Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LX'II NO. 210

Challenges Legality Os Committee Hearing On Student Trip To Cuba

Khanh Resumes Viet Nam Hold

SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPD—Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh announced today that he has resumed control of the government. Khanh told a news conference he once again was in charge of affairs because of “Popular demand.” His decision came at the end of six days of political maneuvering with Buddhist leaders and powerful army generals. Khanh had stepped aside temporarily last weekend after almost a week of rioting in which about three - score persons were killed and many injured. a Ha went to the mountain resort of Dalat for a “rest,” bqt returned Thursday. Following a series of talks with key BudITo Suspend Business For Holiday Monday Most business will be suspended in Decatur Monday, Sept. 7, because of the Labor Day holiday. Federal, s ate, county and city offices will be closed, and there will be no mail delivery, except special delivery. Also closed will be the First State Bank, the public library, and most retailers. The Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Monday. Exceptions to the closing will be the theater, some restaurants, confectioneries, service stations and taverns. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, chance of scattered thundershowers southeast and extreme south portions this afternoon or early tonight. Cooler northwest and turning cooler central portion this afternoon, cooler most of state tonight. Saturday fair and cooler. Low tonight in the 50s north to about 60 south. High Saturday 75 to 85. Sunset today 7:12 p.m. Sunrise aturday 6:16 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair and pleasant. Lows in the 50s. Highs in the 80s.

Independent Group Endorses Johnson

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson’s campaign hopes were buoyed today by support from a new “independent” committee of big business leaders composed largely of Republicans. The group included two members of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cabinet. After the 45-member nucleus of the committee was formed Thursday, Johnson said that political independents this year have a choice of “the kind of country they want America to be.” Johnson said: Independents Have Choice “They can choose an America which sails a straight and sure course, steered by experience, confident in its strength, steadfast in its purposes. “Or they can choose quite a different America—an America tacking sail and turning about to retrace its course.” The Eisenhower cabinet members listed as originating sponsors of the “National Independent Committee for President Johnson and Senator Humphrey” were Robert B. Anderson, former Treasury secretary, and Marion B. Folsom, former secretary of Health,

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dhists and military leaders, he announced he once again was taking over. Civilian Government Soon However, Khanh, who is an army major general, also disclosed that his government would step down at the end of two months time and turn power over to civilians. He said the other army officers in his cabinet already had turned in their resignations, and that he was ready to follow suit when the two months are up. Meanwhile, he will be able to reassume positive direction of the U.S.-supported war against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas and attempt to start the nation on a path of stable government and reform. But, Khanh said a threemember junta of generals still was in business as a ‘‘national steering committee.” The group is made up of Khanh, Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh and Lt. Gen. Tran Thien Khiem. Khanh and Minh are . Budd his ts, Khiem a Catholic. Together, they represent a balance between the contending Buddhist and Catholic forces in the country. Fixing Civil Rules Khanh said the troika of generals would appoint a council charged with laying the ground rules for ‘a civilian government and calling a congress of national leaders to run it. Khanh snapped “affirmative” when asked if he was willing to return to a strictly military post when the new government comes into being at the end of the two months. But at the same time, he said, “if the executive still has the support of the people it may be called upon to continue. . .” The chubby strongman leader appeared at the news conference without the goatee which he has sported for almost a year. He said he had shaved it off “to show my determination vis -a -vis my enemies. . .and to pursue the revolution ... so Y>e may hand back power to the civilians.”

Education and Welfare. Co-chairmen of the group, selected at Thursday’s organizational meeting, are John T. Connor, president of Merck & Co., Summit, N.J., and John I. Loeb, senior partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., New York. Many Are Republicans Connor said he is an independent Democrat. Loeb said he is a registered Republican. Connor told reporters that three quarters of the 45 organizers of the committee were Republicans either by registration or past voting habits. He said they had banded together with a national headquarters at 99 Park Ave., New York City, to recruit JohnsonHumphrey support from ' the business and financial world, and to raise money for the national ticket. The membership includes Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II and Marriner S. Eccles, Salt Lake City, chairman of the Utah Construction and Mining Co. and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. 0 Twenty-six members of the group attended Thursday’s meeting and later had a twohour session with Johnson.

