Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1963 — Page 6

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Rainfall Shortage Growing In Slate . By United Press International _.' Warm summer weather kept a firm grip on Indiana today while a raintail shortage grew more severe, 81 Temperatures climbed to 94 at j Evansville Tuesday, 90 at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne and 87 to ’ 90 over the remainder of the state and more of the same was expected as far as the forecasters could see into the future. Meanwhile, sunny skies prevailed and the only prospect of rain the rest of the week was the chance of late afternoon and eve-1

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I ning thundershowers today and Thursday in the northern third of the state and during the weekend. Bui( in all, the precipitation through next Monday will average no more than one-fourth inch,; which is hardly enough to benefit | dry conditions which exist in many I state areas. Agricultural experts at Purdue reported that soil moisture supI plies declined in most areas and I both topsoil and subsoil moisture ' are short in places. The dry conditions were particularly noticeable in the central, east central and west central portions of the state where there were rainfall departures from normal of 2 to 2.6 inches over a seven-week period. Some areas reI ceived considerably less than an i

inch of rain In the last two weeks. The present warm spell was a dry heat and more bearable to Hoosiers because of a low relative humidity much of the time. f Highs today and Thursday were expected to range from 90 to 94, ! and the outlook was for continued warm Friday. Furthermore, the five-day forecasts said temperatures will average 3 to 7 degrees above normal through Monday with little change in the pattern I during the period. 4 - - - QUESTIONS NEW YORK (UPD — The most asked question of telephone operators by guests at the Edison Hotel is: “What’s the weather forecast for today?" Second is “What time iisit " 1

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New Sewer liilFSy Street Department The city street department has constructed a new sewer that tuns from the entrance to Stratton Place to the St. Mary’s river, afreet commissioner Adolph Kolter said today. The sewar runs from the station by the entrance to Stratton to the -river, and was constructed to relieve a problem with water. Any heavy rain : leaver, a large deposit of water standing in the street at the Stratton entrance ,and the new Sewer will handle this situation. Kolter said that one of the problems caused by the water in the street was that it was making bicyclists ride out into the highway get around it.

Sweden Stunned At Revelation Os Espionage STOCKHOLM (UPD — Sweden was stunned today by the disclosure of the most serious espionage case in its history. ’ Some newspapers demanded a complete overhaul of the nation's security system following charges which involved a retired air force colonel alleged to have spied for the Soviet Union for 15 years. Other newspapers attacked Russia for carrying out espionage in‘ Sweden. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday* that Col. Erik Wennerstroem, 56, a trusted and respected former air force officer and one-time attache in Washington, had confessed to selling American and Swedish defense secrets to the Communists. Sweden traditionally is neutral, but it has close ties to Norway, Denmark, the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Teaty Oganization. Foreign Minister Toresten Nilsson infomed the Soviet charge d’affaires that the<> first secretary at the Soviet Embassy, Georgi Baranovski, and the military attache, Maj. Gen. Vitali Mukolski, were personna non grata. Reports said both Russians left the country hurriedly. Nilsson charged that the staff of the Soviet diplomatic mission “had been actively violating Swedish as well as international law.” “This case is a deeply shocking one,” said Defense Minister Sven Andersson. “Col. Wennerstroem has.. .caused his country serious damage.” Security officials did not disclose how much information Wennerstroem relayed to the Kremlin over the years, but there were indications he had received large sums of money. The former colonel, who has an attractive wife and two children, lived in a luxurious villa in the I plush Stockholm suburb of Djursholm. He was known as a genial host, who entertained lavishly. Bids Awarded For Adams Central Buses ■Bids for two 60-passenger school buses were submitted Monday night to the Adams Central school board. Bids by Schwartz-Ford erf Decatur and Imperial Equipment company of Fort Wayne were accepted. Schwartz will supply chassis for the buses and Imperial will supply the bodies. Other Decatur area firms bidding were Phil L. Macklin company, Evans Sales and Service, Moser Ford and Decatur Equipment. Illegal Possession Os Fireworks Charged Wilbur Wallace, 40, of Geneva, was arrested Monday near Bluffton by Wells county sheriff Alva Smith on a charge o.filegal possession and sale "of fireworks to David Lee Gehrett, 18, of route 3, Bluffton. Wallace was arrested on a complaint signed by probation officer James Mcßride who questioned a juvenile and Gehrett, who had previously been charged with illegal possession of fireworks. Wallace, who operates a service station one-mourth mile north of Bluffton, was released on SSOO bond, pending a June 29 appearance in circuit court. PRESIDENT (Continued from Page One) Berliners did not attempt any demonstration. The view at Checkpoint Charlie had not been obstructed by the Communists, as many in the President’s party had expected. There were some signs with Communist slogans, but Kennedy had a clear field of vision into East German territory. Reaffirming U.S. support of German reunification, the President in his speech at the Free University said: “Like the division of Germany, the division of Europe is against the tide o f history.” The President warned the Soviet Union against ignoring the strong commitments of the NATO Allies to Germany and Berlin, declaring that over a long period these will prevail against the Communists. “What will count in the long run are the realities of Western strength, the realities of Western commitment, the realities of Germany as a nation and the’Germans as a people, without regard to artificial boundaries of barbed wire,” he said. “Those are the qualities on which we rely—and others, too, would do well to recognize them.” He said a united Berlin in a unified Germany “is a goal we shall neyer abandon,” and said it might well be achieved most easily if all Europe, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, could move toward this goal. The President flew to Berlin from the U.S. Air Force base near Wiesbaden on the fourth day of his 12-day tour of Germany, Ireland, Britain, and Italy.

