Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 7.

Robert Kennedy lo Remain In Cabinet

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said today he would remain in his cabinet post until after the presidential election. The- brother of the late President Kennedy also said he would be available to play whatever role would be useful to the Democratic party in the election campaign. . Although he has been back at work for some time, Kennedy has avoided the public limelight as much as possible since the assassination of his brother on Nov. 22. The attorney general previously had told personal friends only that he would remain in office “at least until Congress acts on the civil rights legislation and probably through the election.” He went one step further in an interview today in which he detailed his plans for the immediate future. He said he had thought about his -peisbnaL oat* look beyond the election but had made no firm decisions that far ahead. Future Isn’t Clear “My one interest really is being attorney general,” he said. '“I just don’t know what I will do in the future. I certainly will stay as attorney general through the election.” “I would be available to campaign,” he said. “There hasn’t been anything said about it but I’ll do whatever anyone (in the administration or Democratic party) feels is helpful.”

Hoffa Issues Strike Threat

CHICAGO (UPl)—Teamsters President James R. Hoffa hasthreatened to call a strike against six nationwide trucking firms if a new national agreement is not reached by next Wednesday. “I have notified the industry that six trucking firms, all of which have terminals in Chicago, will be struck here and the strike will spread to their operations throughout the country,” Hoffa told trucking negotiators and federal mediators Wednesday. Hoffa and trucking firm negotiators said that many issues, most fit them minor, have been agreed upon, but sessions have bogged down on economic issues, including wages, vacations and pension plans. Hoffa has been engaged in neSa gotfations here seeking a national trucking contract covering 400,000 union members. The talks were scheduled to continue , through this week, including Saturday. The strike, if called, would be “selective,” Hoffa said. The companies, which he did not name, will include two with western operations, two operating in the East, and two in the South, he said. Several Chicago trucking officials called Teamster demands “exorbitant.” It was reported /the final proposal of the unions calls for a three-year contract with pay increases of 10 cents an hour the first year, 8 cents the second year and 10 cents the third year.

British Ridicule U.S. Objections

LONDON (UPD—The British press today ridiculed U.S. objections to the sale of British buses to Cuba. Newspapers accused the United States of using blackmail and double standards. There were indications that another ally of the United States, Spain, was determined “—to go ahead “with trade with Premier Fidel Castro’s regime despite U. S. disapproval. Informed sources in Madrid believe Spain will build about 100 ships for Cuba worth about SSOO million. i In both the ship deal and the *■ agreement to sell Cuba $11.2 million worth of British doubledecker buses, the argument used by the sellers is the same: ■’T If the United States /can sell millions of dollars worth of grain to the Soviet Union and its satellites in Europe, other s, Western nations ought to be able-to do business with Cuba. Britain said it has no legal m£ans to stop the sale of buses by the Leyland Motors Co. Government sources noted that Brit-

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Kennedy said he had seen a poll of Democratic county chairmen in which he was rated a close second to Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., in preferences for the vice presidential nomination. He said he was pleased that the county chairmen thought well of him, but indicated he was making no bid to get on the ticket. Asked about reports that his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, is being boomed for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, Kennedy said Abie Figure “I can understand why he would be a popular choice and I think he is a very able figure who did one of the outstanding jobs in the administration of President Kennedy in his role as director of the Peace Corps. I think he certainly would be well qualified for that job (vice president'.” • M Kennedy, added, “it is up to the first man on the ticket to select who is going to run for vice president.” As for his own future, Kennedy said he might stay on for another term in the cabinet, he could run for some elective office in Massachusetts, he could go into teaching, or .he could enter business. But he said his primary interest still was public service. If he does decide to leave government service, he said, “I’m sure I will return to it sometime in the future.” —

