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The Weather Fair and Cool Complete Report Page 8 VOLUME 55 NO. 76 THE HILLSDALE DAILY NEWS HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964 PRICE 10 CENTS Troops In Hillsdale After Fresh Outbreak Jail Virtually Stormed; Romney Orders Essex Production Stopped In Emergency; Picketing Banned; Guards Disarmed Romney Signs Bill To Clear Way For Voting LANSING George W. Romney today the so-called ballot" bill and cleared the way for legislative action to end confusion over 1964 general election. Romney signed the bill as part of an agreement in which Democrats, in return, would give immediate effect to a pri- 1 mary postponement bill. Romney said he signed the bill complete faith and that Democrats would respond by giving immediate effect to the bill postponing the primary from Aug.

4 to Sept. 1. Democrats in a House caucus, agreed earlier they would go along with their party requests for this action, thereby removing any question of validity of the primary postponement bill. State Democratic Chairman Zolton Ferency said the act in signing the bill means his party can start immediately on its petition drive to force a referendum on the use of the bill, which abolishes the straight party ticket method of voting and replaces it with a ballot listing candidates by office. Democrats oppose the change, but needed the bill signed in order to begin their petition drive which must be completed in 90 days.

They will need at least 138,000 signatures to force the referendum, but the simple act of getting signatures can prevent the ballot's being used in the November election. The bill was expedited to desk by Republicans after Democrats indicated they would give immediate effect to the primary postponement bill in exchange for the ballot bill being acted upon. (For earlier story, see page 9 Flight To Cuba Report Altered MIAMI, Fla. 30th of November Movement, an anti Castro organization, took issue with Rep. Paul G.

Rogers, who told the House on Wednesday he understood one of its planes flew from south Florida to Cuba early this week. plane did not take off from the United States, but from a secret place in the said Jose Feijoo, 30th of November chief information officer. Rogers called for a congressional investigation of what he said appeared to be inexcusable gap in the U.S. air defense He told the House he was informed the plane escaped radar detection by flying at 100 feel. A Cuban refuge, who said he took part in the mission, has offered to testify at a congressional hearing that the plane took off from Florida providing ho is given immunity and the hearing is private.

East German Leader Appeals To Erhard BERLIN East Communist boss Walter Ulbricht made new overtures to West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard today to keep nuclear weapons off German soil. Ulbricht said the Bonn government should pledge not to manufacture nuclear arms and ban the stationing of such arms in West Germany. He declared that only the German could solve the German problem and that foreign have no right to interfere. Living Costs Up Slightly WASHINGTON (AP-Living costs inched up one-tenth of one per cent in April, the Labor Department reported today. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics said price increases so far this year were lower than in the previous two years and indicated very stable price The April rise took the consumer price index to 107.8, meaning it took $10.78 to purchase items that cost $10 in the 1957-59 period, base years for the index.

Recreation, rent, and medical costs were largely responsible for the April increase. Food prices remained steady on the average. Medical costs were up three- tenths of one per cent from March. DETROIT (AP) Nearly a million hourly paid workers in auto factories and supplier plants will get a penny-an-hour wage increase in June on the basis of increased cost of living figures announced Thursday by the Labor Department. The increase will bring to 14 cents the total cost-of-living allowances under present contracts between the United Auto Workers Union and the auto industry.

The contracts gear wages to the rise and fall in living costs. An estimated 250.000 salaried workers at the auto companies will receive upwards adjust- ments of $5 or more in their quarterly allowances for living I costs. lorch Touched io Nehru Body NEW DELHI. India (API Prime Minister Jawaharlal body was committed to the flames of a funeral pyre today in an ancient Hindu ceremony watched by hundreds of thousands of mourners on the banks of the sacred Jumna River. Ending an era, 17- year old grandson Sanjaya Gandhi touched a torch to the huge pile of sandalwood on which the prime body lay.

Police had to beat back crowds with clubs when the gun carriage bearing body approached the cremation site after a funeral procession through the city. Thousands of shuffling feet sent up a dust cloud that obscured even the towering walls of the nearby Red Fort. Military officers lifted body to their shoulders, walked along a freshly laid carpet of red earth spread to the pyre and then up seven steps to the sandalwood resting place. Frenzied mourners shouted Even before the procession started from the prime official residence, a stampede among the crowd outside killed two persons and injured six. U.S.

