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THE LEAVENWORTH TH TIMES One Hundred Sixth -No. 139 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1962-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. PRICE 18-Foot Jump By a Suspect After Liquor Store Robbery Two robbery suspects wh thought they would outsmart police by not leaving town were flushed from a tavern at 2nd and Dakota within an hour after a robbery Friday night. One was arrested, the other escaped by jumping from a second story Nancy James, 1852 Ottawa, clerk at Pellman's Party Shop, 1114 N. 7th, told police a man robbed of over $980 at point shortly after 8 p.m.

He then drove down an alley. Police had a good description of the car and within five minutes were blanketing the city, Bystanders established the fact of a second man in the car, The events that followed went like this: Police Chief Lowell Moore went to the Leavenworth Centennial Bridge, where he learned from toll collector John White that no car of that description had crossed into Missouri. Moore had the Leavenworth and Platte county sheriff's offices and the Kansas and Missouri highway patrols alerted and roads were being watched. Detective Lt. Glenn Gaver and Melvin Daniels began a search.

of streets in the east end of the city. They checked several automobiles matching the description, before coming upon a car at 2nd and Dakota. The car had a Wyandotte County license plate. Gaver entered Gen's Tavern, 201 Dakota, to find the owner of the car. "The minute I stepped in the door, I saw them," Gaver said.

"One was on one side room at a table, the other was in a telephone booth at the other side of the room. The rest of the mers were local people." Gaver said that he was between the two men as he entered, and knowing that at least one was armed, he made no move to attempt an arrest. He said he talked for a few moments with the bartender, then left and called to Daniels, who radioed for help. As law officers surrounded the building, the armed bandit who apparently had the money, forced his way to the second floor of the building and, breaking out a window, jumped 18 feet into a garden. He was seen jumping by Patrol(Please Turn to Page Two) Estes Dealings Herald Change In Department WASHINGTON (AP) Wellplaced sources said Saturday the Agriculture Department plans some high-level staff changes as result of evidence unfolding in the Billie Sol Estes hearings.

Two Congress members. friendly to the Kennedy administration and to Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman say Freeman is convinced some of his men must be replaced and some demoted because they are too inept for the jobs they hold. The secretary, through Horace P. Godfrey, head of the Agricul-13th tural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), already has disclosed plans to ask Congress for more authority to protect the federal farm-aid program from exploitation in shady deals such as those described at hearings of the Senate Investigations subcommittee headed by Sen.

John L. McClellan, D-Ark. Miss Australia Is Beauty Queen LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Miss Australia, a refugee from behind the Bamboo Curtain, was named Miss International Beauty Saturday night. Hazel-eyed, warm-smiling Tania Verstak, 21, now a resident of Sydney, succeeds Stanny Van Baer of Holland.

-Late Sport- KANSAS CITY--The Athletics gained a split with the league-leading New York Yankees here Saturday night, coming from behind to win the first game 5-4, and then dropping the second game of a doubleheader, 11-7. NEW YORK (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals swept a pair from New York Saturday night, beating the Mets 7-4 in the day game and extending the hapless Mets' losing string to nine with a 10-0 rout in the second half of the day-night doubleheader. CINCINNATI (AP) With Joe Nuxhall's four-hit pitching for support, the Cincinnati Reds went on a hitting spree Saturday night that cut down Los Angles' National League-leading Dodgers, 12-1. Capture Escapee In Hotel An attractive escapee from the Women's Industrial Farm ho drove away -in a taxicab was arrested Saturday night In a Leavenworth hotel.

Sharon W. Monroe, 22, serving forgery sentence, sald she walked from! the Institution about 3:30 p.m. and got into a cab that was walting to tako A visitor back to worth. She was arrested in the visitor's hotel room about 7:15 p.m. The visitor Identified himself as Larry Castor of Great Bend.