The Teamsters also asked for increases in the pension and health and welfare payments of $5 a week for each employe with $1.50 the first year, $1.50 the second year and $2 the third year. The truckers now pay $lO a week into the funds. Eugene McCarron, general manager of the Illinois Motor Truck Operators Association, said the Teamster demands would necessitate a 15 per cent increase in trucking rates. Hoffa has sought a national contract for some time. He personally master-minded bargaining that 1ed...t0 contract expiration dates ranging between December, 1963, and September, 1964,- so he could negotiate a national contract. The national contract idea has been supported by some of the big national trucking firms who say it would bring about uniformity in the industry and halt .undercutting by some truckers. Hoffa has ben holding down on wage demands in order to obtain a national contract. He has been seeking a three-year, 60-cent package broken up into 30 cents for wages and the rest in fringe benefits. The fringe benefits Hoffa is seeking includes lowering the present retirement age from 57 to 55 and increasing the present S2OO-amonth pension. He also would like extension of free dental care. The hationwide minimum of $3.03 an hour has been established for truckers and some aJp getting minimums as high asTs3.27.

ain is not participating in the American trade boycott of Cuba and that the buses have no strategic value. The British press was more outspoken. ‘‘For the love of Pete!” the London Daily Mail exploded. * ‘‘The fact is that the United States applies double standards 'WHTTT cOTtresTd trade with the Communists,” it added. “Both the administration _ and—Congress approved the sale of wheat to,, the Soviet Union — and rightly so. But we could ’hrgue that filling a Russian belly is far more strategic than saving/Cuba.” The dispute . has caused irritation pn both sides' of the Atlantic, and British officials said they hope it, will die down before the meeting between President Johnson and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home next month. They noted that the bus deal negotiations J have been public knowledge both here and in Washington for • months; with each side fully aware of the other’s position. ,

Mrs. Oswald Convinced Os Husband's Act DALLAS (UPI) — Mrs- Lee Harvey Oswald, convinced her husband shot President Kenneddy, today prepared for the task of burning deeper the assassin brand on the man she loved. Marina Oswald consented to appear before .the Warren Commission. She was expected to tell the federal panel she believes her husband killed Kennedy, wounded Texas Gov. John Connally on Nov. 22 and earlier fired a sniper’s bullet at former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. After this testimony, expected behind closed doors this month, the 22-year-old Russian-born woman will start building a new life in a strange land for herself and the couple’s two young daughters. Convinced By Evidence James H. Martin, a business adviser of the attractive mother, said Wednesday the widow was convinced by evidence against her pro-Marxist husband. It was made believable by an ugly transformation she saw in Oswald, Martin said, after the defector to Russia returned to the United States. “He had become more moody,” Martin said, “more unhappy.” Mrs. Marina Oswald, in contrast, was fond of the new country. She was forbidden by her husband to learn English. She now practices the new language, but words come hard. She hopes to become a citizen of the United States. The widow told Martin that she had no ill will toward anyone, including her husband’s slayer Jack Ruby. She said she would not sue either the city of Dallas or Ruby. “I guess she would have a valid suit against Jack Ruby for wrongful death,” Martin said. Under Guard Mrs. Oswald, who has visited her husband’s unmarked grave three times since his burial Nov. 25 at Fort Worth, has been under guard by Secret Service agents since Oswald was arrested. She asked for the protection, but Martin said she was free to move as she pleased. Her time is spent in a secret motel or hotel room. She has moved several times, taking Rachael, 2 months, and June, who is nearly 2 years old, with her. She watches television and often cried when the faqe of Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on the screen. Donations have come in for the family, totaling about $28,000. The Southern Baptist Convention has urged its members to send her money.