Officials To Review Asia WASHINGTON (AP President Johnson has ordered top U.S. military and diplomatic officials to meet in Honolulu next week to review the situation in the entire Southeast Asia area. The White House announced today that Secretary of State Dean Rusk will preside at the session next Monday and Tuesday. Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to South Viet Nam, will fly from Saigon to Hawaii to participate in the conference. Others present will include Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The White House said there would be other officials from Washington and from Southeast Asia at the talks, but did not name them. President has asked a number of high U.S.

officials to meet in Honolulu on June 1 and 2 for discussions of the situation in Southeast the announcement said. purpose of the meeting will be to review the situation in the entire In response to a question, the White House said President Johnson had no plans to attend the Honolulu conference. Judy Garland Critically III NEW YORK (AP) Broadcasting Co. correspondent Stanley Rich reported in a broadcast from Hong Kong today that singer Judy Garland had been rushed to a Hong Kong hospital unconscious and in critical condition. Rich said oxygen was administered to Miss Garland and that doctors worked over her for two hours after her arrival at the hospital.

She was reported out of danger afterward but still on the critical list, Rich said. The nature of Miss Garland's trouble was not given. Rich reported, however, that Miss Garland is said to be terrified of storms and that she was stricken in her hotel room as a typhoon raged outside with 90 m.p.h. winds. Miss Garland was winding up a singing tour.

She had told Rich the day before that it had been Hearing Is Slated In Police Slaying Case FREDERICKSBURG, Bruce Walter Leikett of Detroit, charged with murder in the May 5 slayings of two city policemen, was brought to jail Wednesday, sufficiently recovered from auto accident injuries to face a preliminary hearing. Authorities said no date for the hearing has been set. but that it probably would not be until the end of June, to give the defense time to prepare a case. No attorney has been appointed to defend Leikett, a 26- year-old ex-convict. llillllillillllllliii IptWlfMi1' CALLING TO C.

Aud- help in ending rey Paul from a phone in the Hillsdale of the strike at City Hall reads to Gov. Romney in Lansing here. Ihe request from the City Council for state the strife which grew out the Essex Wire Co. plant Caretaker Is Hit By Bottle Moments before confirmation this morning that troops would be sent to Hillsdale, a call was received at city hall. Police spilled from the building.

A fleeing officer said, the power Sirens interrupted a dull silence. Arriving in seconds, police discovered that the power house had not been attacked as feared. Glen Thorp, 81. custodian at the city sanitary landfill for the past ten years, was found dazed, a huge gash in his forehead. Mr.

Thorp said a youth with whom he tussled struck him with a beer bottle. He was taken to the H'Msdale Community Health Center. Mr. Thorp told this1 sequence: Two youths arrived in a car pulling a debris loaded trailer. They wanted to dump it in a certain spot.

Mr. Thorp objected to the location. Words were exchanged. One of the youths tussled with Mr- Thorp, and struck him with a beer bottle. Authorities said Board of Public Works employe Jerry Phillips was near the scene and pulled the youth from Mr.

Thorp, preventing more extensive injuries. The-assailant was not apprehended. Recently 15-masked men entered the city-owned powar plant, attempting to shut off power to the struck Essex Wire Corporation plant. Baton Rouge Play Program Integrated BATON ROUGE, La. City-Parish County recreation and park facilities were integrated without incident Wednesday.

Negroes played golf at two city courses and tennis at City Park. 230 Guardsmen Are Due Here From 3 Cities LANSING following units of the Michigan National Guard today were ordered to active duty by Gov. George W. Romney for service at the strikebound Essex Wire Co. plant in Hillsdale: 107th companies of 110 men from Coldwater and Marshall.

Military Police Co. of the 4tith Infantry 112 men from Flint. Provost Marshal Eight men from Marshall. Students Mill Before Plant passive, Hillsdale College students added to Hillsdale city police chores early this afternoon when they assembled in parking lot across from the struck Essex Wire plant. The purpose of the gathering was not discovered.

Dean Robert Hendee of the college was called to the scene. He quickly disbanded the students and sent them off in their cars. Many students were seen gathered in groups near the plant on the street and in their cars following the incident. City police did not take action in the matter. The crowd was orderly and quiet.

Sgt. York Improves NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP) World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York is still listed in satisfactory condition today and continues to show improvement after being admitted to the hospital last Friday with internal hemorrhaging.

Head Of Essex Not So Happy LANSING ov George W. Romney said he will meet today with Walter Probst, president of the strike torn Essex Wire to discuss issues involved in the labor dispute which has resulted in a state of public emergency at Hillsdale. Romney said Probst asked to meet at the office. Romney said he also was trying to set up a meeting with officials of the International Union of Electrical Workers. The governor was asked by a newsmen what reaction was to the calling out of National Guard troops to maintain order at the Essex plant, very happy about Romney replied.

Excursion Train Is Derailed 3 Killed STOCKPORT. England An excursion for 300 school children ended in horror today with a train derailment which killed three and injured more than 20. The train jumped the tracks as it approached the village station of Che a die Hulme two miles south of Stockport. Local Officials Left In Charge Some 230 National Guardsmen marched into Hillsdale this afternoon at the direction of Gov. George W.