The driver of the' cab, Jerry 'Moschini, Spring Garden, said the girl told him she worked at Wadsworth and was starting a beauty school for the inmates at WIF. She was dressed in a lacetrimmed pink dress and black high heels. Moschini said that he explained to Miss Monroe that he already had a customer, but that if the customer did not mind her riding in the cab, it was all right with him. Moschini said he had taken Cas. tor to the institution once before and had returned to pick him up as he did Saturday, He said he took Castor and Miss Monroe to 4th and Delaware.

According to statements signed by Miss Monroe and Castor, she later went into the Satellite Club, 304 Cherokee, where Castor was drinking beer, and started talking to him. Castor said he bought some beer and they went to his room in the National Hotel, 4th and Cherokee. It was in Castor's room that sheriff's deputies and police, working on a tip, found the girl. Castor denied knowing that the girl was an escaped inmate. Miss Monroe was questioned the county jail and then released to Mrs.

Miriam D. Phillips, intendent of the farm, and Kansas Penitentiary officials. Castor was being held for investigation at the county jail. President's Wife Is Guest of Count TORRE DEL GRECO, Italy (AP) -Jacqueline Kennedy traveled by motor launch Saturday night visit friends in this little town south of Naples. She and her party went from the dockside to the Villa Olivella, where they were greeted by Italian Count Paolo Gaitani and Gianni 'Agnelli, owner of Italy's giant Fiat automobile industry.

It was aboard Agnelli's yacht that the American First Lady visited the Isle of Capri earlier this week. On the trip to Torre del Greco, she was accompanied by her sister and brother-in-law, Princess and Prince Radziwill." -Fair, Warmer- AREA FORECAST Fair through tonight; somewhat warmer today with highs 95-100. TEMPERATURES--Saturday: Early High 92 at 2 p.m. Low 63 at CA a.m, Friday's Ranges High 86 at 3 p.m. Low 40.

at 4:30 One year ago today: 83: 67. RIVER STAGE Saturday, 0.00 feet and 10.0 feet below flood stage. SUNRISE 5:35 and sunset, 7:00. Car Crash Takes Life Of Girl, 18 Barbara L. Hund, 18, RR 4, was killed instantly early Saturday morning when an automobile in which she was riding apparently slid into and cut down one utility pole.

The car then spun and struck a second pole before coming to rest against an embankment, pinning Barbara Hund Hund under the car. The acjcident occurred near 23rd and Metropolitan. As of 5 p.m. Saturday, it was undecided where in the auto Miss Hund had been riding. She was one of four in the vehicle.

According to sheriff reports, the car traveled about 200 feet after it struck the first pole and came to rest. The vehicle apparently did not overturn. Injured in the accident were Joyce Fitzpatrick, 19, Potter; Richard Noll, 25, and Francis Wistuba, 18, both of Winchester, According to reports received from the sheriff's office, the vehicle was east bound, driven by Wistuba. Wistuba told officers that he realized he was traveling tool fast and when he applied the the auto slid and hit the pole. The three injured victims were admitted to St.

John's Hospital lowing the accident. A hospital spokesman reported Saturday ernoon that Miss Fitzpatrick was in satisfactory condition. Wistuba was reported in fair condition. (Please Turn to Page Two) ONE DEAD, THREE INJURED Ambulance man James N. Skaggs, left, Herb Randall, background, an unidentified man and Patrolman Robert Nye prepare to lift Francis Wistuba, 18, of Winchester, into an ambulance early Saturday.

Wistuba was one of three injured in a crash on Metropolitan near 23rd. Dead is Barbara Hund, RR 4. Others injured are Joyce Fitz- patrick, 19, of Potter, and ter. Wistuba, owner of the Bill Adams he was driving control on a curve. See story.

Gets Start From JFK LOS ANGELES -President Kennedy arrived in Los Angeles Saturday for 32 hours of relaxation after he and California Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown had touched off the start of a unique $511-million federal-state water project. The President greeted a crowd of 100 persons who cheered his arrival at Los Angeles International Airport. He stopped momentarily to greet a woman with a baby in her arms.