Third Animal To Human Transplant DENVER (UPD — A historymaking team of Denver surgeons announced Wednesday they had performed their third animal-to-human dual kidney transplant, the second such operation this week. The pioneering team of surgeons, based at the Colorado General and Veteran’s Administraton hospitals, said all three patients were in good or factory condition. - The latest patient, identified only as a 16-year-old boy, received two kidneys from a baboon Wednesday during a sixhour operation at Colorado General. Doctors would not release additinaj identification or details of the case. A 40-year-old man was received two baboon kidneys Monday and a 45-year-old man who underwent a similar operation Dec. 20 were reported doing “very well’’ by a hospital spokesman. * The operation Wednesday was the fifth animal-to-human kidney transplant known. The other two patients, both operated on- in New Orleans, died. The “first “of ■fheTiVerta-WF" an, received the kidneys of a rhesus monkey Oct? 8. The kidneys ceased- to function, however, and "had to be removed. later. The second patient, also in New?' Orleans, was 44-year-old Jeffergon Davis, a dock worker. Davis spurred the hopes of transplant, medicing after receiving two kidneys from a 90pound chimpanzee—Nov? 5 and recovering enough to leave the hospital ’by the end of December. But Monday, just as the Colorado team of doctors was preparing “for its second baboon kidney transplant to the 40-year-old man, Davis died in New Orleans of pneumonia.

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Democratic Leaders Turn On Pressure For Shoving Plans Through Congress

Says State's fire Marshal Not To Blame INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The head of a national fire prevention group said today “in no way do I feel that the state fire marshal’s office is to blame” for the disastrous explosion at • the Indianapolis Coliseum which killed 73. Emmett Cox, director of the Fire Prevention Department for the Western Actuarial Bureau of Chicago, commented while here to p. eside over a factfinding study by a special committee named by Governor Welsh. Welsh asked the committee when it was formed Dec. 24 to review the organization and operation of the fire marshal s office and to make recommendations. The five - member group, headed by Cox, met with Welsh this morning and then went into a closed-door session with the aim of working on the evaluation Results may be available Friday. Cox talked to reporters. after leaving the governor’s office.“When a thing like the coliseum disaster happens, people get excited,” he said. “It would happen regardless of how strict or rigid the inspection had been.” “In no way do I feel the fire marshal’s office is to blame,” Cox said. The fire expert mentioned the Our Lady of Angels School fire in Chicago in which many were killed. He said the inspection at the building was very strict in that case. “But the fire would have happened if the inspector had been standing on the floor at the

time,” he said. ~ Cox said the idea of having inspectors at all public meetings seemed to be an impossible and impractical answer to preventing disasters. “You are going to have things like this happen from time to time, so long as you have the human element,” Cox said. State Fire Marshal Ira Anderson, under indictment by a Marion County grand jury on a Charge of failure to inspect the coliseum, attended the meeting. Cox said the group expects to have a report ready for the governor by Friday morning. His ■ committee has been working on recommendations informally ever since the members were named. Cox said some general ideas to form the report had already been formed. “These recommendations to improve the operation of the fire marshal’s office mainly will be by adding of staff members and changing of pro-, cedures,” Cox said. Two Small Children Are Burned To Death ' LAPORTE. Ind. (UPD—Two? small children burned to death ■ late Wednesday night when a ■ fire set off by an oil heater explosion swept an apartment ’ house . Authorities said the frame I house was destroyed. Killed were Richard Dill, 17- ..... months-old son of Mrs-. -Darlene Dill, and two-year-old Elizabeth ‘ Ann Kuta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kuta. Kendallville Man \ } Is Killed In Fire KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (UPD. j — Russell-McDonald. 69. killed in a fire which swept his two-story frame house Wednesi day, may have lost his life be- ; Cause he tarried to try to res- . cue his four dogs. Firemen said McDonald could . • have escaped the flames by - climbing from a window but 1 that he apparently jumped from - his bed and groped his way - through, smoke into other rooms looking for his pets.

WASHINGTON (UPl)—Democratic leaders turned on the pressure today to shove through Congress major parts of President Johnson’s program and to get them enacted by summer, as he bluntly suggested. They set tentatively* fdr - February a House vote on Johnson’s top priority measure, a broad anti-discrimination bill aimed at safe-guarding Negro rights in voting, schools, jobs and use of public accommodations. Hearings started on the measure today in the rules committee. In the Senate, leaders stepped up the timetable for final committee i action on a House-passed sll billion tax cut — next on Johnson’s legislative must list—and tentatively planned to put it to a floor vote in February, about the same time the House acts on civil rights. Pushing For Speed Senate leaders also were acting on new moves to- speed the lagging legislative machine for earlier-than-ugual handling of other controversial chores, such as the dozen or more annual money bills Congress must pass. In his first State of the Union message Wednesday Johnson put the civil rights and tax bills at the top of his list, but packaged them with an array of .ofher welfare and economic requests. Congressional leaders said privately some of these simply could not be handled this year. One problem area is a “poverty package” which Johnson outlined in general terms. He is expected to detail the plan more fully in an economic message to be sent to Capitol Hill on Jan. 20. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, Minn., said Johnson already was at, work on another message limited strictly to farm issues; which some members complained went unrecognized in Wednesday’s speech.

