The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1967 — Page 6

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Th* Daily Bannar, Dr**ncastla, Indiana

Tuasday, Octebar 24, 1967

Embassy denies knowledge of John Smith

MOSCOW UPI — An American who identified himself as a former U.S. intelligence agent said he defected to the Soviet Union because Washington is preparing "a new world catastrophe.” The man identified himself as John Smith, a native of Quincy, ^fass. He said he once worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in India, but is now a

Soviet citizen and lives in Moscow. Smith told his story in the Soviet newspaper, Literary Gazette, due on the newsstands Wednesday. It was summarized by the official news agency, Tass. The American embassy denied all knowledge of the man. "I never heard of this John Smith,” an embassy spokesman

GUARDIAN S SALE Roy Brottoin, Guardian for Mrs. Mattio Brattain, will offer the furnishings of hor homo at Public Auction on Sat. f Oct. 28 at 10:00 A.M. Salo to bo hold at tho Brattain farm located V* mi. oast of the County lino road on County Rd. 300S or 8 mi. west of Grooncastlo and 3 mi. south of Kitesville to Rd. 3DOS then loft Va mi. Salo includes: Living room suite, two swivel rockers, wood rockers, knee-hole desk, sofa bed, four piece wal. bedroom suite, wal. bed and vanity, 12x12 rug, end tables, coffee table, mirrors, china cabinet, bookshelves, chest, RCA portable TV on stand, Arvin AM and FM radio, large Duo-Therm oil heater, late model comb, refrigerator and freezer, base cabinet, serving cart, Westinghouse elec, range, kitchen cab't., dinette set, stone jars, dishes, utensils, misc. tools, dog house and many other items. ANTIQUES Large blanket chest, tin door pie safe, piano and bench, piano stool, wooden mixing bowls, small bowl & pitcher, ash drop leaf table, ash stand table, wicker settee and two chairs, storeoptican viewer, Edison cyl. phonograph, old Columbia phonograph, pedestal, trunk, Bible, oil lamps, large jardinere on pedestal, coffee mill, brass school bell and other old articles. RAY BRATTAIN, Guardian for Mrs. Mattie Brattain Roy Sutherlm, Attorney Sale Conducted By CLAPP'S AUCTION SERVICE Frazier ft Clapp, Auctioneers Frazier A Crump, Clerks Lunch by WSCS of Lena Methodist Church

said. ‘‘The only John Smith I know of was subverted by Pocahontas.” Smith said he spent his first 17 years in Quincy and attended the Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass. In 1943, he said, he helped build warships at the Four Rivers Shipyard, then enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He attended naval academies, then joined the Navy’s special liaison department, which deciphered enemy codes. After the war, he said, he entered Washington University. Smith said he joined the State Department in 1950, was sent to the embassy in New Delhi and recruited by the CIA. Disillusionment followed, he said. He claimed he began criticizing American policy and was rewarded with “endless checkups of his loyalty, tappings of his private telephone, reading of his letters.” He said he left the State Department and lived in Australia, Africa, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, before deciding to settle “in this great and humanitarian country” and taking Soviet citizenship. Smith said he originally entered the State Department even though he “was not very much interested in political questions.” But Tass said that, after he went abroad, “he saw for himself how the U.S. government

was suppressing other peoples and how it was engaged in the preparation of a new world catastrophe.”

Truck driver dies in Ohio crash BRYAN, Ohio UPI —A truck driver burned to death when a collision with another truck trapped him in his cab near here Monday. Dead was Martin Overton, Bridgeview, 111. Two other drivers were injured. Allwen W. Graber, 33, Auburn, Ind., was treated and released at a hos- , pital. John Higgins, 21, Bridge- ! view Gardens, HI., driver of the 1 truck in which relief driver Overton was riding, was to be released today. Higgins, driving a semitractor trailer rig, attempted to pass a dump truck driven by Graber, according to the Williams County Sheriff’s Department. In the ensuing accident, Higgins’ rig overturned and caught fire, trapping Overton inside the cap. Both drivers were cited, Higgins for passing in an intersection and Graber for failure to signal a turn, sheriff’s deputies said.

Indian summer in East; winter in the West

Indian summer prevailed in the East today while wintry weather shot over the Rockies and brought cool weather all the way from Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle. The U. S. Weather Bureau recorded winds up to 69 miles an hour at Garden City, Kan., Monday night and gusts of 46 to 52 miles an hour at Colorado

EZRA McMAINS REP. CANDIDATE FOR COUNCILMAN

FOR ACTION IN EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT ELECT Ezra McMains COUNCILMAN VOTE REPUBLICAN ON NOV. 7

Residents file damage suit INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Thirty residents of Beech Grove filed a $300,000 damage suit Monday contending a sewer line and a water line were joined, making many persons ill

from pollutants.

