Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1963 — Page 2

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Report Bitter Fight Raging On Passports WASHINGTON (UPD — A bitter controversy is raging in the State Department over the issuance of U.S. passports to Communists. Abba P. Schwartz, department administrator of security and consular affairs, has threatened to fire Frances G. Knight, longtime director of the passport office. Miss Kmgnt nas testified in a secret session of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that she regards present passport regulations concerning Communists as inadequate. The background of the dispute begins in 1958 when the Supreme Court, in a case called Kent vs. Dulles, struck down the secretary of state’s authority to deny passports to Communists, ruling that Congress had never expressly authorized it. Then, in October. 1961, the Internal Security Act, which had been in a legal limbo since 1950. was finally upheld by the high court. It provided for the first time, a specific congressional mandate to withhold passports from Communist party members. The State and Justice departments drafted new regulations to Custer A’ Smith. Attorneys ESTATE NO. 5679 NOTICE To ALL PEKSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF HOMER LI BY. In the Circuit Court of Adams County. April Term, 1963 In the matter of the Estate of HOMER LIBY, deceased. Notice is hereby Riven that Neva Liby as Administratrix of the above named estate, has presented and filed her final account in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for he examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 29th of April, 1963, at which time all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be. why said account should not be approved. And the heirs of said decedent and all others interested are also required to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim tp any part of said estate Neva Liby Personal - Representative Christian H. Muselman Judge Pro Tempore Adams Circuit Court 4/11, 18.

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I PTA Fun Fair'At School April 26 The Lincoln school parent-teach-ers association will sponsor a “PTA Fun Fair” at the Lincoln school gym Friday night, April 26. from 7 to 10 o’clock. The school gym will be the fairgrounds for ‘‘fun fair,” with game ' and refreshment booths sponsored by the various classes, of the school While this is primarily a fund raising project, it is also planned for the enjoyment of all who attend. A player wil always receive a prize at the game booths. The public is invited to attend. The games are such that all can play, from small children on up. Ring toss, darts, and a fish pond are just a sample of the games offered. Lincoln school children will be selling tickets, and they will also be available at the “fair.” implement the provision. These were announced Jan. 12, 1962, and were unique in US. law. For the first time in any major U.S. security program, the new regulations provided for hearings in which accused Communists I would be confronted with the evidence against them. If the only evidence came from a secret FBI “plant” in a Communist unit, the government has the choice of producing him at the hearing or dropping the case. The old system denied passports for mere failure to file a nonCommunist affidavit. Proponents of the current regulations, who include Schwartz and are backed by higher officials of the Justice Department, argue that for the first time the United States is complying with due process of law in passport cases. — They note the reduction in passports held by Communists. They argue that control of passports is not the way to deal with real espionage in the first place. Miss Knight, who is backed by the FBI. recently told the Senate Internal subcommittee that under the new procedures “the more, treacherous. , the individual may be. the less likely it i$ that he will be denied a pass-. port.” I

Keating Says Many Russians Still In Cuba WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Kenneth B. Keating. R-N.Y., said today “there has been no substantial reduction of Soviet military personnel in Cuba" since Russian missiles and bombers were removed last November. “Several thousand personnel have left Cuba, several thousand have arrived.” Keating said. He concluded that “there were and are in the neighborhood of 17,000 men there.” The senator made the statements in a speech prepared for delivery before the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNEL More than 500 editors from throughout the nation were on hand for the annual meeting. Keating’s figures conflicted with the last statement by President Kennedy on Soviet strength in Cuba. Kennedy gave figures at his news conference April 3 showing that there were roughly 12,000 to 13.000 Russian troops left on the island. U.S. officials said later that the President’s estimate took into account new Russian arrivals in Cuba as well as withdrawals of Soviet personnel Keating told the editors he understood "from naval personnel" that despite close surveillance of Cuban waters to prevent clandestine shipments of men and weapons, "some Navy ships have specific orders not to searchlight smaller vessels that are constantly moving in the Cuban and Carribean waters at night.” “None of these ships are ever searched by U.S. patrols,” he said. “How can we hope to get evidence of support of subversion if we don’t investigate these small scale but very numerous operations? The only name I can think of for this policy is ‘out of sight, out of mind’.” Keating called for a “firm and realistic program” designed to get Jhe Russians out of Cuba. He said a national “consensus” could be developed in support of such a policy through a return to the

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Pearson Working On Makeup Os Cabinet OTTAWA (UPD—Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson, four days away from becoming Canada's 14th prime minister, today worked on the makeup of his new cabinet. Pearson, who accepted Gov. i Gen. George Vanier’s “invita- . tion” to form a government . Wednesday, also awaited word on I ‘informal” requests he has made . for early meetings with President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. I [ The 65-year-old Nobel Peace , Prize winner, who is taking over I from Prime Minister John DiefenI baker, told newsmen he hoped to fly to London the last week of this month or the first week of ■ May. "When I return I hope to have ; a meeting with President Kejii nedy,” he said. Timing of any . meeting would have to fit in with the President’s schedule, he said. l Because he will not be prime minister until Diefenbaker’s resigi nation becomes effective and he . is sworn in at noon (ESTI Mon- , day, his messages to Kennedy ! and Macmillan were strictly in- . formal, he said. During the recent election cam- • paign, which ended with his Lilj- • eral Party winning 130 seats in . the 265-seat House of Commons, 1 he promised to try to meet with both leaders. Pearson told newsmen his cabi- ’ net selections would be completed f by Friday but would remain under wraps until the swearing-in ■ ceremony on Monday. : Monthly Sing Bee Sunday Afternoon The monthly sing bee will be , held at the Greenbrier United Brethren in Christ church Sunday ’ afternoon at 2 o’clock. The lead- [ er in special music and singing will be Walter Oechsle. The Family Four of Adrian. Mich., will attend the May sing bee. The church is located four miles west of Ohio City or one mile south of Glenmore sort of bipartisanship which existed in the era of the late Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R-Mich.