Husband Is Indicted In 'Murder For Hire’. ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPD — A rising young criminal attorney was under indictment for first degree murder today in the “murder for hire” killing of his heavily insured wife. A Ramsey County grand jury heard 10 witnesses Tuesday, then returned an indictment at 10=35 p.m. EDT against T. Eugene Thompson, 35, who had insured his wife, Carol, an heiress in her own right, for $1,061,000. Two other men also have been charged with murder in the clubbing and stabbing of Mrs. Thompson, 34, and mother o| four, in the Thompsons’ fashionable suburban home March 6. County Atty. William Randall said Thompson hired Norman Mastrian, 39, Minneapolis, an exconvict and one-time client, to carry out the slaying. Mastrian, police said, in turn contacted Dick W.C. Anderson, 35, decorated Marine combat veteran and unemployed roofing salesman, to do the actual killing. It was Anderson’s detailed statement Thursday that led police to arrest Thompson at his summer cottage at Forest Lake early Friday. He has been held under SIOO,OOO bond. The first witnesses before the g: and jury were Harry Hughley, one of the first St. Paul policeman to arrive at the Thompson house after the slaying; Dr. Kevin Lawler, pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mrs. Thompson; and Theodore Elzerman, St. Paul police criminologist who examined a, pistol used to beat her. Also testifying were Lt George Barkley, head of the St. Paul police homicide division; Richard Sharp, a burglary suspect whose statement linked Anderson to the crime; and Lawrence McMullen, Hennepin (Minneapolis) County sheriffs detective. It was not expected that the | case would go to trial before fall. Meningitis Outbreak In Training Center WASHINGTON (UPD — The Navy has sharply ’reduced the flow of recruits to the San Diego, Calif., Naval Training Center in an effort to combat a mysterious outbreak of meningitis cases. Navy officials said the assignment of recruits to San Diego would be cut in half and they would be s ent to other bases. The Navy already has ordered about 4,000 diverted to Great Lakes, 111. There have been 25 cases of meningitis at San Diego since January, and three resulted in the death of the victims. However, no new cases have been reported for more than a month. The steps being taken to cut down on the flow of recruits to San Diego were described as precautionary and designed to reduce chances of any new cases of the disease breaking out. One of the methods of fighting the disease is to reduce the number of men in each barracks by half Navy officials said the “summer population” of the San Diego base would be held to about 8,000 men. Normally, it is 15,000.

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Khrushchev Kennedy Make Berlin Trips BERLIN (UPD—President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev are coming closer to meeting this week than at any time since their chilling Vienna conference of June, 1961. The two leaders are making Berlin trips within two days of eSch other. The coincidence, if that’s what it is, emphasized that things have changed radically in the two years since the Russian leader tried to frighten the new President Into fatal concessions on Berlin and other critical issues. Kennedy today was receiving the homage of hundreds of thousands of West Berliners for his consistently firm stand in their behalf and' his determination to bolster Allied military might. Khrushchev comes into East Berlin Friday for reasons not yet entirely clear. Divided By Wall He and Kennedy, two days apart, will be getting vastly different views of the Berlin situation as each peers across the grim wall from his own side of the barrier which the Communists built to stem the heavy flow of refugees from their zone. The Soviet leader, facing a bitter argument in Moscow next week with the Communist Chinese, may be drumming up support among the satellites for his peaceful coexistence policy as opposed to Peking’s militant stand. Or he could feel that Kennedy’s morale-building visit to West Berlin called for a similar trip to the East zone by the Russian leader to let the Red-controlled sector know that he has not been frightened. May Be Worried Administration officials, obviously elated by the warm West German reception for Kennedy during his Bonn, Cologne, Hanau, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden visits, believe Khrushchev may be worried about the impact the President has made. Whatever Khrushchev’s reasons are for going to Berlin just after Kennedy, U.S. officials are convinced the Soviet leader will lose more than he gains from the trip. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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Packing Co. Plant: Destroyed By Fire SHELBURN, Ind. (UPD — Authorities described the Perfection Packing Co. plant as a total loss after a blaze which raged out of control for i more than eight hours finally burned itself out today. Fire companies from as far away as Terre Haute rallied to the aid of the Shelburn firefighters, but were unable to halt the fiery onslaught. The blaze destroyed the warehouse section, where firemen managed to remove tanks of ammonia nitrate just before the flames licked across the building. No one was injured seriously, although Shelburn Fire Chief John Seberlng was overcome by smoke . and hospitalized. Several other persons were treated for cuts and smoke inhalattoii. Sullivan County Deputy Sheriff Gene Scully said the blaze engulfed “pretty near a whole city block.” ‘ A “The firemen were trying td x keep the fire away from the ammonia nitrate. But about the time they get the fire contained, they run out of water and it takes off again.” Three converted gasoline trucks were shuttling water to the fire from a pond outside Shelburn, which gets its water from Sullivan, six miles away. Although numerous trucks were at the scene, only a few could be pressed into action because of the water shortage. Authorities said there were a number of small buildings in the area, including another plant located across the railroad tracks from the packaging firm. The Perfection plant was described as being aobut 150 feet by 150 feet in size. The fire broke out when the night shift was home for supper. No one was reported in the building when the fire began in the back of the building. It was out of control about 8:30 p. m. EST. When It n» Blue Roon?