Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. NO. 9.

Johnson Faces Severe Task

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson today faced the task of repairing a massive gap, in the "good neighbor” policy without sacrificing U.S. strategic interests in Central America. He pinned his hopes for early stabilization of the situation in the Panama Canal Zone on two groups: —His high - level mission, headed by Thomas C. Mann, assistant secretary of state for Inter - American Affairs. The Mann mission sought to straighten things out with Panamanian President Roberto F. Chiari and other officials. ■ *tmti&sptft•- ffiVdSH gat ion by a five-man peace-keeping committee of the Organization of American States (OAS) which flew to the troubled Canal Zone early today. U.S. officials rejected Panama’s . charges that American troops were guilty of “aggression” in the bloody rioting which erupted in the wake of a schoolboy skirmish over flagraising ceremonies. They pointed out that U.S. troops and Canal Zone police never moved out of the 10-mile-wide zone. Reject Boyd’s Demand American officials also dismissed the emotional demand by Panama’s ambassador to the United Nations, Aqtiilino Boyd' that the canal be turned over to his country or made an international waterway. While defending American

Smoke Report Is Due Today

WASHINGTON (UPD — A select committee of 10 physicians and scientists was expected to hand down today the government’s strongest indictment of smoking. The committee’s 175,000-word report was expected to brand heavy smoking as a significant health hazard which is statistically associated not only with lung cancer but with scores of other respiratory and circulatory ailments. It was to‘ be handed to reporters in a large auditorium festooned with "no smoking” signs. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry was ready with an announcement that a second committee will be created to reccommend government actions based on the first report. Since October, 1962, the deliberations and conclusions of the surgeon general’s committee on smoking and health have been guarded as closely as any military secret. Avoid Group’s Work Public Health Service officials purposely avoided all possible knowledge of the committee’s

Russia Signs Pact On Wheat Purchase MOSCOW (UPI) Russia signed a contract with the Continental Grain Company today covering the purchase of a million tons of American wheat, the official Soviet news agency Tass said. The company announced that the sale was pending eight days ago in New York. It is tfie first such transaction between the United States and Russia Under an authorization issued by the late President John F. Kennedy. Tass said the contract was signed in Moscow today. Leonid Matveyev signed for the Russians and Roy Folk, vic#- president of Continental,, sighed for the grain firm. Continental said last week the wheat would be shipped during February and March, half of it in U.S. ships. Russia will pay $78.5 million of the S9O million total cost. The remainder will be made up in U.S. subsidies to the seller. Included in the deal, according to information last week, was 350,000 tons of No. 2 hard amber durum from stored surpluses and 650.000 tons of othet wheat from current crops. A U.S. Agriculture Department spokesman said the sale • would help the government financially because the wheat normally would have remained stored for two or three years_ He estimated the saving at $5 million.

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treaty and property rights, U. S., officials nevertheless realized that they must find a solution which will satisfy not only the Panamanians but the rest of Latin America. They acknowledged that longtime U.S. residents in the Canal Zone were not entirely blameless in creating an atmosphere of tension. Johnson’s task in finding an honorable and acceptable settlement was complicated by three factors which have long plagued relations between the United States and Panama. These are: Feelings Run High —.Extreme n a t i o n a 1 i s m among many elements in Panama. This is always played upon immediately prior to elections such as the presidential contest scheduled for May. —The “colonial” attitude of some American residents in the zone who tend to oppose any concessions to the Panamanians. —Communist elements which, although they did not start the rioting, are believed to have moved in quickly to take advantage of it, supplying the well-trained snipers still holding out at some points. Officials acknowledged that no mattar how blameless the United States eventually might be proved to be, the disastrous Panamanian crisis would leave scars which would be long in healing.

work. But some conclusions were inescapable in view of the material used by the committee as a basis for its report. The committee did no original research. It based it§ conclusions almost entirely “on more than 10,000 studies previously conducted by others. These studies indicated overwhelmingly that smokers, especially cigarette smokers, on the basis of statistics were more inclined to contract lung cancer, emphysema and even coronary heart disease. The studies also connected smoking, to one degree or another, with cancer of the bladder, gastric and duodenal ulcers, bronchitis, pneumonia, influenza, pulmonary tuberculosis and other respiratory and circulatory ailments. Not Enough Evidence It was known that the committee originally had connected smoking with tobacco amblyopia, a rare form of blindness, but delited this from its report shortly before it was issured. It was decided the evidence was not strong enough in the case of amblyopia. Th? committee was expected to note that no hard and fast scientific link had been found between smoking and the various diseases but that there was statistical evidence of a higher incidence of them among smokers. ”

David Haggard Hurl In Wreck David ST Haggard. 21, son of Harvey. Haggard. suffered injuries when his 1962 Corvair. .twodoor went off Ind. 114 in Huntington county Thursday morning at 9:15 a. m., ripped through a fence, and turned over twice. Haggard, of route 2, suffered,: a cut on the left leg, an abrasion to the knee, and complained of back injuries, according to Sheriff Marion Van Pelt of Huntingtor county. He stated that something went wrong with the steering mechanism, and the car dropped off the pavement, and went through the fence. About four rods of fence were torn - down. —— — Haggard’s sister was summoned from Fort Wayne and he was brought back to Decatur to his local doctor. Haggard is employ- * ed part-time at Begiih’s Clothing Store. The car. which was damaged on both §ides, top, front and rear, belongs to Veda Jane Haggard. He was headed west at the time of the accident, according to the sheriff.

