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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7,1964 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE NO. 36

Great Injustice Done Two Men At Pearl Harbor

By United Press International On this day of infamy above all others the conscience of the American people is burdened heavily with the probability that a great injustice was done to appease the public wrath after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This probable injustice was done to Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short and to Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. The American people demanded goats and cared little who they might be or how high their station. A shaken Washington offered Kimmel and Short. And that was that! These disgraced men deserve another chance. That is, their reputations deserve another chance, a fair trial, a more compassionate consideration. On the record as it stands, Short and Kimmel got a raw, raw deal. And the disturbing thought intrudes that they were deliberately sacrificed in bloody ritual to meet the public demand. Short and Kimmel never had a trial. FDR named a five-man group headed by Associate Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts to make a hurry-up investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Roberts and his commission reported in late January, 1942, that Short and Kimmel were responsible. The commission accused them of derelictions of duty and errors of judgment. The commission had no doubts and less compassion. There followed some congressional uproar including demands that the officers be court-martialed. These demands were larded with politics, it being the theory that the responsibility for Pearl Harber was heavily shared among top military and civilian brass in Washington. A military trial might have developed that theme. The trial never took place. Admiral Harold R. Dolly Stark, chief of naval operations, was relieved and assigned to command the Navy in Europe with headquarters in London, which came to be known as Dog-house-on-the-Thames. That was as near as Washington ever got to admitting that all the blame for Pearl Harbor did not rest on the two goat commanders. Short and Kimmel. The 1942 Roberts' commission had been very firm and god-like in its destruction of Kimmel’s and Short's reputations. But on Dec. 1. 1944. the War and Navy Departments announced that continued investigations had disclosed no evidence to justify court martial (Continued on Page 2)

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Music Sessions Don Marketto, local music teacher in the public schools is attending a National Conference on the uses of Educational Media in the teaching of music. The confex-enee, being held m Washington, D. C., is sponsored jointly by the Music Educators National Conference and the United States office of Education and Welfare. Mr. Marketto recently assumed the Presidency of the Indiana Music Educators Association and is the delegate invited to represent the State of Indiana at the conference. He will be meeting with delegates from each of the fifty states in a series of observation-discus-sion sessions of the newer educational media, so that the uses, potentials and implications of the media may be explored in the teaching and learning of music. Public Lectures By Dr. Blau Three public lectures by Dr. Julian H. Blau, visiting lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America, will be offered at DePauw University Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8-9. His topics and tunes include: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.—“Mathematical Theories of Social Choice and Political Representation.'’ Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. —“The Prime Number Theorum.” 9:00 a.m.—“The Place of Rigor in Elementary Calculus.’’ The lectures by the former MIT professor are all scheduled in the auditoxium of the Roy O. West Library. Two Runs Made By Rescue Truck City firemen made two runs with the rescue truck duxing the weekend. Fire Chief Cassell Balay reported this morning. At 5:10 p.m. Saturday, the firemen were called to the Greencastle Post Office when Donald Carmichael became ill. He was not hospitalized. Sunday, at 10:29 a.m.. the ti-uck made a resuscitator call to College Avenue and Olive Street when Sandra Mitchell was stunned by a fall on the ice. She was taken to the Putnam County Hospital where she was treated and released. She was here from Scottsburg visiting the DePauw campus, Balay stated.

Local Thespians Will Give Christmas Play

Greencastle Thespian Troupe Vo. 1089 will present “The Family Nobod Wanted” on December 9. in the Junior High School Auditorium. This wrnderfully h -man comedy, is directed by Miss Gertrude Slack, speech teacher, John Frank” i, social studies teacher, will be in charge of the stage crew, consist’"g of Ann Silander. Jeff Mont, Greg Sanford, Pam Coop20 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Brown ivere on a trip to Florida and Texas. Word was received that Robert Agnew had arrived safey overseas. Marriage license: William Harold Barrett, U. S. Navy, Pocatello. Idaho, and Georgia \nne Zeis, Central National Sank Greencastle.