Humphrey said this would propose new legislation dealing with wheat, cotton and other commodity support programs, and also would outline special steps to combat rural poverty. Democrats Laud Message The general Democratic reaction to Johnson’s State of the . Union address that it was great. Republicans called it a political document and wondered how Johnson proposed to do so much more in so many fields and at the same time cut the federal budget. Johnson, an old congressional hand who may go down in history —as —the Senate ~ leader best at having gotten things done, was up to his top form in his appeal to Congress to act and act fast. “All this and more c?n and must be done,” he said. “It can be done by this summer.” The first session of the 88th Congress ran until Dec. 30. This .-session should wind up before the Republican National Convention starts July 13 and, in any case, before the Democratic convention starting Aug. 24. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional snow or snow flurries, windy and colder this afternoon. Partly cloudy, windy and much colder tonight. Friday partly cloudy, snow flurries north portiop and c01d...L0w ..tonight — 5, to 12 above north. 10 to 18 south. High Friday low 20s , north, 24 to 32 south. Sunset today 5:39 p. m. Sunrise 8:06 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Continued cold with considerable cloudiness. Lows zero to /10 above. Highs mostly in the 20s. Industrial Group . Hear Mayor Gerber Mayor Carl D. Gerber will be the guest speaker at the first-1964 luncheon meeting of the industrial committee of the local Chammer of Comrrierce, Monday. The luncheon will begin at 12 noon, and will be held at . the Youth arxL Comrrrunity Center.

- f , U ' . . ■ * ***<; *w ■ TfJI : W . NEW STATION— City police officer Dick Mansfield is shown above using the police radio at the desk in the radio room at the new station on Third and Park strets. The police moved into the new headquarters Wednesday .vacating the one-room station in the city hall that had been used for over 25 years. — (Photo by.MacLean) ' _

Colder Weather In Store For Hoosiers By United Press International A band of snow advanced eastward across Indiana today while temperatures hovered slightly above freezing before an anticipated plunge to as low as 10 above zero tonight. A special snow bulletin at 11 am. EST from the Indianapolis Weather Bureau said snow was falling at Evansville, Terre Haute and northern Indiana points. It said the snow should reach Indianapolis around noon and most of eastern points by mid-afternoon, decreasing to flurries or ending after 2 or 3 hours. The bulletin said the snow would mostly melt at first but accumulate up to one-half inch as the ground cools. The precipitation started in the form of rahr. The rainfallf generally measured one-fotrrth to nearly an inch by dawn, and 'forecasts called for the precipitation to continue today and tonight, changing to snow in the wake of chillier air sweeping down into the state from the northwest on winds of 15 to 25 miles per hotlr velocity. There was no indication of heavy accumulations of snow. The mercury will fall from highs in the upper 30s and 40s this morning to lows ranging from 10 to 27 tonight. It will climb no higher than the 20s Friday, and the cold will continue at least through Saturday, probably becoming more intense on the first day of the weekend. Rainfall up to 7 a.m. today included Fort Wayne .98, Bluffton .85, Zionsville .80, Frankfort .77, Elwood .76, Crawfordsville .61, Logansport .57, Bedford .50, Columbia City .53. Peru .54, Lafayette .53, Rochester .52. Hartford City .55, Evansville .54, Shoals .44, Louisville .32, South Bend .25, Indianapolis .28 and Cincinnati .14.