Lake County's Warring GOP Renews Fight

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Lake County’s warring Republican factions resumed their battle today at a meeting of the Republican State Committee. Robert N. Stewart, GOP state chairman, granted a 30-minute hearing to a group seeking ouster of Ist District Chairman Ted Sendak. Heading the delegation was George Hoffman, Hammond city chairman, who denounced Sendak at a hearing several months ago which resulted in the ouster of a number of Calumet party officials on disloyalty charges. The state committee was to meet following a long school session for party county chairmen and vice chairmen at which speakers included Stewart, Mrs. Esther Guthridge, state vice chairman; James Neal, secretary, and various finance officers. Bruce Hunt, committee attache, outlined plans for the SIOO-a-plate fund-raising dinner here Jan. 29 at which the chief speaker will be presidential possibility Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania. __ Nearly 200 party leaders were expected to attend the gathering, including numerous announced and unannounced candidates for state nominations. The senatorial nomin&tion bidders included State Sen. D, Russell Bontrager, Elkhart; former State Sen. Edgar D. Whitcomb, Seymour, and possibly Rep. Donald C. Bruce. Jndianapolis. Gubernatorial hdjjefuls include Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine, Crawfordsville; Secretary of State Charles O. Hendricks, Speed; Doxie Moore, Indianapolis, state conservation department director during the administration of Gov. George N. Craig, and possibly former State Sen. Richard Ellis, Kokomo. State Appellage Court Judge John Ryan, Indianapolis, a candidate for lieutenant governor; Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers, Indianapolis, a probable renomination seeker; State Treasurer Robert Hughes, Greenwood, and other ambitious politicos likewise_were expected to be present. With former Gov. Ralph F. Gates expected in the city, there was some likelihood of wheeling and dealing in and about the gathering. First Lady Visits In Hard-Hit Area WASHINGTON (UPD — Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, who shares her husband’s concern over the nation’s pockets of poverty, flies to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., today to survey efforts aimed at boosting the area’s hard-hit economy. Mrs. Johnson was scheduled to leave at 8 50 a.m., EST. The first lady’s trip recalled those a of another president’s wife, Mrs- Eleanor Roosevelt, who also involved herself directly in a pressing national problem — poverty and unemployment. Mrs. Johnson’s interest was not new—she had made similar trips in the past—but it took on added significance in the light of the President’s State of the Union message to Congress Wednesday; The Chief Executive called on the nation to join him. in an “unconditional war” on the poverty that keeps many Americans on the “outskirts of hope.” “The richest nation on earth can afford to win it,” he said. “We cannot afford to lose—it,” Mrs. Johnson’s schedule for the day was a taxing one. She was to deliver one speech and was expected to make several other informal talks before interested groups in addition to visits to plants and schools where the Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA) is spon- . sating worker retraining .programs. It was Mrs. Johnson’s first such trip since she moved into the White House. Last March 1, she toured ARA projects in Charleston, W.Va. < Mrs. Johnson was to be greeted on her atrival at Wilkes-’ Barre-Scranton Airport by Mrs. William W. wife of the Pennsylvania governor. — Congress To Hear Italian President WASHINGTON,. (UPI — Pres* dent Antonio Segni of Italy will address a joint session of Congress • Wednesday during hi s five-day state visit here, Sen. O. Pastore, D-JLI., said Friday.

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General Strike Cripples Panama City, Torn With Anti-American Rioting

