Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 86.

President Johnson Opens Negotiations In Dispute After Strike Is Averted

Gen. MacArthur Rites Saturday

NORFOLK, Va. (UPD—Men, women and children by the thousands streamed past the open casket of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur today to view the body of the old soldier lying in state in the MacArthur Memorial Building which also will be his final resting place. Many women carried sleeping infants in their arms, and others led sleepy-eyed small children as they paid final respect to America’s old soldier. This was an official day of mourning in the city that MacArthur called “my spiritual home.” He will be buried Saturday, six days after his death in Washington. Starting late Thursday and continuing through the night, mourners filed past the bier in the rotunda of the memorial he never saw in life. More than 16,000 hadviewed the remains since the memorial was opened to the public shortly after 6 p.m. EST Thursday. At times during the night, the waiting line was five blocks long, with people standing four abreast. By 3 a.m. EST, the line had dwindled but the mourners still came. In crisp, sunny weather this morning, the lines again lengthened. The body was to be on public view all day today and as long tonight as necessary to accommodate the crowd. The only formal event was the firing of 19-gun salutes at Army posts ariund the 'nation. Final Services the last day of the wepk-long mourning for the fivS-star general who served his ' country brilliantly in three wars, the body will be removed to St. Paul’s Episcopal church for brief, final religious services. Then it will be returned to the memorial rotunda for

!*ll ! Civic Music Drive Will Open Monday

Ninety workers in the annual membership drive of the Adams County Civic Music association will gather Monday morning between 7:30 and 10 o’clock for a kick-off breakfast at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Louis Jacobs, these workers will be given instructions and presented with their kits. Miss Ruth Riggs of New York City, representing the Civic Mui sic Service, will be on hand to assist in the drive, which starts Monday and continues through Saturday, April 18. Four top quality concerts will be booked, and the county goal this year is 900 members. Mrs. Louis Jacobs

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entombment. The body was brought here Thursday from Washington, were it had lain in state at the Capitol Rotunda. More than 150,000 persons lined the cortege route from the airport to the memorial here. Today has been designated a day of mourning by Norfolk Mayor Roy B. Martin. City offices and schools were to be closed. The 84-year-old general of the Army died Sunday. His career had spanned 61 years during which he won the Medal of Honor and served as a fighting general in World Wars I and II and the Koreah War. Arrived On Anniversary He came here Thursday on the 22nd anniversary of his retreat from Bataan after defeat of his small army by the Japanese in World War 11. He consented to have his memorial here because Norfolk had been his mother’s hbme. He probably would have been born here — had his soldier-father not been transferred suddenly to Little Rock, Ark. He was born there. MacArthur called Norfolk “my spiritual home” in correspondence »in 1960 about converting the 114-year-old vacated Norfolk Courthouse into the memorial. The building contains the MacArthur papers, mementoes and decorations. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, Saturday mostly fair and a little warmer. Low tonight 36 to 42. High Saturday in 60s north, 67 to 76 south. Sunset today 7:18 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:14 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair with no important temperature changes. Low Saturday night in 40s. High Sunday 67 to 78.

At the same time, a similar breakfast will be held in Berne, where the co-chairmen for the drive in that area are Mrs. Martin Neuenschwander and Mrs. Robert Masten. Mrs. Sherman Stucky, of Berne, is president of the organization, which this fall presents its ninth season of the nation’s outstanding artists. Invoices have been mailed to this year’s. members, and it is requested that remittance be mailed in promptly to facilitate the workers in securing new members. The tickets this vear will cost the same as before — $7.50 for adults and $4 for students. Mrs. .Stucky wishes to emphasize the fact that anyone is eligible to join the organization and no invitation is necessary. The telephone number of the Community Center headquarters is 3-3130 and from today on, workers will be on duty through Saturday. This year’s closing concert will be the appearance of the famous Karlsrude Chorale at the Community Center Monday evening, May 4. For new members this will be a “bonus”* concert, which they may attend free, in addition to next year’s program. The Chorale will present 16 highlytrained male voices in a delightful evening of song. Memberships for the 1964-65 season will only be sold during the drive week, as no individual tickets are ever sold for single concerts. Memb | s in the Adams County Civic Music association may attend without charge concerts in any Civic Music town in the United States.