WASHINGTON (UPD—A second day of . hearings into an unauthorized trip to Cuba this summer by 84 young Americans got off to a gavel - pounding, acrimonious start today. A 24-year-old Antioch College graduate, said to be a leader of the student travelers, challenged the legality of the investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and its right to question him. Edward Lemansky, New York City, got into a shouting match with Rep. Richard Ichord, DMo., chairman of the hearing Lemansky said the committee was unconstitutional in its creation and operation; that some of its members were illegally elected; and that it attacked communism as alien while coni ■■ ASCS Community Election Slated The annual ASCS community committee elections will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights of next week, with all meetings scheduled for 8 o’clock. Three members and two alternates will be elec|e4 in each township. The elected chairman becomes the delegate to the ASCS county convention, at which the county committee will be elected. The vice chairman is the alternate delegate and the ■ regular member becomes the second alternate delegate to the county convention. The delegates, one from each township, will meet Sept. 24 to elect the county committee. County and community committees will take office Oct. 1 and will serve for one year, or until another election is held. The community meetings, all at S p.m., will be held as follows: Sept. 8 — Blue Creek at Carver's garage in Salem; Hartford at the Geneva town hall; Root at the Monmouth school; Union at the Immanuel Lutheran school. Sept. 9 — Preble at the Magley school; St. Mary’s at the Pleasant Mills school; Wabash at the Geneva town hall; Wahington at the ASCS county office. Sept. 10 — French at Election school; Jefferson at the Geneva town hall; Monroe at the Adams Central school; Kirkland at the ASCS county office. Thefts, Vandalism Reported To Police Two theft incidents, including a house burglary, have been reported to the Decatur city police. Mrs. Leo Ross, of 229 Grant St., reported a theft of money from her home to police Thursday afternoon. She said someone had entered the home between 6:30 and 8 a.m. the same day. and took a purse containing between $2 and $3, and some important papers. Also stolen from the home was a radio speaker valued at $7.95. Entry was made through an unlocked door at the front of the home. Larry Bush, employed by the Swifty Station, on 13th street, res ported at noon Thursday that a transmission had been stolen from the back yard of the residence of James Hueston, 315 S. 11th St. He said the 1954 overdrive transmission was taken the night of September 1, and was valued at $65. Whether Bush or Hueston was the owner of the item was not clarified. Also reported to police was a vandalism incident, from Paul Germann, a resident of route 4, Decatur. German stated that on August 27, someone put stones and sand in a tractor at Dierkes Implement, 341 N. 13th St. The vandalism wasn’t discovered until someone attempted to start the tractor Thursday afternoon.

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sidering nazism home grown. « Have Shouting Exchange Ichord overruled the objections and repeatedly sought to gavel Lemansky to order. The gavel pounding was interspersed with shouted exchanges between the witness and members or counsel of the committee. Bitter opening remarks added to tension already prevalent in the big House Caucus Room. This followed an incident Thursday in which an American Nazi party member leaped to the witness table and attacked another of the student travelers then under questioning. ■Committee members indicated at the start of today’s session they would seek a contempt of Congress citation against the Nazi party member against whom local police already had lodged charges including one of assault. The assaulted witness, meanDecatur Man i Is Critically Burned Today Lawrence S. Smith, 45-year-old of 219 North 7th St. in this city, was rusned to the Bluffton Clinic hospi'al this morning with severe electrical shock > and burns. At noon, Smith was listed in critical condition at the Clinic hospital, and remained unconscious. Smith, a workman on a Yost Construction Co. crane crew, received the severe electrical shock at 7:45 a.m. today while working on a county road brdige project two miles west of Bluffton, in Wells county. The Deactur man suffered deep burns on his head, arm and chest when the crane he was helping to operate came in contact wi'h overhead utility lines. Smith was helping Alvin Stucky operate the crane, while removing steel posts on a new bridge construction. Smith was holding the crane cable which touched some overhead wires, causing the local man to receive the electrical shock. He was immediately taken to the Bluffton hospital, where his condition remained listed as critical at noon. Slock Withholding Discussed By NEO The largest regular monthly meeting in the history of the newly formed Adams county chapter of the NFO, with nearly 100 members and guests in attendance, took place Thursday night at the Blue Creek conservation club. The members were well pleased with what has happened so far in the holding action on livestock. >» It was reported this morning that two pigs were handled on the local market this morning, and 25 yesterday while only eight were handled before noon today at the Geneva market. Hogs were up 25 cents yesterday, r and another 25 cents locally.' May Withhold Milk The possibility of withholding milk from the market was mentioned. and while it is known the NFO has approached local milk processors on the matter, no decision has yet been reached on a withholding action for milk, Gene Arnold, county NFO president, said this morning. The group withheld soybeans during the winter, until July, but no other grain is anticipated or has been t discussed recently, he added. “If a contest were held to find one bona fide farmer who would declare himself to be completely satisfied with his present system of marketing his commodities, it would be a safe bet that such Continued on Page 8)

