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Friday, October 25, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Lafayette Mayor died by hanging

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI)-An official cloak of secrecy which shrouded the death of Valparaiso Mayor Donald E. Will for more than six weeks was lifted Wednesday when a coroner’s report was made public showing Will hanged himself in the doorway of a hospital closet. Will, 60, died Sept. 9 while visiting relatives in Lafayette and Dr. William Sholty, Tippecanoe County coroner, had refused comment on the cause of death. The only statement at the time was issued by Will’s relatives, who include a Lafayette physician son-in-law, and it merely said the mayor died in Wabash Valley Hospital. But Wednesday, County Clerk Amy Erwin released Sholty’s official report saying death was caused by “asphyxiation due to hanging.” It said Will was found hanging by a belt from his bathrobe in a closet at the hospital. The report said Will was last seen alive at 12:40 p.m. in his thirdfloor room and that a nurse 30 minutes later found him hanging in the closet doorway. She summoned another nurse and they lowered Will to the floor and called a doctor, but efforts to revive him failed. DRS. R.L. & L.W. VEACH

On Vacation Nov. 2 thru Doc. 8 Office Closed Nov. 17 thru Dec. 8

Sholty had delayed filing the report earlier, saying he had not completed an inquest. Newsmen from the Lafayette Journal & Courier insisted when they learned the report had been —Buckley eign-minister. There are those who say that Mr. Nixon's rejection of Nelson Rockefeller for Secretary of State, if indeed that rejection has been done, was due to Mr. Nixon’s desire to be the incontestably controlling voice in the foreign policy of his own administration. The hypothetical conversation went something like this: ‘‘Look, Nelson, I want to act as my own Secretary of State. Therefore I’m going to name Scranton.” Actually, Scranton is a tough hombre, though his views on foreign policy are not widely known, and indeed may not be closely formulated. He is said to have reported back from his trip in Europe that our cousins over there desire above all that the United States put its domestic house in order, restore tranquility, and achieve unity among the races, and that we continue to pay the major cost of the defense of Europe. Considering the recent riots in Madrid-Rome-Berlin, considering the explosions in France, considering the explicitly racist policies of the government of Great Britain directed against colored immigration, one can only conclude that Europe, like Humphrey, has developed the faculty of finding in others exactly those faults which are flagrantly one’s own. But it is nice to have the advice, and Mr. Scranton should report back that we shall certainly take it into consideration.

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filed that it be treated as a public document and made available to them. The clerk then released it. Will, a Republican, was serving his third term as mayor at the time of his death. His wife was in another hospital in Lafayette at the time of his death. Will was a former president of the Indiana Municipal League, now the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. Arias makes his point WASHINGTON (UPI)— Arnulfo Arias, the deposed president of Panama who seized control of his country’s embassy Tuesday, withdrew his forces today with the declaration: “The battle is won. It was purely symbolic.” The Panamanian said that for the remainder of his stay in Washington he will conduct his business from a 9th floor suite in the Watergate Hotel overlooking the Potomac rather than the two-story embassy on 29th Street, N.W. During the night after Arias staged his own takeover Tuesday, supporters of the military junta that overthrew Arias Oct. 11, slipped into the embassy building and changed all the locks, a few hours after they had been changed by Arias. But Arias, 67, insisted that the new locks were not the reason he decided against continuing his occupation. “I made my point and there was no reason to go any further,” he said. The embassy appeared empty today. A small sign on the front door said; “This chancery will be closed today, compliments of the Embassy of Panama.”

Democrats may control both houses

By RAYMOND LAHR WASHINGTON (UPI)— Republican candidates now appear headed for gains across the board in the Nov. 5 elections, but Richard M. Nixon might win the presidency while both houses of Congress stay under Democratic control. Nixon’s coattail pull to help the rest of the Republican ticket is reported strong in some states, weak in others. Assessments of the outlook in the 50 states by UPI bureaus indicate the GOP would gain four to seven governorships if the elections were held now. The Republicans would come out of U.S. Senate races with somewhere between an even break and again of four or more seats and would pick up seven to 17 seats in the House of Representatives. Nixon In Front Published polls and UPI surveys indicate Nixon still is in front of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic presidential nominee, and George C. Wallace, candidate of the American Independent Party. A pickup of five governorships would lift the GOP to a postwar Fall colors better this weekend NASHVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — Brown County's fall foliage expert said Thursday the color show will be better this weekend than it was last weekend. Claris Keaton, superintendent of Brown County State Park, said he was wrong about his previous prediction that the weekend of Oct. 19-20 would be the season’s prettiest.