Duo-Morine Plant Fs " ~ Robbed During Night An estimated $75 was stolen in a break-in at the Duo-Marine plant on Patterson street sometime Wednesday evening or early this '"rnbrning. Neil Hesher, route 5, an employe of Duo-Marine, Inc., reported the burglary to the city police at 6:35 a.m. today. ‘ Someone had entered the building took money from two soft drink maichines and a cigarette machine, and went through several desks in the office, gaining another small amount of money. The janitor-had left the building at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday and returned at 5:40 a.m. today to find the burglary. An initial estimate of money stolen was listed at $75.

25 Are Dead In Airline Crash

ZARATE, Argentina (UPD— 1 An Argentine ALA Airlines < plane crashed and burned here i early today. At least 25 of 31 persons aboard were killed, according , to first reports. j Police headquarters said the 1 plane, a DC3 with 28 passen- ' gers and three crewmen aboard plunged to earth just short of 1 the local airstrip and exploded into flames. Authorities said the pilot earlier reported a fire aboard while airborne and that he was trying for an emergency landing. The flight originated in Santa Fe, north of Buenos Aires, with a scheduled halt at Rosario. It was to have arrived in Buenos Aires at 930 a.m. ’ Airline sources said while the flight was approaching this port city 50 miles northwest of Bqenos Aires, the pilot reported mechanical trouble. He asked Approve Suspension Os Five Deputies / CROWN POINT, Ind. (UPD— The Lake County Sheriff’s Merit Board will conduct a hearing Jan. 18 on a request for dismissal of, five deputies arrested in connection with alleged vice operations at the Lake County Jail. The board set the hearing ■ date Wednesday night after apr proving the suspension of the deputies who are accused of providing liquor, drugs and women for jail inmates at a price. . --M.II Sheriff Michael Truchan, who originally asked only that the deputies be suspended pending trial of criminal charges against them, amended his charges of conduct unbecoming officers before the board Wednesday -night and asked for the outright dis- ... missal of all five. The deputies were arrested Tuesday on affidavits filed by Truchan and approved by Prosecutor Henry S. Kowalczyk. No date has been set for their arraignments in Lake County Criminal Court here. v The deputies are Louis Gaspodarek, 50, Gary, Louis Neuhaus, 54, Whiting, Frank Bajda, .41, Hammond, Jack Shephard, 34. East Gary, and Emmett D. Thomas, 33, Gary,

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for the local airstrip to be cleared for an emergency landing. “The plane is on fire,” he told authorities. The crash site was just a mile north of this city of 50,000 population. The Zarate hospital reported four badly burned survivors. Two other survivors were reported in the Belgrano clinic. Aside from those six persons, no other survivors were reported. All of the survivors were said to be in critical condition. ALA Argentine Airlines is Aviacion Litoral Argentina, a national airline competing with the state-owned Argentine Airlines. Fire Chief Makes Report To Council The Decatur fire department made a total of 112 “runs” during 1963, 84 of which were in the city and the other 28 in the rural area, according to the annual report fire chief Cedric Fisher submitted to the city council. ... . The tptal estimated damage in the 84 city fires amounted to $35,580. according to the report, with $21,525 budding damages - and the other $14,055 to contents of buildings. No estimate of damage on the rural fires was given. Five of the “runs” made were to homes that were on fire, and there were 11 grass fires. Other causes were as follows: overheated stoves, six: wiring, nine; cigarettes, three; trash, five; and there were 16 automobile or truck fires. There were four “runs” which were listed as special, where the firemen were called to flush spilled gasoline, and there were 19 listed as miscellaneous. Among the miscellaneous were one grease fire, one factory fire, three water heater fires, one washing machine, three road flare pots, one washing machine dryer, two television or antenna fires, one hot iron fire, a natural gas fire, one overheated stove and two shed fires. Two others were listed as “unknown." probably a case of a person smelling smoke and calling the department, with no blaze discovered. The fire department, which has reached a new agreement with Unidn, Root, Washington and St. Mary's townships tor fire protection, also received six fake alarms during 1963.