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Carroll Daily Times Herald Vol. 97 167 Return Postage Guaranteed Carroll, Iowa, 51401, Monday, July Pages Delivered by Carrier Boy Each Evening for 40 Cents Per Week 10c Copy Lone Massacre Survivor Confronts Heavy Guard Around Speck Set for Space Telephoto CHICAGO (AP) A nurse who survived the massacre of eight fellow nurses went to the jail hospital today, presumably to view the man charged with murdering one of them. John Stamos, first assistant state's attorney, declined to comment on the visit of Miss Corazon Amurao, 23, to the hospital but it was plain that she had no reason to be there except to view Richard Speck, how soon he could be arraigned under treatment for wounds suf- on the murder charge in the fel- fered in a suicide attempt When newsmen asked Stamos if Miss Amurao had confronted Speck, the prosecutor replied, "No comment." Stamos and members of the state's attorney's staff earlier said they were awaiting a doctor's report on Speck's physical condition before determining Gemini-10 Astronauts John Young, left and Michael Collins take a long look at Cape Kennedy at flight plans for their space mission, scheduled for July 18. The astronauts will try to hook up their craft with an Agena target rocket and Collins is scheduled to make a 55- minute walk in space. The flight' is slated to end July 21.

Chicago is Again Quiet; Pull Troops By The Associated Press National Guardsmen pulled out of the streets of Chicago's West Side early today, as the district appeared to be returning to normal after last week's rioting. Some 2,700 guardsmen were ordered to stand by at Chicago armories by Maj. Gen. Francis P. Kane.

However, Kane said he planned to have troops on the street again tonight. Taverns and pool halls that had been closed were allowed to reopen by Chicago police, who I warned they would be closed again if there was any disorder. Meanwhile, the city moved to redress some of the grievances asserted by Negroes. The Parks Department said a team has begun installing semi- portable swimming pools at parks and playgrounds. Earlier, Mayor Richard J.

Daley agreed to equip fire hydrants with sprinklers so youngsters could cool off. Dr. Martin Luther King who had been trying to initiate a campaign to aid slum dwellers, said he fears eruptions in the ghettos of every major city unless concrete preventive steps are taken quickly. In San Francisco, police said Negro racists had failed to exploit an arson spree which followed the wounding of a Negro accused of robbery by a Negro policeman early Sunday. Negro youths set seven small fires with gasoline bombs.

The trouble, soon controlled by police, erupted after youths left a dance at an Afro-American cultural center not far from the robbery scene. The shooting came after Negro officer Herman George, who was off duty, saw six Negro youths attempting to rob four white persons. He stopped his car, approached the group, and fired twice when one of the youths leveled a pistol at him and ignored orders to drop it. The youth was struck in the chest by the second bullet. The other five fled.

Astronauts Set For Space Walks CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) launch pads buzzed with activity today as the Gemini 10 astronauts, relaxed and ready, prepared to ride into Teen Hop Hit Attraction at Festival Here The Teen Hop, new at the St. Anthony Hospital Ice Cream Festival, turned out to be the most popular event of the day, Sunday, according to Mrs. R. J.

Dolezal, publicity chairman. Both adults who were spectators and pre-teens who were participants jammed the Holy Spirit school area where the dance was held. Sr. Mary Myron, Auxiliary moderator with the hospital, said that the festival was attended by "a very large crowd," and that the booths were well patronized. Door prizes awarded included a television set to Mrs.

V. L. Throckmorton and a Barbee doll and wardrobe made by Mrs. Harry T. Shepherd to Mrs.

J. A. Van Valkenburg. The festival opened at noon and continued until 9 p.m. Mrs.

M. H. Van Valkenburg was chairman, with Mrs. Leonard Burg and Mrs. Harold Kunze as co-chairmen.

County Fair to Start Thursday Joint Committee of Catholic-Methodist VATICAN CITY (AP) The Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Church Council announced today creation of a joint committee to explore ways for common Christian study and action. The WMC and the Vatican's secretariat for promoting Christian unity told of the plan in a joint statement. They said they would announce in early fall who would serve on the committee and when it would first meet. space today on a daring dual- rendezvous and space-walk adventure that could take them deeper into space than any man has ventured. While Navy Cmdr.

John W. Young and Air Force Maj. Michael Collins slept late, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported everything was progressing smoothly for the double launching. The countodown on an Atlas rocket started right on time at 9:31 a.m. (EDT).

