Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1963 — Page 1

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Local G.E. Workers On One-Day Protest Strike Today Noon

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Russia Reluctant On Major Concessions

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy finds Russia anxious to continue cordial talks on steps to ease East-West tension but unwilling to make any significant concessions on major points of friction such as Berlin and Germany. That was the report from American officials following the President’s two-hour conference late Thursday at the White House with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Kennedy and Gromyko made some progress on two secondary issues, diplomatic sources said. They agreed? — To begin Soviet-American technical talks designed to put into effect a commercial aviation agreement initialed in early 1961 but shelved when the Kremlin whipped up a new Berlin crisis. Seek U.N. Resolution —To seek a United Nations resolution calling On all countries to refrain from putting nuclear weapons into space orbit, a point on which the United States and Russia already had announced “agreement in principle.” It was Kennedy’s first formal meeting with Gromyko since last October when the Russian asserted Soviet weapons in Cuba were purely “defensive,” unaware that the President already had photo-

Anderson Drug Ring Smashed

• ■ ANDERSON, Ind. (UPI) —An early morning raid by local authorities today resulted in the seizure of about 25 pounds of illegal drugs and narcotics and the arrest of a prominent Anderson doctor and his housekeeper. Inspector Robert Graham, who led the raid with two other officers of his vice squad',' said Dr. Seth Irwin, 82, and his housekeeper, Mary Wagner, 63, were being held on charges of illegal possession and sale of unlawful dangerous drugs. Graham said the raid dried up a narcotics supply which had been going to addicts, including teen-agers, in numerous Central Indiana cities. Graham said the house had been under the watchful eye of his men for “quite a long time.” Four ' boxes of bottled and raw drugs and narcotics were captured in the raid. Graham said he was notifying federal narcotics authorities and expected them to place federal charges “after proper investigation.” Graham said about 10 “wholesalers" a day stopped at the Irwin house to pick up their “shipment.’’ He said the wholesalers would then be tracked and observed selling at “retail skyrocket prices" to addicts and

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graphic proof they were nuclear missiles. Kennedy subsequently accused Gromyko of “deliberate deception.” At Thursday’s meeting, Kennedy prodded Gromyko on the continued presence of Soviet troops in Cuba and. received a “generally encouraging” response, officials said. • The Russian claimed virtually all combat forces were out of Cuba and only training forces remained. American sources said a “trickle" of Russians continue to leave Cuba. Gromyko Very “Friendly” Gromyko was all affability with newsmen and officials at the White House and at a dinner he gave later for Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the Russian Embassy. His obvious anxiety to create the impression that the “spirit of the nuclear test ban treaty,” as he called it, was leading to agreements on other issues led American officials to raise caution flags. They said Kennedy’s talk with Gromyko, as well as discussions earlier between the Russian and Rusk, showed no change in the Soviet positions on basic disputes which, from time to time, have threatened to erupt into nuclear war.

others who would again resell. He said his men tracked “wholesalers” to numerous cities in Central Indiana, including Anderson, Muncie, Indianapolis, Noblesville, Marion and New Castle. “The places these drugs were sold are almost too numerous to name,” he said. “We have the names of the wholesalers and with the help of federal authorities, I hope we can crack this ring wide open.” Graham said he "was not qualified to estimate the value of all this right now, but I would say it runs to thousands of dollars.” Graham said a warrant for the search and arrests was issued in Madison Circuit Court a few moments before the raid. ; ' He said several officers on the force actually had purchased drugs from Irwin and from Mrs. Wagner, “We worked out an elaborate system of decoy and disguise to get our men okayed by the ring of other wholesalers," Graham said. “Mrs. Wagner has admitted most of her part in the selling, but Irwin isn’t saying much.” Graham said "it is difficult to judge just how much of this stuff was going where, but I can safely say a good number of teen-agers throughout Central Indiana were buyers.”