Romney. The appearance of troops places Hillsdale in a of public The order came as the aftermath of new violence Wednesday night in conjunction with the three-month-old Essex Wire Corp. strike. Wednesday violence 3 Of 6 Freed On $50 Bonds started at the 7 p. m.

shift change at the plant. Before order was restored, six arrests had been made, the jail was stoned, and extra troops were called in. Violence began when about eight carloads of non-union workers left the struck plant. A mob had gathered and stoned the cars, police said. The last in the caravan was a security guard vehicle, containing three Negro and one white guards.

A stone broke the window on the passenger side. The car stopped. A Negro got out of the car and drew his pistol, pointing it at the approaching crowd, police said. A special deputy was in the line of fire. Police said the deputy struck the hand with a nightstick, causing the pistol to he fired twice Into the air.

No one was hit. State police whisked the guards back into the car and it sped off. State police said the guards were permitted to go to them from the The guard who drew his pistol was removed from the plant today by state police for questioning. At the scene Wednesday night police arrested three for throwing rocks. They were booked at the county jail.

The crowd followed to the jail, and the lawn. Support troops were called in from Jackson, Calhoun and Lenawee Counties, and from Summitt Township, as well as extra state police. The crowd swelled to some 500 before it dissipated at 11 p. m. Police called the gathering an apparent to The LoPrestos had been ar- See STRIKE STRIFE, Page 5 Directive In Brief Here, in summary, are rules laid down by Gov.

Romney: Picketing, demonstrations, and public assemblage banned. Essex Wire plant shut down except for maintenance. No one permitted firearms except for police officers and troops. Plant guards disarmed. Government left in hands of local officials.

Directive in effect City Hall A Contrast Of Bedlam, Calmness Hillsdale City Hall became logistics control center this morning as the fateful decision was being made to call in troops. Officials at 9 a. m. issued a tersely worded statement outlining the reasons for asking for martial law- The decision has been made earlier this morning in the midnight closed council sQbsion. City Hall was bedlam.

Newsmen poured in from around the state. Police and city officials conferred in any available nook. Clerks went through the motions of doing their assigned chores. But it was futile. All typewriters were occupied by newsmen.

Switchboard operator Josephine Case was pressed trying to find open lines for calls from the building. Mayor C. Audrey Paul was called to the phone time after time. Inquires were being received from across the nation. 4 A few stragglers appeared in Municipal Court to settle traffic fines.

This was contrasted wiih pensive questions, like, Mayor, has the governor cated how many troops will be sent Unmoved by the near-bedlam, assistant fire chief George Whitson mowed the lawn in front of City Hall. Councllmen drifted in and out. They, too, were uncertain of what time troops would arrive. A newsman, is the reac- ifclon to this Coffee and cigarettes were the order of the day. A coffee urn in the city clerk's office flowed.

Logistics were planned. It was a glum, dark morning in Hillsdale. But someone still asked. you get the banana The tree is sitting, unaffected by the commotion, in the office of city Roberta Vaughan. As an outgrowth of related to the Essex Wire Corp.

management-labor dispute Wednesday night, the following persons were arrested. Angelo Samuel LoPresto, 37, 192 Fayette St. Joe Tony Presto, 38, 66 W. St. Joe and the 15-year-old son of Joe LoPresto, whose name police did not reveal.

All three were arrested by state police and booked for Late this afternoon none of the three had been charged differently nor had they made court appearances, police said. Police said the following sons were arrested for rock throwing. They were charged! with malicious destruction of property: Louise Stoll, 33, of Allen, the mother of five children, and the wife of a striking member of Local 810. William H. Benson, 21, gasoline station attendant, who lives at 84 S.

Howell St. He is not a striker, according to IUE representative George Gould. Jason Francis Comar, 44, of Osseo, the father of four children. He was identified as a striker. The last three were released on $50 bond after being held at the county jail for some three hours.

No court appearance date was set. Leaders Issue Statements The manaigement-labor dispute at the struck Essex Wire Corp. plant which began Feb. 28 w'as three-months-old Wednesday. Today, troops entered Hillsdale.

Officials of the union and company made the following statements moments after it was confirmed that Gov. George W. Romney would send in troops: Local 810 president Charles Rozelle: is the best thing that could have happened as far as we are concerned. This has been out of hand. And now maybe the people of the town can be put at ease.

This should have happened months Essex plant manager Italo Bragalone: the governor's order I have no comment because it is a question of law enforcement, not labor Mr- Bragalone continued, troops are arriving, I hope that it will be a turning point in past events. I further hope that the eventual outcome of this situation will be beneficial to community and the.