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DAILY NEWSPAPER

VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1967

UPI News Service 10c Per Copy NO. 278 \

More than 800 Marines killed or wounded at Con Thien bastion

DEMOCRATS HOLD ANNUAL BARBECUE—City candidates for the November election were very much in evidence Saturday evening at the Putnam County Fairgrounds when the Democrats held ther annual barbecue. Over 1,200 were in attendance and heard an address by Lt. Governor Rock. Shown above (seated, left to right) Tom Roach, city chair-

man; Russell Coleman, candidate for city judge; Helen Pierce, candidate for clerk-trcasurer; Mayor Ray Fisher. Standing, left to right are Felix Knauer, Murray Lewis, council candidates; Lt. Governor Rock; Lloyd Ellis and Fred Silander, candidates for council.

Lake Michigan storm takes toll of fishermen

SAIGON UPI — North Vietnamese peasants living near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) were warned to flee to South Vietnam if they want to save themselves and their children from a “rain of death and destruction" in massive B52 bombing raids, a U.S. spokesman said today. The warning came as the giant bombers continued to step up attacks against Communist artillery, mortar and rocket positions in the area which have killed or wounded more than 800 U.S. Marines at the bloody, battered frontier fort of Con Thien since the first of the month. The massive retaliation against North Vietnamese bombardments by the B52’s, 7th Fleet warships and American artillery already has been called by Ameri-

VATICAN CITY UPI—Pope Paul VI expressed bitter disappointment Sunday that peace had not been achieved in Vietnam, and wondered if “humanity is incapable of saving itself.” Sources in the Vatican said the Pope’s disappointment resulted from the recent arms agreement between the Soviet Union and North Vietnam, the U.S. announcement that it would match the Soviet Antiballistic Missile buildup, and the apparent failure of efforts to begin peace talks through the United Nations. Now you know By United Pres* Internationol Since ancient times parrots have been popular as cage birds because they ar« amusing, often affectionate, easy to keep and adapt at imitating many sounds including human speech.

Professor Frederick Gersten, who spent four years performing with German opera companies, will present the season's inaugural faculty recital of DePauw University’s School of Music Wednesday, Sept. 27. The 34-year-old baritone will be accompanied by Mrs. Gersten, pianist and voice teacher, in the 8:15 p.m. public program in Meharry Hall. The former Indiana University voice faculty member will present a program of art songs, psalms, and folk songs. Among the program’s composers are Johannes Brahms, Arthur Honegger, Yrjo Kilpinen, Samuel Barber and John Jacob Niles. The program will be in

can officials the heaviest concentration of conventional firepower in history. The warning hinted that it would grow even worse. The spokesman said that 250,000 leaflets were dropped over the village of Ben Quang on the southern fringe of North Vietnam. It told of the “rain of death and destruction" from the B52’s and urged the residents to defect to the south. The southern half of the Demilitarized Zone has been turned into a “strip of death” where anything that moves is fair game to American and South Vietnamese warplanes and for artillery which has zeroed in on virtually every inch of the area. Heavy clouds blanketed most of North

In his first major statement since becoming ill a month ago, the 69-year-old pontiff said In a voice strained with emotion that recent days had been "full of hope” for a Vietnam peace. “Instead, they have given the sorrowful prospect of new armaments and new battles,” he said. “One could say humanity is incapable of saving itself. Where is good will? Where is peace?” The Pope’s voice was firm, though somber, as he made one of his strongest appeals in his long struggle to end the fighting in Vietnam. He showed none of the fatigue that had been apparent in some of his recent audiences. He has been suffering since Sept. 4 from an infection of the urinary tract, but papal physicians said that an enlarged prostate gland associated with the infection would not require “immediate surgery.” Vatican sources said the operation mght be performed following the synod of bishops that ends Oct. 24.

