Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 294.

Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Discrimination By Motels And Hotels

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court in a milestone decision today upheld as' constitutional the section of the new Civil Rights Law banning racial •'discriminaton by motels, hotels and restaurants. The unanimous decisions were confined to test cases involving an Atlanta motel and a local restaurant at Birmingham, Ala. However, the language used in upholding the public accommodations section of the law was so broad in scope aS to indicate the same ruling would Mrs. Mary Boese Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary Boese, 85, of 3706 South Park avenue, Fort Wayne, died St 6:10 p.m. Saturday at the Twin Maples nursing home, where she had ben a patient one where she had been a patient one month. She had been ill since June. Mrs. Boese, a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne, was a member of Trinity Lutheran church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Hilda Dressier of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Frieda Hoqch and Mrs. Dorothy Thieme, both of near Decatur; four sons, Edwin Boese of Hicksville, 0., Carl Boese of Fort Wayne, Arnold Boese of Poe, and William Boese of New Haven; 21 grandchildren ’ and 16 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Rodenbeck - Hockemeyer funeral home, with the Rev. Harold Ott officiating. Burial will be in Emmanuel Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Four U.S. Officers Wounded By Bombs

SAIGON (UPl)—Communist commandos knifed into the middle of a Vietnamese army division headquarters today and exploded a bomb that wounded four American officers on their own doorstep. A U.S. military spokesman who disclosed the Red raid also announced "four other new American casualties in South Viet Nam. They included one killed, one iriiising in action, and two wounded. The new casualties brought U.S. losses in Vietnamese action since Tuesday to 12 men killed, 2 missing and 21 wounded. Disclosure of the daring new Communist raid came after officials put a top secret stamp on a mysterious troop transport crash that killed two Americans. There was speculation the downed plane, said to be carrying 30 Vietnamese commandos, may have been involved in a secret mission against North Viet Nam. There were no survivors. The Communist attackers broke into the hilltop headquarters of the Vietnamese sth Division at 3 a.m. Today, and set off a borVib that wounded the four officers as they tumbled out quarters to repel the at'ack. Three of the offieiers were taken to. the U.S. Navy Hospital in Saigon. The condition of all three men was described as “good.” The fourth officer required only first aid for his wounds. t In another action, a U.S. Army enlisted mail was killed aboard an armored personnel carrier, while with a Vietnamese infantry battalion pur-

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apply to other establishments covered by the act. These include theaters and stores involved in interstate commerce. In another sweeping edict, the court quashed any “sit-in” prosecutions if the demonstrations occurred in restaurants or other establishments covered by the Civil Rights Act. The vote was 5 to 4. The decision was expected to nullify proceedings against 3,000 sit-in demonstrators who were either appealing state convictions or awaiting trial. The decisions in the motel and restaurant cases were unanimous. Justice Tom C. Clark wrote all three of the opinions. Justice Hugo L. Black, Arthur J. Goldberg and William O. Douglas added their own views in separate opinions. The first opinion dealt with an Atlanta motel. » “V/e conclude that the action

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suing a band of Communist guerrillas in the Perfume River Valley, 395 miles north of Saigon. The bodies of 43 Communists were counted after the noontime battle Sunday. Vietnamese forces lost 9 killed and 26 wounded. Another U.S. Army enlisted man disappeared about the same time, while crossing a river with a Vietnamese combat patrol 303 miles northeast of Saigon. In other developments: —South Viet Nam’s three most powerful Buddhist leaders ended a 48-hour hunger strike against the U.S.-supported government of Premier Tran Van Huong. Their strike caused scarcely a ripple of public interest. —Reports from central Viet Nam said „ growing Communist terrorism there had driven some 25,000 refugees into the port city of Qui Nhon, 28 0 miles northeast of Saigon. Roman Catholic refugees alone numbered 15,520 by Friday afternoon, according to parish priest Fa’her Cao Due Thuan. The wreckage of the downed C 123 transport plane was found today in the coastal mountains 380 miles northeast of here. The bodies of the two Americans, an Air Force major and an Army sergeant, were recovered, Reliable sources said seven Vietnamese airmen and 30 commandoes of the Vietnamese special forces were also aboard. The plane crashed Friday, but American spokesmen refused to discuss its mission o’her than to say it was a “training” flight. It was the worst air disaster of the war.

