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'A4 "7 i i i i tvii 1 th, it-' I it i i in-" or Grvhcl, it was not his exporting arm of Schenley. first visit to the U.S. During World War II, he was a pris- ALL OF THE foreign visi- onrr of war and spent more tors represent Dickel in than a year in two separate marketing the whisky in POW camps before return- Germany and won the trip to ing to his homeland. the U.S. for outselling their "It makes no differenre.

I counterparts during the first love this country and I have1 year the Tennessee product never seen people so friend- was offered for sale in their ly," he said. country. While the visitors ex- HELMUT STURM, who pressed their amazement of happens to own his own dis- the distillery operation, they tillcryon the Rhine, echoed were equally infatuated by Goebel's feelings about the the "country cuisine" of. Whilc Germans are noted for their love of beer, the Germans said their countrymen have now come to know sour mash whisky, but it is costly and, for the most part, partaken by those of higher estate. "We love our beer, but our bellies get too big," one of the Germans said.

Yuracko said a stein of beer costs about 25 cents in American money in Germany, but a good belt of whisky costs up to $3.50. HE SAID a fifth of George Dickel in Germany costs between $11 to $14. "We feel we are selling a luxury product there." The Germans said that in Germany whisky partakers like to "sniff" the product as though it were brandy. Ky ROBERT KOIXAR TnnPwtB Staff Om-niwmlrnt TULLAHOMA Extolling thp "beautiful country" of Middle Tennessee, 10 of George Dickcl's best German whisky sellers toured the source of the internationally known Tennessee sour mash whisky here yesterday, but called it "Tennessee brandy." While they were here, The Tennessee Distilling makers of George Dickel, treated them to a full swing through the "working mash" vats and fed them like kings on Tennessee country ham, fried chicken and blackberry cobbler. "THIS IS such beautiful country," said Frcdrich Goebel.

who lives in a 900-year-old village with a population of 1,200 in the fered them for lunch. U.S., but said his main rea It was not uncommon for them to ask for second helpings of country ham, but the fried chicken seemed to captivate their taste buds the most. "HOW DO you make this chicken? Do you boil of them asked. He was sur- S(oH pKto by Robart Kollar son for coming here was to see the distillery. "It is so clean and efficient," he said.

The two were guests of Ralph Dupps, president of the distilling company, a subsidiary of Schenley Industries, and are being escorted on their U.S. tour by Bill Yuracko, president of Schenley International, the Checking a Working Distillery Following their tour, the represent Dickel in their homeland, won tour of the United States and a trip to the distillery for their marketing efforts. TULLAHOMA A delegation of German whisky salesmen view a huge vot of bubbling "working mash" at the Tennessee Distilling Co. where George Dickel Tennessee sour mash whisky is made. The Germans, who prised to learn it was fried in group returned to Nashville a skillet.

Several asked for where thev were taken to recipe. Opryland. Ex-Chicaao Found Crime Chief, Giancana, Gin (Cnntinupd From'Pagf One) ber gun The murder weapon was not found but six empty 22-caliber cartridges lay near the body. Chicago's syndicate killers usually use bigger weapons machine guns, shotguns or larger caliber automatics for their "ru-bouts." However, the 22 automatic with silencer was known to be a favorite assassination weapon of the OSS men and other bchind-the-lines operators for doing away with selected enemy personnel in World War II. Giancana had dinner Thursday evening at the home of one of his three daughters, Mrs.

Jerome De-Palma. AT 10:30 p.m., the caretaker, Joseph DiPersio, 81, poenaed by a federal grand jury. Peter F. Vaira, chief of the Justice Department strike force against organized crime here, said Giancana "didn't say very much" in at least two appearances before the grand jury and federal authorities were considering having him indicted for perjury. Strike force attorney Douglas P.

Roller said the grand jury had not been delving into reports outlined in Senate investigating committee documents recently that Giancana had been approached in an alleged CIA plot to kill Castro. He said the grand jury probe of Giancana's dealings was limited to post-June 1966 and the anti-Castro plot was reputed to have been hatched in 1961. his zenith of the Chicago crime organization in the 1960s. He squired Phyllis McGuire of the singing McGuire Sisters television and night club act and fraternized with Las Vegas show business personalities including Frank Sinatra. VINCENT Inserra, head of the FBI's organized crime squad, said he believed the killing was a "professional hit." He said Giancana had "fallen into disfavor with the mob" in Chicago.