The Atlas is to make a fiery department from its pad at 4:40 p.m. to hurl an Agena space vehicle into orbit as a chase target for the astronauts. On another launch pad 6,000 feet away, crews began pouring tons of fuel into a Titan 2 that is to hurl Young and Collins into space at 6:21 p.m. to start the dramatic chase across the skies. Numerous clouds hovered in the Cape Kennedy area this morning, but weathermen predicted favorable conditions at launch time.

The forecast called for partly cloudy skies, surface winds of 10 knots and gentle seas offshore and less than 15 per cent possibility of thunderstorms. With all preparations proceeding smoothly, Young and Collins took a day off Sunday and went fishing in the Atlantic off Cape Kennedy. Adjusting to a sleep schedule that will keep them up late each night in space, they retired about 3 a.m. this morning, and space officials hoped they'd sleep until after noon. The late afternoon launch times were dictated by the position of another Agena left in space last March by the Gemini 8 pilots.

After catching and linking up with their Agena late tonight, Young and Collins plan to fire the target satellite's powerful engine to shoot to a record altitude of perhaps 468 miles to po- Space Flight See Page 13 The 48th annual Four County Fair will open Thursday at Coon Rapids, featuring 4-H exhibits, a flower show, tractor pulling contest, a pony show, a horse show, a rodeo and a midway. Four-H girls will enter their exhibits Tuesday for judging Wednesday. Boys' 4-H and FFA livestock must be in place by 6 p.m. Thursday. The fair will conclude Sunday followed Monday by the calf sale beginning at 9 a.m.

Thursday will open at 2 p.m. with a livestock judging contest. The tractor pulling contest, three classes, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday's events include judging of 4-H and FFA swine at 8 a.m.; first 4-H i 1 s' demonstrations at 9 a.m.; judging of household arts at 9 a.m.; judging grain and farm products at 9:30 a.m.; judging 4-H and FFA dairy classes at 11:30 a.m.; judging flower show at 12 noon; judging 4-H and FFA sheep at 1:30 p.m. and pony judging at 2:30 p.m.

Merritt's Rodeo will have two performances, one Friday and one Saturday, both at 7:30 p.m. Baby beef judging for 4-H and FFA members will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday; girls' 4-H demonstrations will be resumed at 9 a.m. and the afternoon will feature pony races at 2:30 p.m. Sunday's official events will begin with the livestock parade at 7:30 prior to the horse show at 8 p.m.

However, horse show performances are scheduled for all day Sunday. The halter show will take place in the forenoon; the buggy and cart hitch show in the afternoon, and the variety show in the i g. The ony division of Circuit Court. He has been in the hospital since early Sunday after his arrest. He had been taken to the hospital from a cheap hotel where he apparently tried to end his life.

Speck, a 25-year-old ex-convict, spent his last hours drink end his life, Sunday. In an ironic twist, the fugitive whose name and picture were flashed around the world was taken to a hospital by policemen who didn't recognize him. nurses massacred in their residence early Thursday. Ward said he anticipates filing multiple murder charges against Speck and that he probably will present the case to the grand jury this week. Speck has been under sedation in the city jail hospital and reported in good condition.

Coon Rapids Saddle Dusters are in charge. Fair officers this year are Floyd Kretzinger, president; John Sporrer, vice president; Mrs. Gerald Bull, secretary- treasurer; Glenn Toyne, Jake Bell, Arnold Thomas, Charles Moore, George Bass, John Sporrer, Francis Malcom, Rex Lewis, Don Anderson, Don Halverson, Mr. Kretzinger, i 11 South, Frank Clayburg, Orel Thomas, Leonard Sporrer, Glenn Struve, Dean Remsburg, Betts, Kenneth Betts, Beryl Gymer, Don Herron, John Wiskus, Clayton Roller and Gerald Hachmeister, directors. Department superintendents include Joe King, Mr.

Gymer, Harold Shride, Francis Shir- broun, Earl Clark Mr. Anderson, Mr. Kretzinger, Mr. Halverson, Dr. E.

Shirbroun, members of the boys county 4-H committee, Gary Bell, Mrs. Leonard Madigan and members of the girls' county 4-H committee, Mrs. Shride and Mrs. William Knoll. Late News Off AP Wire GENEVA (AP)-The United States told the International Red Cross Committee today there will be "disastrous consequences" if North Viet Nam carries out threats to put captive American airmen on trial.

Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, delivered the warning from the United States in a meeting with Roger Gallopin, executive director of the neutral, all-Swiss committee. Goldberg told reporters after the meeting: "I informed the Red Cross that in the view of the U.S. government there can be no doubt that the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war fully apply to the Viet Nam conflict." rold Hughes said Monday he hopes law enforcement officials continue arresting motorists who pass on yellow lines, even though a district judge has ruled the law is unconstitutional.