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson opened emergency negotiations in the railroad dispute today and said he expected a solution before a 15-day strike moratorium is over. Johnson, who won a strike delay last night, told union and management officials that he was optimistic about chances for settling the four-year-old rail controversy. Bargaining sessions began shortly before 10 30 a.m. EST in the White House cabinet room. Johnson brought a five-man team of federal mediators into the discussion to help the parties reach a solution but emphasized they would not “cast their weight on either side.” Johnson’s statement had an optimistic tone but he cautioned both sides: “if we are unable to get a solution we will follow democratic processes and find other means.” This was an oblique reference to the possibility that the administration might once again a’sk congress for legislation to prevent a rail strike if no agreement is .reached. While Johnson hinted that he might turn to congress—as did the late President Kennedy last summer—to avert or halt a rail str'ke. congressional sources said Johnson was ready to de this Thursday night. Lawmakers said if the strike postponement had not been obtained, the President was prepared to ask today for quickaction on tough legislation. Johnson won a dramatic agreement from the warring rail union and company officials Thursday night that blocked a nationwide rail strike less than 90 minutes before the walkout was set to start. Using the famous Johnson powers of persuasion, because all the powers of law at his command had long ago been exhausted, the Chief Executive got union leaders to change their minds and accept his proposal for a moratorium on a national rails strike. An informed source said the chiefs of the five railroad operating unions at first turned down the President’s proposal because they said it would undercut their entire bargaining strategy by halting the two-day-old strike against the Illinois Central Railroad. This walkout triggered the carriers’ announcement that they intended to impose new work rules. The source said that Johnson talked with the union leaders personally and they accepted his original proposal with only one change—the length of the “cooling off” period was reduced from Johnson’s suggested 20 days to 15. ‘ Negotiators for the nation’s railroads accepted the-original plan and agreed to change without any convincing from the President. The outlook for avoiding the nationwide rail strike was uncertain for several hours Thursday night, one source said. But he credited Johnson with overcoming rugged opposition to his plan from the unions. Burial Held Today For Zelt Infant Graveside services were held this afternoon at St. John’s Lutheran church cemetery, Bin--1 gen, for Gregory Lee Zelt, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Zelt of Hoagland, who died at 11:40 p. m. Wednesday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Also surviving are the grandparents, Mrs. Velma Zelt of Decatur route 1, and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Melccher of New Haven, and the great-grandfather, John Hemsoth of Fort Wayne. Local Lady's Sister Dies At Lima, Ohio Mrs. O. O. Weaver, 73, of 1121 North street, Lima, Ohio, died April 3 in St. Rita’s hospital, Lirpa. Funeral services were held Monday at Chiles and Sons funeral home, Lima. Survivors are two brothers, one half brother, one stepson, one stepdaughter, and two sisters, one of whom is Mrs. O. G. Baughman of Decatur.

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Indiana Port Approved By Army Engineers INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh today planned to take an $18423 million request for construction of outer breakwaters for the proposed ’lndiana port to the 1965 Legislature even though the U.S. Army has approved the job for federal funds. “In the normal course of events we wouldn't get our appropriation from Congress until next year and that is too late,” Welsh said. He noted that the Bethlehem and Midwest Steel companies have a contract under which they can take back the land they sold to the state if a port is not a reality by 1968. Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes informed the U.S. Senate Public Works Committee Thursday that the Army engineers have approved the port. Also approved was a provision contained .in a bill authored by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., which allows reimbursement to the, state for carrying out the federal share of the project before its authorization. Alles noted the Budget Bureau “regards both the Burns,, Waterway Harbor and the Indiana National Lakeshore proposals as integral elements for ■ a balanced development of the area, and that legislation providing for such development would be in accord with the program of the President. Welsh feels that Indiana cannot wait for Congress to enact the bill into law. “We should proceed as soon as possible” to contract the port which has been estimated to cost a total of $92 million if the facility is as large as planned in prel im i n ary engineering studies, he said. Sverdrup & Parcel and Associates, St. Louis, which conducted the engineering study, said a port facility of this size was feasible. The plans call for a 3,870-foot breakwater and a 400-foot entrance channel which would accommodate any vessel able to enter via the St. Lawrence Seaway onto the Great Lakes. The state had wanted the federal government to pay for the breakwater, with the rest of the facility to be paid by revenue bonds issued by the Indiana Port Commission. Welsh said if Indiana can be reimbursed for building the breakwater “that's fine and there is precedent for this kind of thing but we must not wait for this.” The Indiana National Lakeshore is a proposed federal park to be built in the Indiana Dunes, including the present Indiana Dunes State Park. There are two different bills pending on this, one of which takes part of the land wanted for industrial expansion and the other does not. A Senate Interior subcommittee held hearings on the former bill which takes the larger area but no further action has beeh taken. Edward Raidy Rites On Monday Morning 1 Funeral services for Edward J. Raidy, of Fort Wayne, who died Wednesday at St. Joseph’s hospital, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at D. O. McComb & Sons .. funeral home, and at 11 a.m. at St. Jude’s Catholic church, where the solemn requiem high mass will* be celebrated by the Rev. John D. Ko f ftn, a nephew of the deceased. Burial will be in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday.

