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PAGE 37 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1969 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR Obituaries R. Nef Dies; Girls Say Dad Killed Mother, Shot Brother J. R. Toivnsend Civic Leader, Dies 0Iowc(rd Morse Dies: rt President Is- 1. they described as armed and dangerous.

Sgt. Arthur E. Riley, the first policeman to reach the house after neighbors telephoned police, also was the policeman who arrested James just over two weeks ago on a disorderly conduct charge. James was convicted and served 15 days in the Marion County Jail. Riley said that he fcquested a mental examination for James at the time.

Police said James was released from jail yesterday afternoon and rode home with Mrs. James. He then left the house. The daughters, Jacqueline, 13, and Linda, 11, said they were sleeping in a front bedroom with their mother and Turner James was in a rear bedroom listening to music. THEIR FATHER entered the house and came into the bedroom, carrying the shotgun and a cane he used because of a foot injury.

The girls told police he began shouting obscenities. When Mrs. James started to get out of bed, he shot her, they said, then left the room. Police said Turner James heard the shot, came into a hallway and saw his father with the gun, and was wounded as he ran back to his room. James was described as a Negro, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds.

He was wearing brown trousers, a black and white sweater and a black topcoat. Police said he limps and stutters. 3-Cw Crash On Westside Kills Woman A Westside woman was injured fatally and four persons were hurt slightly in a three-car accident in the 6600 block of West 10th Street about 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Sheriff's deputies said an east-bound car driven by Mrs.

Blanch J. Paino, 56, 68.12 Daisy Lane, was struck in the rear by an auto driven by Mrs. Bonita Shepherd, 23, 3850 4 I Howard S. Morse, retired i chairman bf the board of the Indianapolis Water Company, died yesterday in a local nurs- ing home after an illness of several months. 4 Mr.

Morse, 88, 3649 North Pennsylvania Street, also was a Fnrmpr nrpsirtpnt nf thp Mar. ion County Council. Born at Dedham, on Wune 21, 1881, Mr. Morse had iVed in Indianapolis since 1925 he became general manager of the Indianapolis Water (Wmpany after -serving in several public offices in Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. i MORSE RESERVOIR, which along with Geist Reservoir jf was built during his administration of the company, was named after him.

Mr. Morse Was a descendant of Anthony Morse, who came to America from England in 1708, settling! at Newberry, Mass. Mr. Morse was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then located in Boston, in 1903, and was an assistant instructor there for a year after his graduation. I He then joined the United States Reclamation Service and for four years worked on the Lower Yelowstone Reclamation Project in Montana and North Dakota.

IN 1908 Mr. Morse became resident engineer for the Commissioners of Sewage in Louisville. He moved to Cincinnati to become principal assistant engineer in charge of sewerage in 1912. He also was director of the Bureau of Municipal Research in Cincinnati; engineer for the Bureau of Governmental Research, Detroit; director of ijpiblic Service, Akron, Ohio; Weekend Road Deaths Rise To 8 1969 Traffic Toll City-County 127 This Date 1968 120 Indiana 1,543 This Date 1968 1,110 STAR STATI REPORT Two more persons have been killed on Indiana highways, one of them an Illinois youth whose death late Sunday raised the weekend traffic fatality toll to eight, state police reported. They were: Si Yuan Ku, 33, Park Forest, III.

Joseph E. MahovUch, 17, Chicago, III. Si Yuan Ku, 33, Park Forest, 111., died in St. Margaret's Hospital at Hammond of injuries suffered at 8 a.m. yesterday when his car skidded on a patch of ice and struck a utility pole.

Joseph K. Mahovlieh Joseph E. Mahovlich, 17, Chicago, 111., was killed by a car as he sprinted across the Indiana Toll Road just east of the Illinois line late Sunday while wearing dark clothing, stale police said. The driver of the westbound car, Jerry Stanlon, 30, Rensselaer, told police he was unable to see Mahovlich in time to avoid striking him. Ainish Still Kesisl State Emblem Law STAR STATE REPORT Bedford, Ind.

