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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1967

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Morton Blames LBJ For

Mounting U. S. War Fever

WASHINGTON UPI — Sen. Thurston B. Morton warned today that war fever was mounting in America because President Johnson had failed to make it clear that total military victory in Vietnam would mean “total world holocaust.”

The former Republican national chairman called on Johnson to “defuse” what he said could become a massive “stab-in-the-back” reaction by the U.S. public to any negotiated peace in Vietnam.

“If the polls are right, if nearly half of the American people believe that a total military victory in Vietnam is possible and vital to our national interest, then there is going to be hell to pay if we settle for anything less," the Kentucky senator said.

Morton’s sharply critical views, given in a speech prepared for Senate delivery, were calculated tq set off another round of Vietnam policy debate. His speech came as Secretary of State Dean Rusk was scheduled to give the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a private policy report on Vietnam and other world trouble spots. - Morton’s view of the situation was at odds with that expressed by a high State Department official Monday at a background briefing for several hundred editors and broadcasters. The official, who could not be Identified by name, told the visiting newsmen that the administration has been careful not to “work up” public opinion to a pitch where it might force the United States tq more massive action in Vietnam. He said the United States was too powerful to become hysterical. But Morton, an assistant secretary of state during the Eisenhower administration, said he was disturbed at polls showing that 45 per cent of the U.S. public favor a “total military Victory” policy in Vietnam. He said that this showed the public is misinformed and that “the administration has done too little to inform the public of our national options and objectives in that tragic conflict “For, make no mistake about ft. total military victory in Vietnam means total war with China, and I, for one, believe that means total world holocaust.”

200 Reported Missing In Brussels Holocaust

New Providence Church To Hold

Memorial Rites

State's Penal System

Memorial services will be held at New Providence Church, I

Is Severely Criticized

two and one-half miles south of

Mt. Meridian. Sunday, May 28, at 2 p.m.

This service will be in memory of those gallant men of all wars who served and those who gave their lives for their nation and their friends.

Evans Trial Is Set For June 22

Trial of John Evans, charged with the theft of shotguns and rifles from the Blue & Bridges Service Station, U. S. 40-Ind. 43, last March, was set for 9 am. on June 22 by Judge Francis N. Hamilton in the Putnam Circuit Court Monday.

James Jeffrey Denny, 24, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with a break-in at the Marsh Supermarket. He was remanded to the custody of Sheriff Bob Albright pending a pre-sentence investigation. Robert Pitcher, also charged with the same offenses, did not appear for trial. His bond company was given 10 days in which to produce the defendant or otherwise his bond of $15,000 will be forfeited. James Bruce Branam, 17, North Vernon, pleaded guilty to escaping from the Penal Farm and was sentenced 1-5 years at the State Reformatory at Pendleton.

Cong Continue To Break Truce

Probe Fatal Wreck

NEW YORK UPI _ New York Central Railroad investigators tried to determine today how a southbound freight got onto a northbound track, resulting in a head-on collision with another freight that killed six workers and injured four.

On A Binge

LANSING, Mich. UPI—Secretary of State James M. Hare is a “little disappointed” in a seminar program for drivers convicted of alcohol-related traffic offenses.

The seminar to acquaint drinking drivers with their problems was supposed to have been attended by 100 drivers. Eight showed up.

Dirty Pilgrims

PLYMOUTH, Mass. UPI — Kenneth Tavares, manager of a museum opening Friday, says Monday is wash day because of the pilgrims.

SAIGON UPI — Communist forces violated the Vietnam war Buddha birthday truce today with mortar, machine gun, mine and assassination attacks, allied spokesmen said. They said the Communists broke the allied guaranteed Tuesday truce at least nine times in its early hours after breaking earlier their own longer Monday-Tuesday peace pause. Despite the Communist “liberation radio” broadcast to guerrillas to “halt all military attacks for two days,” they struck U.S. units in the field at least four times. When a North Vietnamese company attacked a platoon of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division 320 miles north of Saison Monday after the truce opened, eight Americans died and 13 suffered wounds. But the Americans killed at least 43 of the Communists. In the Central Highlands UPI staff correspondent Thomas Corpora reported an estimated North Vietnamese battalion hurled themselves at two U.S. companies and got to within hand grenade range before being forced back. Communist mortar barrages hit at least two other American positions. U.S. units suffered light casualties, spokesmen said. In Saigon’s Chinese district, (Continued on Page 3)

