Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1964 — Page 1

VOL LXII. No. 37.

Judge Halts Ruby Hearing

DALLAS (UPD—Judge Joe B. Brown today cut short the stream of defense witnesses for Jack Ruby and ended the fourday hearing on whether the weeping slayer of Lee Harvey Oswald can get a fair trial for murder in Dallas. The judge announced he would hand down his decision on the defense request for a change of venue at 3 p.m. EST Friday. Defense attorney Melvin Belli of San Francisco sought to introduce more witnesses to testify that Ruby could not get a fair trial in Dallas and that the trial should be held in another Texas city. An assistant defense counsel said “we have about 100 more witnesses.” Brown decided there had been enough. He already had listened to 41 witnesses and a telephone company technician since the start of the hearing Monday. The defense rested. Dist. Atty. Henry Wade simply introduced 38 affidavits saying a fair trial could be held in Dallas. He also filed three front pages of the Houston Chronicle for Jan. 28-30, containing a- first-person “my

Defection Has No Bearing On Parley

GENEVA (UPD—The Soviet Union said today the defection to the United States of Russian arms expert Yuri Nossenko has nothing to do with the 17-nation disarmament conference. Soviet disarmament negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin said the Nossenko affair is only “a matter of negotiation between Switzerland and the Soviet Union.” “We feel it is the responsibility of the Swiss government,” he said. A vast sigh of relief went up from Western officials who had been worrying that Nossenko’s defection might cause Moscow to restore the cold war to the disarmament copference. Tsarapkin made his comment on the Nossenko affair in reply to newsmen’s questions. In his speech to the conference today Tsarapkin made no mention of Nossenko and also used no polemics. Tsarapkin's statement came after the United States offered the Soviet Union a 60-40 deal on transferring nuclear weapons materials to peaceful uses. Chief U.S. delegate William C. Foster told the conference that the United .States wants all production of fissionable materials stopped and is willing to leave it up to Moscow whether the process should be total or piecemeal. “We would welcome an indiClinton Green To Enter Into Governor Race INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Clinton Green, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Port Commission, will announce his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at a news conference in /Indianapolis Saturday afternoon. Green, a native pf Worthington, Greene County, will become the seventh announced aspirant for the gubernatorial nomination and a participant in the most crowded contest in recent political history. Others already in the contest are Roger D. Branigin, Lafayette attorney; Thomas L. Lemon, former* mayor of Bloomington; State Sen. Marshall F. Kizer, Plymouth, Senate minority floor leader; State Rep. Robert L. Rock, Anderson, House minority floor leader; William’ Fortune, Carmel, former state treasurer, and Luke White, Covington attorney, banker and farmer and member of the State Board of Education. Green, who is unmarried, has long been active in the affairs of the Democratic party and in state government. He was graduated from Purdue University and became a licensed engineer and land surveyor. During World War 11, he rose

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story” by Jack Ruby. The prosecution then rested. Ruby burst into tears before the session started at the thought he might have brought shame on Dallas by shooting the accused assassin of President Kennedy. The trial is scheduled to start Monday in Brown’s court, barring a change of venue. Ruby, charged with the slaying last Nov. 24 of Lee Harvey Oswald, glared angrily when a Dallas Morning News reporter clashed with chief defense lawyer Melvin Belli. Dist. Atty. HeAry Wade’s team, which planned only to “put a sack of affidavits on the table and call it quits” in rebuttal, alternated with defense lawyers in leaping to their feet and shouting objections. Belli called it a “duckshoot.” The running account of witnesses showed that 26 felt chances of a “fair trial” would be better away from Dallas, 13 testified an impartial jury could be found in Dallas and 2 were undecided. Sheriff Bill Decker said more than 150 subpoenas had been served to possible witnesses in the hearing.