The cam paign to enforce Indiana's slow- moving vehicle emblem law with the Amish of Orange County continued yesterday with the arrest of two men on a county road east of Paoli. State police ticketed Levi Miller. 18, and Daniel H. Miller, 17, for operating horse-drawn vehicles without displaying the emblems. They were cited to appear Saturday before Judge Rhys Rhodes in Paoli Municipal Court.

TlfR EE OTHER Amish men Simon Gingerich and his two sons, Daniel and Willie, are serving the final week of 20-day jail terms for failure to displav the emblem. They refused to pay $100 fines and wvrp sent to jail to lay out 'he fines at S5 per day. Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb Inst week indicated his concern over the emblem dispute among the Amish and indicated he would support efforts to change the slow moving emblem. The Amish have refused to use the emblem because they say it is "the mark of the boast" and a "sign of 'he devil." WHITCOMB became interested in the situation after two Orange County Amish families recentlv loaded all of their farm animals, implements and personal belongings into a freight car and moved to southern Tennessee.

The Amish have less sym pathy from a 1 1 Fields, wife of the Orange County Sheriff. "If they don't want to uphold the law in the state and county where they live," she said, "they ought to move on to some other place." She added that the emblem is not the only reason why the Amish are moving out. SHE SAID they frequently move because they want to prevent their young from marrying outside the religion. Eighteen Amish families in Orange County last year were considering moving to Ohio. Approximately 51 Amish from the Orange County area boarded an airliner at Louisville, a year ago for a Hight to South America where 'hey have resettled.

Parrnis Tn Get Officer's Medals The parents of a Kokomo Armv officer killed in Vietnam are to receive the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in ceremonies for their son today at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Hash of Kokomo are to receive the honors for their son, 1st Lt.

Jonathan P. Hash, killed Aug. 12, while serving with Troop 2d Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. Lt. Hash was filed for meritorious service during his tour in Vietnam.

Ex-Methodist Hospital Head Robert Emery Neff, 82, re tired superintendent of Meth odist Hospital and long-time leader in the field of health administration, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. Mr. Neff, 5300 West 96th Street, was a former president of the American Hospital Asso ciation and the American Col lege of Hospital Administra tors. He also had served as head of the Indiana Hospital Asso ciation, Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies, the Indianapo- lis Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, Children's Hospital Association of America, University Hos pital Executives' Council and the Iowa Hospital Association. HE RETIRED as Methodisl Hospital superintendent in 1954 Born at Eaton, Mr.

Neff had lived in Indianapolis most of his life. He began his career in health administration as assistant to the bursar at Indiana Univer sity in 1911. In 1913 he became the administrator of the Indi ana University Hospitals, where he served until 1928. During the same period, he served as registrar of the Indiana University School of Medicine. Mr.

Neff had also been superintendent of the Indianapo lis City Dispensary, and direc tor of the Indiana University Medical Social Service Depart ment. HE MOVED in 1928 to Iowa City, Iowa, and was adminis trator of the State University of Iowa Hospitals, but returned to Indianapolis in 1946 to become superintendent of Methodist Hospital. However, complete idleness away from his field did no! appeal to Mr. Neff, and he accepted the position of hospita' administrative consultant for the Indiana State Board of Health on a part-time basis in 1955 until 1964. Besides being a member of more than 30 health care asso ciations in Indiana and the na tion, he was an elder of Second Presbyterian church, Masonic Lodge 717, Phi Delta Theta fra ternity, the Rotary clubs of Indianapolis and Iowa City, and an editorial consultant for Modern Hospital and Hospital Management magazines.

MR. NEFF received his bachelor of arts degree in economics in 1911 at Indiana Uni-veristy, and was honored with a LL.D. from Iowa State College in 1941, and LHD from De- Pauw University in 1954. Among honors given him were the Distinguished Alumni Service Award of Indiana University in 1955, one of the first to be awarded, and the Award of Merit of the Tri-State Hospital Assembly in 1953. SERVICES WILL be held at 2:30 p.m.

Wednseday in Second Presbyterian Church, with entombment in Crown Hill Ceme tery. Friends may call after noon today at the lanner and Buchanan Fall Creek Mortuary. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Ruth Clark Neff; two sons, Richard B. Neff of Indianapolis and Robert J.

