Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXil. NO. 274.

Brooklyn’s Huge Navy Yard One Os Bases To Be Closed By McNamara

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has ordered the huge Brooklyn, N.Y., Navy'Yard shut down as one of 95 bases and military installations he is closing for economic reasons, it was learned today, * The Brooklyn Army Terminal and nearby Ft. Jay on Governor’s Island in New York harbor also was on McNamara’s list of bases to be eliminated. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, N.H., also will be closed, Sen. Thomas J. Mclntyre disclosed today. The yard employs about 7,500 persons from the nearby New England area and has an annual payroll of $61.6 million. Another victim of McNamara’s economy drive probably will be Hunter Air Force Base at Savannah, Ga. Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., said he understood the strategic air base would be cut. United Press • International learned that Schilling Air Force Ba c e, Salina, Kan., will be closed. The shutdown, to begin immediately will be completed by Jtine 30, 1965. The office of Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., announced that the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Will remain open. The yard had been the subject of speculation as one of the most likely to be closed. Olmstead Air Force Base at Middleton. Pa., will be shut down during the next five years, however, Clark’s office said. McNamara scheduled a news conference to identify the doomed installations. But in a move to soften the impact, he planned to notify members of Congress before the conference. The conference was scheduled for 3 p.m. EST. The defense secretary, in announcing the action, said Wedne~day that the closing of the facilities would save the government SSOO million a year and would eliminate 63,000 jobs. Holds Military Capability McNamara said the shutdowns would be accomplished “without degrading our military capability.” Most of the bases are in the United States but

Union Thanksgiving Services Planned The annual union Thanksgiving Dav service, sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association, will be held at 9 o’clock Thanksgiving morning. Thursday, Nov. 26, at the First Missionary church, 10th and Davton streets. All residents of the city and areas are invited to attend this traditional service of thanksgiving. The Rev. J. O. Penrod, pastor of the Decatur Evangelical United Brethren church (Trinity), will deliver the thanksgiving message. As in previous years, an offering will be received for the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), for sending muchneeded surplus food and medical suoplies to the less fortunate people through the world. Host pastor is the Rev. Leroy Rusher, of the First Missionary church, which will also provide snecial choral music for the service. The committee planning the service consists of the Rev. Elbert Smith, Jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian church; the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., pastor of the Church of God, and the Rev. Marlin Nolin, pastor of the Assembly of God church. Marshal Montgomery Underaoes Surgery LONDON (UPD — Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was reported recovering satisfactorily todav from surgery for the removal of his prostate gland. The operation on the 77-year-old commander of British

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

some are located elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere or in Europe. The administration came under quick fire from the Republicans. Rep. Bob Wilson, Calif., chairman of the congressional GOP Campaign Committee, said “we are engaging to a certain degree in unilateral disarmament.” The shutdowns will be put into effect over an 18-month

A LOOK AT YOUTH — Ferris Bower, center, a member of the governor’s council on youth, addresses the Decatur high school student body during the school’s first assembly program of the year. The program, a discussion of the problems of youth, was sponsored by the high school student council. Left to right, student council president Bob Devoss, school superintendent Gail Grabill, Bower, student council advisor William Hitchcock, and council vice president Jim Brown.—'Photo by Mac Lean).

Religious Liberty Vote Is Blocked

VATICAN CITY (UPI)— Ecumenical Council officials today blocked a crucial vote on religious liberty. A delegation headed by three North American cardinals went directly to Pope Paul VI to protest the action. Cardinals Joseph Elmer Ritter of St. Louis, Albert Gregory Meyer of Chicago and Paul Emile Leger of Montreal, Canada, headed a petition drive in St. Peter’s Basilica to demand