er, Ann Dozer, George .Tenner and David Houck. The plot concerns the prediciments arising in the family adopted children of Reverend and Airs. Carl Doss who are portrayed by Charles Coppinger and Judy Howlett. The adopted children are played by Missy Lambert, Jonna Eitel.. Susie Jones. Tom Walgumutl. Sieve Gingery, David Robbins find Mmk Elliott. Elaine Shumaker and Ray Guilliani portray the parents of Carol Gooch, the girl friend of Donny Doss (Mark Elliott). Otlier members of the cast are Peggy McClaine, a newspaper reporter, and Tom Love, a photographer. Members of Reverend Doss’s congregation —Suf Smaltz. Chris Johnson, and Janet Tarrell—compl te the cast.

10 More Killed In State Traffic By United Press Internotional Ten weekend fatalties and the deaths of two men in a cartruck accident minutes after the 54-hour weekend period ended today raised Indiana's 1964 traffic toll to 1.287 compared with 1,212 a year ago. A truck rammed itno a car stopped, lights out. on the TriState Expressway in Hammond today, killing Cranford Berry, 34. and Abraham Berry, 65, Gary. It was hit by a truck driven by Robert Snyder. 50. Hillsdale, Mich., who was not injured. The weekend toll included six persons killed Sunday after the state went all day Saturday without recording a single fata lity. Indianapolis business executive Jerry Edelson. 38. and his wife. Carolyn .29. were killed in a two-car, head-on crash Sunday night on U. S. 136 about eight miles west of Indianapolis. Police said an auto driven by David Broderick. 30. Brownsburg. crossed the highway’s centerline and ran into the path of the Edelson vehicle. Gladys Price. 49, Greenwood. was killed Sunday when she stepped from a bus on U. S. 31 about a mile south of her hometown, crossed one lane of the road and then was struck by a pickup truck driven by Leslie H. Hoppen. Seymour. New Uniform NASHVILLE, Tenn. UPI — A new uniform style has been approved for the state women’s prison here, the Department of Corrections has announced. “Inmates considered most trustworthy will wear pink and those who are trustees will be attired in pale green,” a department spokesman said. Mars Spacecraft On New Course PASADENA. Calif. UPI — America’s Mariner-4 spacecraft sped toward Mars today on a new course that could send it closer than expected to the mysterious red planet. A highly successful maneuver was triggered by scientists on Earth Saturday while the wind-mill-shape spacecraft w a s more than a million miles away. It corrected Alariner’s course and sharpened its aim for Mars to take the first closeup pictures of the Martian terrain with a high-powered television camera. Carbon Resident Died On Sunday Moil Bell, Carbon, passed away Sunday morning at the Rockville Nursing Home. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George Kelly; four grandchildren. Mrs. Barbara Craft. Roachdale. Mrs. Ella Jane Crawley, Bainbridge. Mrs. Janice Robinson, Kingman, and Jim Kelly, Atorton. Services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Miller Funeral Home in Brazil. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Tuesday. Interment will be in the Galveston, Indiana. Cemetery. It's Winter By United Press International New England dug out of an avalanche of snow today and New York took emergency measures for 150.000 persons left without light, heat or wa-

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Ups Status

WASHINGTON UPI — The U. S. diplomatic post in Communist Romania was upgraded formally to the status of an embassy by President Johnson over the weekend. Romania elevated its minister here to the rank of ambassador last Aug. 14. Named Ambassador to Romania was William A. Crawford, 49. a veteran foreign service officer. He has served as U. S. minister in Bucharest since 1961.

No Performance TUSCOLA. Ala. UPI—The University of Alabama has refused to permit jazzman Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong to perform at its “Festival of Arts” next February. Students charged race was the reason. University President Dr. Frank A. Rose Jr., insisted Sunday night the action was not taken because Armstrong is a Negro but he declined to say why the performance was cancelled.