PANAMA CITY (UPI) — A "general strike” crippled activity early today in this tense tropical capital, tom this weekby anti-American riots in which 27 persons including 3 U.S. soldiers were killed. U.S. troops held the border of the Canal Zone despite sporadic sniper fire, but President Roberto Chiari was trying to outflank them diplomatically through forays in New York and Washington. 4 Panama formally broke off diplomatic relations with the United States Friday and threatened to scrap the treaties between the two countries under which the United States operates the Panama Canal. Thomas Mann, President Johnson’s Latin American trouble shooter, conferred with Chiari twice Friday without announced result. Mann, who is an assistant secretary of state and a White House adviser, met the President soon after his arrival here and was closeted with him again Friday night. The organization of American States (OAS) flew a peace team here early today. Anti-American mobs roamed the streets, smashing and burning U.S. property, through the night and into the early morning. In the hours just before dawn the-city was quiet, but shattered glass in the streets, and. the reek of smoke in the air were mute reminders of the riots. Some Blame Castroites U.S. observers suspected that pro-Castro Communists were seeking to exploit the outbreak of anti-American violence. 1The U.N. Security Council brushed off Panamanian charges of “unprovoked” (U.S.) aggression” and a demand for nationalization or internationalization of the Panama Canal. The council referred the new Panama crisis to the OAS. Foreign correspondents flying in from the United States had difficulty finding taxicabs at the airport as a result of the general, strike. A driver eventually was found, but he said he would not dare to drive the newsmen after daylight. The crisis raged over the same ground as similar outbreaks in 1960 and 1962. Observers speculated that the real aim of the Panamanians was to. enforce their demand for an increased share in the revenues of the U.S.-operated canal. Flag Causes Riots This week’s disorders were touched off by new dissension on the display of the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone. This countrys’ f 1 a g is displayed side by side with the US. flag at most public buildings in the zone, but U.S. students have vigorously resisted efforts to extend this practice to the schools. When Panamanian students invaded the zone Thursday and hoisted a Panamanian flag outside the high school in Balboa. Panamas twin city, American students tore it down. The noting started a few hours later.

Telephone Change Box Badly Damaged Local sheriff’s authorities are investigating an attempt to open a telephone change box in a booth in Magley that apparently occurred early .Friday morning. The Citizens Telephone Co. reported to the sheriff's office around 3 o'clpck Friday afternoon that one of its' telephone booths in Magley had beemheavily damaged. The phone had been pried from the side of the booth, but entry to the money in the change box was not gained. One of the glass sides of the booth was broken, and phone company officials estimated total damage at approximately $175. The sheriff’s department and state detective sergeant. Alan D. Coppes are’ investigating the possibility of a connection with the attempt at looting the telephone with a break-in at Poe sometime Thursday night. Thieves entered a tavern and broke into several vending machines there.

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Goldwater Carries Campaign Into Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPD — Sen. Barry Goldwater today brings his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination into Ohio, where he hopes to avoid an open fight with the regular GOP organization. His whirlwind visit primarily will be to spell out his plans in a closed talk with big contributors to the Republican party’s war chest and to discuss his Ohio campaign with Ohioans for Goldwater^lnc. On his first trip to the state since announcing his candidacy, Goldwater was to arrive from Washington in a private plane owned by Henry H. Timken, a Canton industrialist. He has scheduled a new conference a brief speech and a meeting with Dr. N. B. Livingston of Columbus, chairman of the Ohioans for Goldwater, at the airport. Then he will be whisked over to the Rocky Fork Hunting Club at nearby Gahanna where he will attend a closed session fund-raising lunch. He was to leave again ■'fof'—Washrngton shortly thereafter (about 3 'p.m.h There was no indication as to whether Gov. James A. Rhodes, .whom Goldwater says is a personal friend, would be on hand. Rhodes will go the party’s national c'onvention.asafavorite son candidate. ' j Light Snow Or Rain Forecast In State. By United Press International Relatively moderate temperatures were predicted for Indiana today, followed by a- mixture of light snow or rain._ Afternoon highs may hit the low 40s in the 1 southern portion, followed by overnight lows in the 20s. Highs in the mid-30s were „ predicted for Sunday. Early Saturday readings skidded to 13 at South Bend. Lafayette and Indianapolis following highs Friday ranging from a chilly 20- -at South Bend to 21 at Evansville. * South Bend measured two inches of snow on the ground this morning, but no other points logged regularly by the Weather Bureau reported new snow.

Disler Child Dies At Lafayette Friday Jill Raye Disler, nine-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dislef, route 2, Lafayette, died at 2:40 p.m. Friday en route to a hospital from her home. The youngster’s mother is the former Delores Delauter, a former resident of Decatur ,and the maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Delauter, of 334 W. Oak St., Decatur. The father is assistant principal at a Lafayette high school. ■ ;• Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister and a brother at home, the maternal grandparents and the paternal grandparents,, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Disler of Fort Wayne, and the greatgrandmothers, Mrs. Anna Dalauter, Jackson, Mich., and Mrs. Myrtle, Disler, Fort Wayne. at 2 p.m. Monday in the Eikenberry funeral home, 2318 Fairfield St., Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Monday. Pope Visits Italy President Today VATICAN CITY CUPD —Pope Paul VI planned to call on President Antonio Segni of Italy today, ostensibly to thank him for the tumultuous welcome he received on his return from the Holy Land last Monday, But it was considered that he also, might discuss the possibility of a papal visit to the United States. Next week Segni will g 0.., to Washington to see President Johnson,, who Sent • the Pope a letter while he was in the Holy Land. The letter suggested a meeting, but set no time or place. - * Romans' across the Tiber River lined up to cheer the Pope again du'ting his hastily- - scheduled sojourn outside the. Vatican walls to the tjuirinaie Patace:y . I The Quirinale P a 1 ace, now Italy’s equivalent to the White House, was the summer resilience of Popes until . Italian troops took over Rome in 1870.