BRUSSELS UPI — Department store owners today said at least 200 persons are reported missing in a fire that police said may have been ignited by anti-American demonstrators. Police said 22 bodies already have been found in the ruins of the Innovation store, the Belgian capital's largest, which was featuring an “American Week” when fire swept it Monday. About 100 persons suffered injury. Authorities said they feared more bodies lay in the ruins. A store spokesman said an emergency center had received requests for information about 204 staff and shoppers reported as missing. Anti-American pamphlets demanding a “clean out” of the store were found scattered in nearby streets. They were issued by a pro-Chinese Communist group “for peace and independence of peoples.” Demonstrators have been dropping firecrackers in running protest at the American exhibition. Police last week investigated a report that a bomb had been placed in the store. Today police were working on the theory the fire was started, intentionally or otherwise, by the protestors. The fire devoured an entire block of downtown Brussels. It was fed by exploding bottles of butane gas in the store. An estimated 1,000 persons were in the store when the fire broke out. Panic spread quickly. Some escapees jumped from upper floor windows and crashed to their death on the cobblestones below—at least 16 died in this way. Others fled with their clothes afire.

It will also be a dedication to those Americans on the battlefields in Vietnam and wherever Americans are bearing arms for their country.

Egypt Blocks Water Route

To Elath, Vital Israeli Port

New Record

WASHINGTON UPI —The Defense Department issued the longest single casualty list of the Vietnam war Monday, identifying 139 U.S. servicemen killed in action. Included on the list were 87 men from the Army, 48 Marines and 4 from the Navy. The previous record list was 111, issued on Monday, March 27.

The Cloverdale Band and Legion firing squad will be present. A program will be presented by members of the church. Pledge to the flag, Melissa Saucerman; Recitation, Dawn Gaston; Piano solo, Polly O’Neal; Recitation, Vicki Nicholson; Organ solo, Mark Chestnut; Song by the choir; Recitation, Janet Patterson; Flute duet, Debbie Gaston and Sally Hammond; Song, Nicholsen sisters; Accordian music, Connie and Mike Krauthammer. Rev. Arthur Bowser will sing, “How Great Thou Art.” The speaker will be Judge Francis N. Hamilton of the Putnam Circuit Court. Everyone is invited to attend this service and show their patriotism by their presence.

Stop Signs Discussed

5 More Hoosiers Killed In Action

Washington UPI — The Defense Department Monday identified five more Indiana servicemen killed in action in Vietnam. They were: Marine Lance Cpl. James Reynolds* son of Mr. and Mrs. James Reynolds, Muncie. Marine Pfc. Bengamin Ingalls, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ingalls, Austin. Army Sgt. James Foreman, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Foreman, Warsaw. Army Spec. 4 James Workman, son of Mrs. Olive Workman, Bloomington. Army Pfc. Wendell Slavens, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Slavens, Oxford.

Hefty Haul

BILLINGE, England UPI — Police are looking for the thief who made off with a four foothigh, 20-yard-long stone wall.

By City Councilmen

Prospects Bleak For Day Camp

Mrs. James Headley announced today that prospects for this summer’s Brownie and Girl Scout Day Camp are rather bleak at the present time.

A nurse or some one schooled in First Aid is required for this camp and as yet no one has volunteered their services.

Transportation and meals will be furnished but there is no cash compensation.

The Day Camp is scheduled for June 5-9 at Fern Cliff during the hours from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.

Unless a nurse or an experienced nurse aid or a qualified First Aid person comes forward there will be a lot of disappointed girls.

Councilman Robert Jackson voiced an opinion that he thought the stop signs approved earlier by the City Council at the comer of Franklin and Locust Streets should be installed soon. Jackson, speaking at a regular meeting of the Greencastle City Council last night In City Hall, told his fellow councilors and the mayor that the occurance of an accident at the location recently merited some prompt action.