of the Congress in the adoption of the act as applied here to a motel which concededly serves interstate travelers is within the power granted it by the commerce clause of the Constitution, as interpreted by this court for 140 years,” the opinion said. The Clark opinion continued: “It may be argued that Congress could have pursued other methods to eliminate the obstructions it .found in interstate commerce caused by racial discrimination. But this is a matter of policy that rests entirely with the Congress not with the courts. “How obstructions in commerce may be removed —what means are to be employed—is within the sound and exclusive discretion of the Congress. It is subject only to one caveat — that the means chosen by it must be reasonably adapted to the end permitted by the Constitution. “We cannot say that it s choice here was not so adapted. The Constitution requires no more.” The controversial public accommodations section bars racial discrimination in hotels, imoteis, res aui ants, theaters and other businesses involved in interstate travel. Steel Pad Talks Will Open Tuesday PITTSBURGH (UPl)—Negotiators for the steel industry and the United Steelworkers of America (USW) met separately today on the eve of their first formal try at hammering out a new wage contract. The first collective bargain* ing, in which units representing each of the 11 major basic steel producing companies meet with their counterparts in the union, will take place Tuesday. Today both sides met separately in the same hotel, the Penn - Sheraton. The sessions were closed. Later in the day, the joint labor-management Human Relations Committee (HRC), which has set up guidlines for the contract talks, will hold its final session prior to the start of collective bargaining. The usually secretive HRC, set up in the wake of the bitter 116 - day strike in 1959, will break tradition and hold a news conference at the conclusion of its meeting. The conference is for 4:30 p.m. EST. Politics has shown itself as a complicating factor in this year’s negotia'ions as USW President David J. McDonald is being challenged for the top post in the Feb. 9 election by international secretary - treasurer I. W. Abel. The two sides have until May 1 to reach agreement without danger of a strike. After that date the steelworkers are free to walk out. One industry source earlier said he expected the talks to be “protracted and bitter” with little chance of se tiemen before he union’s February election. On Dec. 3, the union unveiled its demands, saying it would ask the basic steel industry for a substantial wage increase, to‘al job security, greater prosperity and “dignity and justice” for the man in the mill. The union, in asking for a “fair share” of the industry’s “record profits” would not put a flat price on the proposals. But a- source close to the union said .the complete package totaled about 43 cents an hour, higher than the USW ever has. won. McDonald has termed the de-

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Rail Strike Is Delayed

CHICAGO (UPl)—Three shopcraft unions promised today not to call a strike against the nation’s railroads until after the New Year’s holiday. Rail attorney Alex Elson made the promise on behalf of the unions after U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Sam Perry issued a 10-day restraining ofder barring the three unions from walking out against the nation’s railroads before Christmas Eve. (As the unions made the nostrike pledge in Chicago, .between 75 and 10 members of the Machinists Union went on strike at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad shops at Grand Rapids, Mich. No picket lines were set up’ and service was not impaired. A union spokesman in Chicago said the walkout was over local issues.) Elson told Perry the unions “do not want to inconvenience holiday travelers.” Santa Claus Phone Here Three Nights Decatur and Adams county children will have the opportunity to talk with Santa Claus on three evenings this week, Jaycee project chairman Kenny Nash reminded parents today. The Jaycees, in cooperation with the Citizens Telephone Co., have installed direct lines to Santa Claus at the North Pole to allow local children the chance to speak directly to Santa through the telephone. Children may talk to Santa between the hours of 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Wednesday andThursday nights, by calling 3-2135. INDIANA WEATHER Fair south, partly cloudy north and colder with snow flurries near Lake Michigan tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and a little colder. Low tonight 5 to 15 north, 10 to 20 south. High Tuesday 22 to 32. Sunset today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:59 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fa’r and cold south, considerable cloudiness and cold north and snow. Low Tuesday night 5 to central. Possibility of light 10 above south, 10 to 15 above north and central. High Wednesday in the 20s south, in the 30s north. mands “non - inflationary.” He said he “understood the position” of President Johnson when the nation's Chief executive said he was opposed to a wage increase which could bring a hike An steel prices.