Mrs. Ida Andrews Dies Last Evening Mrs. Ida L. Andrews, 72, lifelong resident of Kirkland townt ship, who resided one and three- ■ fourth miles south of Magley, died at 9:30 p. m. Hiursday at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. She had been critically ill for two days. Born in Kirkland township Sept. 1, 1891, she was a daughter of William and Louise MillerBeineke, and was married to Rex Andrews June 8, 1918. Her husband preceded her in death In 1951. Mrs. Andrews was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ in Decatur. Surviving are one son, Gerald Schlickman of Lima, O.; three daughters, Mrs. William (RoedeD Roberts and Mrs. Harold (Audrey) Baumgartner, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Robert < Barbara) Kerschner of Decatur route 2; 12 grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; one brother, ’Albert Beineke, of Fort Wayne, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Bussewitz of Milwaukee, Wis. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. in. >■ <43aturday ■ until time of the services. Three Persons Die In Vincennes Fire VINCENNES, <■ Ind. (UPD—A milkman, his wife and an orphan boy were killed when fire swept their home on the city’s south side before dawn today. The victims were identified as Conrad Brown, 58; his wife, Lillian, and Thomas Holt, 11, a child who lived in, their home. The fire broke out about 2 a.m. CST. Tom Cobb, a neighbor, saw the blaze and ran barefoot across the street. He tried to enter the house by breaking out windows, but smoke prevented him from getting inside. Fire Chief Ralph Orr said all three victims apparently were awakened by the smoke or flames and tried to escape but collapsed from smoke inhalation and died before they could get out. ■ Brown’s body was found near a rear door. He had managed to break out a glass but col-" lapsed in the thick smoke before he could get outside. Mrs. Brown and the boy were found in the bathroom. Mrs. Brown apparently had broken a window but collapsed before she could smash a storm window beyoixi it. ■ Edward H. Bohnke — Dies Last Evening Edward H. Bohnke, 65, of 7101. Mayscille road, Fort Wayne, vice" president and secretary of Bohnke Agency, Inc., died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient three weeks. Mr. Bohnke lived in Madison township, Allen county, until moving to Fort Wayne in 1925. In the insurance business, he had been manager for the Bohnke Agency for the past five year. He was also secretary of Der-Mo-Tine, Inc., a cosmetics firm. Mr. Bohnke was a member of Concordia Lutheran church. Surviving are two brothers, Herman Bohnke of Fort Wayne, and Fred; Bohnke of Monroeville route 2, and one ’ sister," Amelia Fadkier of Fort Wayne. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Rodeji-beck-Hockemeyer funeral home in Fort Wayne, with the Rev. Osmar Lehenbauer officiating. Burial will be in Concordia gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Saturday.