3 • BL .<» '■* ■ IMh- Ml ‘Jr A ' ■Jfc'.'.vvA THIS IS “BlßDlE”—Southern blues singer Jesse Pearson, pdrtrays Conrad Birdie, a rock ’n’ roll singer, in a new film, “Bye Bye Birdie.” The movie is an all-out spoof of Elvis Presley’s career. State Traffic Toll Increases To 303 By United Press International Indiana’s 1963 traffic death toll mounted to 303 today compared with 274 a year ago, with a 5-year-old Gary girl and a college professor’s widow the latest victims. Marylyn Marshall was dead on arrival at a hospital a few minutes fter she ran into the path of a car near her home at Gary Wednesday night. Thes car wa driven by Mrs. Mary Bean, a neighbor. Mrs. Helen Heath, 69, a house mother at St. Catherine’s School for Girls at Davenport, lowa, died Wednesday in a Franklin hospital from injuries suffered April 3 in a car-truck collision on U. S. 52 west of Lafayette. Mrs. Heath was hurt while driving to Franklin for spring vacation with friends. She was hospitalized first at Lafayette, then transferred to Franklin. Her husband was the late Prof. Dwight F. Heath of Franklin College.

Youlh Escapes To West Berlin Despite Wound BERLIN (UPD—A young refugee wounded in an escape to West Berlin in a Communist armored car said today his successful flight was a miracle. Wolfgang Engels, 19, a mechanic, told police In a hospital bedside interview that only a lucky chance gave him an opportunity to get away from the Communist oppression he hated. Exhausted but happy, the youth told his story as he recovered from a successful emergency operation that removed an East German tommy gun bullet from his chest. Doctors said he was out of danger and his condition was satisfactory. Engels said he stole a Sovietmade armored personnel carrier from an East German repair shop he worked in and droveiLlO miles from the East Berlin district of Karlshorst to the American sector border. “It was a miracle that I was able to get the armored car and that I could drive it all that way without being stopped,” he said. “I had no real plan to escape last night although I wanted more than anything in the world to get away from East Germany. I was fed up with communism. I could not take any more. “Then I saw the car standing last night ready to go and unguarded in the shop yard. I knew I would not get another good chance like that so I jumped in and took off.” The armored car battered a 5 by 4 foot hole in the 11-inch-thick wall but did not break through to the Western side. The car was wedged in the wall. Engels was shot when he got out through the hatch and defiantly shouted at eastern border “Let’s go fellows. Come along with me.” “I had planned to crawl through the hole in the wall but I could nf>t because it was stopped up with barbed wire and masonry dislodged by the impact,” he said. “I had to scale the wall.” As he climbed up on the wall one of 15 Eastern tommy gun bullets penetrated his back, passed through a rib and lodged in his chest. Another grazed his left hand. . He fell into the- barbed wire on top of the 6-foot high wall and was rescued by two West Berliners who climbed the wall under Eastern fire to get at him. They pulled Engels through the barbed wire. In getting through the wire, the refugee was cut severely all over his body. He also had head injuries received when the -armored car rammed the wall. Root Trustee And Board Hold Meeting The Root township trustee and advisory board, meeting Tuesday night, hired bus drivers for the 1963-64 school year, offered a new contract to John McConaha, Monmouth school principal, and discussed future plans for-the kindergarten. They also sent invitations to Union and Preble townships to join the Root township school district to form a metropolitan school district pursuant to chapter 266, acts of general assembly of the state of Indiana of 1949, as amended by section 28-2442 Burns revised statutes, etc-

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Missionary Speaks Al Baptist Church MBH Fred G. Christenson Fred G. Christenson, recently retired American Baptist missionary to South India, will speak at the First Baptist church in Decatur Sunday at 9:30 a. m. He and his wife retired in September, 1962, after 40 years of service with the American Baptist foreign mission society. His first years were spent in agricultural work in Baptist mission schools at Nellore and Ongole in South India. He then taught for two years in the high school and industrial school at Kurnool. For several years he was district missionary directing educational and evangelistic activities in rural areas of Nandyal and Mahbubnagar. During his most recent term, he and Mrs. Christenson superintended the staff of the rural community training school at Cumbum. This school equipped teachers for village service and these in turn became “missionaries” in their own villages after graduation. In 1961, Christenson assumed the responsibilities of acting mission treasurer while the Rev. W. F. Bartlett was in the U. S. A. on furlough. Proposes New Laws On Labor Disputes WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Jacob K Javits, R-N Y. proposed today that the President be given new laws to deal with labor disputes in which the national interest is “dangerously jeopardized,” Javits announced that he was introducing proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act to authorize the President to: —Appoint a board of inquiry which could, for. the first time, make recommendations for a settlement. It also would report on the facts in the dispute. —Order a 30-day freeze during which both sides would be “under a duty to bargain” upon the recommendations, although neither party would be required to accept them. —Seek federal court appointment of a special receiver to operate any struck faculties which the court felt were needed to protect the national health or safety. Javits, describing himself as a "tried.friend of labor,” noted that his proposals would not edver walkouts like the recent New York City newspaper strike, which he said did not affect national health and safety. But he added that his bill could serve as a model for state legislation which might under certain conditions be applied to a newspaper strike. —",

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