Decatur Principal On Survey Group Decatur high school principal Hugh J. Andrews is serving this week as a member of a special North Central Accrediting Association evaluation committee which is making a four-day survey of Angola high school. Midwestern high schools and colleges derive their accreditation from the North Central association. The evaluation committees selected by the association are composed of the most highly qualified educators available. The Angola high school evaluating committee is composed of three high school principals, three high school superintendents, three college professors and two chairmen of high school departments. An Indiana university professor is chairman of the committee. The survey team is studying all aspects of the Angola school, including scholastic, athletic and extra-curricular activities. The committee members spend their day at the school and meet each evening to catalogue their findings. Andrews’ work is primarily concerned with the math department of the Angola school. Once the committee has completed its study, it will compile a report on the Angola school. Copies of the report will be given to both the school and the North Central Association.

troops ’in World War II was performed at King Edward VII Hospital Wednesday.

period. McNamara said that all persons losing jobs would be given an opportunity to qualify for new positions. Os the 11 Navy shipyards, the facilities at Philadelphia, at Hunters Point near San Francisco and at Brooklyn were thought to be the most likely to feel the economy axe. Three other naval shipyards—at Boston, Portsmouth, N. H., and Mare Island at San Fran-

immediate voting on the controversial declaration granting freedom of worship. As soon as the second session ended, they went to the pontiff to present the petition, which carried some 1,000 signatures. It said in Latin: “Reverently but instantly, more" instantly, most instantly, we request that a vote on the declaration for religious liberty be permitted before the end of this council session so that the trust of the world, of Christians and non-Christians, not be lost.” Whether Pope Paul made any decision was not known. The chairman of the council presidency, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, stunned the prelates with the announcement that a scheduled vote on the declaration would not be taken today as planned. He said the matter would be held over to the fourth session next year because council fathers had not had “sufficient time” to consider the matter. Council conservatives protested Wednesday against the vote on grounds that they had not had time to reflect on a revised version of the declaration by the secretariat for promoting Christian unity. This was considered a delaying move again't the declaration, which has drawn stiff resistance from the Roman Curia and other conservatives. The U.S.-led petition had gained nearly 1,000 signatures from the liberals, who were out r aged bv the sudden procedural block. Cardinal * Ritter was to personally present the petition later today to Pope Paul VI, according to reliable council sources. In other action, the council aho gave its overwhelming final approval to a document dealing with the church. The “De Ecclesia” tract, which will be promulgated by the pontiff at the third sessions closing ceyemonv on Saturday, includes the important collegiality of bi«hoos doctrine. This states that the bishops share with the Pope in the rule of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Paul VI is due to promulgate the tract during closing ceremonies for the third session of the council in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, 46733, Thursday, November 19, 1964.

cisco—also could be closed, although one source said the Boston yard would be kept open. Essential Shipyards The shipyards at Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S. C., Puget Sound, Wash., Long Beach, Calif., and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were expected to remain in operation. McNamara referred to them as “the ‘ hard core,” indicating he regarded them as essential. McNamara said the economy

Claims Three Planes Downed

TOKYO (UPI) — Communist North Viet Nam claimed today that North Vietnamese anti-air-craft guns shot down three U.S. jet fighters and damaged two others Wednesday when the planes entered North Vietnamese territory near the Laotian border. It charged that Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s announcement that a U.S. jet fighter had been shot down Wednesday over Laotian territory was a false report designed to draw attention away from the alleged American intrusion into North Viet Nam. According to Communist China’s official New China News agency in a broadcast monitored here, the official North Vietnamese news agency charged that “many groups of U.S. jet fighters of the FIOO and T2B types coming from the direction of Laos violated the air space of the Democratic Republic of (North) Viet Nam New State Auditor Names Appointees INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-State Auditor-elect Mark L. France today announced the first major appointment to be made by any of the newly elected state officials. France appointed Alex Ingram of Michigan City as chief deputy auditor and Garland Ferrell of Indianapolis as assistant to Ingram. France’s new' chief deputy is a former deputy revenue commissioner. Much of his 11 years in state government has been in the role of trouble-shooter for the State Board of Accounts. Ingram, a native of Harrodsburg and a graduate of Indiana University, first joined the accounts board in 1949. He has been working with ..state government money problems ever since except for four years when he was controller for a Michigan City printing firm. Ingram was a key official in getting Indiana’s two per cent sales tax law functioning after it was enacted by the 1963 Legislature. His most recent job was to prepare the format for a federal regional job corps

actions would increase workloads at the yards retained, suggesting that some payrolls may go up. He conceded that shipyard workers would be hard to place in new jobs because they have “special skills in a shrinking industry.” But he said everyone will be given a chance to qualify for another job, even if it involved additional training and moving at government expense.