CAIRO UPI — Egypt today blockaded the water route to the vital Israeli port of Elath, according to United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Israel earlier warned such a move would equal an act of war.

In a speech Monday night Nasser announced the blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba leading to Elath, Israel’s only non-Mediter-ranean port He also attacked America for what he termed its aid to Israel in the Middle East's greatest crisis in 11 years.

Nasser said no ships to Israel will be allowed to pass.

Mayor Raymond Fisher commented that he had failed to take any action on' the stop signs because of the traffic sur< vey now underway in the city. Jackson then remarked that he saw no reason why the stop signs should interfere with the traffic survey.

In Jerusalem, Israel, informed sources said Israeli armed forces will react if Egypt interferes with any of its shipping.

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — A

survey of Indiana’s adult penal system concludes that justice is being administered unequally and in an archaic and unnecessarily expensive manner.

The National Council on Crime and Delinquency subjected the Indiana Reformatory to the most severe criticism but

found all institutions to have major shortcomings.

Anyone wishing to volunteer their services are asked to call Mrs. Headley at OL 3-6228.

CIA Damaged

WASHINGTON UPI — The chairman of the Senate's Central Intelligence Agency watchdog panel said today that recent disclosures have so damaged CIA effectiveness President Johnson should consider reorganizing it. In view of this spate of confessions or revelations — whatever you want to call them — by people who had supposedly been sworn to secrecy, it might be helpful even if you did no more than change the name,” said Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.

Teachers Return At South Bend

He says the pilgrim women spent 65 days at sea aboard the Mayflower and debarked on a Monday. Tavares said they did their washing immediately and the tradition was bom.

20 Yeors Ago

Miss Margaret Neal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Neal, was elected president of the DePauw YWCA. Miss Anna Marie Eraberg was crowned Athletic Queen at the annual Water Carnival at Christian College, Columbia, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sweet and son were hers from Pueblo, Oolnradfr |

SOUTH BEND, UPI — A three-day strike of union teachers was ended today, but agreement on contract negotiations for the 1967-68 school year remained to be reached. The teachers, who struck last Thursday for higher pay, were ordered back to the classroom Monday night at a mass meeting by G. Thomas Bull, president of the Indiana Federation of Teachers local, in compliance with a court restraining order. The move came only hours after State School Supt Richard Wells announced in Indianapolis he would intervene in the dispute, provided the teachers ended their walkout. Even before Wells announced his move Monday, school administrators ordered the teachers to return to their classrooms by this morning or face sunpemnon.

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Hie discussion was dropped until later in the meeting when Chief of Police Roy Newgent made the suggestion that the Council try the installation of a two-way stop sign at the intersection. Newgent said that “a two-way sign will do the trick’ because traffic coming from the north or south hardly had time to get up any speed. Hie Council agreed to the suggestion with the general concensus that if the two-way signs failed to work a four-way stop would be set up. Mayor Fisher issued a list of streets recommended by the Police and street departments to the Councilmen for study and recommendation of paving. The City will probably spend between $30,000 and $40,000 In street paving this year as com' pared to approximately $31,000 spent last year. Bids for gasoline, oil, and bitumimous material was read by Rexell Boyd, City Attorney, and referred to the Board of Works by the Council. Bids for gasoline and oil were submitted by Sinclair Refining Company and High Point Oil Company while Shumaker Bros. Construction Company was the only firm submitting a bid for bitumimous materials. A motion passed the Council approving the increase in wattage of six city street lights and the addition to four new lights in various sections of town. The six lights receiving higher wattage are located on Washington Street between the uptown area and the high (Continued on Page 8)