Robbery apparently was not a motive. A money clip containing $1,458 mostly in large bills was found on the body of the balding, once dapper mobster. Giancana habitually carried large amounts of money, investigators said. Working his'way up through syndicate ranks, he was jailed twice moon-shining and burglary convictions but escaped a murder rap after the key witness was slain. WHEN GANG chief Tony (Big Tuna) Accardo was elevated to titular "chairman of the board" in 1956, Giancana took over the syndicate reins.

He came under sharp surveillance by the FBI and was jailed for a year in 1935 for refusing to answer a federal grand jury's questions. When he was freed in 1956 he fled to Latin America for eight years of self-imposed exile, during which investigators said he apparently kept busy investing mob money around the world. Mexico deported him to the United States in 1974 and Giancanaagain was sub said Giancana often left the door open in summer months. Harold Fitzsim-mons, chief of the detectives in Oak Park, said Giancana did not carry a gun and had no weapons in the home. OAK PARK Police Chief Wilbur Reichert said there was no sign of forced entry and no one had been seen entering or leaving the home.

Police were checking out a report that a neighbor in the auiet, tree-dotted neighborhood saw "five big ugly men" standing in front of the Giancana home about an hour before the mobster's body was found. "It seems like a professional hit," Reichert said, "but the small caliber of the gun bothers us." Giancana was known as a free spender when he was at who lived upstairs with his wife, called down and asked Giancana if he wanted anything. Giancana said, "No," and DiPersio returned upstairs to watch television. An air conditioner was running, DiPersio said, and he heard nothing. At 11 p.m., he called downstairs again, received no answer and went to the basement where he found the body.

Minutes before his death, Giancana prepared a late snack. A frying pan on a stove in the basement contained spinach and sausage over a gas vent that still was on when police arrived shortly before midnight. The light meal was not burned. Police said entry to the basement was barred by a steel, fireproof door with a peephole. The caretaker Witness Protection 'Possible' LEWISTON.

Idaho (AP) Sen. Frank Church, chairman of the committee investigating the Central Intelligence Agency, said yesterday the committee will consider protecting its witnesses, following the shooting death of mobster Sam Giancana. But the Idaho Democrat, here for an inland waterway dedication, said he would give "no credence" to any suggestion that the CIA was in any way connected with the death of Giancana Thursday night. "We have other witnesses who keep the same company (as Giancana)," Church said in explaining why protection might be needed. He did not specify, however, whether his concern for the witnesses was because of the CIA investigation or the Chicago grand jury investigation.

Church said the CIA had no motive for murdering Giancana because the committee "already is in posession of the facts and we have other sources." 1 Protested Jail Condition 2V2 Years, Sheriff Says Bugs, Sweltering Heat Turn Jail Into Nightmare 9a 4 1 a pacity. He added that "before tonight is over we will have 100 people who don't sion and newspaper reporters and photographers. The tour was conducted by Metro Sheriff Fate Thomas and other jail officials. ST" 4 0 a 4 i 1 4 JP 1 By GEORGE WATSON JR. Metro Jail prisoners complained to Nashville newsmen last night about bad food, overcrowded conditions, bugs and extreme heat at the facility.

"I just can't hardly get to sleep at night because it is so ungodly hot in this place," said Joyce Scales, 27, of 836 Kirkwood Lane, who has been in Metro Jail a month on a forgery charge. JANET ALLEN. 19, of Hendersonville, who has been in jail five months after being sentenced to three years for burglary, said "it is fairly comfortable in the winter but now you nearly smother to death." She added, "I have to take two or three showers a day but it really doesn't do much good." The prisoners' comments came during a 45-minute tour of the city jail by televi have a bed to sleep on. THE TOUR did show several overcrowded cells, two male prisoners who were without beds to sleep on. "I don't know what we'll do, man.

