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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- SEC. 4 PAGE 9 SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1963- I 'fit Crib Deaths Puzzle Philadelphia Medics Church Group OKs Plan For 1 Denomination I I -J Philadelphia (AP) In the last two weeks of June, 30 evi the summer month average is about 5 compared with 15 a week for the last two weeks of June. It was in this period that Philadelphia experienced eight straight days of 90 plus temperatures. Armed Coup Threat Eases In Syria Beirut. Lebanon (UPI) The threat of armed coups by ruling Baath Party and rival Nas-serite Cabinet cliques in neighboring Syria eased yesterday in the weeks' long government-crisis, reports reaching here said.

Chief among the new and apparently calming moves was a cabinet meeting under Pre- mier Salah Bitar which, according to Damascus Radio, The victims in this surge ranged in age from 2 weeks to 15 months. Dr. Dapena's years-long re search and that of others investigating this world wide dently healthy babies were put to bed here for the night and died adding a new puzzle for medical researchers to unravel in their long study of so-called "crib deaths." In reporting the rash of deaths yesterday, city medical examiner Joseph W. Spelman said he couldn't explain them. ASKED ABOUT a report that the recent high incidence of deaths might have resulted from a severe heat wave and dehydration of the victims, Dr.

Spelman commented: "It's true, more or less, that the deaths coincided with the heat wave but we had a couple more yesterday and problem is underwritten in part by the Mark Addison Roe Foundation of New York City. It was established by a New began after lunch. RUNNER-UP Miss Linda York stock broker whose in fant was among the victims of crib deaths. She said that beyond many faceted medical studies of the victims, exhaustive case his churches involved must authorize it and some do meet for a year or two. Eight persons, two of them Negroes, were appointed by the United Church of Christ Presiderit, Dr.

Ben M. Herbs-ter of New York City, to conduct the new race relations program voted Friday by the synod. They are Mrs. Alfred C. Barthelomew, Lancaster, retiring assistant moderator of the General Synod; Ashby E.

Bladen of Glen Ridge, N.J., chairman of the church's executive board; the Rev. Sterling Carey, New York City, pastor of Grace United Church of Christ; the Rev. Nicholas Hood, Detroit, pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ; the Rev. Dr. A.

William Loos, New York City, president of the Council on Religion and International Affairs; The Rev. William C. Nelson, Akron, president of the United Church Board for World Ministries; The Rev. Dr. Roger Shinn, New York City, president of the church's Board for Homeland Ministries tories are made to find clews there certainly was no heat wave." inere are, she said, some significant figures, although And a pathologist who studied many of the crib they still don't provide the Jane Eaton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Eaton of Hobart, Indiana's representative in the Miss Handicapped America contest, missed winning the national title by one point, it was announced yesterday. She lost to Miss Handicapped Utah. Linda, a junior at Valparaiso University, won the first Miss Handicapped Indiana contest, sponsored by the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads Rehabilitation answer to the question "what 1 w. death cases for Dr.

Spelman's caused death." office, Dr. Marie Valdes Da pena, says some objective Denver (AP) The United Church of Christ authorized yesterday development of a plan to merge six Protestant denominations into a single church, possibly with as many as 25,000,000 members. The action came in a resolution passed by acclamation during the Fourth General Synod of the church, a member body created by a merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Churches. Other churches involved in preliminary discussions of the union are the Methodist, United Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Disciples of Christ and Evangelical United Brethren. THE RESOLUTION is the first approved by any of the denominations to call for actual development of a merger plan.

Its passage came after one of the United Church of Christ representatives in the unity discussions said that progress in two years "has gone far faster than any of us would have dreamed at the start." The spokesman, the Rev. David G. Colwell of Washington, D.C., said he personally believes it will be possible to determine within four or five years whether a union of the churches will be possible or not. Preliminary meetings were held in Washington last year and in Oberlin, earlier this year. studies support the dehydra THE SYRLVN Army, backing Defense Minister and Nas-serite Maj.

Gen. Ziad Al Hariri," was reported neutralized by the Baath-dominated ruling Revolutionary Council's newly formed guard units. Another calming influence was the beginning of negotia-tions, initiated by the Baath-ists, with other political groups to the end of including them in the 50-man cabinet Hariri is demanding be formed. Hariri is opposed chiefly by Minister of the Interior Amin Al Hafiz, who is also a deputy prime minister and foe of any union with Egypt and Iraq under President Gamal Abdel Nasser's domination. HAFIZ TRIED to fire Hariri and send him to the United States on a diplomatic mission according to reports reaching here.

DR. DAPENA reports that in 38 per cent of the cases, the child victims were born tion theory. But, she adds, "this is just one little brick prematurely. in the wall." Dr. Dapena, on the staff of WATCHES CEREMONIES Mrs.