Massive Rail Traffic Snarls In Two Cities CHICAGO (UPD—Railroads tried to highball train service back to normal under a labor truce today but foot-dragging unions triggered massive snarls in New York and Chicago. Local unions set up picket lines at midnight in rail centers in Pennsylvania, northern Illinois, upstate New York, and Missouri. Leaders of the four operating unions that set a strike for 12:01 a.m., said many locals had not been officially notified to return to work after agreement to postpone the walkout was reached Thursday night in Washington. The last picket line came down nearly 12 hours after the 15-day truce was announced. In its wake were commuter confusion in the nation’s two largest cities, disrupted train schedules across the Midwest and East and jangled nerves all around. Commuter Service Snarled Commuter service for 32,000 riders of the New York Central’s Harlem and Hudson divisions in New York was shut down until 7 a.m. EST. Thousands of earlybird commuters were forced to find other means of getting to work. The Illinois Central canceled all of its commuter runs to Chicago when railroad firemen stayed off the job until 3 a.m. CST (4 a.nt. EST). More than 45.000 persons scurried for bus schedules, taxi cabs and car pools for the third consecutive Pickets remained at Missouri Pacific facilities in Kansas City until 6 a.m. CST (7 a.m. EST). Qther pickets stalled Pennsylvania Railroad freight and passenger service until daybrealj. Most railroads were not as-. fected by the walkouts —which unions said were caused by poor communication. Most lines lifted work rules changes and freight embargoes and sailed through the strike deadline without a hitch. But the other lines had to struggle to catch up. Form Picket Lines Union picket lines we r e formed at Albany, North White Plains, Poughkeepsie, Croton and Brewster, N.Y. Three passenger trains were stalled for a long time at Buffalo, N.Y. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen set up picket lines against the Illinois Central at midnight and train crews did not return to work until more than five hours after the truce was announced in Washington. Clara Wertzberger Dies This Morning Mrs. Clara A. Wertzberger, 81, of 129 North Third street, well known Decatur lady, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been a patient at the hospital since suffering a broken hip in a fall at her home shortly before last Christmas. She was bom in New Riegel, 0., Sept. 12, 1882, a» daughter of Joseph and Rose Bucher-Rum-schlag, and was married to Bernard Wertzberger Oct. 14, 1903. Her husband, long time operator of Wertzberger’s confectionery, preceded her in death. Mrs. Wertzberger was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society, Third Order of St. Francis and St. Vincent de Paul society. Surviving are three sons, Brother Maurice, C. S. C., Gilmour Academy, Gates Mills, 0., and Francis and Richard Wertzberger, both of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Murphy of Decatur, and Mrs. Margaret Coffee of Highland; 12 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Albert and Bernard Rumschlag, both of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Rose Loshe, Mrs. Lawrence Braun and Mrs. Joseph Geels, all of Decatur. Three children, five brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. The nurd Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 p. m. Sunday, followed by the Rosary society at 8 p. m.

Governor Candidate Speaks At Geneva

“More important to our party and to our people than a winning smile and a good platform style is the ability to give sound administration,’’ Clinton Green, candidate for governor, told a crowd of 100 Adams county Democrats at the Geneva school meeting of the Jeferson club Thursday night. Continuing to. show that he also had a winning smile and ability to speak, the Bloomfield engineer, land surveyor and administrator with more than 30 years experience in government, outlined some of his accomplishments in state government in the administrations of Paul V. McNutt, Clifford Townsend, Henry Schricker, and Matthew Welsh. Familiar With Area A native of Greene county. Green was closely associated with the Wells county state forest when employed by the conservation department In the early 1930'5, and later was a construction firm member in a Fort Wayne firm for two years, helping to build a number of schools in northeastern Indiana. Earlier, Green was the guest of the Geneva town board and the Adams county candidates for delegate to the Indiana Democratic state convention at the Kozy Korner in Geneva for dinner. Afterward, Green and the group spent a half-hour touring the Limberlost state memorial, Gene Stratton Porter’s Geneva home. Kotter Opens Meeting Robert Kolter, president of the Jefferson club, opened the meeting and had the minutes of the previous meeting read. Then Dr. Harry H. Hebble introduced all of the county candidates present. Only two candidates were unable to be present: Burl Johnson, whose wife was present, and explained her husband was making a good recovery at home following post-operative pneumonia, and Larry Vizard, who is in college at Ball State Teacher? College, and .was represented by his father, Gerald Vizard. Both are candidates for state representative. All Adams county Democrats were asked to back President Johnson by voting in the Democratic presidential primary for Gov. Welsh; the president is not entering any primaries, and the Indiana delegation is bound by law to support on the first convention ballet whoever wins the primary, if he is an active candidate before the convention. Gov. Welsh will not be an active candidate, and is pledged to free his delegates to Johnson. However, Gov. Wallace, of Alabama, is trying to win votes to weaken President Johnson, and he will also be on the ballot. All ‘Democrats were asked by all of the candidates speaking to support President Johnson, rather than Wallace, by voting for Gov. Welsh. The Rev. A. H. Sholty, candidate for Congress, then spoke for five minutes, outlining his candidacy: Rev. Sholty, a retired EUB minister and former missionary to Japan, is opposed to war, and favors using the United Nations to maintain world peace. Hobbs Speaks Max Hobbs, Decatur native now an Allen county attorney, and candidate for congress, spoke briefly following the main speech,