over the western part of Quang Binh Province.” Quang Binh borders on southcentral Laos, the area in which McNamara said a U.S. FIOO jet fighter escorting a reconnaissance plane had been shot down. “According to ■ first reports,” the North Vietnamese News agency said, “the local anti-air-craft units of the (North Viet Nam people’s army shot down three U.S. jet fighters and damaged two others.” It said “one of the pilots, who parachuted, is being tracked by the local armed forces and people.” Meanwhile, U.S. military sources in Viet Nam said there was little chance that the American pilot shot down over Laos had survived. They said his FIOO Super Sabre jet exploded and crashed in flames. The pilot, identified as Capt. William R. Martin, 29, of Alexandria, La., was escorting a reconnaissance plane over southern Laos, where a troop concentration had led U. S. officials to suspect that infiltrators were moving from North to South Viet Nam through Laos. , The troops, believed to be Viet Cong guerrillas, fired on the RFIOI reconnaissance plane, and its pilot told Martin and another escorting fighter pilot to make a retaliatory strike, the sources said. When the Super Sabre came in for a strafing pass, the ground troops turned their rifles and submachine guns on it, the sources said. project which Indiana had offered td operate at Camp Atterbury under the “anti-poverty” law. Ingram, 41, will succeed Allen Lindley of Westfield, who is chief deputy to outgoing State Auditor Dorothy Gardner of Fort Wayne. Lindley, a Republican, was defeated by France, a Democrat, in the Nov. 3 election. Ferrell has been serving as Lindley’s assistant. France said he asked him to continue for another year to assure a smooth transition and Ferrell accepted.