German; however, translations prepared by Gersten will appear in the printed program. Gersten’s most recent major appearance was sharing the lead—with his wife—in Gian—Carlo Menotti’s one act opera, “The Telephone” for the Kentucky Opera Association’s season in Louisville. He . s engaged as leading baritone in West German opera companies in Bonn, Gelsenkirchen and Kiel, going to Europe after serving four years as soloist with the U.S. Military Academy band at West Point. Mr. Gersten studied at Juilliard School of Music.

Vietnam Sunday, a spokesman said, holding down American warplanes to 74 missions. Most of these, the spokesman said, were in the southern panhandle where planes bombed by radar. South of Da Nang, meanwhile, American Cavalrymen killed 45 North Vietnamese in a new outbreak of fighting that lasted for nine hours. There were two Americans killed and eight i njured. Early today, the Cavalry troops moved out looking for tire Communist force that fought from well fortified positions 40 miles south of Da Nang. There was no immediate report of contact. The battle Sunday erupted when the Cavalry unit swept into the positions held by a Communist force estimated at 200 men. The Americans called in artillery, helicopter gunships and tactical air strikes. For nine hours Sunday, the battle raged. By dark, the American unit was reinforced. Flareships lighted the battlefield. Air Force Dragonships, with their rapidfiring gatling guns, raked the North Vietnamese bunkers with thousands of bullets. By midnight, the Communist* broke contact, retreating toward hills to the west. No interruption in Roochdale service U.S. Senator Vance Hartke, a member of the Senate Post Office Committee, announced today in Washington that there will be no interruption in the present Roachdale Post Office rural route service. The Post Office Department had recommended earlier the Roachdale routes be consolidated with service from Bainbridge and Russellville. Petitions and letters substantiating Sen. Hartke’s position had been received from some 450 postal patrons at Roachdale. Cuban economic blockade proposed WASHINGTON UPI — The Organization of American States (OAS), condemning Cuba for “acts of aggression” against its neighbors, has called for an economic blockade of the Communist island. The foreign ministers of the 21-nation organization also voted Sunday to ask the United Nations to hear its charge that Cuba is exporting revolution to other nations in the hemisphere. The OAS called on all friendly countries to halt trade with Cuba until the Castro regime abandons its policies of aggression. The organization also recommended that sanctions be imposed against ships engaging in Cuban trade, including boycotting them and denying them fuel. Twenty of the 21 nations—with Mexico abstaining—voted for the trade embargo. All 21 nations supported the move to carry the Cuban issue to the United Nations.

FRANKFORT, Mich. UPI — Helicopters and search boats crisscrossed windy I.ake Michigan today, hunting for possible survivors or more victims of a sneak squall that tore apart a salmon fishing fleet. The bodies of seven men, all from Michigan, had been recovered by today. More were feared lost in the squall that suddenly whirled up 25-foot waves Saturday and ripped into a fleet of about 1,000 boats filled with fishermen. More than 100 boats of various sizes and in various stages of wreckage lay shattered on the beach, driven there by winds that reached 40 miles per hour. State police from the nearby Traverse City said nine boats were still unaccounted for. “It’s highly possible that several people are missing,” said Lt. Ward Lewis of the Traverse City Air Coast Guard. The Coast Guard said 23 persons have been reported overdue but none has been listed as “known missing.” The Weather Bureau said the sudden $1,500 fire loss Considerable damage resulted due to a fire at the Topper Pizza Restaurant, corner of Seminary Street and College Avenue, Saturday morning. City firemen reported that the blaze was caused by grease igniting in a french fryer. An estimated loss to contents of the restaurant was set at $1,500.

squall swept ahead of a cold front. Several of the amateur fishermen ignored small craft warnings and signs that the waves were building up, police said. One survivor, Paul Hooker, 29, of Brighton said he and his brother-in-law, William Snyder, 28, Rockford, decided to pull back into Frankfort at the northwestern edge of the lower peninsula,