cation from the Soviet delegation of an approach which they would find acceptable,” Foster said. But Tsarapkin did not allude to the U.S. proposal. Reassured Western diplomats said the Soviets apparently want to keep Nossenko’s name out of the conference. Tsarapkin in his speech said the Soviet Union would “like” discussion of 10 to 15 per cent of military budget reductions by all countries to be the first item on the list of proposed tension-easing measures before the conference. He rejected, however, the United States proposal that a technical working group be established to discuss details such as how the Soviet budget—which keeps vital arms research and production expenditure hidden —is made up. “Such a working group is not really necessary,” Tsarapkin said. American spokesmen said the United States will study Tsarapkin’s proposal but fear Soviet refusal to discuss details of what goes into Moscow’s budget will be a problem. Tsarapkin said recent American and Soviet budget reductions on a basis of mutual example were welcome but this system is limited unless other nations, rich and poor, join in. from second lieutenant to major in the ordnance department, serving in the European theater. In 1949, Gov. Henry F. Schricker appointed Green director of the Indiana State Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously, he was engineering officer for the forestry division of the State Conservation Department. .— He was engaged m engineering and heavy construction work in the Fort Wayne area from 1953 to 1955 after serving as an engineer for the National Housing Administration, training officer for the Veterans Administration and a construction engineer for Purdue. Green was active in the U.S. senatorial campaign ’-of Alex Campbell of Fort Wayne and in the gubernatorial bid of John A. Watkins of Bloomfield and later became one of the pioneer boosters of Governor Welsh. Welsh appointed Green as his administrative assistant with control of numerous state departments, but later he concentrated his activities in the port commission. There are no indications that he has Welsh’s blessing for the nomination, but the governor is said to be friendly. INDIANA WFATHFR Clearing and colder tonight. Friday mostly sunny and warmer. Low tonight 15 to 23. High Friday 40 to 45 north, 22 to 40 south. Sunset today 6:19 p.m., Sunrise Friday 7:30 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy with a little rain likely south and some light snow north. Lows upper 20s. Highs mid 40s.

Von Eichhorn To Serve Six Years The new reapportionment law which the Indiana supreme court put into effect Monday will give state senator Von A. Eichhorn an extra two years on his four-year term. Sen. Eichhorn, Uniondale Democrat, was elected to a seventh four-year term in 1962. The new law stipulates that all senators elected to four-year terms in 1962 will be given an extra two years, and will not stand for reelection until 1968. Sen. Eichhorn, already dean of the senate, will have completed 30 consecutive years in the state legislature when' he comes up for an eighth term in 1968. His senatorial district, which includes Adams, Wells and Blackford counties, was left intact by the reapportionment, as was Rep. Burl Johnson’s district of Adams andn Wells. The reapportionnment, while quite an improvement on the 1921 re’apportionment in terms of the constitutional requirement of representation on males over 21 years of age, still leaves Adams county over-represented in the Indiana senate. The Adams-Wells house district is almost exactly correct, population percentagewise. The districts may be changed by the 1965 legislature. Film On Medicare Shown Optimists Dr. C. William Freeby presented a film entitled “Gift of Health,” at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Optimists this morning. The film dealt with the opposition of the medical societies to the passage of the King — Anderson medical aid to the elderly, now before congress. The film presented a commentary of opinions by a cross section of the country’s older citizens. The consensus of the general opinion was that it would lead to socialized medicine and the complete control of doctors by the federal government. Many voiced resentment to being subsidized for medical expense and another added that passage of the King - Anderson bill would mean an increase of 16 per cent in payroll tax for the average worker. “The burden of supporting such a medical aid plan would fall hardest upon the young workers who are least able to pay. A man making SIOO per week would have to pay $201.50 additionally on an annual basis. His employer would have to match it with a like sum, thus forcing an inflation in consumer prices,” the speaker pointed out. An interesting fact brought out is that the elderly comprise only eight per cent of the total population yet control nine per cent of the entire wealth. “Passage of the King - Anderson bill would lead to socialized medicine and would deprive the patient of the right of selection of doctors, hospitals and if needed, nursing homes,” Dr. Freeby concluded. In contrast the Kerr - Mills law, which is not in effect ih Indiana, lends medical financial assistance to citizens who do not qualify for Welfare aid but are still unable to cope with extensive medical bills. Citizens who feel passage of the King - Anderson bill would be determined to the economical and welfare state of the nation are asked to write their congressional representatives and senators. Paper Drive Saturday By Southeast Cubs The Cub Scout troop from the Southeast school will hold a paper drive Saturday. Anyone who hos papers to be picked up, call 3-3748 or 3-2080. New Monroe Church Will Open Feb. 23 The first service at the new Monroe United Brethren in Ch r is t church located in the west part of Monroe, will be held Sunday, Feb. 23, with Sunday school starting at 9:30 a.m. and church following at 10:30 a.m., the Rev. Cary Knittie, pastor, announced today. The formal dedication of the new church, which was known as the Winchester church when it was located on the Winchester road, will be held later, when the cross is erected on the building and some of the landscaping completed. Work starred on the $45,000 building by Enos Schrock last July 1, and it is now practically complete. The old church was built in 1904, and had served the congregation well for 60 years. There are 40 actual members of the church, Rev. Knittie explained, but attendance is much higher.