I guess we'll just have to sleep on the floor, or with somebody," said one inmate. Thomas, wiping sweat from his forehead during the tour, pointed out that "there are many days when we have more than 400 prisoners in here and, baby, you can see we've been in here only 10 minutes and we are all about to smother." PRISONERS agreed that the heat in their cells is "just about unbearable." Tney also said bugs pay nightly visits. THE TOUR was planned yesterday after U.S. Dist. Judge Frank Gray Jr.

ordered Asst. U.S. Atty. Richard Windsor to check out conditions at the jail following a complaint by David Hale Pryor who told Gray he had no mattress to sleep on during a week's stay in jail. During the tour last night, Thomas continually emphasized to newsmen: "I am sure glad Judge Gray has come forward on this matter and he would be doing this community a service if he would condemn this place." The sheriff said there were 328 inmates about 7:30 p.m., 24 more than the jail's ca son said yesterday he has no authority to act on the conditions at the jail, but that he has scheduled a meeting next week with the U.S.

marshal and Oscar Olive, head of community planning with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons here. "IF THE conditions are such that there have been violations of prisoners' civil rights, we could request an FBI inspection of the jail," said Anderson. Asked if conditions as reported by Pryor constitutes violations of civil rights, Anderson said, "It would de- Eend on the circumstances, ometimes those things are done for the purpose of punishment. "But there have been complaints of a more serious nature," he Asked to specify, he replied: "It's been alleged that there are shakedowns going on at the jail." GRAY, after hearing Pryor's complaints, ordered the U.S.

marshal's office to inspect every cell in which federal prisoners are placed at the Metro Jail. He further ordered that Pryor should not be taken back to the jail, but that he be taken to one of the other two area jails with which the U.S. marshal's office has contracts those in Columbia or Gallatin. at the jail "were better than I had expected," but that some improvements are needed. LATER yesterday, Windsor said "No, I do not" think conditions are bad at the jail.

"But it's just about as crowded as they can handle," he added. He said Pryor had been kept in one of two small overflow cells, which are used for federal prisoners when the main federal prisoner cell is full. "There were two or three mattresses missing, but they had water with which to wash and a toilet," Windsor said. "There was no shower." Windsor said if any of these prisoners wanted to take a shower, they had to be escorted by security guards to a shower outside their cell. HE SAID the prisoners lodged various complaints about the conditions, but "there was one complaint they all had.

"They are saying that the rock boys or trusties (inmates given a limited supervisory role over other inmates in the jail) are shaking them down." Windsor said the prisoners complained that if one of them wanted a trusty to get him a cold drink, for example, he would have to pay double for it. U.S. Atty. Charles Ander- (Continued From Fagf One charge. He had been arrested here after a fugitive warrant from Mississippi had been issued against him.

After pleading guilty yesterday, Pryor told "IF I have to be returned to the Metro Jail, I want to be given a mattress and a shower and taken out of the hole that I am in." Pryor said he had not had a shower or a mattress to sleep on for a week. Gray termed imprisoning a man without a mattress without some explanation, "cruel and inhuman treatment." He said he had repeatedly referred complaints about the jail's conditions to the U.S. attorney's office, but that apparently nothing of substance had resulted from his referrals. GRAY THEN ordered Asst. U.S.

Atty. Richard Windsor to leave immediately, check out the conditions described by Pryor and return with a report within 90 minutes. Windsor, accompanied by U.S. Marshal Leon Campbell and Asst. U.S.

Atty. Bill Farmer, then left. When he returned, Windsor told Gray that conditions tmiT ai ill iriltfn i)imilTii -SloH ptitto Jimmy llln Tour a Scorcher Sheriff Fate Thomas, sweltering in temperatures ap proaching 100 degrees, mops his brow while conducting a tour last night of Metro Jail for newsmen. Inflation Rate Cut In Half During May Metro Employes Dig Down For Donation to Briley company asked 900 employes to take their vacations or leaves of absence. A U.S.

Steel Corp. spokesman said the steel industry doesn't expect improvement in safes until later this year. "Certainly, whatever happens to the American economy is reflected in steel on a delayed basis," he said. (Cflntinurd From Page One) increase in orders since June and July of last year. The increase pushed the level of orders to $39.30 billion, the highest level since last November's $43.18 billion.

In other developments: tWilson Co. closed its Omaha meat plant for three weeks because of adverse economic conditions. The Stewart, director of public libraries, turned in $520 from his employes yesterday afternoon. STEWART SAID he thought yesterday was the deadline for turning in contributions for the gift for the mayor. "That was my understanding and I think somebody called me about it this week," he said, "but I'm not sure." Most department heads said they did not know how much money was contributed by the employes in their departments, but Public Works ofticials said the employes there kicked in $1,250.

