Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1963 — Page 8

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Wall No Solution To East German Reds

By JOSEPH B. FLEMING United Press International BERLIN (UPI) — “Conditions are so bad in the prison that even the keepers are escaping.” That’s a popular West Berliners' description of East Berlin two years after the building of the anti-refugee wall that divides the city. , The wall, built by the Communists on Aug. 13, 1961, has not solved the satellite East Germans’ problems, not has it helped stabilize the regime as the Communists had hoped. It did halt the mass flood of refugees that threatened to bleed East Germany white. But East Germans still brave death almost daily to flee by every conceivable means. And the prison's keepers —

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the police, soldiers and border guards — are escaping in every increasing numbers. Would Risk Western officials say the Communists would risk the almost complete depopulation of East Germany if they took the wall down now. Two years ago ,when the wall went uo East Germans were fleeing through the West Berlin hole in the Iron Curtain at the rate of up to 100 an hour. - In July, the last full month before the wall, 30,00 East Germans walked or rode across the East-West border. The wall along the 26-mile East-West Berlin border halted that mass flow. In the two years since the wall 16,456 refugees have managed to get to the West.

The first year 12,00 goti out. Strengthened controls the second year cut the number to 4,456. -JBut the number of escaping soldiers and police has increased. The first year 400 soldiers, border guards and policemen fled. The second year 904. Only fear of retaliation against their families and lack of opportunity keep most border guards from fleeing, defectors have reported. Despised By Civilians Morale is said to be, extremely low because the soldiers are despised by civilians for guarding the wall. PFC. Manfred Tucher, 21, who fled to the U. S. Army’s Checkpoint Charlie last month, said “no matter how crowded a train is no other passenger will take a vacant seat next to a border guard. “I was stationed in East Berlin almost two years ago and never got to know a girl. They wouldn’t talk to us. Outside of the men in my company I had no friends.” Pfc. Heinz Heger, 20, who also fled, said: “More than half of my unit would defect to the West in the first few days if war broke out. They would not fight for the regime or shoot at West Germans. At the most 30 pgr cent are Communists.” (S’ East German deserters say most border guards shoot to miss at refugees and even deliberately get bad scores in target practice to cover up. This would account for the fact that refugee after refugee gets safely to-the West although they often escape under Eastern police gunfire. However, some guards do shoot to kill. Since the wall 65 refugees have died, 54 trying to reach West Berlin and 11 on the East-West German border. Toll Believed Higher It is believed the death toll is much higher but only 65 deaths have been documented. Western officials say without doubt others have been killed in deserted areas or behind the wall at night when there were no eyewitnesses. How many have been arrested trying to flee is not known. Lt. Col. Martin Loeffler, who commanded an East German army regiment before he fled, estimated only one in 10 refugees gets through. Those who do get through use every conceivable technique. They have swam lakes and rivers, broke through the wall in a stolen Russian - made armored I

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car, crossed mine fields in horsel drawn sleds. There Was even a circus performer who crossed a : 100-yard long cable 50 feet above the ground. And then thbre are the tunnels. One 60-yard tunnel that took five months to build from East to West Berlin rescued 13. One blind woman was guided through by her sister. A 70-year-old grandmother was pulled along unconscious by a rope tied to her legs. Two small boys who were taken on a tunnel escape were told to pretend they were playing groundhog. Advance for Monday pm’s 8-12 . Three Cases Heard In City Court Here One driver was fined, another was unable to pay a fine and remanded to jail, and a third case was taken under advisement, in the ! weekly session of city court this morning. Richard Allen Simmerman, 24-year-old resident of 325 N. Ninth St., was fined $lO and costs, totaling $27, and when he didn’t pay the fine he was remanded to jail to lay out the fine at $5 per day. Simmerman was arrested for improper mufflers on S. Second St., at 1:30 a.m. Saturday by the city police. jjpmes Le ster Kaehr, 18, of 510 MTJefferson St., paid a fine of $5 and costs, amounting to $23,75, on a charge of reckless driving. The youth was arrested by tfre city police at 3:45 a.m. Saturday , on Nuttman Ave., and cited into city court. A charge of assult and batery against Clarence Fellers of Monroe was taken under advisement for two weeks by Judge John B. Stults. The youth was arrested on a warrant last week, and released when he posted bond of SSO. The charge of assault was brought against Fellers by Larry E. Bauman of near Monroe, after an alleged fight on a county road in Kirkland township. Fellers pleaded not quilty to the charge this morning, and after the evidence was heard, Judge Stults took the matter under advicement. If you have something to sell oi trade — use the Democrat Want l ads — they get BIG results.

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FITTING MONUMENT— The farmhouse (top photo) in which Henry Ford was born a century ago, on July 30, 1863, Stands serenely in Greenfield Village exactly as it looked at the time of his birth. The only thing that is not the same is its location. The spot where it originally stood, less than two miles away, vibrates now to the hum of automobile traffic. Perhaps the best possible monument to the inventor of the Model T and originator of the assembly line, a modern highway overpass (lower photo) covers the original farmhouse site. The Henry Ford Centennial marker committee recently viewed the area from the overpass prior to erecting a marker, donated by Dearborn school children, close to the’intersection.