Then he stepped into a waiting helicopter for a 10-minute trip to his headquarters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The woman was Mrs. Laurel van der Wal Roenau, a space scientist and member of the Los Angeles Airport Commission. She was holding her son, Jonathan, four weeks old, in her arms. Earlier the President and the governor had pressed two levers to touch off the water project at Las Banos, near Merced in.

central California. Geysers of multicolored smoke from dynamite blasts mushroomed along the line of the 000-foot crest of the future 320- foot-high San Luis Dam in the hot, brown hills of the western San Joaquin Valley. "I am happy to come out here and help blow up this valley in the cause of progress," President Kennedy said. The President, in a short speech before an estimated total of 15,000 sun-drenched spectators, offered a salute to the Democratic nor, who is seeking election against Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee.

The President referred to Brown as "your distinguished governor," and praised his leadership in developing California's massive water program. He omitted a reference in his prepared text which could be taken as a slap at Nixon. First TestStep Might Be In Atmosphere WASHINGTON (AP)-The United States is considering broadening its nuclear test-ban strategy to include a possible first step of outlawing only atmospheric explosions. Informed sources said the timing of the broadened U.S. approach is still undecided, but may occur before the windup of the present 17-nation disarmament session in Geneva.

They expect the Geneva conference to go into recess sometime next month while the disarmadebate shifts to the fall meeting of the General Assembly. These U.S. sources stressed that: 1. The United States still would prefer a comprehensive ban outlawing underground explosions as well as those above ground. 2.

The United States will not agree to an unpoliced moratorium on underground shots. However, they said that because of the apparent impasse developing at Geneva over Soviet refusal Ito accept inspections, considera-1 is being given to a partial ban applying to shots in the atmosphere. Not Airplane, But Glider Is Seen by Many No, those weren't two airplanes playing follow-the-leader over Leavenworth Saturday afternoon; it was a glider being towed by a powered airplane. Several flights were made from Sherman Army Airfield al Ft. Leavenworth during the afternoon.

Using a two-passenger glider borrowed from the Topeka Soaring Club, Maj. Robert F. Litle a student in the upcoming regular course at the Command and General Staff College, piloted several passengers through the delights of glider soaring. Major Litle, of Washington, is assisting the Ft. Leavenworth Flying Club in the formation of a glider program at the post.

If enough interest is shown, the glider flights may become a regular part of the club's activities. Major Litle is one of 18 persons in the United States who hold the diamond badge in gliding. To get this badge, a glider pilot must make a distance flight of 500 kilometers (315 miles); make a fixed goal flight of 300 kilometers or more (about 185 miles) and attain an altitude of 5,000 meters above his point of release (over four miles), 17 Youngsters Drown in Lake On Picnic Trip An Agriculture Centennial Now This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Leavenworth County Fair, Aug. 22-55, will honor the event with the theme "One Hundred Years of Progress." They offices, operating under the control of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, are located in the Post Office--federal building. The Extension Service, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Soil Conservation Service and Farmer's Home Administration are featured in articles and photos on pages 8 and 9 of today's Times.

Satellite Bill's Fate in Hands Of House Now WASHINGTON (AP) After a long countdown, the Senate has finally got the administration's communications satellite bill off the launching pad. But it left a trail of scorched tempers that seemed certain to have an affect on other legislation in Congress' drive for adjournment. The Senate passed the measure 66 to 11 Friday after having invoked its anti-filibuster rule for the first time in 35 years in order to get the bill through a barrier of bitter opposition. The measure is very much like, but not identical with, a bill passed by the. House on May 3 by a 354-9 vote.

If the House now taking an informal recess until Aug. 27- accepts the Senate version, the legislation will go directly to President Kennedy for his signature. Should the House, however, insist that a compromise be worked out, the bill would have to come back to the Senate. This would give opponents a chance to mount a new filibuster against it. It provides for the creation of a private, regulated corporation to own and the U.S.

segment of a global communications system using satellites as relay stations. Abortion Done For Finkbines In Stockholm STOCKHOLM (AP)-Mrs. Sherri Finkbine's abortion was ried out Saturday and her ish doctor said the fear that drove her all the way to Sweden was well founded. Had she given birth, the child would have been deforined by the drug thalidomide, he said. After a 45-minute operation, the television performer from Phoenix, was reported in satisfactory condition in Caroline Hospital.