Strikers Are Scheduled To Return Monday Employes at the local General Electric plant went on a protest strike at 11 o’clock today, with nearly all factory workers out and marching in picket lines. I Vernon B. Hebble, president of the United Electrical and Machine Workers of America, Local 924,. said at 1 o’clock this afternoon the strike is only a half-day protest strike and all employes will be back on the job Monday morning. The second shift emploes, who begin work at 3:30 p.m. will pick up the picket lines at that time Hebble said. Hebble said the local union is striking in protest of two grievances, pertaining to seniority and upgrading of a job. According to Hebble, the upgrading of a job grievance con-t cerns “an employe of more than 15 years who wanted an upgrading of his job and was refused by the company on the grounds he wan’t doing his job properly.” “They say they will upgrade the job in the future,” Hebble stated, “we say why don’t they do it now.” The employe involved works in the inspection department. No Comment Plant manager George Auer said at 1:15 p.m. he had “no comment” concerning the strike. The strike involves 200 or more day shift employes and another estimated 160 second shift employees, according to Hebble, who said "all production is shut down tight with the exception of a few here and there and those in the office.” (He estimated about 25 or 30 were working yet this afternoon). The strike began at 11 o'clock this morning when the employes left for their lunch break and set up the picket lines. Hebble said a meeting of Local 924 is scheduled for 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon in the Union Hall. Half-Day Protest “This is only a half-day protest strike,” Hebble said, “and our intentions are to return to work Monday morning. If our grievances aren’t settled, however we will go on a full-scale strike,” he added. “Company officials have not provided us with any information yet as to when they will meet with us . , . we are willing to sit down at any time and discuss the matter with them,” Hebble concluded.

$33 Million Cache Os Heroin Seized LAREDO, Tex. (UPI) — A 66pound cache of pure heroin, worth $33 million on underworld markets and second largest seizure in United States history., today was held by customs agents who arrested a suave Cahadian couple. Preliminary hearings in federal court were scheduled tonight for Joseph Michel Caron, 33-year-old Montreal gambler, and his attractive 30-year-old wife, Marie Ida. They were held in absence of $250,000 bonds. The heroin, which would make 450 pounds of narcotics when cut with milk sugar, was found by border guards during a routine check. It was the largest seizure ever at the United States-Mexico border and second largest ever found coming into this country, officials said. "It is pure heroin,” a customs spokesman said. “I am certain it is a syndicate operation." Customs officials said the narcotics apparently was moved to Mexico from Europe. The Carons crossed into Mexico Oct. 2 and went to Mexico City. They were ariving back when the discovery was made. James E. Ragsdale and Herman Scheer were making a routine inspection of the car when 66 plastic containers were found stashed in a back seat and panels of the sedan.

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S. S. Convention, November 9-10 Officials of the Adams county Sunday school association are completing the plans for the annual county Sunday school convention November 9 and 10. Last year 485 Sunday school workers and pupils thronged the Community Center building for the banquet. Dr. John Huffman of Wheaton, 111., will be the featured speaker this year. He will be speaking at the banquet and during the Sunday evening service in Berne. On Sunday afternoon, two workshops are being planned. Further plans are being made for this service. A young men’s quartet and trumpet trio will be the musical attraction for the banquet. This will be held again this year in the Community Center. Officers of the association are hoping for 500 workers and pupils to be in attendance this year. All Sunday school superintendents throughout the county will have tickets for the event. Sunday schools are again urged to send their Officers and teachers to the convention. The Sunday afternoon session will be held in the Methodist church in Geneva. Several musical groups are being planned for in this session along with the work-, shops. The final session Sunday evening will be held in the Mennonite church in Berne. Plans are being made for an inspirational program in this closing session. The program will be announced later. All pastors and Sunday school workers are urged to keep these dates open. -

William C. Werling Dies Thursday Night William C. Werling, 87, retired farmer .and lifelong resident of Preble township, died at 11:40 p.m. Thursday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. He had been a semi-invalid for the past seven years. He was born in Preble township May 5, 1876, and was married to Frieda Fuhrman April 23, 1905. His wife preceded him in death Sept. 17, 1961. Mr. Werling was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Elmer (Irene) Doctor, Mrs. Henry (Helen) Gollmer, Miss Lucille Werling and Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Ellison, all of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Darrell (Normal Shackley of Preble, and Mrs. Bob (Deloris) Lenhart of Decatur; six sons, Erwin, Edgar and Oscar Werling, all of Fort Wayne, Rob- 1 ert J. Werling of Preble, Melvin | Werling of Muncie, and Richardj Werling of Minneapolis, Minn.; "22 grandchildren and two great- ! grandchildren. Two brothers and bne sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 12:30 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 1 p. m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble. The Rev. Norman H. Kuck will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today uhtil time of the services. August Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services for Mrs*. • Quintilia August, who dtedt'Thursday morning, will be held at'2:3o p. tn. Sunday ait the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. A. C. Underwood will I officiate and burial will be at Rockford, O. Friends mal call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today. i The names of three sisters were unintentionally omitted from the surviving relatives. They are Mrs. Ethel Haught of Brooklyn, Mich . Mrs. Priscilla Fackler of Millington, Mich., and Mrs. Lydia Gratz

