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Monday. July 17, 1972 Pg4 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Fischer, In Command, Smiles REYKJAVIK, ICELAND implications of the breach of (LTD -For a final 30 sec- contract. v- THE, .1 SHIRLEY WAV Yf MEANS TRULY A REMEMBERED SERVICE BROTHERS the moment he sat down at the board. For a couple of minutes after Spassky had pushed forward his queen pawn, Fischer argued with the referee over the presence of a hidden camera relaying moves to the world outside the room. Then be shrugged, cupped his hands under his chin and got on with the game.

In the big hall outside the secluded room, a crowd of 1,500 followed' the match on a vast screen. Other fans munched hot dogs and ice cream in the cafeteria with their eyes on the closed-circuit screen. Ve had to cancel a meeting with Mr. Fox. but the matter will be straightened out late he said.

"We heard a nasty rumor he will sue us for millions but let's see what happens." Fred Cramer, a U.S. Chess Federation vice-president, said Fischer had been persuaded to appear because of the great number of cables he received from all over the world "begging him to sit down opposite Spassky." If Fischer was emotionally upset he put it behind him ft tH1 onds Bobby Fischer towered over the chess board. Then he allowed himself a rare smile, Collected his pencils and walked out of the room yesterday a one of the most dramatic days in world championship chess. Minutes earlier world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union had completed his 41st move and left the room, pensive and worried. The third game in the 24-match world championship was adjourned with the 29-year-old American challenger in a commanding position.

U.S. Grandmaster Byrne, formerly of Indianapolis, looked up from a pocket chess board and said: "He (Spassky) is almost finished. I cannot see Bobby letting him slip out of the rope. He (Fischer) has the advantage of a pawn and is in a very strong attacking position." Most experts on hand gave Fischer a 70-30 chance of winning and reducing the 35-year-old Russian's 2-0 lead. Immediately after the game Spassky jumped into a car with one of his seconds, Grandmaster Nikolai Krogius, and left for their hotel to analyze the situation.

Until 90 minutes before the start of yesterday's third game Fischer kept the chess world guessing whether he would appear or continue his boycott in protest against television cameras, or "the evil eyes," as he called them. 'LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS' Only after the Icelandic organizers broke a $120,000 contract with Chester Fox a 'New York firm that had acquired all film and television rights, and moved the board into an adjoining table tennis room, did Fischer give in. Hilmar Viggoson, treasurer of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said he did not know the Barracuda's SEVERAL WITH AIR ON SALE NOW! "Indiana's Largest Inventory Of Performance Cars" Chief Lawrence Godfroy, 76, "No. I Miami." 160-Year Debts To Be Paid By BARRY HENDERSON It's too little, too late, but too much to turn down. That's the way most of the Miami Indian descendants in Indiana look at the Federal government's payments of early 19th century land claims to persons who can prove their Miami ancestry.

With more than 1,000 certifiable Miami descendants living in the state, the per capita share of a payment order signed last month by President Nixon is expected to be or a little more. The $5,276,626 settlement, based on slightly more than $1 an acre for about 5 million acres of Southern Indiana land, must be used to pay attorney fees (not more than 15 per cent by law) and court expenses, and the remainder will be distributed among the estimated Miami descendants nationwide. Most live in Oklahoma or Indiana, where the Miamis hold tribal corporations. Each man, woman and child gets an equal share, but the children's shares are held in banks, gaining 5 per cent annual interest, until the recipient reaches the age of 18, according to Federal order. Congressional assurances to the contrary, it will be several months before payment checks will be sent to the Miamis.

Still to be certified are births and deaths since the last judgment was paid on a 1966 settlement. And the tribal operations officer of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs office at Muskogee, which administers the Miami payments, has given the descendants four months to certify the changes, once the proper forms are received. Descendants in Indiana haven't received the forms yet. This year's act is to pay Miami claims originating from 1804 and 1805 treaties ceding lands along the Ohio River from the Miamis to the U.S. The 1966 act paid claims from an 1818 treaty ceding Central Indiana lands to the U.S.

About $5 million was paid for about 6 million acres, and each Miami descendant received about $1,200. No Interest Bert Anson, Ball State University history professor, an author on the Miami tribe, said the government went to elaborate ends, including the research of historical land values by independent appraising firms, to arrive at a figure of $1.15 an acre for the Indiana treaties. Negotiations with the Miamis boosted the payment to $1.25 an acre, a far cry from what the payments might have been If any interest were paid on the 160-year-old debts. The settlement payments are the result of more than 40 years of legal struggling which led to the creation in 1946 of the Indiana Claims Commission, a Federal board to review the treaties with the tribes. Anson said it was in that year that the Miamis of Indiana first became "an official Indian entity." Factionalism within the Miami group was always one of the deterrents in the fight for recognition and.

payment, Anson said, and there remain three major "bands" of Indiana Miamis. They are the Godfroy clan, based in the Peru area, the Meshingomesia of Wabash and Marion, and the Lafountaine-Rich-ardville of Huntington. "There are no pure Miamis anywhere," Anson said, demonstrating that the American "melting pot" melted the native Americans as well as the immigrants, "and there are no Miamis in Indiana who are pure Indian." He said a few Miami descendants in Oklahoma are pure Indian by virtue of ancestral marriage only among other tribes. 3 'Only Chief There are so many "chiefs" in Indiana it's almost impossible to list them all. It is impossible to mention a few without slighting others.