Hazel Thompson Coats (left) of Attica, supreme inspector of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, witnessed ceremonies yesterday of the order's 23d American Beauty Rose Session at the Indiana Roof. With Mrs. Coates is Miss Karen Camden of Linton, newly-elected grand worthy adviser of the order's Indiana Grand Assembly. The four-day session ends today with a religious service and was highlighted by a formal dance last night. (Star Photo) The parents who are checked "usually say they St.

Christopher's Hospital for just don't know what hap pened." Children, said that in about 85 per cent of the cases she lists the death cause as undeter mined. Dr. Frederic Rieders, the city's chief toxicologist, said that among the 150 "crib deaths" in the city last year, he found an unknown red Rieders said the red substance also shows up in the brains of children who die of well-established causes but only about 20 per cent of the time. SPELMAN SAID that Philadelphia annually averages about 150 crib death reports, with the highest incidence in the cooler months. Normally, substance in the brains of 88 per cent of the victims.

Search On For Man Who Assaulted Girl and Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary; and The Rev. Arnold Slater, Chattanooga, pastor of Pilgram Church. CHURCH SPOKESMEN identified the Negroes as the Rev. Mr. Carey and the Rev.

Mr. Hood. Later, two others were appointed to the committee. They were the Rev. Harold Long, pastor of the First United Church of Christ, Birmingham, a Negro, Maple Plain, Minn.

(UPI) A 19-year-old girl was taken from a lover's lane and raped early yesterday after her boy friend had been tied to a tree and beaten. "Police started a search for and the Rev. Dr. Oliver Black, the rapist, believed to be an inmate who recently escaped pastor of the Second United Church of Christ, Holyoke, Mass. One additional appointment will be made later.

him west of Minneapolis to Maple Grove where he ordered the young man out of the car, tied him to a tree and beat him. The youth suffered facial fractures. The man then forced the girl to drive him to a secluded spot where he raped her, she told Hennepin County authorities. He then ordered the girl to start driving again. She deliberately rammed a utility pole at a gas station in Maple Plain and leaped from the car.

The man started to follow but retreated when the station attendant came out to with two other men from the Oregon State Farm, Oregon, Wis. The other member will be a Negro. The committee will meet today to organize. The synod voted to allow Authorities said the girl and her 22-year-old boy friend were sitting in a. car in the Minnehaha Park area about 2 a.m.

when a man approached and threatened the couple with a straight razor. He forced the pair to drive expansion of the committee to 'tj" 4i; VI t' i V- 'jE r- i in I r. mMZPt: 'MUM WtofA t. jtt)e "TTirO 11 members from the nine-member body originally authorized. THE SYNOD also voted to place emphasis on problems of urbanization during the years 1964-65.

The action fol $500,000 LoanOffered lowed a recommendation of the executive council and came after a sharp debate whether Boycotting Teachers A ROUND of spontaneous applause followed passage of the resolution. The resolution in no way committed the United Church of Christ to final approval of a merger. It said: "Whereas the United Church of Christ recognizes as part of its calling its mission to be a uniting church, therefore be it resolved: "That the General Synod of the United Church of Christ authorizes its delegation to the consultation of church union to enter into the development of a plan of union when and if the consultation decides that it is appropriate to begin such work. "Participation in the development of a plan of union in no way commits the United Church of Christ to union under this or any other plan. It is further explicitly understood that the United Church of Christ delegation does not have the authority to commit the church to partnership in union." THE REV, MR.

Colwell, discussing the synod action with a reporter, called it "tremendously significant." He said actual consideration of a merger plan cannot begin the program should be extend ed for four years. It will go into urbanization more fully latter in the week long meeting, wnicn enas next Thursday. to aid the Utah teachers during the current crisis. He said part may be used to publicize the teachers' position throughout the state and the money could be used for subsistence loans to the teachers if they do not return to classrooms seven weeks hence. The resolution calling for the study indicated the synod considers the problem closely Detroit (AP) The National Education Association yesterday offered to lend "$500,000 or more" to help Utah teachers who are boycotting the state's public schools.

The NEA's board of directors authorized the loan to the Utah Education Association if the Utah teachers request the money. Any loans from this fund will be interest free. Utah teachers have refused to sign contracts for the 1963- tied to that of racial relations. A statement said "the con temporary struggle for the freedom and color-blind equality of all peoples of the earth is a primary and inseparable element of world urbanization, and requires unequivocal af 64 school year unless more Belgium's Language Crisis Solved state aid to education is promised by Governor George nrmation tnat no man can walk with dignity on the sidewalk while his brother of a different race is forced to walk in the gutter." Clyde, for several years because governing bodies of the other THE TEACHERS and the Brussels, Belgium (AP) Premier Theo Lefevre told governor are trying to solve the impasse but as of now there is considerable doubt that the Utah schools will King Baudouin yesterday that Paroled Killer Quietly Marries His Reformer the language problem which earlier in the week threatened open this fall for a quarter of a million public school pupils. to topple the coalition gov ernment had been solved.