Jacqueline Kennedy Cheered By Children OTIS AFB, Mass. (UPD—Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, greatly cheered by the visits of her two children, Caroline and John Jr., now is anxious to leave the hospital and return to the summer White House on Squaw Island. I The President brought the youngsters in separate visits Sunday for an affectionate reunion with their "Mummy," who has been grieving over the death of their little brother, born last Wednesday. Caroline, nearly six, looking like a doll in a blue and white short shift, arrived with her father before noon. She carried a bouquet of black-eyed Susans, larkspurs and pink trumpet lilies she had picked near the summer White House. John Jr., nearly three, helicoptered in on the evening visit and turned out to be a born scene stealer. Going up the hospital steps holding his father’s hand, he asked loudly: ‘‘Where’s Mummy?" He repeated “Where’s Mummy” several times down hospital corridors before he reached her room. Neither child had seen their mother since she was rushed to the hqspital here after taking them riding on their ponies last Wednesday. Both had been told they had a little brother—Patrick Bouvier Kennedy—who had gone to heaven. The First Lady was making a rapid recovery from the Caesarean birth of her third child. She was out of bed and walking for the first time Sunday. She urged her doctor to permit her to go home right away. As parents, the President and his 34-year-old wife. appeared to be counting their blessings, despite their tragic loss. A White House spokesman described Mrs. Kennedy as “greatly cheered up" by the visits of her two children. Pushing Further Rail Talk Meetings WASHINGTON (UPD — Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz pushed further' meetings between the railroads and rail unions today in an effort to produce some agreement on the work rules dispute by mid-week. Wirtz continued meetings with both sides during the weekend in an effort to break the deadlock on the issues surrounding the size of train crews and presence of firemen in diesel locomotives. The firemen’s union, at the rehest of Wirtz, has called its decision - making committee to gather in Washington Tuesday and be on hand to decide whether to accept any agreement arising from the talks. Management spokesmen have declined to meet with firemen's union negotiators on the grounds they lack the power of decision. * Wirtz has proposed a two-or-three-year contract to solve the firemen and crew size issues, and has said both sides accepted this as a basis for renewed discussions. He said the talks on these two issues "and perhaps with respect to all of them ought to come to a climax’’ the first part of the week. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

Lt.-Col. Glendening In Exercise Strike SPARTANBURG, S. C. (AHTNC) — Army Lt.'Col. James K. Glendening, son of Milo B. Glendening, Geneva, Ind., is participating in exercise Swift Strike 111, a U.S. strike command exersice, with more than 75,000 armed forces personnel in Georgia, North and South Carolina. Swift Strike 111 pits two task forces against each other in a four-week mock war ending Aug. 16, and ineludes airborne maneuvers, longdistance airlifts, air-ground support missions and countergu err ilia operations. Col. Glendening, deputy commander of the 2d Battle Group in the 101st Airborne Division’s 187th Infantry at Fort Campbell, Ky, entered the Army in 1943. The colonel is h 1939 graduate of Hartford high school and a 1963 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. Follow Hundreds Os Leads Into Robbery LONDON (UPD — The detective in charge of Scotland Yard's hunt for a gang of spectacular mail train robbers said today he believes the record $7.1 rrmlion haul still is within a 30-mile radius of the hijack point abd possibly intact. “We are following up literally hundreds of so-called leads and are still combing the ambush area,” detective superintendent Gerald McArthur said. “We are always keeping our fingers crossed that something will come up.” London newspapers reported today that Scotland Yard was on the trail of four or five known criminals who may have taken part in the daring robbery early Thursday morning at Cheddington, 40 miles north of London. Scotland Yard refused to confirm the reports. ‘<We have not said anything of the kind,” a spokesman for the famed police force said. McArthur made no reference to the newspaper stories in a news conference at on-the-spot police headquarters at Aylesbury. He said detectives were very interested in a stolen truck found abandoned at Retford, 70 miles from the ambush scene. Unconfirmed reports said bank note wrappers had been found in the truck. The 30-mile radius named by MacArthur takes in a sizable area of outer London. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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Two Persons Hurl In One-Car Wreck Two persons were injured in a one-car accident Saturday evening, with the driver arrested and charged with three separate violation. Laura Opal Kahn, 29-year-old resident of route 4, Decatur, was cited for failure to have a driver's license, for reckless driving and also for improper registration, after treatment at the local hospital. She suffered a laceration to the face and possible factures of the forearm and jawbone. A son, William Henry Kahn, Jr., five years of age, received a broken right arm and abrasions to the body. Both were treated at the Adams county memorial hospital and were held for further treatment. Turns Over The mishap occurred when Mrs. Kahn was traveling north on county road 36. Her auto skidded on loose gravel and went out of control. The car traveled 210 feet and left the read, turning over one and one-half times and coming to rest on its top. Deputy sheriff Harold August,

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who investigated, estimated the 1954 model car at a total loss. The mishap occurred at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, three and one-half miles south and three miles west of Decatur. Joseph N. Wyss, 27, of route 4, Decatur, was arrested for driving left of center after a two-car accident on county road 27, threetenths of a mile north of Peterson at 6 a.m. today. Left of Center Wyss was southbound and drove left of center and struck the left front of a northbound car driven by David Lee Honck, 21, of route 2 Decatur Houck had pulled to the right and had three-fourths of his vehicle off the edge of the road in an attempt to avoid the collision. Damages were listed at SBOO to Houck’s 1962 model car and the 1954 model Wyss auto was estimated at a total loss. Wyss was charged with driving left of center by deputy sheriff Harold August, who investigated and will appear in J. P. couft at a later date. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.