Reds Threaten U.S. Attaches

MOSCOW (UPD—The United States Embassy said tonight that a hastily convened Russian kangaroo court tried to ' force two American air attaches into signing a false confession of respassing on Soviet military property. The incident happened in Tula on March 17, embassy sources said. An earliter incident occurred Feb. 14 involving two U.S. Navy attaches in Leningrad. In both cases, mobs of Soviet citizens harassed the Americans and threatened them. In. the„ wake of the incidents, an embassy spokesman said the attaches were given the “highly unusual” punishment of 90 days restriction to Moscow by Soviet authorities. Citizens Pass Judgment In the March 17 incident, the embassy sources said irate Soviet citizens apprehended Lt. Col. Edgar Smith and Capt. Edmund J. Zvetina, both of Dayton, Ohio, in a park adjoining a military airfield in Tula, a city of about 300,000 population 105 miles south of Moscow. Fist-waving citizens brought out j a table on the streets, passied judgment on the men, and quickly began drawing up

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• v* * IMIS Clinton Green after making the main address at a meeting in Wells county. Hobbs explained the need for a Democratic representative from the fourth district to back up President Johnson, and senators Birch Bayh and Vance Hartke, and to start a constructive legislative program that will help local people, rather than the present negative approach of the incumbent congressman. Judge G. Remy Bierly, former appellate court justice, introducedthe main speaker; Judge Bierly worked closely with Green while he was Gov. Welsh’s administrative assistant, and also during the 1960 campaign, when Green was one of Welsh’s top aides. “Hey, Look Me Over” Green described this as the “Hey, Look Me Over” period of the state campaign, with every one of the seven candidates having a chance to win. “Some of the candidates are putting out the story that they are leading, or second, or third, in the state race, ■ but I agree with Senator Soaper who says that H appears that the i dark horses are catching up with the dark horses.” Green explained how the state highway department, while he was director, started on the road to cleansing the name of Indiana in the eyes of those who grant federal aid money, after two terms of misrule in the right-of- _ ~ Way division; that division has now been completely reorganized, and last year Indiana let contracts for 20% more highways than ever before in a single year. 30 Tears Experience With 30 years’ experience behind him in state government, the 52-year-old Green did not attempt to detail all of his governmental achievements, but briefly hit a few recent highlights. Green promised that if nominated he will do his best to carry out the mandates of the 1964 state platform; he has stated that he favors a single graduated tax with dependency allowances to replace the sales tax and myriad other state taxes; he also favors property tax relief, and does not feel that extra tax burdens should be placed on property. Following the meeting, refreshments were served by the committee. ftflHMI

an “akt”—or confession document—which the attaches angrily refused to sign. Steadfastly maintaining their innocence, both Air Force officers eventually were freed by the mob after being detained about 20 minutes and were allowed to proceed to Moscow, the embassy said. Both attaches, on a routine automobile trip through unrestricted areas of the Soviet Union, got out of their when the incident took place. Car Blocks Street The embassy said the action of the citizens appeared to be M inspired.” The Leningrad incident occurred when a Soviet car deliberately headed an embassy car off the street, blocking its way. Naval attaches Cmdr. Stuart Savage of Alma, Kan., and Lt. Leonard Bracken of Philadelphia, Pa., who were riding in the car, appealed to a Soviet militiaman (policeman) for help when about 120 angry citizens gathered around the car. The militiaman ignored their plea, the American sources said, and the Soviet car even backed off and rammed the U.S. vehicle in the side.