Naff of Chicago; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mr. and Mrs. Neff celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1966. Mrs.

Bernard Trisler Services for Mrs. Clara Tris ler, 82, 7914 East 49th Street, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Lawrence Catholic Church, where she was a member, with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs.

Trisler, a seamstress for the Indianapolis Casket Company, died Sunday in Winona Memorial Hospital. Survivors include the husband, Bernard H. Trisler, and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Welsch, and a son, Bernard J. Trisler.

both of Indianapolis. Deaths Around World OLE SINGSTAD. 17. world's master underwater tunnel builder who designed and built mot of the underwater vehicular tunnels In New Torn city, rvtonsar nwni New Tor city. FtED cfMOELLKOPF IV.

if grrll. dent of the Na9ara Share Corporation and a director ot rne Marine wioiana Tnsf Company Western New York. Monday night lit Buffalo, fa. Y. J.

Russell Townsend 85, insurance executive, civic leader and sports figure, died yesterday in Winona Memorial Hospital. He formerly lived at 325 West 46th Street. Since 1950 he headed J. Russell Townsend and Associates, specialists in pension and employe benefit programs, which he founded after retiring as a general agent for Equitable Life of Iowa. A college athlete and lifelong sports fan, Mr.

Townsend was a former athletic director and three-sports coach at Wabash College. Later he officiated for many years at college and high school athletic events. BORN ON A farm in Tama Countv. Iowa, he was gradu ated from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he played on the football team. Following graduation he taueht school and coached at high schools in Cheyenne, Wyo.

and LeMars and rort uoage, Iowa. His track team at Fort Dodge was entered in the first Drake Relays at Des Moines, and several vears ago Mr. Townsend was given special recognition at the 50tn annual running of the relays. He became athletic director at Wabash Colleee in 1917 and rnached football, basketball and track. His football and hasketball teams competed against Purdue University and the University ot Notre name.

Mr. Townsend left the coaching profession to enter the life insurance business at Craw- fordsville and later represented the Equitable of Iowa at Kokomo and came to Indianapolis as general agent in 1924. He served in that capacity until ipso when he was succeeded by his son, J. Russell Town- send Jr. THROUGHOUT his life.

Mr. Townsend maintained a deep interest in the nation youtn. He was an organizer of Junior Baseball of Indianapolis Inc. and served as its treasurer un til this year. Hp was a founder of Camp Kiwanis for the Central Indiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary member of the council's board for many years.

Mr. Townsend became a member of Indianapolis Zoological Society board of di rectors in 1955, and served as president from 1956 until May, iqsa Tt was during his pres idency that the Zoological Society took the first real steps leading to the establishment of the present Indianapolis Zoo on East 30th Street. FVF.N WHILE pursuing a business career, Mr. Townsend found time to pursue his in- 1 TT terests in tne spons worm, ne became a sports official and was honored at a special cere-hptwppn halves at a Uni versity of Illinois football game with presentation of a 25-year service award as a Big Ten official. Fnr mnre than 20 vears he served as referee of the Indi ana State Hish School tracK and field meet and until 1967 corvpH as a consultant to tne Big Ten on football officiating.

He was an organizer 01 me Indiana Officials Association. Tn lOfii hp was awarded a hv the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for his contributions to athletics. in hp was president of the Indiana State Association of Life Underwriters and was a founder of tne Lire insurance Institute at Purdue University and the Life Insurance Foun dation of Indiana. HE WAS A past president of the Kiwanis Club of Indianap olis and a director of the Kiwa nis Foundation. He was a member of Tabernacle Pres byterian Church and assisted in developing the youtn atnietic program at Tabernacle.

He was a member of Orien tal Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Murat Shrine, and of Masonic bodies at Crawfords- ville. He also was a member of the Columbia Club, Coe Alumni Association and an honorary member of the Men of Wabash College. Surviving besides the son, are the widow, Mrs. Mabel F. Townsend; a sister, Mrs.

Evan Kuhner of Toledo, and a grandson. Ensign John H. Townsend of the United States Navy. Services will be held at 10 m. Wednesday in Flanner and Buchanan Fall Creek Mor- E.