As Israel and her Arab neighbors appeared nearer the brink of war, United Nations Secre tary General Thant was arriving today for Cairo talks with Nasser aimed at calming tempers. The passion for war appeared high. “We are ready for war,” Nasser told air force officers on the Sinai front where he has an estimated 80,000 troops facing Israel. Shortly after Nasser spoke, the Cairo newspaper A1 Ahram said the Soviet ambassador here pledged Moscow’s support to U.A.R. policies of confronting “i m pe r i a 1 ism’s conspiracies.” Nasser conferred with the Russian. In Washington, the United States warned Monday it would take a “serious view” of closing the Gulf of Aqaba. Hie blockade was perhaps the most serious step in a week of military buildups and militant calls for war—a “holy war,” according to some Arabs—in this tinderbox region. Nasser scoffed at Israeli warnings about a blockade and said In the desert, “If Israel wishes to threaten war, we tell her: ‘You are welcome’.” Nasser said the blockade would also apply to non-Israeli ships carrying supplies to Elath and that the next ship passing through the gulf would be challenged. Egyptian forces reportedly were massed at Sharm el Sheikh facing the entrance to the gulf where their guns could command all shipping through the Tiran straits.

The report said courts commit more offenders to institutions than is necessary, with commitments ranging from 13 to 64 per cent in various courts although the NCCD believes 67 per cent can be placed safely on adequately supervised parole. Investigators quoted “conscientious probation officers” as saying ha gathered facts only perfunctorily because courts and prosecutors “already decided the disposition” of cases. “Indiana is spending $9.7 million a year to confine adult felons and misdemeanants,” the report said, compared with an estimated $825,000 for probation. The investment in staff and money at the institutions was considered inadequate. “The result is precarious conditions in some institutions with uncorrected health and safety hazards, gross inefficiencies and deterioration,” the report said. “Especially at Indiana State Prison and the reformatory there was a lackadaisical atmosphere. Idleness, boondoggling jobs, careless appearances, apparent lack of respect for the line staff, poor sanitation and maintenance, and other conditions promoting an atmosphere of cynicism were notablo. The work program seemed to be almost a sham in some areas.” The report termed Supt. Jerome Henry at the reftormatory as “a man with considerable devotion and professional training with many axoellent ideas about needed programs.’* But It was critical of the institution, saying “the survey staff could not recall ever having observed the degree of poor management, ineffective leadership and open schisms between staff.” It said the reformatory was “a ship without a rudder in a rough ocean.” The NCCD recommended local communities assume responsibility for minor offenders of the type housed at the Indiana State Farm and the institution be used as a “minimum to medium security facility for male felons” to help solve overcrowding at the prison and reformatory.

Furry Ambush

NOW YOU KNOW

iy United Press International

One of the earliest known conscientious objectors was Lao-tzu, a Sixth Century Chinese philosopher.

NEW YORK UPI — Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens have been warned to beware of the squirrels. Nine persons have been attacked in the past two weeks, including a guard who said a squirrel ambushed him from a tree and bit him on both ears.

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Six To Get Honorary Degrees

These six prominent men will receive honorary degrees from DePauw University Sunday, May 28, during commencement ceremonies. They are (top—left to right) Dr. Donald Stullken, head of recovery operations, NASA Manned Space Craft Center; Laurence I Wood, vice president of General Electric Company; and the Rev. Byron F. Stroh, senior minister, North Methodist Church, Indianapolis. (Bottom—left to right) Joseph E. Barr, under secretary of the treasury; John S. Watson, vice chancellor, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; and Dr. John F. Olson, president, Oklahoma City University. Watson will deliver the commencement address to DePauw's 500 graduating seniors. Olson will present the baccalaureate sermon. Stullken, Barr, Wood and Olson are alumni of DePauw.

BROCKTON, Mass. UPI — Bandits toting a submachine gun stole between $400,000 and $500,000 today after hijacking an armored car and locking its two guards and a bank employe in a bank.

Hie loot estimate was set by Reginald T. Cole, president of the First County National Bank. Cole described the estimate as “conservative.”

Bank officials said the loot represented a large cash shipment from the First County National Bank to Plymouth Home National Bank. Other money taken included the night receipts from the Raynham Park dog race track at nearby Raynham.

INDIANA WEATHER: Partly sunny today with a chance of a few showers this afternoon or evening. Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Wednesday. Southeasterly winds 8 to 18 miles per hour today. High today low 70s. Low tonight mid 50s. High Wednesday mid 70s. Precipitation probabilities 20 per cent today, tonight and Wednesday. Outlook: Partly cloudy and mild Wednesday night and Thursday.

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