Fire Chief Claims No Responsibility

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Mar- : on'Criminal Court Judge Saul Rabb will hold a hearing Feb. 1 on the contention of Indianapolis Fire Chief Arnold Phillips that he could not legally inspect the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum where 73 persons died in a Halloween explosion. L_ Attorneys for Phillips made the contention Friday at his arNOON EDITION William F. Zeser Dies This Morning William F. Zeser, of 804 High street, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 5 o’clock p this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital after a long illness of complications. He was born in Adams county Feb. 24, 1889, a son of Peter and Elizabeth Licht’e - Zeser, and was never married. For many years he aided in management of SunSet park until his retirement. Mr. Zeser was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, Third Order of St. Francis and the Moose lodge. Surviving are two brothers, Andrew and Daniel Zeser, both of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Engleking of Fort Wayne. Four brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15. a.m. Monday , atf St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemtery. The body was* removed to the Gillig & Doam funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. The rosary will be recited by the Third Order of St. Francis at 7:30 p.m. Sunday and by the Holy Name society at 8 p.m.

Panama Charge Is Shelved By U. N.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD—The Security Council today shelved Panama’s charge of unprovoked aggression by the United States with an appeal by its president to both sides to end the Canal Zone fighting immediately. The Soviet Union, charging the United States with “mass murders,” opposed the move. Rut Panama, in an emergency night session that ended early today, demanded that the United States give up the Panama Canal, permitting it to be nationalized or internationalized. Only Russia and Czechoslovakia objected to a Brazilian suggestion that Council President Renan Castrillo Justiniano “address an appeal to the governments of the United States and of Panama to bring to an immediate end the exchange of fire and the bloodshed now occurring and to request that they impose the utmost restraint over the forces under their command and, the civilian population under their control.” No vote was taken and Castrillo adjourned the council with no- date for a further meeting after ’ expressing the consensus of the 11-nation group that the course suggested by Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Alfredo Befnardes. Both Panama and the United States agreed, leaving the Canal Zone crisis to the Organiza-

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raignment on -an indictment charging him with failing to inspect the state-owned building. They claimed the indictment was not valid. Phillips was one of seven persons indicted by a Marion County grand jury in connection with the explosion. The arraignments of three others were delayed Friday when they asked for changes of judges. They were Edward J. Franger of Elkhart, Fred J. Helms of Indianapolis and Richard Ensign of Brownsburg, all officials of Discount Gas Corp., which supplied bottled propane gas to the Coliseum concession stands. They are charged with manslaughter. Rabb gave defense attorneys for the three and Marion .County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy until Tuesday to agree on special judges. .x , - Phillips’ attorneys maintained that the indictment should be thrown out because it charged him With failing to perform an act he could not legally perform. They cited a 1949 Indiana attorney general’s opinion barring city officials from “entering upon any of the lands under the control” of the Indiana State Fair Board. *- The 1949 ruling applied to zoning restrictions but defense attorneys maintained it also held true in the case of Phillips. They said he had no legal authority to inspect the Coliseum. They said the attorney general had ruled that Phillips “dare not do that which the grand jury charges he has failed to do.” INDIANA WEATHER Snow likely tonight and Sunday, ending in north portion Sunday afternoon. Low tonight - lower 20s north, low 30s south. High Sunday mid-20s north, mid-308 south. Outlook for Monday: Fair to partly cloudy with little temperature change.

tion of American States (OAS), which dispatched its inter-Am-erican Peace Committee on a midnight flight to the scene of the disorder. U.S. Ambassador Adl a i E. Stevenson categorically denied Panamanian Ambassador Aquilino Boyd’s charge of “unprovoked, armed aggression” against Panama by the United States which followed an attempt by students to raise Panama’s flag in the Canal Zone. Declaring that while neitherhe nor Boyd knew all the facts, Stevenson said he was certain that U.S. police and soldiers did not leave the Canal Zone in their efforts tp “protect U. S. citizens against snipers and an onrushing crowd.” , Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko, with support from Comm unist Czechoslovakia, strongly opposed the Brazilian suggestion to leave settlement of the problem to the OAS. “The council must take steps toward immediately putting an end to the military action of the armed forces of the United States, ■'"their mass murders and high - handedness in Panama,” Fedorenko said. Stevenson • expressed hope that "efforts by lawless elements hostile to both Panama and the United States to exploit the situation for their own special purposes will be fully exposed and thwarted."