Glenn Sparks Services for E. Glenn Sparks, 70, Monrovia, former Indianapolis resident, were held at Monrovia Friday. Mr. Sparks, died Dec. 1 at Monrovia.

Indianapolis survivors include a son, Fred Sparks, and a daughter, Mrs. August W. Smith. Two young girls last night described how their 46-year-old father, released from jail only hours earlier, shot and killed his wife and then critically wounded his teen-age son, po lice said. Mrs.

Rosella James, 42, was wounded in the neck and chest with a blast from a 12 gauge shotgun as she rose from bed in Her home at 754 North Sheffield Avenue about 10:15 p.m., police said. She died shortly after arrival at Marion County General Hos pital. TURNER JAMES, 18, a former Crispus Attucks High School pupil, was wounded in the back and shoulder as he ran from his father in the home, recently decorated for Christmas, investigators said. He was listed in critical condition at General Hospital. Police were seeking the father, George James, whom rs.

Em ma Swarens Mrs. Emma P. Swarens, 80, formerly of Princeton, died yesterday in the Indiana Baptist Home at Zionsville. She was a member of Speedway Methodist Church, Speedway Chapter 561 of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the ladies society of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Flanner and Buchanan Zionsville Mortuary, burial in Zionsville Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Charles F. Bahne of Indianapolis. Mrs.AltheaMcClain Services for Mrs.

Althea Moore McClain, 64, 3535 North Carrollton Avenue, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, of which she was a member, with burial at Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. McClain, a retired practical nurse, died Saturday in Methodist Hospital.

Survivors include two sons, Elmer W. and Obie H. Moore, a sister, and a brother. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at the King and King Chapel.

Gilbert McGec Services "for Gilbert McGee, 75, 1239 North Holmes Avenue, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Loving Baptist Church where he was a member, with burial in Woodhaven Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday at the Jacobs Brothers West Side Chapel. Mr. McGee, a former employe of Link-Belt Division of FMC Corporation, died Sunday in Marion County General Hospi tal.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Millie McGee. Mrs. Ida McCoy Mrs. Ida McCoy, 81, 6023 North Guilford Avenue, died yesterday in her home.

Mrs. McCoy was a member of the East 49th Street Christian Church and the Golden Age Fellowship of the Glendale Church of God. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Flanner and Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary, with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon. Survivors include two daughters and one son.

Eduard Winans Jr. Services for Edward Winans 38, 520 North Colorado Avenue, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Shirley Brothers Drexel Chapel, with burial in the New Palestine Cemetery. Mr. Winans, an employe of Umbershaw Trucking Company, died Sunday in Marion County General Hospital.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dorothy Winans, daughters and two sons. Mrs. Jack Rogers Services for Mrs. Hazel M.

Rogers, 53, R.R. 18, Indianapolis, 5 lifelong Indianapolis area resident, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Conkle Funeral Home, with burial in Floral Park Cemetery. Mrs. Rogers died Sunday at home.

She was a member of Clermont United Methodist Church. Survivors include the husband, Jack Rogers. Basil E. Sprang Zionsville, Ind. Services for Basil E.

Sprong, 60, R.R. 2, Zionsville, who had worked for the former Prest-O-Lite at Speedway, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary with burial in Little Eagle Cemetery. He died Sunday in his home. He had worked at Butler University as a maintenance employe the last 15 years.

Death Notices On Page 3S and business director for the Board of Education, Akron, be fore he joined the Indianapolis Water Company. ELECTED vice-president of the utility in 1938 after 13 years service, Mr. Morse became executive vice-president in 1949 and retired in 1951. He returned to the company in 1953 as president and in 1956 became chairman of the board. He retired from that position in 1959 but remained a director for several years.

In 1950, he was elected to the County Council and became its president, a position he held until he became president of the Indianapolis Board of Sanitary Commissioners on June 1, 1952. He also served on the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission in the late 1940s and was on the Indianapolis Postwar Planning Commission. SHORTLY AFTER his second retirement he was honored by the city of Cincinnati for his early work to reduce pollution of the Ohio River. In 1964, then Mayor John J. Barton appointed Mr.