British Parly Seeks Successor For Macmillan BLACKPOOL, England (UPD— The Conservative party sought a new leader today to replace Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who announced Thursday that' he will resign. Acting Prime Minister R. A. Butler and Minister Lord Hailsham were the favorites. Macmillan’s announcement stunned the party convention, meeting in this seaside resort to work out a campaign program for the general elections it must fight against Labor in the next 12 months. — •Butler, who nearly became prime minister in 1957, when Macmillan was chosen by the party to replace Anthony Eden, was considered the top contender. As deputy premier, he is in charge of the government while Macmillan recuperates from the prostate gland operation that forced h i s decision to quit. But Hailsham, the disheveled, Shaggy orator with a vast following among the party rank and file, made a determined bid for the post Thursday night by announcing he would give up his peerage and seek election in the House of Commons. The premiership in this century has been reserved for commoners and Hailsham, who will be known once again as Mr. Quintin Hogg, had to resign from the House of Lords to be eligible. His announcement, however, was a sensation at the party conference, which had given Haila /stormy ovation on his arrival here Wednesday, “He has split the party right down the middle,” one official said. “There’s no certainty now what will happen.” “The knives are out,” headlines the pro-labor London Daily Herald. The Daily Mirror, another newspaper that usually supports Labor, said “it is a struggle without precedent in the history of Rtitish policitcs a gloves-off ■ battle.” Bookmakers were • betting on Butler. A London firm posted odds of 2 to 1. on Butler, with Hailsham second favorite at 9 to 4.

Tools Are Stolen At County Garage An estimated S6OO to S7OO worth of tools were stolen in a burglary at the Adams county highway garage, near Monroe, Thursday night or early this morning. The building was entered' by breaking a window on the south side of the building, reaching through to unlock it, and then crawling through the window. Highway department employes discovered the theft upon arriving for work this morning. Many of the tools taken were of the heavy-duty type, used on tractors and trucks by the highway department. An air wrench was among the items stolen. Sheriff Roger Singleton and state trooper Alan Coppes are investigating the burglary today, and have asked that anyone with any information regarding the theft contact the sheriff’s office. Welsh Charges GOP Leaders With Lying EVANSVILLE. Ind. (UPU-Gov-ernor Welsh Thursday night accused Indiana Republican leaders of “deliberate lying’’ and “unprincipled political cowardice” in their statements regarding the state's new 2 per cent sales tax. Speaking at a Democratic banquet here, Welsh said the sales tax bill was proposed by Republicans and insisted upon by the Republican House leadership and now “the Republicans have the unmitigated gall to label this a Democratic tax.” He said, “They proposed ,it, their assembly passed it and now they have panicked and abandoned publicly all responsibility for their actions.” Welsh attacked State Auditor Dorothy Gardner, State Treasurer Robert Hughes and Attorney General Edwin K. Steers—all Republicans—for refusing to help his administration in the “unpleasant duty” of defending the tax in the courts. “I was left as the sole defender of the tax measure proposed, demanded and passed by the Republicans. The elected Republican state officials who abandoned their own party’s tax program and the needs of the state as well as the duties of their offices were guilty of unprincipled political cowardice," Welsh said.

Benefit Horse Show Sunday Afternoon “The work is completed to date and the show grounds are ready to go,” Ferris Bower, committee chairman for the Decatur retail division benefit horse show, said this morning following completion of the “clean-up" detail at the Bellmont park grounds. “We are expected a very large attendance and are in serious need of 10 to 15 more men to help chairmen Thieme and Noack with an orderly parking program, “Bower said. 4 ?sPhe show will be held Sunday. He added that “the park is beautiful this time of the year and will prove to be a very pleasant experience to everyone who attends the show.” The bleachers will be erected registration tents by Brice Dantoday along with the food and iels and Co. Lights and power were installed by Ralph Gordon and an Indiana & Michigan crew yesterday. A large water truck and sprinkler will be furnished by Adolph Kolter, street commissioner, courtesy of the city street department. It has been approved by fire chief Cedric Fisher and will be used to wet down the race track and also for fire protection. Thursday Workers Comprising the work crew Thursday afternoon for the final clean-up detail were Bryan Lehman. Schwartz Ford; Carl Gerber, Gerber's Super Market; Phil Adams, Harold Thieme, Doyle Rich, Ideal Dairy Bar; Ed Reed, Reed, Eddie’s Recreation; Don Whitaker, Gamble store; Tom Weis, Weis Men’s Wear; Frances Noack. Smith Drug Co.; George Litchfield, Pioneer restaurants; John Rawlinson, Western Auto; and Larry Mankey, Bill Zoss Chevrolet-Buick ,