Hughes told a news conference he is "all for extending those lines, and I think there should be more of them on the highways." District Judge R. Kent Martin ruled in Cass County District Court recently that the law empowering the State Highway Commission to establish yellow no-passing lines and signs is unconstitutional. GOVERNOR DES MOINES (AP)-Gov. Ha- CRASH KILLS NINE- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) persons died Saturday when an Air Force transport plane on a supply run from Nome crashed and sank in the Arctic Ocean off Cape Lisburne. Among the four passengers on the propeller-driven C123 were Hugh H.

and Elinor Yancey, USO entertainers from Los Angeles, being flown to Cape burne to perform at a radar station. Weather FIVE-DAY IOWA FORECAST The Iowa five-day weather forecast says temperatures in the period ending Saturday night will average from near normal in eastern Iowa to five degrees above normal in the west. Normal highs range from the lower 80s in the northeast to around 90 degrees in the southwest. Lows normally are from the lower 60s north to the middle 60s south. Temperatures will be pleasant at the start of the period, warming after the middle of the week.

Scattered thunder showers should average one-half to three quarters of an inch, possibly some Tuesday but mostly during the latter part of the week. IOWA FORECAST Partly cloudy and cooler Monday night and Tuesday. Low Monday night 70-75, high Tuesday 85-90. Outlook for Wednesday fair and mild. TEST MARS TRIP- ALAMOGORDO, N.M.

(AP) 815-foot tall balloon soared away from a southern New Mexico desert site today in a prelude to tests involving the Voyager spacecraft for unmanned landings on Mars. Billed by the Air Force as the largest balloon ever built, with a helium capacity of 26 million cubic feet, it was designed to reach an altitude of 130,000 feet before descending in the Tucson-Phoenix area of Arizona. CARROLL-NORTHWEST Clear to partly cloudy and a little cooler Monday night and Tuesday. Low Monday night 6771, high Tuesday in 80s. The Weather in Carroll (Dally Temperatures Courtesy of Iowa Public Service Company.) Yesterday's high Yesterday's low AT 7 a.m.

today At 10 a.m. today .89 .66 .76 .86 Weather A Year Temperatures ranged from a high of 83 to a low of 64 degrees a year ago today. 15 Waves of Bombers Hit Oil Depots SAIGON, South Viet (AP) Fifteen waves of American bombers pounded a major oil depot in North Viet Nam Sunday and touched off 35 fires and 51 explosions in the big storage complex, the U.S. military command reported today. U.S.

Air Force jets struck the Badon fuel depot 20 miles northwest of Dong Hoi while other Air Force planes hit another oil storage area one mile east of Badon. In South Viet Nam, fighting died down in the combined U.S. Marine-South Vietnamese drive against an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese army regulars eight miles south of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Viet Nam. U.S. headquarters reported two small-scale probing attacks by the North Vietnamese today.

The South Vietnamese said their force had no contact with the enemy. Earlier in the operation, which began Friday, 167 Reds were reported killed. Allied casualties were reported light, but 13 Marines were killed when the Communists shot down a Marine CH46 troop- carrying helicopter at the start of the operation. Enemy fire also brought down an F4 Phantom jet, but the two crewmen bailed out safely. Four other helicopters were destroyed or damaged.

U.S. Air Force B52s softened up the area three times last week, and the big bombers struck again Sunday while a thousand Marines landed on the beaches just south of the border as a blocking force. "We'll just have to stay up here until we find them," said Maj. Gen. Wood B.

Kyle, commander of the 3rd Marine Division. "That could take days or weeks." No fighting of any size was reported elsewhere in South Viet Nam. However, Vietnamese headquarters reported an upsurge in Viet Nam See Page 4 State's Atty. Daniel Ward said I Speck would appear in circuit! court today on a charge of mur- i ing and carousing before he altering 22-year-old Gloria Jean Ward said Speck had not been tempted unsuccessfully to Davy, one of the eight student questioned and had made no statements. He was under heavy guard.

The nationwide hunt for Speck ended in a skid row flophouse when a tenant saw Speck staggering down a hallway, covered with blood. The tenant called the desk clerk and he summoned police. Police placed a tourniquet on the profusely bleeding left arm and took the man, reeking from alcohol and conscious, to Cook County Hospital. But a young surgeon who had just read a newspaper recognized a tattoo and summoned police. This came less than 15 hours after a murder warrant had been issued for Speck.