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Pres. Johnson, British Prime Minister Wind Up Strategy Conference

Find Cuba Guilty Os Aggressive Acts

By FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY United Press International NEW YORK (UPD — InterAmerican investigators have found Communist Cuba guilty of four counts of aggression against Venezuela, UPI learned today from diplomatic sources. The Venezuelan charges against Cuba, filed Dec. 3, 1963, with the Organization of American States (OAS) and substantiated by a five-nation investigating team, include; —Subversive propaganda sent to Venezuela from Cuba. —The training of Venezuela guerrillas and terrorists by Cuba. —Cuban financing of insurrectionary acts in Venezuela. —Cuban dispatch of arms and instructions to the Venezuelan underground for subversion and terrorism. Hie report of the investigators runs about 30 pages and includes several hundred pages of annexes and couments. The final draft is being prepared in Washington now and should be distributed before the end o£_ the month. Studying Report After member nations have had a chance to study and digest the investigative commission’s report, the OAS council may meet to act directly on it or summon a conference of hemisphere foreign ministers. The OAS, acting as a body under the provisions of the 1947 mutual and pact of Rio De Janeiro, then could apply one or more of the following sanctions against the Castro regime: Withdrawal of ambassadors; rupture of diplomatic relations; rupture of consular relations; partial or total interruption of economic relations or rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic or telephonic communications—or the use of armed force against Cuba. There has been only one prior instance in the history of the inter-American system of col- , lective sanctions recommended in* line with the Rio pact. In August, 1960, the foreign ministers of 20 American nations voted at Venezuela’s request to break diplomatic relations with the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, suspend trade in arms and war materiel and a partial economic boycott. Investigating Nation The five-nation committee Three Decatur Men Given Prison Terms Three Decatur men have been sentenced to terms of two to five years in the. state reformatory by Wells circuit court Judge Homer J. Byrd. Receiving the 2-5 year sentences were Max Clinton Dean, 21. of 115 W. Jefferson St.: Arthur Sweat. Jr., 23, of 621 Schirmeyer St.,: and Wayne Stodgel, 20, of 115 W. Jefferson St. All were found guilty of second degree burglary by Judge Byrd, resulting from a. burglary at the Nash Grocery, located in the west section of Bluffton, late in the evening of January 22. A Bluf f ton policeman, while on patrol around 11:30 p.m., had seen someone in the grocery. The man, later discovered to be Stodgel fled the scene but was apprehended a short time later by Bluffton authorities. - ~.s Stodeel admitted the break-in and also imnlicated Sweat and Dean, and Decatur authorities were notified. Dean was taken into custody as he arrived home around 5 a.m.. and Sweat was picked up a short time later at his home. Sweat and Dean had walked to Craigville, where they phoned a taxi to bring them to Decatur.

which investigated the Venezuelan charges against Cuba comprised Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States and Uruguay. It spent a week in Venezuela (Dec. 8-15) in an on-the-spot investigation of the Venezuelan charges. On its return to Washington, a 10-page cable was sent Cuba at Brazilian insistence advising Cuba of the nature of the Venezuelan charges and inviting a written reply to them although Cuba was expelled from the OAS family of nations a year ago. The Cuban reply was a torrent of vilification including Castro classification of the OAS as a “ministry of colonies” for the United States. The rejection by Cuba of the OAS invitation left the way open for publication and distribution of the investigators’ report. The evidence against Cuba submitted by Venezuela and on which the OAS investigators baaed their findings on the four fOanW included, among other things: 100 Hours Os Tape Subversive propaganda. 100 hours of magnetic tape of Castro and other anti-Venezuelan Communist broadcasts from Cuba. Cuban training of Venezuelan terrorists. Documents showing more than 60 key members of the Venezuelan Communist party and its card-carrying affiliate, the Revolutionary Movement of the Left, as having received subversive training in Cuba since 1960. The training in Cuba in guerrilla warfare in the past two years of more than 400 Venezuelans. Cuban financing of insurrectionary acts in Venezuela. A search of the luggage of Deputy Gustavo Machados over his protest at Maiquetia Airport in the spring of 1963 on his return from Cuba and Moscow turned up what is described as a huge amount of dollars in a false bottom in a piece of luggage. Machados is currently secretary general of the Venezuelan Communist party. Other documents described as of “embarrassing nature” were found in his brief case. He apparently had counted on his parliamentary immunity to avoid search. Michigan Man Dies At Local Hospital John C. Triphagen, 57, of 1200 Logan street, Lansing, Mich., died at 2:15 am. Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Adams county memorial hospital. Triphagen was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital in an unconscious condition early Saturday morning. He was on his way to Florida on vacation and stopped in Decatur to eat. While waiting for his meal, he suddenly 'slumped"over, and collapsed. The restaurant owner called the ambulance immediately; at first it was thought he might be in a diabetic coma, because a card he carried stated he was diabetic. The Son of the late George H. Triphagen and Kate Campbell Triphagen, who survives, he was bom Nov. 2. 1906 in Mulliken, Mich. He was single, and was foreman of the water and light department for the city of Lansing. The body was removed from the Zwick funeral home to the EstesLeadley funeral home, Lansing, where services will be held Saturday. Burial will be in the Meadowbrook cemetery, Mulliken, Mich.