Lefevre went to the royal palace Tuesday to give the King his cabinet's resigna vowed to marry. They were childhood friends. Filkowski credits his reformation to Mary. He was an incorrigible prisoner for seven tion. The King rejected it.

The delegate assembly of the NEA authorized the emergency fund yesterday. At the same time it declined to invoke national teacher sanctions against Utah, although it authorized the NEA leadership to invoke those sanctions at any time the leadership thought necessary. In debating the sanctions, the delegate assembly was This followed a dispute be Cleveland (AP) A paroled killer married a widow yesterday who waged a 25-year fight to reform him and get him released from prison. The wedding of Mary Stazek Keck, 50 years old, and Joseph Filkowski, about 62, climaxed a strange love story. The quiet ceremony was at tween the coalition members, years and took part in three escape attempts, according to the Socialists and the Social prison records.

She persuaded him to The government wanted to French Room Millintry, Wm. H. Block Co. zone i Flemish-speaking behave and to hope for parole so they could be married. actually considering a request suburbs in bilingual Brussels.

to the 800,000 teachers who home to a large number of She carried her campaign for Filkowski's freedom to gover are members of the NEA not French-speaking Belgians. nors, mayors, prosecutors, The Flemish wing in Lefe newspaper editors and anyone to apply for jobs in Utah. Last Monday, the NEA Department of Classroom Teachers adopted a resolution recommending that their local she thought could help her vre's own Social Christian Party originally rejected the plan. After a three-year delay, they agreed. But, this time, the Socialists withdrew cause.

"He has paid his penalty," she would tell them. "Joe will behave." affiliates urge their members y(igli SaAwn fat S'all Women want to know about the fall look in high fashion. And they can read complete reports from New York designers in The Indianapolis News beginning tomorrow. St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, only a few blocks from where Filkowski shot his way out of a police trap in 1930.

FILKOWSKI, terror of the city's south side three decades ago, escaped from police five times before he was captured. He was -convicted of slaying a paymaster of a suburban Lake-wood apartment' project in 1932 during a robbery. The 6-foot, 1-inch, 190-pound Filkowski was paroled April 15 after serving almost 31 years in Ohio Penitentiary and Marion Correctional In their sanction. not to apply for jobs in Utah. The department also voted to establish an emergency loan FILKOWSKI subsequently THE UPSHOT: Lefevre, un was made a trusty and helped willing to see his own party fund for the Utah teachers, and more than $3,000 was build the new prison at Mar split in Parliament, and threat ion.

He later was transferred contributed at the organiza ened with the resignation of some of his Flemish-speaking tion's annual banquet here there for his good behavior and continued to learn- the Thursday night. ministers, decided to quit. baking trade. Margaret Stevenson, execu The King, however, told Le Maury C. Koblentz, state tive secretary of the class fevre to look for a solution corrections commission Friday nine ministers and three leaders from each major Thelma Machael, women's editor of The News, will write daily stories from fashion showings of designers in the New York Couture Group.

Coats, costumes, cocktail dresses, evening dresses, street and casual clothes all will be featured in Mrs. Machael's stories. In addition, she will write about striking millinery, new purses and jewelry to accent fall costumes. Another reason why ity party met for 12 hours and Lefevre announced a solution early yesterday. Both party headquarters ao cepted the solution, which will Thelma Machael Women's Iditor er, thought Filkowski was making progress and recommended that his life sentence be commuted.

The pardon and parole board turned down Filkowski once. Filkowski, now a baker, looked happy as he walked out of the church with his bride. "Mary is the greatest person I've ever known," he said while smiling at the brunette, who is now a grandmother. be submitted to the house of stitution. Filkowski, who admits to being only 58, wore a dark suit and white boutonniere and was nervous on his wedding day.

His bride, wearing a matching hat and a corsage of yellow roses, was a bit nervous, too. Fearful that newspaper photographers might take her picture at the wedding, she asked the priest to hold the wedding at 9 a.m. instead of 10. The priest did, and no pictures were taken. room teachers, said at the time the department hoped to raise from half-a-million to $1,000,000.

THE NEA'S 101st annual convention ended Friday night but the board of directors and the executive committee held a special meeting yesterday to discuss the Utah situation. Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the NEA, was directed to notify the Utah Education Association of yesterday's action. An NEA spokesman said there are no strings to the representatives Tuesday.

The six suburbs will remain officially Flemish but will have Evening Every a special party-bilingual status, Flemish will theoretically re main the only official language spoken in public offices, but public officers will have to speak French to the increasing number of French-speaking LuEDG Indianapolis Man Shares Chess Lead loan except that it be used Belgians moving to the neigh THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS borhoods. MRS. KECK worked in a laundry for $6 a week and won custody of her two children after her husband, now dead, divorced her. She had never missed a visiting day at prison and suffered the shame of critical eight column newspaper headlines in her devotion to the man whom she had Byrne, and the other leaders had four points each and led United States champion Bobby Fischer, by a half-point. Byrne lives at 3537 North Pennsylvania Street.

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