The contributions from the Public- Works Department were turned in about a month ago, officials said. SOME employes said they were expected to contribute $5 each, but the organizers of the drive said no quotas were ever established. "We decided to just leave it to the individual." Torrence said. "This is the very last of 25 years some of these employes have been associated with the mayor," Startup said. "I'd feel a little bit bad if I had worked with some people that long and they didn't do something for me when I left." State Prison Unit Runs Out of Room (Continued From Page One) DEEP SAID government officials who organized the fund-raising effort agreed no pressure would be applied to any Metro employe and contributions for the gift would be "strictly voluntary." "I don't believe anyone has been under pressure to give," said Paul Startup, assistant collections officer in the Metro Finance Department and an organizer of the fund-raising drive.

"Some division heads might have done something on their own," Startup said, "but they were not told to do that. We told them to let people have the opportunity to give whatever they wanted to." STARTUP said he has not been counting the money but he understands the figure has reached about $15,000. Other principal organizers of the effort to buy Briley a gift Metro General Services planner Alf Sanders, Metro Treasurer Bob Puryear and Metro Finance Director Joe Torrence said they did not know how much money has been raised. And contributions from some Metro departments are still coming in. Marshall BcfmoHt Heists Baptist d)urd) "OH THE INNER EDGE OF THE OUTER CITY" SUNDAY'S SERVICES: (Continued From Page One) He added "We had some 20 beds available yesterday but we got 34 people from the Hamilton County jail, two from Gibson County, eight from Shelby County, a man from Bradley County, one from Blount County and four from Dyer County.

"WE MADE room for these people by transferring some others over to the main prison but as of 8 a.m. this morning (yesterday), there were beds available there. Also, all of the other facilities are full." The 34 inmates from Chattanooga were brought to the classification unit after Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Joe Dirisio or the state's penal system must be given priorities in energy and finances. "IT'S IN THE public's interest to see that there are adequate facilities for prisoners," the judge said. Earlier this week, five chaplains at the main prison in West Nashville mailed to the state corrections commissioner, and the assistant commissioner in charge of the classification unit, copies of a letter which they said was an open appeal to the people of Tennessee.

Here is the complete text of their letter: "WE, THE chaplains at Tennessee State Penitentiary, write this letter out of a strong sense of moral ur- dered a report on prisoners held for long periods at the Hamilton County jail. Dirisio sa'd yesterday he ordered the report after receiving a complaint from an inmate housed in the jail who was awaiting transfer to the state prison. "THE PRISONER wanted to go to the penitentiary but was unable to," Dirisio said. "The prison is probably a better place for him because our jail is old and not equipped to handle long-termers." The judge added that "It's also a terrible burden on the local sheriff to keep long-termers in the jail here. During a telephone interview, Dirisio also said that "thepublic must realize that The criminal justice system has become self-defeating and is measured in wasted lives and a fear poisoned society.

"Out of our need to speak responsible as religious leaders of the prison community, we urge you, the people of Tennessee, to join us in becoming more actively involved in the criminal justice system. We invite your participation with us in a search for more responsible and productive alternatives tothepresent approach to criminal justice. The letter was signed by senior chaplain Carl K-Price, and chaplains Amos L. Wilson, Gerald O. Grubb, David A.

Phillipy and Garry A. Vogelpohl. gency for the situation that exists at this institution. Specifically, the prison is woefully overcrowded to the point that basic human needs are not being met, let alone any constructive changes in human behavior being fostered. "This situation leads us to believe that there is widespread, insufficient concern at all levels for those incarcerated in the state of.

Tennessee. We do not believe that 'out of sight-out of mind' warehousing of human beings is an appropriate basis for changing the behavior of social offenders but this is precisely what is being done at the present time. This is indefensible as a religious and moral stance. I 9:30 STUDY-WAGES 1 1:00 1.M.-" THE WORD OF PROMISE THE GOLDEN J0.3 5 30 P.M. CHUBCH THE SUKOAY NIGHT PUCE 7:00 P.M.

'THE ANCIENT OF DAYS-IS ST1LI IN CONTROL OF THE LATEST THING." Somm U9 2100 Belmont Blvd. ROBERT J. NORMAN, Pastor.