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high of 31, one more than it held after the 1952 election in which Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected by a landslide majority. The Republicans now hold 26 governorships, a majority, as a result of an extraordinary comeback from their postwar low of 14 after the 1958 elections. Twenty-one governorships will be filled this year. The Democrats now hold 13 of these and the Republicans eight. Only two of these are in populous, pivotal states—Illinois and Tex.

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Republicans also are favored to displace Democrats in Vermont, where Gov. Philip H. Hoff is retiring, and in West Virginia, where Gov. Hulett C. Smith is ineligible for reelection. Rep. Arch A. Moore, R-W. Va., has moved out in front in his try for the governorship but left his West Virginia congressional seat ripe for Democratic plucking. The Indiana governorship, now Democratic, is rated a tossup in the November voting. In Kansas, Democratic Gov. Robert B Docking is in a tight race with Republican Rick Haron, businessman and former basketball star. In North Dakota, Democratic Gov. William L. Guy is trying for an unprecedented fourth term against a strong bid by Robert P. McCarney, a Bismarck businessman. An Even Bet In Arkansas, Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller is viewed as no more than an even bet to win reelection over Democrat Marion H. Crank. Montana also is a possible trouble spot for the GOP. One recent poll showed Democratic Atty. Gen. Forest Anderson with a 15-point lead over Gov. Tim Babcock, who is seeking re-election

Republicans would enjoy control of more statehouses but what they want most after the presidency is control of Congress —at least of the House. They have never had more than a faint hope of organizing the Senate, where the Democratic margin is now 63 to 37. The GOP needs a net gain of 13 seats and the tie-breaking vote of the vice president to take over control. Only 34 seats are to be filled this year, 23 now held by Democrats and eight by Republicans.

as. Republican Richard B. Ogilvie is favored to unseat Gov. Samuel Shapiro in Illinois while Lt. Gov. Preston Smith is heavily favored to keep the Texas statehouse under Democratic control. Iowa Governorship

Democrat Harold E. Hughes, who is running for the U.S. Senate and is favored to win the seat of retiring Republican Sen.

Bourke B. Hickenlooper.

—Journalists ual; Linda Johnson, Bloomington; Peg Rees, Columbus: Yearbook Editorial and Business problems. On Friday afternoon and evening, the publications and journalism sectional meeting of the 1ST A convention will convene at John Marshall High School with Miss Anne White presiding. They will hear a panel discussion and a lecture demonstration on photography, followed by dinner at the Indianapolis Press Club. The IHSPA was founded in 1922 on the Franklin College campus,

and is the oldest such association in the nation. Funds for the speaker and the student writing contest awards are from a gift to the College’s Endowment from Mr. and Mrs. EugeneC. Pulliam. This is the first year that they have been used.

Gleason files for divorce NEW YORK (UPI)—Jackie Gleason, the paunchy television and tavern clown of “away-y-y we go” fame, took ballerina Genevieve Halford as his bride when he was an $8-a-week comic playing cheap clubs. That was in 1936 when he was 20. They had two daughters then separated in 1951. Gleason, a Catholic, vowed never to divorce his wife or remarry. The church does not recognize divorce,” a thinner, poorer Gleason said 17 years ago. “We can’t hope for an annulment because we have no solid grounds for one. In the eyes of the church I will always be married to Gen, and that means I will never remarry.” “It’s a tough situation , but' those are the rules and there’s nothing we can do to change them,” he said. But after promising he would never do it, Gleason filed suit Wednesday in Supreme Court in New York to divorce his wife of 32 years. The 52-year-old comic charged his wife in the suit with abandonment, the same grounds Mrs. Gleason won a legal separation in 1954, and custody of their two daughters, Geraldine, now 29, and Linda, 27. Under the state’s new divorce law, to obtain a divorce, Gleason must show only that he and his wife have been separated for at least two years. When he and his wife separated 17 years ago, the only grounds for divorce in New York were adultery.

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GOOD GOVERNMENT BEGINS HERE

JOHN MYERS Rep. Candidate For U.S. Representative THE TIME IS NOW!

FRED COX RepXandidate For County Commissioner

ROBERT ZIEGELMAN Rep. Candidate For County Commissioner

JEWEL BLUE Rep. Candidate For County Treasurer

JOHN CARSON Rep. Candidate For County Auditor

WAYNE HOPKINS Rep. Candidate For County Coroner

ON NOV. 5-VOTE REPUBLICAN

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JOHN THOMAS Rep. Candidate For State Representative MOVE AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE

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