Three who call themselves the "only chief" are LAW-RENCE GODFROY, a 76-year-old retired inspector for Link-Belt Division of FMC Indianapolis; WILLIAM F. HALE, 80, a retired building contractor, rural Eaton, and FRANCIS SHOEMAKER, 59, a Penn-Central Railroad yard conductor, rural Roann. Godfroy, 229 N. Oakland, says he is chief by family right. His father, Peter Godfroy, and older brothers Sylvester and Clarence are deceased.

All were chief and now it is he, he says. "A lot say they're chief, but they're not," he explains simply. Hale said he was "elected chief by the Indiana Miami group in 10 in Wabash." And, Shoemaker, told that others say they are the one and only, replied, "Yes, but I'm chief and chairman of the board." He referred to the Miami Indians of Indiana, the nonprofit corporation chartered In Indiana for the purpose of conducting Miami business, including treaty negotiations. Shoemaker held a Miami meeting at Wabash July 9 to answer questions de-scendants had about the new payments. 'I Cuda 340 FROM W0MENS AND TEENS OXFORD Our Reg.

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78c Uo FOR Her son, 10, and daughters, 12 to 17, each have their escrowed accounts. The boy is pestering her to loan him enough, on the credit of his legacy, to buy a new bicycle, she said with a laugh. Her husband, an industrial electrician who has no Miami ancestry, grinned and said, "I just think they should have given the Miamis their land back." 'Fairy Tale' Come True Another saver of the payments is Mrs. NORMA MILLER, librarian at the Wabash Plain Dealer newspaper. She has three sons and three grandsons and is only dismayed that her 18-year-old boy could borrow less than $200 on his legacy for a school year at Indiana University, where he is to start as a freshman this fall.

"I remember my father telling me we were going to get this money, but, to me, it sounded like sort of a fairy tale," she said. If the 1972 payments come through in time to help him, her 18-year-old will be eligible for cash this time. The age has been lowered from 21 to 18, because of changes in the voting age since 1966. Mrs. BERNARD KINDLESPARKER, whose husband is a Peru car salesman, and Mrs.

RICHARD LAUGHLIN, whose husband is a Kokomo repairman for Indiana Bell, both said they used part of their 1966 payments to pay bills. "We bought a washer and dryer, things we really needed," said Mrs. Laughlin. "I imagine this time we'll try to replace our 1964 car and try to put back some." Mrs. Laughlin and Mrs.

Kindlesparker both have four children. Miss DEE MONGOSA, 18, a 1972 Peru High School graduate who works part time as a nurses' aid at Dukes Hospital at Peru, was asked if she had heard about the most recent payment. "Yen, isn't it neat?" said the pert youngster, who hasn't yet received her first cent in cash. "It's not too much money, but it's too much to know exactly what to do with," she said. Later she rocked idly on an old-fashioned glider on the concrete porch of her father's home.

That porch was paid for by the 1966 family share, she said. Large Families Benefit Some families are enormous benefactors. The amounts in those cases help offset whatever expenses were incurred in the legal and genealogical work needed to prove Miami ancestry. Mrs. ORVILLE TRIGG, whose husband is a painter for an Elkhart manufacturing firm, has a family of four sons and eight daughters, all but one paid in 1966, and six grandchildren, adding to the family's 1972 payment total.

No matter how you cut it, that's more than $30,000 plus interest on the youngsters' shares, in one family in two generations. "We paid off all our bills," Mrs. Trigg said of her own 1966 payment of $1,200, "and the two children who've received theirs did the same." Mrs. DANIEL BUCHANAN, 71, 2701 N. Chester, has four children, 10 grandchildren and nine (Feat-grandchildren.

Together, they will have received more than $50,000 after the 1972 distribution. Her payment, she said, is "still in the bank, and I plan the same for this one." Mrs. SHERMAN TROUTMAN, 206 N. Keystone, said her brothers and sisters went to some expense to get the affidavits for eligibility, but did most of the tracing themselves, in Northern Indiana courthouse records. Her Knindniotlier, Asson Sun on the 1315 Miami roll, died In Peru at Ml about 20 years ghc fine said she couldn't remember the Indian Just called her Mrj.

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We can't condemn the descendants of those people who took the cessions from the Miami without payment, and we can't condemn the descendants of our ancestors for what our ancestors did or didn't do." His somewhat stoic attitude is not shared by all the elder Miamis, but most descendants are younger, further removed from tribal distinctions and Indian stigma. They are less aware of or concerned with Miami politics. Many wish more of their elders were alive today to share in the fruits of their hard work in the 1920s, '30s and MOs. "It's all been strange to me, getting paid for things my great-grandparents should have been paid for," said Mrs. GENE DeLAUTER.

a 34-year-old Wabash housewife, who was puttering among the flower beds outside her fam-, ily's split-level home. Most of her 1966 payment, received in 1967, is in savings, she said, and that's where she expects the 1972 payment to go. "The best thing about it is the savings it gives the children," Mrs. DeLauter said. "We probably wouldn't hav; been able to set that much back for them." Th NIWI MN, Hwm Ktlrlm.

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