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson and British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home wind up a two- day diplomatic strategy conference today with agreement on policy in Southeast Asia but not on trade with Communist Cuba. The Anglo-American leaders were to hold a final business session at 11 a.m. EST. A joint communique to be issued later was expected to reaffirm their determination to strive for peaceful solutions of potentially explosive issues dividing Russia and the West. Officials sources reported that the two leaders had agreed to support each other’s policies in Southeast Asia. They said today’s meeting was being devoted to economic matters, particularly the forthcoming “Kennedy round” of general tariff negotiations, and also might touch on Cuba again. Both British and American sources acknowledged, however, that there was virtually no chance of lessening the difference of opinion over shipment of critical items to Fidel Castro, which the United States is trying to prevent. Despite differing views on the issue, as well as Britain’s unwillingness to promise not to extend long-term credit to Russia, Johnson and Sir Alec were said to be getting along famously on a personal basis. This was said to have established a good foundation for future dealings between the two nations, historic partners. Hie President and Mrs. Johnson arranged a dinner tonight in honor of Sir Alec and Lady Douglas-Home? The prime minister and his party were scheduled to leave early Friday for London. The talks Wednesday between the President and prime minister ranged across a wide spectrum of issues, including Cyprus, Cuba, Southeast Asia, Africa and the problems of persuading Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to reach fruitful agreement on the perennial problems of Berlin, Germany and disarmament. Sheriff Will Move Office Temporarily The office of the Adams county sheriff’s department will be moved to the county jail within the next few days, sheriff Roger Singleton said today. The move will be on a temporary basis, while work continues on the new elevator in the courthouse. At present, the only entrance to the sheriff’s office is the stairs located in the west end of the building and through the courtroom, as workmen have blocked off the other stairway, which will be removed to make way for the elevator. The jail is being remodeled and is expected to be nearly completed in the next few days, at which time the sheriff’s office will be moved to the jail on First street on the temporary basis.

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Lenten Meditation By Huston Bever, Jr., pastor, Decatur Church of God “Digging Wells” Scripture: Gen. 26:13-18 Isaac is one of the most colorful characters of the Old Testament. The scripture says, “The Lord blessed him, and the man became very rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)” But, “Isaac dug again the wells of water wtiich had been dug in the days of Abraham his father....and he gave them the names which his father had given them.” Now Isaac showed wisdom in digging these wells again. First, he knew that what he and his family needed was there. He was not speculating, these wells had already been proven. True, they had been filled with dirt, but take away the dirt and they again would refresh and replenish life. Could it be that we need to dig again some of the wells dug by our forefathers; wells that provided them strength, courage, faith, hope and love, wells that we have allowed to be filled with dirt. This of course can be answered only on an individual So ask yourself about the well of salvation, the Sabbath, the Bible, and prayer.

Dependents To Leave Big Base

WASHINGTON (UPD — Sailors and Marines assigned to the Guantanamo Naval Base no longer will be able to take their wives and children with, them. The Defense Department, in its most drastic step since Fidel Castro assumed power, announced Wednesday that the 3,000 dependents already on the base would be gradually reMrs. Lillian Bond Dies This Morning Mrs. Lillian Bond, 85, of Denver, Ind., died at 2:15 o’clock this morning at the Berne nursling home. She had been in failing health for several months. She was born in Miami county, Aug. 28, 1878, a daughter of Merritt and Jennie Wooley-Murphy. Her husband, Oscar Bond, preceded her in death. Mrs. Bond was a member of the First Baptist church at Denver. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ray (Mildred) Stingely of Decatur; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. One son, one daughter, one brother and one sister are deceased. The body will be taken this evening from the Winteregg-Linn - funeral home to. the McCain funeral home near Peru, where friends may call Friday afternoon. -Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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moved as their husbands and fathers are reassigned after completing a two-year tour of duty. Arthur, » Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said the move was necessary “to improve the garrison posture of the forces there” and to help make the naval base entirely self sufficient. In a separate action, the Navy announced a $10.7 million, four-step program to supply the 45-square-mile enclave with all the water it needs now that Castro turned off Cuban supplies in retaliation for the seizure of Cuban fishermen found in U.S. territorial waters. The Navy will ship an experimental water de-salting plant from San Diego, Calif., to help supply the base’s daily requirement of 2.2 million gallons of fresh water. In addition, a new 12,500-kilo-watt power plant will be built, a “catchment” area will be provided to collect surface fresh water, and an underground reservoir will, be built to store four million gallons. The base now has 11.2 million gallons of water on hand. Another 9.2 million gallons are due by next Tuesday on three tanker ships. As part of its move to withdraw all dependents, the Navy said it was reducing the tour of duty at Guantanamo from two years to one year or less “in order to minimize the time of family separation” caused by the new order.