MOSCOW UPI —A fugitive Irishman told the British Embassy he helped Soviet master spy George Blake escape from Britain last year and that he was livim with him in Moscow, a British spokesman said today. The spokesman said a man identifying himself as Sean Alphonsus Bourke walked into the embassy on Sept. 4 and asked for help in returning to the United Kingdom. Bourke, 33, told embassy officials he arranged Blake’s escape from the United Kingdom and was staying with Two men arrested jailed over weekend James Garrett, 42. Indianapolis, was arrested and lodged in the Putnam County jail during the weekend on an embezzlement charge, Sheriff Bob Albright reported. Garrett is alleged to have embezzled $1,400 from James Buchanan, agent, and the North American Van Lines. Also jailed Saturday, at 5 p.m., was ■Wallace Eaton, 37, Indianapolis, Route 2. Eaton was taken into custody by Sherff Albright and State Trooper Ted Settle on a Circuit Court warrant which charges him with receiving stolen goods. Lynda Bird will wed December 9 WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson's older daughter Lynda Bird will marry Marine Capt. Charles S. Robb of Milwaukee on Dec. 9 in the East Room of the White House, a spokesman announced today. The White House gave the date and other details as Lynda and her fiance vacationed in Acapulco, Mexico. Lynda’s sister, Mrs. Patrick J. Nugent of Austin. Tex., will be her matron of honor. Lynda’s best friend, Warrie Lynn Smith of San Antonio, Tex., will be her maid of honor. The wedding party, chosen from long time close friends and relatives of the brir and groom, will consist of seven attenda*»*s for each. The best man will be Robb’s roommate, Marine Capt. William Douglas Davidson, 26. of Kershaw, S.C., who like Robb is a White House aid.

when they saw the waves mounting. “The boat would drop into holes about 25 feet deep and the water kept pouring in.” he said. “I couldn't keep up bailing put the boat.” He said the boat capsized when a huge wave hit, and he and Snyder hung on for a couple of hours until the waves washed the boat to within 150 yards of the shore.

Blake in Moscow, the spokesman saidBourke was told to obtain a Soviet exit visa and return later for the necessary travel documents. The man left after declining to leave a Moscow address, the spokesman said. Informed sources said Bourke would be arrested if he gets an exit visa and ret rns to the United Kingdom. He is wanted for threatening a policeman xn a case not connected with Blake’s escape. But he has long been suspected of helping Blake flee. Bourke, who formed a friendship with Blake while he was serving a sevenyear sentence at Wormwood Scrubs, was said to have furnished the car used to speed Blake away from the prison. Blake was serving a 42-year jail term for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The Foreign Office said Bourke had no papers when he appeared at the Moscow Embassy, Sept. 4. but his identity was established through photographs and British diplomats in Moscow now have ’ * ructions to “enable them to act t Bourke should call again.” Detour on Ind. 240 Ind. 240 was closed again this morning while workmen repair the second half of the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing east of the city. The Ind. 43 south detour was lifted Sunday at the Bloomington Street crossing of the railroad after two weeks of improvement. Improvement of one side of the double track crossing on Ind. 240 was completed during the first week of this month. The new bridge south of Putnamville, on Ind. 243, was officially opened to traffic this morning. Attlee improving London UPI Former Prime Minister Earl Clement Attlee showed some impro\ ement today at Westminister Hospital 'n London, but he remained gravely ill. A medical bulletin on the 84-year-old earl, Socialist prime minister for six years after the war ended in Europe in 1&45, said hr. ‘'continues to show some improvement but be still remains seriously ill.” Attlee entered the hospital more than two weeks ago for an undisclosed ailment.

ORCHESTRA VISITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS—The Greencastle High School Orchestra, under the direction of Mrs. James Goodnow, is presently visiting the city elementary schools and giving short concerts. The concerts are aimed at arousing

the curiousity of children who might want to take string instrument lessons. The orchestra is pictured at the Miller School where they visited Wednesday. They were at Ridpatn Thursday, Northeast Friday, and played at Jones today.

Pope Paul disappointed over trend of Viet war

Gersten will inaugurate DePauw's music season

Irishman admits helping Soviet Master Spy escape