Demands Seen For Review Os U.S. Security WASHINGTON (UPI) — Demands for a sweeping review of U. S. security procedures appeared certain today to follow disclosures that a high-living Army sergeant sold secrets to the Russians for an estimated $60,000. The Defense Department said Thursday night that Sgt. I.C. Jack Edward Dunlap, 35, an employe of the super-secret National Security Agericy (NSA), peddled classified materials to Red agents for more than two years, but killed himself when his lavish spending gave him away. Dunlap's breach of U. S. security was the second case at NSA in three years. In 1960 NSA mathematicians Bernon F. Mitchell and. William H. Martin fled to the Soviet Union byway of Mexico and Cuba. NSA deals with high-level military intelligence, particularly codes and ciphers of this country and foreign powers. Its work is perhajis the most secret of all government agencies. Pentagon Says No Access The Pentagon insisted that Dunlap, who was originally assigned to NSA headquarters at Ft. George G. Meade, Md., in April 1958 as a driver, did not have access to top secret U. S. codes and ciphers. Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said Dunlap had told his wife he received between $30,000 and $40,000 during the first of two years of his dealings with Red spies. Informed sources put Dunlap's total take at $60,000, however. Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.,“ chairman of the Armed Services Committee, who received a confidential report on the incident, said he was ‘ shocked that’ such a thing as this could have occurred in this agency." Russell said the incident "reveals a glaring weakness in their personnel policy.” He said his committee would await the results of a complete investigation being conducted by 'the Army's Counter-Intelligence Corps before, deciding whether to take any action on its own. Pentagon officials would not comment on whether the FBI or other government agencies have established the identity of '■Dunlap’s Soviet contacts. ’-■'Father Os Five Dunlap, a native of Bogalusa, La., was married and the father of five. He joined the Army in 1952 and was "relieved" of his NSA duties "several weeks” before his suicide last July 23, according to the Defense Department.

Welsh Orders Local Tax Cut

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh said today that the slate will distribute to local schools $l5O million more this fiscal year than last, and ordered an average reduction.of $1.30 from advertised local property tax rates for 1964. Welsh said state fiscal experts, studying the effects of a fourmonth delay in imposing the two per cent sales tax from which the state aid revenue comes, determined that the distribution for the biennium 1963-65 will be $22 million less than the $350.5 million appropriated by the 1963 Legislature. Welsh instructed Richard Worley, chairman of the Indiana State Board pf Tax Commissioners, to reduce local property tax rates in accordance with the latest information on revenues expected when the sales tax is imposed beginning later this month. The tax was delayed because Marion Circuit Judge John L. Niblack ruled the law unconstitutional, and is set to start Oct. 23 or a day or two later on the basis of an Indiana Supreme Court reversal of the Niblack ruling, even though Dallas Sells, head of the Indiana State AFL-CIO, who sought to block the tax. said Thursday he will ask for a rehearing and then appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if it is rejected. Entire Cut This Year Welsh said that the entire $22 million reduction would, be applied to the 1963-64 fiscal year which began last July 1, and the amount in prospect for the 1964-65 fiscal year beginning next July 1 should be .the same as the legislature appropriated. Welsh said other cuts in state governmental operations because of the sales tax delay would total $23.8 million, including the entire $8 5 million university construction budget for the present fiscal year. The entire cut in the 1963-65 apIpropriations for state agencies and institutions will be made in the current fiscal year, leaving the budget unchanged' for the 1964-65 year. • Commissioner John T. Hatchett I of the Indiana Department of Administration said the actual appropriation cut is $39 million and that the remainder of the $45.8 million total reduction in the biennia! budget will be achieved by reducing the amount the lawmakers wanted in the general fund surplus in 1964-65. The surplus which had been written into the budget by the legislature—the amount the lawmak-