Detectives theorized that Speck drank himself into a stupor and tried to commit suicide after he saw a drinking buddy in the back seat of a police car. Detective John Mitchell said Speck may have spotted Robert Gerrald in the back of a squad car as police toured skid row in a systematic search for Speck Friday night and Saturday. Mitchell said Speck may have reasoned "he had run out of time," and attempted to kill himself. Authorities said ho used either a broken bottle or knife to slash his arm and wrist. He lost pints of blood.

Police picked Gerrald up Friday afternoon after witnesses reported seeing Gerrald with Speck in a rooming house Thursday afternoon. Police said Gerrald told them he and Speck discussed the nurses' massacre while drinking Speck See Page Suspected Taken into custody at a Chicago hospital early Sunday, Richard F. Speck, 25, is believed to be "positively" identified, through fingerprints found at the scene of the crime, to be the mass murderer of the eight student nurses strangled and stabbed in their town house on Chicago's south side early Thursday morning. Monmouth's Most Notorious Native MONMOUTH, III. (AP) In the span of time it takes for headlines to echo around the world, 25 year old Richard Speck has become Monmouth's most notorious native son.

Until Saturday, when he was identified as the prime suspect in the mass murder of eight student nurses in Chicago, there were few in Monmouth who knew or remembered the sometime seaman, drifter and ex-convict. The exceptions were his family a few acquaintances and the Monmouth chief of police. Speck had not been in Monmouth for some 14 years when he suddenly reappeared late last winter and contacted his brother. When he left, it was under the cloud of suspicion. He was wanted for questioning about several housebreakings, an attempted rape and murder.

He was the youngest son of Frank and Mary Margaret Speck. Frank Speck was a carpenter, and he died in 1946. The Specks had daughters also. After her husband's death, Mrs. Speck left Monmouth to live with relatives in Dallas, where Richard had his schooling after first grade, and until he dropped out of ninth grade.

Mrs. Speck remarried and now is Mrs. Mary Margaret Speck Lindberg. A schoolmate recalls that Richard was known to classmates as "Lindberg." "He was kind of a wild kid," a classmate recalled. "He didn't seem to care about anything." Richard had indifferent suc- and got out before serving his full sentence, but he went back later to do the full time after he was accused of an assault, with an apparent robbery motive.

Freed, he returned early last March to Monmouth where his brother, Howard William Speck is a carpenter, well liked and respected. His only other brother, Robert, who was killed two years ago in an auto accident, had worked in the pressroom of the Monmouth Review-Atlas. Howard helped his younger brother and tried to get him squared away at the carpentry trade. Richard began work with the Oscar Neal Construction Co. as an apprentice, and stayed with a friend of Howard's Elmer Johnson, a barber.

But after two weeks, Richard quit carpentry and left Johnson, saying he was homesick for Texas. But he didn't leave town then. Joseph Kennedy Resting Easier Following Attack HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) Former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the late president, was reported resting easier today after suffering what doctors described as a mild heart attack Sunday at his home.

Kennedy was not taken to a hospital. A spokesman for the family said today that the 77-year-old Kennedy was in relatively "excellent condition," considering his age and medical history. Dr. Russell S. Boles of Wellesley, the former ambassador's personal physician, was flowa to Boston this morning aboard the family plane.

Dr. Boles spent the night at the Kennedy compound. Kennedy's two sons, Sens. Robert Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy, flew to Washington this morning.

Policeman and Baptist Deacon Stops the Show NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A police sergeant who once gave tickets to two meter maids for illegal parking has shut down the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in Nashville. "I represent the thinking of the good people of this town," said Sgt. Fred Cobb, a soft-spoken Baptist deacon and Sunday School teacher. "I just don't feel like they would approve of this type of "film for young people to see." After sitting through the film cess trying to make a living at Saturday night, Cobb returned unskilled work, and his efforts to get money without working for it got him, finally, into the penitentiary at Huntsville, Tex, on charges involving burglary and forgery, under a three-year sentence.

He behaved well in prison Sunday night with a warrant for the arrest of theater manager Lawrence Martin Kerrigan, 55. Kerrigan later was released on $50 bond to appear today in city court. Cobb confiscated one reel of the film, and then mounted the stage to tell some 700 moviegoers why the picture had been stopped. They got their money back. Cobb's warrant said the film, which stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, violated a city ordinance banning profanity on the screen.

"It's a disgrace," said Cobb. "I couldn't rest easy without doing something about it. It seems to tear down everything that is decent and worthwhile in our society. "It used God's name in vairi several times and tried to belittle modern day evangelists such as Billy Graham and others." Theaters showing the movie are required by the producer to advertise that no one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by a parent..