“Those people going home for Christmas will get home. There will be no strike during the holidays,” Elson said. • Perry set bond Jit SIOO,OOO, which the unions agreed to. He had announced last week he would issue the injunction today. The judge asked Elson if the unions would tell him exactly when they planned to call a strike. “All I am authorized to say is that it will not be until after the first of the year,” Elson said. Perry said he intended to study the dispute thoroughly during the next 10 days. He said he hoped to have a decision by then on whether to issue a permanent injunction against a strike. The key issue in the dispute is the refusal by the unions to accept a wage settlement pattern approved by eight other shopcraft unions and five ontrain brotherhoods earlier this fall. A strike by the union could cripple the railroads. The railroads contend the three balking unions—the Interna‘ional Association of Machinists, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Sheet Metal Workers International Aissocirt» n — are not legal bargaining agents for their members. They based this on the fact the AFL-CIO Railway Employes Department has bargained for the employes affiliated with the three unions in the past. Albert James Dies After Long Illness Albert James, 66, died at 7:45 o’clock this morning at his home on Craigville route 1, following an illness of two and one-half years. He was a retired farmer and a former night watchman al the Estey Piano Co. in Bluffton. He was born Oct. 20, 1898. a son of Perry and jennettie McDanielJames. and was married to Bernice Pierce Nov. 28, 1934. Mr. James was a member of the Craigville Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Keith Fox of Columbia City, and Mrs. Walter Rinehart of Bluffton; three grandchildren; one brother. Earl James of Magley. and two sisters. Miss Goldie James of Ma gley and Mrs. Della Christener of Monroe. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton, with the Rev. Gera'd Wibert officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services.

Fred Freewalt Dies Late Sunday Night Fred Freewalt. Blue Creek township farmer residing one mile west of Salem, died at 10 p.m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient since Nov. 13. He had be*m ill since August. born at Marysville, 0., a son of Conrad and Dorothy Nip-er-FreeWalt, and fprmerly resided in the Celina and Mendon, 0., area. He was first married in 1914 to Ida Smith, who preceded him in death in 1944. He was later married to Mabie Myers April 19, 1947. Mr. Freewalt was a member of the Union E. U. B. church at Willshire, O. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Ivan (Ruth) Simindinger of Spencerville, 0., route 1: six grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and two brothers, David Freewalt of Lima, 0., and Edward Freewalt of Mendon, O. One ison, Carl, one daughter, three sisters and two brothers are deceased. • Funeral servees will be held at Union E.U.B. church at Willshire, with the Rev. Howard McCracken officiating. Burial will be in Swamp College cemetery at Celina, O. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services. Commission Recommends Power Network WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Federal Power Commission (FPC) suggestion ithat far-r ang in g “networks” of electric power lines could produce custdmer savings of as much as sll billion yearly has drawn a mixed chorus of reaction from the industry. FPC Chairman Joseph C. Swidler made his recommendations Saturday in a report on a three-year national power sur* vey. Swidler said that nationwide coordination of power systems "could provide a 27 per cent reduction in the average cost of electricity.The' FPC chairman said the recommendation should not” be taken as advocating a national power grid under federal control. He said it was not a “blueprint” but rather a set of guidelines and goals for the industry. The report, drawn up with industry help, called for “fully coordinated power networks covering broad areas of the Country.” The heart of such a system would be extra-high-vdltage transmission lines linkareas of the country. A key private power spokesman, Walker L. Cisler, president of the Edison Electric Institute, immediately said he doubted that the savings could reach sll billion yearly. Cisler, who is cnairman of the board of the Detroit Edison Co., said the FPC had not taken into account the “inevitable effects of continued inflation.” He said the report had “much to commend it” but warned against “a master plan approach” not keyed to regional requirements. Clyde T. Ellis, general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, charged that cost reductions such as foreseen in the report have usually been “pocketed” in the past by private power companies instead of passed on to customers. He said the FPC survey was “based on a concept of cooperation among the various- power suppliers and this is a concept which most of the commercial companies have steadfastly refused to consider.” Alex Radin, general manager of the American Public Power Association, called for assurances that any benefits would be passed on to consumers and said Congress should take a “careful look” at the report to see what its implications might be in the field of regulation.

Johnson Approves Reserve Reduction

WASHINGTON (UPI (—President Johnson claims that the Pentagon's sweeping plans for realignment of the Army reserve combine “economy in goverment and combat readiness" and are "both prudent and wise." The Chief Executive’s defense of the move — and his first public statement on it — came in a letter this weekend to Rear Adm. Edgar H. Reeder, national president *■ of the Reserve Officers Association (ROA). Reeder made the letter public Sunday night. The ROA, which represents about 50,000 officers outside the National Guard, sharply criticized the plan’s as “monstrous” and charged that the Ptntagon has been engaged in a “conspiracy” over the past four years to destroy the reserve. In a news conference Saturday, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara outlined the plans to transfer the "unit structure” of the 300.000-man Army reserve into the National Guard. He said it would increase combat readiness and save taxpayers $l5O million a year. Air Force Next McNamara said plans also are being studied to do the same w.th the Air Force reserve. Reeder said in a letter to Johnson Sunday that the “same elements” in the Pentagon “have scheduled the same fate for the Air Force reserve the minute Gen. Curtis LeMay stps down as Air Force chief of staff” Feb. 1. “The reservists and the American people generally have a right to know all of the story, including the motives and aims of every individual who contributed to mapping this shocking alteration of historic national policy.” he said. Johnson wrote Reeder and told him he was asking the Defense Department to brief him on the plans. He said he felt Reeder would agree with them "when you are fully acquainted with the nature of the realignment.”