time, was said by his attorney to be under care of a neurosurgeon at a hospital here. Ichord apologized anew for the attack and served notice that police would take whatever precautions necessary to prevent any repetition. Police Flank Hasis In a change of signals, however, three members of the American Nazi party, including party ■ leader George Lincoln Rockwell, were admitted to the hearing room. Each of the Nazis was flanked by two uniformed police. Earlier it had been, planned to bar any known member of the Nazi party. However, Ichord held that the hearing was open to the public, and that the Nazis were entitled to admission by virtue of the place they held in line when the Caucus Room doors were thrown open. Thursday’s incident developed when the Nazi, identified as Lon Dunaway, 28, Arlington, Va., leaped from the audience and attacked a witness who was testifying. Eight policemen carried' Dunaway head first from the .hearing* room. He later was charged w?h simple assault and disorderly conduct. He was jailed when he failed to put up a $525 bond. « THte witness, Morton Slater, 21, was admitted to the Washington Hospital Center where

Let’s Have Some Justice

Last Tuesday evening a group of irate citizens who live on North Fifth street appeared before the city council, and demanded that local speed laws, and laws against reckless driving be enforced. The city council took the matter under advisement, and Mayor Gerber promised action. Thursday morning at approximately 1 a.m. two city policemen were sitting in their police car in the alley by the Adams theatre, watching the traffic on Monroe street. A car came through the intersection at Second and Monroe at a terrific speed, and headed east on highway 224. The police car started in immediate pursuit. They reached speeds in excess of 120 miles an hour before the car was headed off, and brought to a stop in the roadway. The policemen got out of the car and arrested the driver. Then they asked him to move the car from the road. He backed up, suddenly made a U-turn, and took off at a high rate of speed. The police could not catch him, and so when law offices opened in the morning, they presented their story to the acting prosecuting attorney (the prosecutor is gone for the weekend) and asked to file four charges against the man. The acting prosecutor decided that they couldn’t prove two of the charges, that this wasn’t resisting arrest because he had already been arrested, that an escape charge was too serious for an acting prosecutor to bring, and should be brought next week by the regular prosecutor, etc., etc., ad nauseum. So the officers left, believing that the prosecutor intended to file the affidavits for speeding and reckless driving which they had been allowed to sign. This morning, 24 hours later, they checked, and found that the prosecutor had talked to the city court judge, who instead of issuing an arrest warrant, bringing in the accused to jail, he had decided that the offense was inconsequential, and deserved Only a notice to appear September 14. Meanwhile, for the entire weekend, for two more weeks, a man charged with driving 120 miles an hour down'one of our highways, where we, our wives and children drive, is allowed at large, practically a hero. This is a hollow mockery of law. It is a serious moral error. It is dead wrong. Only qualified lawyers, fully educated in law school, graduated from a law university, who have passed an examination administered by a state commission, are licensed by us to practice before a court. We citizens, through our lawmakers, have

Community Fund's Budget Is *29,834

The 1964 Decatur Community Fund drive budget has been set at $29,834, up 2.9 per cent over last year's figure of $28,993, Preparations for the drive have been in progress for the last several weeks. Chairman Mabel Murray has been making the necessary arrangements and contacting workers for the drive, which opens October 5, with a breakfast for all workers at the Youth and Community Center. Last year ten agencies were included in the fund budget. Since the drive quota was attained, each agency received the amount it had requested. The same ten agencies make up this year’s fund budget. The budget is as follows: American Field Service $1750 Boy Scouts — - ■ 4510 . Girl Scouts 4625 Salvation Army 1500 U. S. O. 473 Mental Health 1000 Youth and Community Center 5000 Red Cross > ’ 5876 Crippled Children ' 1800 Little and Pony Leagues 2500 Operating Expenses 500 Contingencies 300 TOTAL $29,834 For Youth Services As in past years, much of the money in the Community Fund is budgeted for youth services — the American Field Service, Boy and Girl Scouts, Youth and Community Center, Crippled Children and the baseball Seven of the ten agencies sewe Decatur citizens only. The other three, Red Cross, Salvation Army and U. S. 0., are chapters of national groups. Part of their money is spent locally and part his condition was reported fair. A friend who accompanied Slater to the hospital said the slightly built New Yorker was dazed and unable to walk. Following the attack, Rep. Richard Ichord, D-Mo., chairman of the subcommittee conducting the hearing, apologized fdr the actions of what he called “the extreme right wing.”