Soviet Troops Block Convoy

BERLIN (UPD—Soviet troops mounted a major threat to the Allies’ single highway link between this isolated eity and West Germany today The United States immediately protested to the Soviet Union. A U.S. Army convoy was being held at the Soviets’ Babelsberg checkpoint at the West Berlin end of the 110-mile autobahn through East Germany. It was the second time one of the convoys had been held up in 24 hours. Another U.S Army convoy moved down to the autobahn and joined it. The Soviets also partially blocked the autobahn between Babelsberg and the West Berlin crossing point a mile away with more than a dozen armored personnel carriers. Each side increased pressure on the other with aerial reconnaissance flights over the other’s checkpoint, using helicopters, artillery spotter planes, transports and a single Soviet jetfighter. U.S Berlin commandant Maj. Gen. James H. Polk met with the British and French commandants for an hour and three-quarters to discuss the tense situation. They “will continue to keep it under review,'.' an official spokesman said. Rusk Makes Protest In Washington. Secretary of State Dean Rusk protested to Soviet Ambassador Anatlily ,F. Dobrynin against the Soviet actions, showing the United States views the situation with gravity. The crisis escalated rapidly from a relatively commonplace disagreement between a Soviet control officer and a U.S. convoy commander Thursday. The Soviet control officer demanded the U. S. commander order his men to dismount and line up at the side of the road tc be Counted. The commander, as the U.S.

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ers believed should be there as a safe balance—was $24 million. This would be million. This means injgi're venue and expenditures were as budgeted, the surplus would total $17.2 million by June 30, 1965. In addition to the $22 million school cut and the $8.5 million university and college loss, the other appropriation reductions as worked out by Hatchett will be: Mental hospital construction $2.8 million: correction department ' construction $1.6 million; deaf and blind school construction $1.4 million; conservation construction $700,000 and other state operations $2 million. Thus the sl6 million construction budget planned for the next two years will amount to only $1 million. Hatchett said most of the money will be used for the Monroe Reservoir, the intermediate penal institute at Plainfield, and completion of an Indiana University geology building. Welsh, in a letter to Worley, said because of the Supreme Court decision declaring the tax constitutional, it “should make it jxissible for you to reduce local property tax rates well below the rates announced by the local governmental units in August.” Orders Rates Slashed "I herewith direct the State Board of Tax Commissioners to take such action as is proper and necessary to reduce local property taxes to the lowest possible level, consistent with maintaining a quality educational system for Indiana children." "The local property taxpayers of Indiana are entitled to relief from the oppressive burden they have borne," Welsh said. "It is our responsibility to make sure they receive this relief to the extent possible within the limit of current state revenue." Hatchett advised Supt. of Public Instruction William E. Wilson that the state support for 1963-44 will total $155,179,293, including $136.5 million for , instructional salaries and current expenditures; $10.6 / million for transportation; $3 mil- / Hon for property tax relief and I $5 million for corporate income. The appropriations available for 1964-65 will total $173.4 million of which $134 million would be salaries and expenditures; $25 million property tax relief; $9.3 million transportation and $5 million corporate income. The remainder of the $350.5 million which was originally appropriated for the biennium consists o f dedicated funds.

Army claims is its four-power right, refused. The Soviets held the convoy and another which arrived shortly afterward on its way to West Germany for more than 15 hours, before letting them proceed at midnight, A third convoy was held up for nearly five hours. Civilian traffic ’ between West Berlin and West Germany was allowed to move over the autobahn with little difficulty.. But the Russians said the personnel carriers would continue to block the autobahn until the new EashWest controversy is settled. Condemn Blockage The Army condemned the blocking of traffic as "a wholly unilateral act of the Soviets." Diplomats felt the stopping may have been intended as a probe of Western intentions following the nuclear test ban treaty and the general relaxation of tensions in the cold war. The diplomats said the Soviets may have been under the impression that Allied troops were under orders to avoid access route incidents as part of the new "spirit of Moscow” that followed the treaty signing. If this was the Soviet intention, the Army immediately made it clear it will not back down in its determination to keep troops and vehicles rolling over Berlin’s access routes as often as it chooses. v ' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cooler this afternoon with light showers. Clearing and cooler tonight. Saturday fair and pleasant. Low tonight 46 to 54. High Saturday lower 70s north, 74 to 82 south. Sunset today 6:12 p. in. Sunrise Saturday 6:52 a.in. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and mild. Lows upper 40s to low 50s. High in the 70s.