast of Cape Hatteras, the Weather Bureau said. The new fix put the storm 25 miles further off Hatteras than it had been three hours previous. Forecasters said the storm was moving on an east - northeast course at about 5 miles per hour, which also represented a change in status. Ella had remained stationary Thursday night and early this morning. ‘‘During the next 12 hours Ella is expected to move slowly northeastward with a possible turn to the north-northeast on Saturday morning,” the Weather Bureau said. Weather officials said no important change in size and little

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Present Petitions For School Merger A group of about 25 people met with the township trustees of Preble, Root, and Union townships at the Monmouth school Thursday night, and presented them with petitions asking them to pass resolutions, approved by their advisory boards, to consolidate the north three townships into a metropolitan school district. The petition-bearers stated that they had some 1,200 signatures, out of about 1,700 registered voters, in the three townships. No town-ship-by-township breakdown was given. The three trustees, Robert Kolter, Omer Merriman, and Wilbur Blakey, will meet at the school October 24 to consider the resolution. In addition, another petition was presented to Wilbur Blakey, but the contents of this petition were not revealed. It is believed that it was in opposition to the consolidation. Main effect of the consolidation would be to equalize the school rates in the north three townships, so that all three township taxpayers would have the same school rate. It would also prevent anyone from transferring from Union or Preble township to Adams Central community schools, or to Decatur. Bank Reserve Rules Are Eased By Board WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Federal Reserve Board, trying to relax credit and boost the economy, Thursday ordered bank reserves on savings and time deposits trimmed from 5 to 4 per cent. The board ordered the reduction into effect Oct. 25 in New York, Chicago and other major cities, and on Nov. 1 in other communities. Required reserves will be reduced an estimated $767 mililon. Theoretically, the board action could boost the potential loan and investment capacity of the banfcs as much as $4.6 billion. However, the actual effect is expected to be considerably less. Officials said the release of the funds would help meet the banks’ heavy seasonal needs for money in the closing months of the year, when business normally picks up.

further intensification was indicated. Waves 10 to 12 feet high were rolling i n against North Carolina’s famed Outer Banks, but weatherwise residents of the islands went about their business as usual. It was feared that Ella may have indirectly claimed her first vietims. An intense air - sea search was under way for two South Carolina men missing in the Atlantic since 4 p.m. Thursday when they set out on a fishing trip in a small boat. DECATIR TEMPKRATVRES Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a m. todiur. 12 noon 66 12 midnight .. 64 1p m. ?...._ 66 1 a.m. ... 53 2pm 66 3 a.m _63 •3 p.m. 66 3a tn 4* 4 p.m 65 4 a.m. ....... 48 5 p.m 6t 5 a.m. 43 6 p.m 62 6 a.tn .. 4? 7 p.m. -.53 7 a.m. 47 8 p.m. ..... 67- 3 a.m. 50 9 p.m. 54 9 a.m. 'gw 10 p.m. 54 10 a.m. 65 11 p.m 54 11 a.m. ..... 68 Rain Total for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, .0 Inchea. The St. Mary'e river wae at 1.85 feet. - _________