Jury Is Selected For $15,000 Suit The jury has been completed and the 115,000 damage suit against the city of Fort Wayne has opened in the Adams circuit court before Judge Myles F. Parrish? The session began Wednesday, morning with the, impaneling of the jury, chosen from the 24 petit jurors drawn last week. Seated during the morning were Paul Hilyard, Forest Beer, Norb Aumann, William Journay, Leroy Bollenbacher, Clarence Amstutz," Glen A. Rupert, Glen Manley, Marvin Hart and Warren W. Harden. : Dismissed in the morning were, Hubert F. Gilpin, Walter Hilde-' brand, Don Moser and Wilson Weiland, while Lawrence Anspaugh and Robert K. Ehrsam had previously been excused. As the court reconvened at 1 p." m. Wednesday, John Walters of' Union township was dismissed, ( Glen W. Adams of Jefferson township was accepted by the attor-' neys, Daniel Habegger of Monroe was dismissed,'’■a»d,,Gerald| Tullis of Monroe township was seated. Thus, Tullis and Adams com-| pleted the 12-member, all male., petit jury to hear the case.of Ida, Chaney vs the city of Fort Wayne * Judge Instructs Judge Parrish gave the jurors, their instructions and attorneys' representing the plaintiff and de-' fendant city presented their opcn-j ing arguments during Wednesday] afternoon’s session. The court reconvened this' morning with witnesses beingcalled. At noon, arguments] were still being presented con-; cerning the entering into evi-. dence of an engineer’s map de-, picting the condition of the side-’ walk in question. The Fort Wayne lady is suing the city for a judgment of $15,000, claiming negligence on the part of the city in failing to mainia.n and repair its sidewalks. She had fallen on a public sidewalk in February of 1963. The trial has a bit of added local flavor in that the attorney for the plaintiff, Neil F. Sandler, of the Fort Wayne firm of Kennerk, Dumas and Burke, is the son-in-law of Mr." and Mrs. Roy Kalver of Decatur. Representing the city are Robert Arnold, city attorney, and associate Louis Bloom. Melvin C. Smitley Dies In Michigan Melvin C. Smitley, 63, of Corunna, Mich., a native and former resident of Adams county, died at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Ford hospital in Detroit, Mich. Death resulted from complications which developed from a broken leg suffered two months ago. Mr. Smitley, who left-Decatur 20 years ago, was superintendent of the Vetrified Tile Co. at Corunna. He was born in Adams county Aug. 18, 1901, a son of George and Jennie Clark-Smitley, and was married to Lulu McKean Nov. 5, 1921Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Louis E. Smitley of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Robert E. Smith of Portland, and Mrs. William Vahey of Corunna; five grandchildren; two brothers, Gerald and Thomas R. Smitley, both of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Philip Baker of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Jennings & Lyons funeral home at Owosso, Mich. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States today accepted an offer by Congolese rebels to negotiate the fate of Americans in rebel-controlled ten itory. INDIANA WEATHER Hazardous driving warning north half of state this afternoon and tonight, and heavy snow warning northeast portion tonight. Snow north and rain changing to light snow south tonight with heavy snow_ accumulation of four inches or more in northeast portion by Friday morning. Colder tonight. Friday light snow or snow flurries, windy and colder. Ix>w tonight ranging from the upper 20s northwest to the mid 30s southeast. High Friday in the 30s north, 37 to 42 south. Sunset today 5:27 p.m. Sun- » rise Friday 7:35 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Considerable cloudiness with snow flurries north. Partly cloudy central and south. Windy and cold. Lows 18 to 24. Highs 30 to 40.

Rome Kidnap Victim Israeli Defector

< ROME (UPI) — The central f figure in the strange case of • the man in the diplomatic trunk admitted today that he is an Is- ~ raeli citizen. He said he was >' forced to became a spy for the .*! United Arab Republic. ' Rome police said the selfj styled espionage agent, who . » first identified himself as a Mo- ■ ; roccan by the name of Youssef - Dahan, has told detectives that his real name is Mordecai Ben Massoud Lok and that he was born in Tel Aviv 28 years ago. ■ a His strange tale of foreign intrigue came to light Tuesday i * when ‘ police found him bound, . „ gagged, drugged and packed in i m a trunk earmarked for air ship- • ment to Cairo as "diplomatic ,2 mail?’ Two U.A.R. diplomats, accused of arranging the bizarre .* kidnap-smuggle, were expelled .« by the Italian government Wednesday as "persona non I ~ grata." Taken By Promises bi Police quoted Luk as saying ■g he defected to Egypt while , L -serving in the Israeli army. He i* said he was taken in by Arab promising that Is- ~ raelis who defected to. Egypt ig would be sent to th ( e United States. ■ "I was convinced and I -ia crossed the frontier,’’ he told police. "But when I arrived in Egypt I was arrested and kept in p: ison for six months and then forced to become a spy." : S Lok claimed, according to police, that he never gave the Egyptian government information of any importance and fre--rr quently furnished false data. £ This could have accounted ’C for the attempt to .Slout of Italy, police indicated, tj Authorities in Tel Aviv said today that the man. had lived in 1” Israel from 1949 to 1961 and ifj confirmed that he had defected IS to • Egypt. They said he entered d— Israel on a Moroccan passport yS and was born in that Arab ■,? country. i-Il Tried To Check ejj Police here tried to check the

'I REDDY FEATHER SAYS: ' "TODAYS DECATUR AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE ' COMMUNITY FUND BOYSCOUTS TOTAL IS Z GIRL SCOUTS $23,837.78 Tfll crippled children soc. The Goal Is Mt- little & pony leagues $29,834 u- s. o. I YOUR Mai SALVATION ARMY 1 Community Fund VWp7 MENTAL HEALTH 1 Still Needs W* COMMUNITY CENTER $5,996.22 '! JjL American red cross t Give The United Way |