Defendants were the City of Beech Grove, Mayor Elton H. Geshwiler, other city officials and the Indianapolis Water Co. The water patrons charged in their complaint that due to a leak between a sewer line and a water main, sewage seeped into the city’s water supply and more than 125 persons became 111 after drinking polluted wat-

“This is my first Buick but it won’t be my last!’

•‘I’m happy I switched to a LeSabre. It’s a big car. You feel big. You feel good driving it. In comfort it can’t be beat!’ “My wife is secure driving our Le Sabre. It responds and handles very easily. It’s big enough for her to get in and out with the kids and groceries!’

“It Is clear to me why Buick has enjoyed so many repeat customers. It’s just a wonderful car to drive!’ John Magno, Construction Engineer. Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?

The ’68 Buicks with the new GM safety features are at your Buick dealer’s. JIM HARRIS CHEVROLET - BUICK * INDIANAPOLIS road • greencastle, ind.

Eugene Knauer, formerly of Greencastle, now of Terre Haute, was crowned 33rd during the 155th annual meeting of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masonry at Pitts-

burgh, Pa.

He is a member of all three York Rite Masonic Bodies, Terre Haute Chapter No. 11, RAM; Terre Haute Council No. 8, R & SM, and Terre Haute Commandery, Knights Templar. He also is a member of Terre Haute Lodge No. 19. Also in his memberships is Terre Haute Elks Lodge No. 86. He and Mrs. Knauer who live at 4901 Wabash Ave., Terre Haute, have nine sons and are affiliated with the Maple Avenue Methodist Chucrh, Terre Haute. Gene was bom and raised in Madison Twp., Putnam County, attended grade school in Madison Twp. and Greencastle High School. He taught school in Jackson Twp., Parke County, and in Morton. He is the youngest son of the late John W. Knauer. He is a brother of Ida Shetrone and

Clarence Knauer of this city.

Eugene was honored at a reception and Jewel Presentation at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Valley of Terre Haute,

at 8th and Ohio Streets.

UAW president takes ^ record pact to workers DETROIT UPI United the contract, which will raise

Rusk to speak at Notre Dante SOUTH BEND UPI-Defense | Secretary Robert McNamara will speak at the University of Notre Dame "sometime during the current academic year,” Chuck Nau, chairman of the Notre Dame Student Union Academic Commission, said

Monday night.

No date for McNamara’s address was set. His appearance will give the Johnson Administration a chance for rebuttle at remarks here Monday night by Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., who called for an immediate “peace plan” for Vietnam. Nau also announced Robert Welch, head of the John Birch Society, was scheduled to speak tonight on the campus. Another speaker for whom no date has been set is New York City Republican Mayor John

Lindsey.

Springs, Lajunta and Pueblo, all in Colorado. Along the leading edge of the eastward moving mass of cool air showers and thundershowers are scattered. But farther back in the mass are light showers and snow flurries from central Montana to Wyoming. Temperatures dropped quickly as the path of the cold air front moved along. Northwestern Kansas saw its 80-degrea readings of Monday fall to nearly 40 early today. The precipitation also was felt today along the East Coast from Florida to Georgia, but elsewhere clear skies were re-

ported.

Hurricane Heidi today offered no threat to any land areas. The season’s eighth hurricane already had moved 600 miles east of Bermuda by today and was moving eastward at 15 miles an hour.

COAL • Virginia • Kentucky • Indiana Delivery Anywhere JIM COFFMAN Phan* after A F.M. Ol 3-3441

BUY • LIGHT BULBS FROM A HON

Auto Workers President Walter Reuther today took his hard-won and record setting settlement with Ford Motor Co. to his 160,000 Ford members, confident they would ratify it. “They will exercise their good judgement and ratify the agreement because they will realize that we have made substantial progress for every Ford worker,” said Reuther. But as he spoke following union’s 300-man Ford Council meeting Monday night, about 250 skilled tradesmen chanted “no, no, no,” in the background. This year, for the first time, the skilled tradesmen have the power to veto the national contract “Lord forgive them for they know not what they do,” Reuther said in reply to the

chant

The council overwhelmingly accepted the tentative settlement just before midnight | Monday. Reuther said about 98 per cent of the delegates voted in favor of the new three-year pact calling for a $1.01 an hour raise in the third year. If the union’s Ford workers accept the new pact, Ford assembly lines could start rolling before the end of the week Ford’s 93 plants In 25 states have been still for 48 days, since the old contract expired at midnight, Sept. 6. The Ford Council, composed of delegates from 61 local unions across the country, deliberated for almost four hours before taking the final vote. Only a smattering of hands went up against the motion to accept JAPAN VISIT TOKYO UPI—French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville will visit Japan in late November to attend the 5th Japan- | France Consultation Conference, the Papanese foreign ministry announced today.

the average Ford worker’s salary by $1,700 in the third year

of the pact.

Th* deadline for ratification of th* new contract is 8 p.m. Wednesday, said Reuther, emerging from the meeting.

TUESDAY NIGHT - OCTOBER 24 Pickup of used eye glasses and lenses on same campaign. GREENCASTLE LIONS CLUB

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