Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1964 — Page 6

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Protection Needed On 11l Candidate

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Americans urgently need

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more than a mere change in the order of presidential succession to obtain minimum

guarantees for the safety of the republic. There is urgent need for protection against the presidential candidacy of a dying man. Physical infirmity can reduce an able man to a condition of mental inefficiency. This A-bomb, push button century is no time for a sluggish mind in the White House. The need for protection against the presidential candidacy of

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the physically unfit is emphasized by several passages relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the recently published “Diplomat Among Warriors." by Robert Murphy; Doubleday & Co., $6.95. Murphy is a friendly witness and competent. He was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's political adviser through most of World War II as special representative of FDR. Murphy later

was political officer assigned to Gen. Lucius B. Clay, U.S. commander in Berlin. Great PubUc Servant Murphy retired from the State Department in the highest rank open to a career officer. He was both diplomat and secret agent, one of the great public servants of our times. Murphy’s admiration and friendship for FDR emphasize his report of the war ■ President’s incapacity. There also is Murphy’s revelation that FDR failed to exercise his political judgment and responsibility when the Allied armies were approaching Berlin in the Western theater. The ever alert Winston Churchill was pressing for an Allied attack on and seizure of the German capital. Murphy writes that FDR and Secretary of State Cordell Hull simply did nothing. Roosevelt and Hull left this dynamic and vital political decision to Eisenhower and Gen. George C. Marshall, the U.S. Army chief of staff. Neither was competent to make such a political decision. Ike and Marshall decided (apparently correctly) that Berlin was not a prime military target, thus missing altogether the vital political factor. Their decision left Berlin to the RuSsions who hastened to seize the city because Joseph Stalin, like Churchill, was alert and eager to make the big political decisions. Failed To Act It may be that the seed of World War 111 was planted in the bumbling military diplomacy that permitted the Communists to envelop Berlin. Neither did FDR act vigorously to assure the United States access to Berlin which was to be

100 miles or so inside the Communist administered part of Germany. More likely, FDR never heard of the access road matter. Murphy's theme is founded < on the belief, documented in other books, that FDR was a dying man when he sought a fourth term in 1944. Some of FDR's political associates now concede that to be a fact. The chiller in Murphy’s book is what he wrote of his last interview with the failing President in March 1945: “His (FDR’s) appearance was a terrible shock. (He) was unable to discuss serious matters, in no condition to offer balanced judgments upon the great questions of war and peace.” FDR then was just back from the Yalta conference. Find Dynamite In River In Florida • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPD— Federal Bureau of Investigation agents sought today to link 20 sticks of dynamite fished out of the Ortega River with the Feb. 16 bombing of the home of a Negro boy who integrated a local school. Agents said the dynamite Navy divers recovered Tuesday apparently was part of a supply of explosives stolen last December from the Merrill Dynamite Co. “It is the same brand, same type and has the same markings as the dynamite stolen from the Merrill company," agents said. Four Ku Klux Klan leaders have been charged in Jacksonville with conspiracy to violate the civil rights of 6-year -old Donald Godfrey, whose home was nearly leveled last month by a dynamite blast. Donald entered the previously white Lackawanna Elementary School last September under a court order. The four Klansmen, Donald Eugene Spegal, Burton H. Griffin, Jacky Don Harden and Willie Eugene Wilson, were released on $5,000 bond each. They appeared at a Klan fund-raising rally on the outskirts of town Tuesday night and told 200 robed Klansmen they were innocent of the charges and were being “persecuted” by the FBI. The rally was to raise money, to pay for the Klan leaders’ le-' gal defense against the conspiracy charges. Wilson, dressed in a scarlet robe, told the rally, “I never bombed nobody. I hold my head proud and will be in the KKK till I die.” William Sterling Rosecrans, Jr., 30, Anderson, Ind., pleaded guilty last Friday to charges of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the Godfrey boy. He also pleaded guilty to charges of trying to block court-or-dered integration by bombing the Godfrey home. Autoists Pay Fines On Traffic Charges A number of motorists arrested recently by the city police have paid fines of $1 and costs, amounting to $18.75, in justice of .the peace court. Paying the $1 and costs fines and their charges are as follows: Duane Gene Hoffman; 19, route 2, Decatur, improper mufflers; David M. Kitson, 23, 305 Oak St., reckless driving; Johnny W. Osborn, 17, route 3, Decatur, speeding; Leland Ernest Eckrote, 31, Fort Wavne, speeding; Frederick V. Beitler, 17, route 1, Decatur, reckless driving; Andrew D. Schrock, 31, route 5, Decatur, speeding; Michael William Lengerich, 19, route 5, Decatur; Fred M. Brecht, 19, 1027 Parkview Drive. Roger William Shuman, 47, of Fort Wayne, was fined $5 and costs, totaling $22.75, on a charge. of speeding. X uanana Stains 8 To remove banana stains from" fabrics, cover the spots with a u liberal paste of fuller’s earth ■ £qd water, let dry thoroughly, I then brush off. il