The surgeon told her husband, Robert Finkbine, that the used in the early part of her pregnancy had certain effects on the unborn child. No details were given, but babies born deformed from the drug elsewhere have been without limbs, or with hands or feet attached directly to the body. Some have had internal deformities. Bishops in Appeal To All Christians WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. Roman Catholic asked all Christians Saturday pray for success of the ing second Vatican worldwide gathering church.

In a statement, Catholic bishops viewed vorable indeed" the general pects for internal renewal church through the council. Especially they asked in the United States to join "Novena of prayer and during the days immediately ceding the council, which Oct. 11. In addition. they invited Out' non-Catholic brethren glory in the name of Christian join us in asking that the Spirit enlighten and guide ecumenical council so that become an instrument for motion of Christian unity ing to the mind of Christ." QUINCY, Fla.

(AP) Seventeen children and their Sunday school teacher drowned Saturday while on a church picnic outing when their small boat filled and sank without warning in a deep lake. Seven of the children were from a single family. Ages of the children ranged from 5 to 14. The boat, operated by the teacher, Joseph Bouie, 25, plunged under water about 300 feet from shore. The water was more than seven feet deep.

One child was saved after he clung to the 14-foot wooden boat. The picnic group, all Negroes, was from the Blessed Hope church near Quincy, a northwest Florida town about 20 miles northwest of Tallahassee. Alzora Green, who was preparing the picnic lunch, said she saw the disaster from shore. "All of a sudden, the boat started sinking," said. "It went down so they didn't taste have time to say anything.

They just reached up their hands, and went down. "And there I was, just standing helpless." All but one of the bodies were recovered within matter of hours. As divers brought in the bodies, they were stretched out on a grassy spot near the boat landing and sheriff's deputies identified them. The anguished parents wailed and cried as the identifications were made and the names of the drowned called out. A LONG DROP--A robbery suspect jumped from thi second story window and slipped through a cordon of law officers in the dark early Saturday.

Melvin Daniels rewinds the tape measure after he and Detective Lt. Glenn Gaver, in the window, measured the 18-foot drop. The man, suspected of robbing Pellman's Party Shop, 1114 N. 7th, Friday jumped out the window at 201 Dakota as Gaver was trying to force open an outside door. A second suspect was captured in a tavern downstairs.

(Times Photo) fol-4 Counts on Two Sure Votes But Only One Shows Up WARREN, Mich. (P) John Mellon wants to know where his wife's vote went. He voted for himself as delegate to the Macomb County Democratic Convention, he says, and his wife says she voted for him, too. But the official tally gave him only one vote. Mrs.

Hildegard Lowe was declared winner with two votes. Mellon is getting a recount. Latest Polaris Submarine 13th to Join U.S. Fleet GROTON, Conn. (AP) The Alexander Hamilton, the Navy's, Polaris submarine, was mander of the Atlantic Fleet launched Saturday after the com- I asserted, "The need for national sea power and superiority on the sea has never been more evident." Adm.

Robert L. Dennison did not amplify this statement in his prepared remarks. Police and the Coast Guard cessfully thwarted at: least two attempts by pacifists to interfere. Hope to Retain Tight Controls On U.S. Wheat WASHINGTON (AP)-The Kennedy administration fought Saturday to salvage tight controls over wheat production in the omnibus farm bill the Senate begins debatling Monday in a charged political atmosphere.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, the deputy Democratic leader, conceded that the administration is abandoning its previous attempt to slap similar controls on feed grains. But he said "we've got the votes" to retain in the battered measure the tough, mandatory controls on wheat which the Senlate approved 42-38 last May but which were rejected in the House. Senate Republican Leader Everett.