is used to maintain their national services, which are of indirect benefit to Decatur residents. Division chairman, captains and solicitors will be appointed within the next few weeks. They will attend the opening breakfast October 5 and will receive receipt forms and other materials at that time. Started In 1944 The First Community Fund drive in Decatur was launched twenty years ago, in October, 1944, by James Elberson. At that time the drive was combined with the county war fund, which

Turks’ Leader Warns Os War

ANKARA, Turkey (UPD — Turkish military intervention in Cyprus is probable and the possibility of a war with Greece is approaching, Premier Ismet Inonu told the Turkish Parliament Thursday. “We are not only faced with the probability of military intervention in Cyprus,” Inonu said to the Grand National Assembly (lower house), “we are also approaching a situation which may result in war between Greece and Turkey.” "Greece is heading blindfolded towards war with Turkey,” the premier told the Assembly, which was recalled from summer recess at the request of the opposition Justice party. “If these is a war, Cyprus will only be a minor part of it.” Grimeat Warning Yet It was the grimest warning yet from Inonu, who is under heavy domestic pressure to intervene in Cyprus to ease the lot of the Turkish Cypriot minority on the island. Inonu attacked Greece directly, criticized the United States and called for understanding the position of the Soviet Union toward Cyprus.

given this privilege to a select few. They set their own fees, must handle practically every estate, at a flat percentage, and in short they are allowed a privileged place in our society. We allow them this privileged place because we expect them, with their knowledge of the law, to protect us, the people — the foolish people who are unversed in law and the courts. Justice is not only for the accused — it is also for the people. Yes, we expect, and want every person to have a full and fair trial, before his peers, and to stand on the merits of the case. But no, we do not want fat, selfish men, pro- r tected by the law they swear to uphold, so greedy for money, so greedy of their time that they allow a mockery to be made of, the criminal law, and the rights of the public. n It’s about time the people of Adams county decided whether they want a reasonably safe, sane comi munity, With fair enforcement of the laws, and the protection afforded by dedicated lawyers who practice sane criminal law as well as civil practice, or not. And if not, we might as well strip attorneys of their special status, and let anyone practice law; strip judges of their rank and privilege, and return to the ~ law of the jungle in theory as well as fact. Because that is exactly what we are exposed to at present. This morning our city judge, in a huff because a city policemen had the effrontery to mention that within the past few months a similar incident of high speed, ending in a wreck in Allen county, resulted in a fine $1 ajjd costs to the young man in the car, told the police officer that he didn’t want him to bring any more cases to his court! Our prosecutors stand election every four years. It will be two more years before a new one is elected. Our city judge stands for election in three years. There are no special qualifications for city judge, and anyone desiring to be a candidate may file on thfc ticket of his choice, and run. . Our state constitution provides, in Art. 7, Sec. 15, “All judicial officers shall be conservators of the peace in the limits of the state ” Conserving the peace means just that. How can anyone who has committed a serious offense, witnessed by two competent witnesses, be allowed to range at large? What form of justice does this serve? Guilt or innocence of a person charged should most certainly be tried in the courts. But it is not being tried in the courts. It’s not being tried anywhere. A prosecutor need not try the case in his own mind — that’s supposed to be done in the court.

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was also directed by Elberson. The city’s share of the war fund, which supported the U. S. O. and 21 other agencies which aided servicemen and war refugees, was $7,918. The Decatur Community Fund goal was $7,639, which brought the combined goal to a total of $15,557. At that time the fund supported all local youth recreac tional activities, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and the Salvation Army. Less than three weeks after the drive had opened, more than $21,000 was collected, exceeding the drive goal by some $6,000.

"There seems to be no end to the irresponsible behavior of the Greek government in supporting (Cypriot President) Makarios in his attempt to-depcive the Turks in Cyprus of their rights,” he said. Inonu charged that Greece was making open military preparations. Efforts Are Sincere "The efforts of the Americans to solve the Cyprus issue have been sincere but sometimes contradictory," Inonu said. "The chief concern of the United States has been to prevent war between two NATO allies, but by preventing Turkish intervention in Cyprus they have assisted Makarios.” Both Greece and Turkey are members of the western alliance. Russia offered aid to Makarios when Turkish jets attacked Cyprus last month. But last week the Kremlin sent Inonu a message saying the Soviet Union was neutral in the dispute. Inonu said it was wrong to interpret the Russian stand on meaning that the Kremlin sup ported Greek Cypriot ”atroci< ties” or their economic block-* ade against 'Dirkish Cypriots.