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Asserts Civil Rights Beaten

WASHINGTON <UPI> — Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss. said today that civil rights advocates in the Senate had passed their peak of voting strength and were beaten. “As of now,” the Mississippi senator told the Senate, “I believe the proponents are beat because they do not have the votes to pass it. “They have already hit the high tide of their votes — they hit it when the debate, started,” he' added. “The flow of the tide is going against them.” Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., answered Stennis by challenging the Southerners to let the bill come to a vote. He said he thought the proponents have the votes to pass the measure and added: “I’m willing to take my chance to stand up and be counted on the bill. We ask for a decision.” Stennis, his voice filling the chamber, said “They can have the marches, they can have the boycotts, you can have all those things but I don’t think you can have the votes.” Shortly before Stennis took the floor, Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., spoke against another controversial point in the continuing debate —Sen. Richard B. Russell’s proposed racial relocation plan. Javits maintained that Russell’s program of voluntary relocation of both Negroes and whites — to equalize the distribution of the Negro population across the country—is a “flight from reality, a kind of refusal to face up to .a critical problem which is entirely untypical of our American society.” Senate leaders appeared resigned to a debate stretchout that will postpone a showdown on that motion until next week. They saw little real chance that France Crippled By Nationwide Strike •** PARIS (UPD—A nationwide strike for more pay by nearly 3 million state workers today tied up France’s' public services and crippled the nation’s industry. The mass walkouts, staged during President Charles de Gaulle’s absence in Mexico, were the biggest since last November and marked the beginning of a new public pressure campaign for better working conditions in government - run industries. Schools and government offices were closed. Train, subway and air service was curtailed drastically. Gas and electricity supplies were cut. Hospitals had only emergency crews. Garbage went uncollected and letters undelivered. The transportation tie-up was complicated by icy winds and sleet. Thousands of workers in private industry stayed off the job in support of the civil servants’ demands for higher wages, and as a protest against the high cost of living. Government jobs generally lag behind private industry. The electricity and gas cuts meant cold, dark homes and restaurants. Thousands who were forced to walk to work had to climb stairs to their office because elevators were without power. The subways, operated sparingly by non-striking drivers,., were jammed. But there was one consolation: Many tickettakers were on strike and thousands of Parisiens got free i rides. i It you nave something to sell or xade — use the Democrat Want I ids — thev get BIG results

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they could apply cloture — the Senate’s gag rule — to speed things up. They did admit that they had cloture “under consideration” but emphasized it has been in that category from the beginning of the debate. The Senate starts its Easter weekend recess on Thursday of next week, so the first all - out debate on the bill itself now is not- likely to come until the week after Easter, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., said the possibility of invoking the cloture rule to choke off debate was being considered in an effort to get the bill before the Senate. Southern senators took another look at their timetable at a caucus Tuesday and decided not to hurry toward the vote on Mansfield’s motion to call up the House - passed bill. The. southerners seemed pleased with the attention their speeches had been getting. Laos Intelligence Officer Murdered VIENTIANE,’ loas (UPI) — Maj. Praseuth, a high intelligence official for the right-wing faction, died today with an assassin’s bullet in his head. There were Tears the shooting might provoke right-wing retaliation against pro - Communist positions, touching off new heavy fighting in war - torn Loas. Praseuth, 36, a father of eight, was shot Tuesday night as he sat on the veranda of his home in Vientiane. He died some hours later. The victim’s family said the unknown assassin walked up to the porch, pulled out a pistol, shot the major and then fled toward the nearby Mekong River which forms the border with Thailand. He was wearing civilian clothes. Hie major was intelligence chief for Vientiane and surrounding areas, and wgs the first fight - wing officer to be killed in- a rash of political assassinations since the Geneva agreement on Laotian neutrality was signed in 1962. The assassination was the sixth since the Geneva agreement and the second of an intelligence officer in five months. Two Are Arrested On Traffic Counts Two non-Decatur residents were arrested Tuesday evening by city policeman William Baumann. Edgar Herman Hockmeyer, 5V year-old resident of route 2, Monroeville, was charged with pulling a trailer with no lights. He was arrested on N. 13th street at 10:15 p. m. and cited into justice of the peace court on March 20. Victor Edward Jordan, 52, of Toledo, 0., was charged with speeding by Baumann, who clocked the Ohio driver traveling 45 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone on Winchester St. at 11:15 p. m. He also was cited into J. P. court March 20. County Spelling Bee Finals On April 20 James Yoder, Berne elementary school principal, said this morning that the county finals of thf* annual spelling bee contest will be held April 20 at 7:30 p.m., in the Berne school’s cafeteria. Yoder, who has been appointed chairman of the affair, said that letters have been sent out to the various schools and that the winners of the spelling bees in the respective schools are to be mailed to him no later than March 25. The contest is open to students of grades five through eight. Winners of the school bees, will then participate in the county finals April 20.