M. Dirksen of Illinois said in a separate, interview he didn't know about that. He said, howsuc-lever, that Republicans are withdrawing their threats to talk at length against the bill. Arsenal Pickets Exit As Work Order Issued HUNTSVILLE, Ala. space agency armed with a court order against a strike which has crippled space research projects Saturday directed contractors: tors to return to work Monday.

Pickets were removed from gates leading into Redstone union spokesman declined to say whether the action was a result of the court order. The 1,500 workers who have been either picketing or honoring picket lines since last Tuesday are involved in construction work at! the arsenal and are normally off on Saturday. Thousands of other workers employed at other tasks at the arsenal were not affected by the walkout. Although the union spokesman declined to comment on whether the' court order would be honored, attorneys for the union said they would abide by it. U.

S. Dist. Judge Clarence W. Allgood issued a temporary r'estraining order against the strike after a Friday night hearing in Birmingham, Ambulances from white and Negro funeral homes in the area were rushed to the scene, They took the bodies to a Quincy mortuary. White nurses from the Quincy hospital were on duty administersedatives to the relatives of the drowned children.

One white woman placed her arm around an anguished mother and tried to comfort her. A big crowd was attracted the isolated scene about 15 miles south of here on Lake Talquin, a large artificial lake. The outboard equipped boat, which sank under the weight of the children, bobbed back to the surface with the load gone. One of the men who helped bring it in later, Herman Harrell, said thought that the rear end had sunk without warning when the load shifted as the boat made a sharp turn, dumping the riders into the water. Seven children of Esther and Mattie May Watson, who lived about six miles north of here, were drowned.

The Watson children were J. B. Deloris 12, Esther 11, Leonard 9, Bernard 8, Jennifer 6 and Terry, 5. Jerome Maples, 11, was rescued. He managed to seize the boat after its nose rose back to the surface and held on until a passing fisherman saved him.

This was the worst disaster in this area of Florida since 1944 when 18 soldiers training for World War I invasions drowned on the seacoast south of here. Persistent Woman Chases Bandit Car He set a hearing date, Aug. 22, on whether to extend the order. The space agency sent the following telegram to 18 strike involving your company has been enjoined by the federal court, and all pickets have been removed from the Redstone Arsenal gates. You are hereby instructed to man this job with the proper number and types skills by Monday, Aug.

20, 1962." The telegram was signed by Harry H. Gorman. deputy director for administration, the Marshall Space Flight Center. The walkout by members of 558, International Brotherhood, Electrical Workers Union, AFL-CIO, had idled millions of dollars worth of construction. The local was protesting the use of nonunion workers by Baroco Electrical Construction Co.

of Pensacola, a subcontractor on construction job. Allgood's order came on tition from the National Relations Board which acted on: complaints from space agency officials and a some involved. SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) An armed bandit got $4,000 in a holdup Saturday but had to drive more than three miles to elude a woman motorist who followed the getaway car, sounding her horn all the way. Albert VanLerberg, operator of a grocery, was returning from a bank when he was accosted by a fat man in his parking lot.

The bandit then ran to a waiting car and was driven away. But Mrs. Patricia Brandenburg, Shawnee, saw what had happened and took off in pursuit. She blew her horn all the way to attract attention, but was finally outdistanced. The getaway car was found abandoned later in Merriam, Kan.

The 226 bishops to forthcomCouncil, a of the the as "fapros- of the in penance" Eastern Plans to Resume a Full Schedule Sept. 13 pre- MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -Eastern Air starts Lines said Saturday full operations, curtailed since July 23 by "all a strike of flight engineers, would who be resumed Sept. 13. to Malcolm MacIntyre, Eastern' Holy president, said his line would 1't the sume full jet and piston plane it may service regardless of a continued the strike by the flight engineers and accord- a threatened walkout by machine jists.

Richard Noll, 25, of Winchescar, told sheriff's Deputy the car when it went out of (Times Photo).