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CHRISTMAS SEALS tight TB and other RESPIRATORY DISEASES

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Harvey Rites Elmer F. Harvey passed away Friday at his home in Alooresville. He is survived by his wife, Grace, and four sons, Robert R., DePauw; Elmer, Green Bay, Wis.; Eugene, Indianapolis; and Aldrich, Alooresville. Funeral services were held today in Alooresville. Three Jailed Here Saturday A Reelsville couple and a Roachdale young man were arrested and lodged in the Putnam County Jail Saturday eve-

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Orville Hutcheson, 54. and his wife, 53, Reelsville, were taken into custody on South Jackson Street at 7:38 p. m. by City Officers Russell Rogers and John Pursell. Hutcheson was booked for driving while under the influence of intoxicants. Mrs. Hutcheson was charged with public intoxication. Frank Hart, 23. Roachdale. was jailed at 8:15 p. m. by Joe Rollings, Roachdale town mar-

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Hart was charged with public intoxication. Rites Wednesday For Jack Husky Jack E. Husky, 66. resident of Route 3 Brazil, died at 10:50 p. m. Saturday at Brazil at Clay County Hospital. Mr. Husky had been an employee at American Zinc Products in this city for forty six years. He was a veteran of World War I, the Annunciation Catholic Church, Clay County Post No. 2 American Legion. Survivors are: his wife. Mabel: one sister, Mrs. Alarie Maureze, Las Vegas, Nevada: four brothers, Walter and Joe Husky. Chicago. Carl, Akron. Ohio, Eld ward. Peru. 111.; several nieces and nephews. The Rosary will be recited Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock at the funeral home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9 a. m. at Annunciation Catholic Church in Brazil. Rev. Enthony Spicuzza will officiate. Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery at Brazil. The American Legion will hold military services at the grave. Friends may call at the Miller & Sons Funeral Home in Brazil. AEC Conducts Test WASHINGTON UPI — The Atomic Energy Commission conducted an underground nuclear test of “low intermediate yield” Saturday at its Nevada test site. This was the 19th such test announced by the commission this year. Masonic Notice Regular stated meeting and election of officers Applegate Lodge No. 155 F&AA1. Fillmore, Tuesday 7:30 p. m. Elmer O. Lemley, W.M. Now You Know “Haystack” — a newly developed radar and space communications system — is so sensitive that with an output of 100.000 watts it could track a target the size of a .22 caliber bullet 1.000 miles out m space, according to Science Digest.

WASHINGTON UPI—Presidetn Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson begin today a critical series of talks on NATO nuclear strategy which may prove decisive in shaping future courses of the dissension-plagued Western Alliance. The meeting was the first of four business sessions to be held before Wilson leaves early Wednesday for New York and Canada. The President and the prime minister planned to get down to business immediately following a formal welcoming ceremony, complete with military honors on the south lawn of the White House. When Wilson arrived Sunday night at nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Aid., he was greeted informally by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and protocol officials. Wilson, a blunt Yorkshireman whose Labor party won a slender victory in Britain's October elections, told newsmen at the airport he considered his talks with Johnson to be "vitally important.” The major task confronting Johnson and Wilson was to coordinate control of nuclear weapons and forces within the Western Alliance in the face of French President Charles de Gaulle's refusal to even consider the subject. They also were expected to discuss Britain's desperate economic plight, complicated by a run on the pound sterling, and exchange views on a number of explosive Issues in Asia and Africa. The President and Wilson both have expressed confidence thta they will be able to find some formula to resolve their differences concerning the shape and nature of a proposed NATO nuclear organization. U. S. officials said, however, that much depends on the details of a compromise formula which Wilson is supposed to have brought from London to set against the American project for a NATO nuclear fleet, known officially as the “Alultilateral Nuclear Force (MWFl.” Johnson, in a speech at Georgetown University Thursday, said the problem was to “find a common way” to strengthen NATO ties "by (( ontimied on Page «) Residence Fire Fatal To Baby SPENCER UPI — Three-month-old Wanda Pruitt burned to death today when fire swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Golden Kent six miles east of here but three other children in the house were saved. Larry Hartsell. Bloomington, was babysitting with the children while the victim’s mother and the Kents were in Indianapolis when smoke awakened him before dawn. One of the children ran to the nearby home of Victor Todd who helped rescue the other children. But flames prevented them from reaching Wanda. Officials speculated the fire was caused by some sort of gas leak. Owen County officials were in\estigating. Elks Memorial The annual memorial service for deceased members was held at the Greencastle Elks Home Sunday afternoon. Rev. Alaxwell Webb, pastor of the First Christian Church, was the speaker. The roll of the departed brothers was called by Gifford Black, Seer eta rj’ of the Lodge.