Rusk Confers With De Gaulle

PARIS (UPI) — Creation of the Atlantic Nuclear Force (ANF) now under discussion by NATO Allies could lead to a similar operation in the Far East and the Middle East, official American sources said today. President Johnson was report' ed to have promised British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Washington last week to "consider” ways of assuming Britain’s obligations east of Suez if Britain puts its entire force of nuclear bombers and submarines into the ANF Wilson had proposed the ANF, composed of seaborne, airborne and land-based units, as an alternative to the Multilateral Nuclear Force (MLF) proposed by the U. S., which would staff 25 ships with mixedmanned NATO personnel and arm them with Polaris missiles. The American sources said that one way to protect interests in „the Far and Middle East would be to create an Allied nuclear force in that area utilizing America’s vast nuclear power there. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred with President Charles de Gaulle this afternoon. He was primed to reassure the aloof French leader that Washington is not launching any kind of political offensive designed to isolate France. Rusk called on De Gaulle on the eve of a crucial NATO council of ministers session. He already had talks today with French Premier Georges Pompidou and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. U.S. officials said Rusk planned to let De Gaulle set the pace. But they said if the opportunity offered itself Rusk would give De Gaulle full assurances that the United States is not mounting an anti-French offensive nor seeking to isolate De Gaulle from his allies on the tense nuclear issue. Overshadowing the talks is a widening split between France

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The series of reorganization moves were certain to arouse stubborn opposition. They are: Transfer Structure —The “unit structure” of the Army reserve will be transferred to the National Guard; units will be eliminated for which there is no military requirement; the Army reserve will consist of individuals rather than units, and the authorized strength of the National Guard will be increased from 400,000 to 550.000 men. —Key federal personnel — which could include 83 congressmen — in the ready reserve will be transferred to the inactive standby reserve. McNamara said they would be “more valuable to the national security” in their current jobs than in the army. —Plans to consolidate the Air Force reserves and the Air National Guard still are Under study and should be completed in a few weeks. — Military junkets by congressmen and congressional staff mernbers will be on a multi-service basis insofar as possible, and the individual services will not be allowed to approve such overseas travel on their own. Travel requested by congressional committee chairmen is not affected. New Agency —A new agency, the Defense Department Contract Audit Agency, is being created to increase efficiency and lower the cost of government auditing, of defense contracts. — A senior defense attache will be named in each foreign country to "increase the effi"ciency of our attache work at the embassies in which they serve." Under- the new, program,, thousands of young reservists who have an' obligatory enlistment will have to go into the guard or serve as individuals in the reserve. As for the Reservists holding a key federal post, they do not have to serve in the guard. They can resign from the reserve.

and her Allies on NATO nuclear policy. De Gaulle is bitterly opposed to any multilateral force and intends to build his own national nuclear force. The meeting at the Elysee Palace could set in motion preparations for a spring summit conference between De Gaulle and President Johnson, according to some French and U.S. sources. But the conference was unlikely to dissipate the tension within NATO stemming from France’s go-it-alone nuclear policy. It was disclosed Sunday night that the other Allies will intensify their search for a formula to create a broad-scale nuclear force at five-power consultations in about two months. Major diplomatic interest centered on whether De Gaulle and Rusk would skirt the explosive nuclear issue or undertake a direct discussion of it. U.S. officials said Rusk was prepared, in given an opening, to emphasize that plans for an Allied nuclear force were not directed against France “in a political sense,’’ as French officials have charged. Rusk arrived Sunday to head an American delegation to the three-day NATO ministerial council meeting beginning Tuesday. Secretary of Defense Rob'ert McNamara flew to Paris today from Washington to join the talks. # Rusk conceded Sunday that disagreements existed within the alliance, but he said they were over “secondary matters” and cited the success of NATO in solving major problems. / The Johnson administration, he said, will pursue the bipartisan foreign policy maintained by the United States since World War 11. "That means full commitment to the security of the NATO area and full insistence upon the rights and obligations which became ours as a result of World War II,” Rusk said.