Severe Storm Hits Nation

By United Press International A sprawling storm drove snow, sleet and hazardous driving conditions from the Rocky t Mountains to the Great Lakes . today. ’ A tornado damaged buildings and airplanes in Mississippi. Heavy rains belted the southern plains and Southeast, breaking one of the worst droughts on record. Red River, N.M., was buried under 13 inches of snow before the storm moved —eastward. Eight inches fell at Los Alamos, N.M., and 4 inches at Santa Fe. Denver was ‘ slugged with 5 inches. Up to . three inches of snow was spread from Missouri to Colorado. ... 'Die Weather Bureau issued '• hazardous driving warnings for ~ portions of Colorado, Kansas, * Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Illinois and Nebraska. Heavy snow ; warnings were posted for a k; narrow band from northeast 17 Kansas to southeast lowa, with kfour inches expected during the *day. Warnings of severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes •* were up for northern Alabama n and portions of Mississippi and g Tennessee. x A tornado ripped across a JJJ private airstrip at Clarksdale. MMiss., damaging a number of tq buildings and three crop-dusting — planes. No injuries were report3ed. Rj Another tornado—or possible p the same one—damaged a numg ber of houses in the area. ■

SEVEN CENTS

conflicting information with officials in Tel Aviv. A Tel Aviv newspaper, Davar, quoted Lok’s wife, Nurtt, 27, as saying that he had a grudge against the Jews when he left her four years ago. “He used to send me home to my parents to bring money whenever he was in trouble, always threateneng that if his wish were not granted, he would run away to Egypt and ‘avenge himself on these Jews,” the Israeli woman was quoted as saying. She said the couple has four children but that she has not seen Lok since he-left Israel. Jacob Nash, a police spokesman in Tel Aviv, said Lok. or Dahan, built up a police record during his stay in Israel and defected to Egypt in 1961 “because things were getting too hot for him.” Nash said Lok eventually landed in an Egyptian prison, explaining that this was the usual fate of defectors from Israel. “We’ve reason to believe that in his efforts to ,get released from the Egyptian prison, he apparently became an Egyptian agent,” Nash said. Confirms Theory Nicola Scire, the head of the Rome police department’s criminal investigation division, confirmed this-theory in part. “It is clear that this man worked for the intelligence service of a foreign state,” Scire said. , It was still unclear, however, just why the two ousted diplomats wanted to get Lok to Cairo. “We do not know yet if he was being punished by his organization for negligence or for having missed something," Scire said. In Tel Aviv, Nash agreed that it appeared that Lok and his Egyptian friends had a falling out, but was unable to explain it. Lok remained in police custody today.

Heavy thunderstorms soaked portions of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri. Tennessee and Virginia. Twenty - five familes were forced from their homes when Big Fossil Creek overflowed in the Fort Worth. Tex., suburbs of Richland Hills and North Richland Hills. From 3 to 6 inches of rain fell in the area since Wednesday. Snow fell in northern Texas. Nearly an inch and a half of rain fell at Oklahoma City and an-inch or more across Virginia broke a month-long drought. Dyersburg,“ Tenn., reported more than 2 inches of rain in six hours. The coldest temperatures this morning were 8 below at Ely, Nev., and 7 below at Williston, N.D. Paper Producer In Surprise Price Cut NEW 1 YORK (UPI) — A major Canadian paper producer shocked its competitors Wednesday by announcing a $lO a ton reduction in the price of newsprint, the first cut in 30 years. MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell River. Ltd., of Vancouver, B. C., fourth largest producer of newsprint in North America, said it would lower its prices to $124 a ton, down from the $134 it now charges, for West Coast delivery. The basic U. S .price is $135. The last major price change was a $4 increase in 1957.