DePauw Cast To Present Play Henrik Ibsen s play, “A Doll s House,” begins a three-night run Thursday, Dec. 10. at 8:15 p.m. in DePauw University’s Speech Hall. Little Theater s second offering of the dramatics season, the play will co-star Purdie Aleissner, Hinsdale, 111., as Nora Helmer and Ken Ringbloom, Chicago, as her husband Torvald. Nora Torvald belatedly realizes she is but a trinket in her financier-husband's world of material things. Believed by her husband to be without intellect, understanding or depth, she eventually abandons their marriage to prove to herself otherwise. The break, prefacing a divorce which at the time of Ibsen's writing was subject of great social comment, is frustrated momentarily by blackmailer Nils Krogstad, business associate of Torvald. Krogstad will be played by John Van Aleter, Alonlicello, and his former romance, Christina Linden, will be portrayed by DeDe Lange of New Carlisle, O.

Mike Webster. Louisville. Ky., will appear as Dr. Rank; Baroara Mock of Franklin is cast as the nurse Anna; and Gail Franklin. Aurora, Colo., plays the maid Ellen. Lon and Charles Hill, children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hill, and Becky Carlisle, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Fred Carlisle, also will appear in the play. Masonic Notice Called meeting of Temple Lodge No. 47 F. & A M. Tuesday. December 8th. 1964. Work in E. A Degree. Visitors Welcome. Ivan R Huxford. W M. Bill Judy At 4H Conference CHICAGO.— Bill Judy, representing Indiana at the 10th annual 4-H Dairy Conference held here Dec. 3-5. Judy was one of 169 4-H members and 35 leaders from 22 states participating in the national meeting. Bill Judy, 16. of Greencastle explored dairy industry career opportunites during a forum held in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. A panel discussion on vocations included representatives o f dairy farmers, equipment manufactors. dairy educators, and livestock feed processors. At a 4-H dairy marketing clinic, young Judy learned the latest techniques of dairy production. processing, and marketing. The clinic was conducted by W. F. Johstine, agricultural economic extension-dairy marketing. Pennsylvania State University. Judy, who lives on a 114-acre farm and helps manage a herd of 70 cattle, was briefed on dairy cattle, type and selection during a visit to the International Dairy Show. Representatives of principle breed association handled the dairy show visit. Clay Bettis, 88, Fxpired Today Clay Bettis. 88. well known Greencastle resident, died Monday morning at the Lewis Nursing Home in Greencastle. Mr. Bettis was bom September 22. 1876, in Clinton township, the son of Charles and Sarah Slavens Bettis. In his early years he was a tile and ditch worker. He attended Clinton Falls Church and had made his home with Aivil Roach in this city for the past thirty (out years. Survivors are: one brother, Elbert Bettis and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by three brothers and four sisters. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. at the Hopkins-Walton Funeral Home. Burial will be in Clinton Falls Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