Morse as one of the five members of the Eagle Creek Advisory Committee which helped coordinate development of the Eagle Creek Reservoir project. Mr. Morse had been a director of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for 12 years. HE ALSO WAS a former president and director of the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors' Bureau, director of the Better Business Bureau, the Indianapolis Community Fund (now the United Fund of Greater Indianapolis), Associated Employers and Rotary Club. He had been a deacon and trustee of First Presbyterian Church, president of the Meridian Hills Country Club, and a director and executive board member of American Fletcher National Bank Trust Co.

Mr. Morse was a former member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which honored him with the George Warren Ful ler Award for meritorious service in the water industry. HE WAS president of the Indiana section of the AWWA in 1927 and a national director for three years. He also had been a member, and later an honorary member, of the American Society of Civil En gineers. He was married to Mary Shreve Polk in 1912.

She died in 1957. Services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Flanner and Buchanan Fall Creek Mor tuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors include a son, Daniel P.

Morse, and daughter, Mrs. Nelson G. Johnson, and five grandchildren. George J. McCartney George J.

McCartney, 63, 5342 East 10th Street, died yesterday in his home. A former production engineer for Chevrolet-Indianapolis i i -sion, General Motors Corporation, he was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, Englewood Masonic Lodge and Scottish Rite. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel, with burial in Washington Park East Cemetery. Survivors include the widow, Mrs.

Sylva McCartney, two daughters, and five grandchildren. OmerL. Williams Omer L. Williams, 63, 4057 South Bowman Avenue, died yesterday in St. Francis Hospital.

Mr. Williams, an insurance underwriter for Stone, Stafford and Stone Insurance Agency, was a member of Roberts Park United Methodist Church. Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the G. H.

Herrmann Madison Avenue Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Marguerite Williams, and a son, Edward R. Williams, of Indianapolis. Mrs.

Edna Williams Mrs. Edna L. Williams, 70, formerly of 418 North Concord Street, died yesterday in a local nursing home. Mrs. Williams was born at Hoopeston, 111., and lived here 50 years.

She was a member of First Tabernacle Baptist Church. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, with burial in Washington Park East Cemetery. Indianapolis survivors include two sons and a -Hughter. t(Mrs.

James Jerrell Anna L. Jerrell, 51, 1320 Roseway Drive, died yesterday in Community Hospital. Mrs. Jerrell was born at Tipton and lived here 20 years. She was a member of the Holy Catholic Church and its Women's Club, the Guardian 3ft Angel Guild and was a former a officer of the Cathedral Moth-3 ers Club.

Services will be held at 8:45 a.m. Thursday in IT- 1 A I tuary. Entombment will be in Crown Hill Mausoleum. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kiwanas Foundation, Central Indiana Council of Boy Scouts ol America or James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Foundation. Mrs.

Sol Bolotin Dies Ex-Store Ou ncr Services for Mrs. Fannie Bolotin, 75, 7235 Stevens Lane, a former co-owner of neighborhood department stores, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Aaron-Ruben-Nelson Meridian Hills Mortuary. Burial will be in Beth El Zedeck Memorial Park. Mrs.

Bolotin died yesterday in the Marion (Ind.) General Hospital. She was born in Russia and lived in Indianapolis for 53 years. During that time, she and her husband, Sol Bolotin, owned and operated the Peoples Department Store in the Fountain Square area and the Bolotin Department store at Beech Grove. They retired in 1959. Mrs.

Bolotin was a member of Beth-El Zedeck Congregation and its Sisterhood, and the Women's Circle, Borinstein Home Guild and Hadassah. Survivors, besides the husband, include a daughter, Mrs. Max Ganz of Marion, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Donald E. Wilson Services for Donald E.

Wilson, 53, 1910 North Arlington Avenue, will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Shirley Brothers Drexel Chapel, with burial in Washington Park East Cemetery. Mr. Wilson, a veteran of World War II, died Sunday in his home. He was a self-employed real estate salesman, and a member of the Greenfield American Le gion, the Irvington Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Lucile Wilson. JSorman D. Layton Services for Norman D. Lay-ton, 71, 2060 North Rochester Avenue, will be held at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Mr. Layton died Sunday in St. Vincent's Hospital.