5 More Whites Are Murdered By Congo Rebels

Mishap Due To Slick Pavement Ice and snow on the pavement was blamed for a property damage accident Saturday on East Berry Street. City police reported that Janies D. Richards. 24. of 508 East Hanna Street, was driving west on Berry in a 1951 Chevrolet. Tlie car hit a slick spot and he lost control. The auto slammed into a 1964 Buick parked at the Marathon Bulk Station. The Buick is owned by Larry Goodhue. Officer Russell Coleman estimated the damage at SI80 to Goodhue's car and $75 to Richards’ Chevrolet. Local Residents On TV Show Television cameras shift the folk dancing scene from Bowman Gymnasium to the studios ot WTHI-TV tomorrow morning for DePauw University’s weekly student workshop presentation. Focusing on Professor and Mrs. Robert Thomas and four undergraduates. TV hostess Merrill Kimbrough leaves her moderator’s seat and joins the dances in the 7:45 a. m. show on channel 10. The performers - dancers will present three folk dances during the 15-minute taped production. Opening with “Demale.” they will swing through “Mayin Mayin” then be joined by the show hostess for the finale. This week's demonstration and explanation of folk dancing, according to student producerdirector Roy Winchester, is an outgrowth of the regular Friday night folk dance sessions held at 7:30 p. m. in Bowman Gym. The public is cordially invited to attend. Taste Of Christmas WASHINGTON UPI President and Mrs. Johnson got a chief advance taste of Christmas Sunday when carols were sung during services at the church they attended. “Come All Ye Faithful,” "Silent Night.” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem” were among the selections the choir sang at t in' National City Christian Church's 11 a.m. service.

LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo. UPI — Reports that five more white hostages have been slain in the northeast Congo today raised the death toll m two weeks of rebel atrocities to 93. Information reaching her* said the latest victims were two nuns and three priests ail Belgian. Returning refugees said the Belgians were killed by rebels in the Poko region. They were working at the Dwaka mission station. Seventeen refugees, including several Greeks, arrived here safely Sunday from the Lisale and Paulis areas. OUier reports said about 1,000 rebels surrendered during the weekend in a mercenaryled attack by Congolese army troops and Katangese gendarmes on the left bank of the Congo River at Stanleyville. The area was softened up prior to the attack by airborne rocket attacks. The planes dropped leaflets urging the rebels to lay down their arms. Government troops then stormed across the river in terry boats. Honolulu Rites For Mrs. Sherman Mrs. Isabel D. Sherman. 71, Cloverdale. passed away Monday morning at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Maythel Allegiee. She was bom in Honolulu November 17. 1893. and had spent most all her life In Honolulu. In 1954 she came to Cloverdale to make her home with her daughter. Survivors are one daughter, Maythel Allegree: one son, Benjamin Sherman. Honolulu; seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. She was a member of the Episcopal Church in Honolulu. Friends may call at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale Tuesday noon to 10:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held in Honolulu on Saturday. Heiress Is Dead SOUTHAMPTON. N. Y. UPI M r s. Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, 88. who became the Duchess of Marlborough under protest, died at her estate here Sunday. Mrs. Balsan was the granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. founder of the New York Central Railroad.

Public Fund Planned To Defend 2) Men

PHILADELPHIA. Miss. UPI An attorney said today that a public fund may be set up to defend 21 men. including i sheriff and his deputy, against federal charges in connection with the killing <>f three civil rights workers. At present. 19 of the men face only federal charges of violatting the civil rights of the workers, shot to death and buried under a dam last summer But Mississippi authorites were reported to have decided to press murder charges against several of the men. Laurel G. Weii. attorney for Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey anil his deputy. Cecil Price said there habeen “talk of organizing" a fund raising drive for the men “People want to help.” he said. “People have offered help and more would if they knew how to go about it.” He said none of the men had asked for help. The Memphis Commercial Appeal Sunday quoted sources as saying the state would charge about nine of the 21 men arrested with murder, and sev-

eral others with being accessories to murder. Tin charges could be brought either in warrants signed by state officials, or by the Neshoba County grand jury, whose next regularly scheduled session starts Feb. 1. \V <‘atlier Partly Cloudy Cloudy today and tonight with a little snow this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday considerable cloudiness and a little warmer. High today upper 20'.-. Low tonight near 15. High Tuesday near 3U. Outlook for Wednesday: Generally fair and warmer.

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