He retired in 1964 as an employe of the traffic light division of the city traffic engineer's office and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1393. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Goldie F. Layton. Carl W.

Ilartmann Services for Carl W. Hart-mann, 67, 32 East Schiller Street, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the G. H. Herrmann South East Street Funeral Home, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Hartmann, a retired baker, died Sunday in University Heights Hospital. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Erna K. Zinsmeister, and three brothers, Albert L.

Hartmann, John W. Hartmann and Elmer A. Hartmann, all of Indianapolis. William Ruggles Bloomington, Ind. William (Dutch) Ruggles, 67, R.R.

1, Unionville, a retired employe of the Tousley-Bixler Construction Company Inc. of Indianapolis, died yesterday in Bloomington Hospital. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Day Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Valhalla Memory Gardens. Survivors include the widow, Mrs.

Martha Ruggles. Earl Crosslin Services for Earl Crosslin, 69, 1801 Panama Avenue, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Conkle Lyndhurst Funeral Home. Burial will be in Washington Park East Cemetery. Mr.

Crosslin, a retired employe of the Universal Tank and Iron Works died Saturday in Winona Memorial Hospital. jjeeney-JMrDy Mortuary, aim af a.m. in Holv Spirit church, with burial in Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Hamilton County. Survivors inc'ude the husband, James L. Jerrell.

'Miss Mary Gerain J' 5 239 Miss Mary M. Gearin, 80, Nnrth Wa rntt Street, a iJfelone Indianapolis resident, North Pasadena Avenue. THE PAINO CAR then ca reened into the westbound lane and was struck by an auto driven by Robert J. Christian, 32, Danville, deputies said. Mrs.

Paino died about 10:40 p.m. in Marion County General Hospital. Mrs. Shepherd and her daughter, Shauna, 16 months, and Christian and his wife, Connie, 23, all were treated and released at the hospital. No charges were filed.

Svals On'n or 'llUvtj' Yulv Trip Numerous seats still are available for a rail fans's trip from Indinapolisto Lafayette Saturday morning on the Central Railroad's James Whitcomb Riley passenger train. The event billed as "Christmas on the Riley," is sponsored by the Riley Boosters Club, an organization formed among riders whose testimony at September Interstate Com merce Commission hearings helped give the famous train at least one more year to run. All interested rail fans are eligible to make the round trip, which will include showing of movies from the heyday of railroading and lunch in the Purdue University Union Building. Arrangements may be made by telephoning 634-4192. The Riley is the last passenger train still operating through Indianapolis between Cincinnati and Chicago.

War In Vietnam Called Disaster STAR PURDUE-LAFAYETTE BUREAU West Lafayette, Ind. United States Representative Allard Lowenstein told a Purdue University audience here last night the war in Viet-man is a "totality of disaster." Lowenstein, an early backer of U.S. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, spoke in the Purdue Memorial Center to about 300 students, faculty members and others. "The tragedy is going to go on until it is clear tlrt dc American people are committed to one principle the withdrawal of our men from Vietnam," Lowenstein said.

died yesterday in Community Hospital. She was a stenog- 2 rapher for the New York Cen-5 tral Railroad for 15 years; re- 3 tiring in 1959, and was a mem-3 ber of Holy Cross Catholic Church. Services will be held at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday at Grinsteiner Funeral Home and 10 a m. in Holy Cross 'cliurch.

with burial in Holy Cross Cemeterv. Survivors in- c'ude a brother. Albert E. Davis Services for Albert E. Davis, 59, Turpin Road, Brownsburg, wjll be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday in the Westside Church of the Nazarene here. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Mr. Davis died during a service in the church Sunday night. He was born at Noble-vilie and for 25 years was a salesman for Nettie's Home Preserves in Marion Cuntv.

Survivors include th widow. Mrs. Mary E. Davis. Charles Eduards Services for Charles E.

Edwards, 62. 2132 Radcliffe Court, a lifelong Indianapolis recent, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in N. Chance Funeral Home, with burbl 'n New Crown Cemetery. He died Sunday in the "Marion Countv Home at Julietta.

Mr. Edw.nrds formerly worked as a welder for the Insley Manufacturing Company for 15 years. Survivors include a son and a daughter..