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Vol. 87-No. 167 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MONDAY. JULY 18, 1966 Two Sections l8fAGES-IO CENTS fed tost km 9m (0)f OECAT ERALD i 7 Chicago West Side Quiet; Gov. Kerner Visits Riot Scene Doctor Says Suspect Tried To Take Life Xrime of Century Riot Taken in Stride by City National Guard Cut to Taverns Open By Jules Lob Of the Associated Press Chicago The nationwide hunt for Richard Speck, No.

1 suspect in the massacre of eight student nur i Most newsmen believe the Ne By Robert D. Merris ses, ended Sunday in a skid row hotel where Speck ap parently tried to commit sui groes who say, "We'll get those (Chicago) cops when the soldiers leave." Dick Ciccone, young Chicago staffer just back from 32 years with the Marines and a jjood 'A 111 i A vU tzrrrz JV cide. Police rushed him to a bos-Dital at 12:37 a.m. without real- Herald and Review Executive Editor Chicago Chicago came awake Sunday morning to cool 78-degree temperatures and the knowledge that the man suspected of butchering and garroting eight nurses was behind bars at Bridewell, the city house of cor part of the time in Viet the man unconscious, took a minute to compare the reeking of alcohol and bleeding work he has been doing on both stories with the war. Dick, who looks a lot like the from slashes on his arm and wrist was Speck.

A doctor recognized him as the fugitive when he washed Speck's bloody left arm and rection. Chicago was quiet on first police artist drawing of Speck and got a lot of kid saw the widely publicized tat fronts. The West Side had gone through another night of comparative peace, though still at the points of National Guard bayonets. The Loop area ding from Loh about it said "I've been on quite a few patrols in Viet Nam but the actual tension I felt during the riots and on stake out at Speck's sister's home was greater at the moment." 'Living in if had had an ordinary Sunday morning crowd of young servicemen, mostly sailors on weekend liberty from Great too: "born to raise hell." "What's your name?" asked Dr. Leroy Smith.

"Richard. Richard the man replied. Warrant Named Him A murder warrant had been issued for Speck less than 15 hours earlier when police announced that fingerprints found at the scene of last Thursday's By Austin Scott Of the Associated Press Chicago Gov. Otto Kerner took a first-band look Sunday at Chicago's riot scene, calmed two days ago by the National Guard. The West Side area was quiet.

Kerner's unannounced factfinding trip was coupled with a cutback in the troops patrolling the area where three days of violence and destruction took two lives. The 2,200 guardsmen on patrol Saturday night were pulled off duty at 3 a.m. Maj. Gen. Francis P.

Kane, commander of the troops, said the force was to cut to between 1.000 and men Sunday night. Police lifted a two-day ban on operation of pool halls, tav eras and liquor stores, ordered shut down during the rioting. Except for the scars of rioting, the scene seemed not abnormal. On a street littered with beer cans and paper, half a dozen youngsters lashed at each other with pieces of rubber hose. Both groups were playing, not fighting.

But they provided evidence supporting a common view of last week's outburst that the trouble was sparked more by frustration at ghetto Lakes, and the 70,000 conventioneers who flocked in for the Ciconne added: "But you can weekend in spite of the air lines strike. The carillon of the Chicago get relief, a good steak and a cold beer, in Chicago. In Viet Nam you're living in it all the time. That's the worst part of it. "However, when you're on Temple peeled out "What a I Associated Press Wirephoto mass murder matched those of the 25-year-old ex-convict.

Police also disclosed that the one survivor of the butchery, Corazon Amurao, 23, had identified Speck from a small coin-machine photograph the day alter the slayings. Detectives were on Speck's trail even before that in fact Friend We Have in Jesus. Chicagoans might feel that they need good friend after the five days of turmoil they have experienced. A priest at one Catholic Church did not mention the turmoil and tragedy in his sermon. the hunt patrol in the Viet Nam jungle you're armed and your buddies are armed.

You feel like you'ie capable of handling any situation. In Chicago (West Side) you feel powerless." Herald and Review reporter the floor refers for the slayer. the floor resulted from the severed artery in Speck's left arm. The newspaper head" on Speck, suspect in the slaying of eight nurses, was found unconscious Sunday. Blood on However, in the prayers at the Skid Row Room This 4- by 6-foot room in a Chicago Skid Row hotel, police said, is where Richard Joe Kennedy Under Oxygen After Stroke within a few hours after the end of Mass he asked the peo-jDan Cheeks returned from the.eight bodies were found strfln pie to "pray for peace in the, West Side early Sunday after- gled and stabbed in a dormit i nrU TtAiA iwt 'k A i nnnn "Vn frmihlo IlUdy duel out there, ni it rhnra Suspect Unconscious Doctor Sees Tattoo, Quest Ends ITV11U.

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(AP) Chicago (AP) i Dr. Smith, who was on trau- He turned to a nurse, Kathy conditions than by racial ten-i They tracked him to a nearby maritime union hall where Speck had left the small photograph along with a job application, then to a string of tawdry skid-row honkeytonks on Chicago's near North Side where tie iirrrt-: iU. sions. Former Ambassador Joseph, "I moistened my finger tips ma duty Saturday night, hadiu Connor, ana saia. uus iuie Sherman Hotel, dashed inioigroes because Saturday night Randolph Street screaming at a he eave a Negro man on a looking for.

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now." Dr. Smith said he asked the patient his name. "He finally spurted out Richard Richard Speck." An examination ascertained some time," said the photogra-j early Sunday when he was iden last August talked to dozens tf acK aunady ai nis reading "born to raise hell" con- hectare. residents. borne.

firmed a young doctor's hunch "It ain't the cops and it's not A family spokesman said the that his patient was Richard Smith rted at a news confer-all kids," said a young gang patriarch of the famous clan Franklin Speck, accused killer ence "I picked up his head and member as he sat on a desk in was in an oxygen tent for about of eight student nurses. at tne nurge t0 gee ghe He grinned, waved and dodgod pher. tified at Cook County Hospital around his wildly waving; Going back to Decatur?" the where he had Deen taker om competitor. flHi'imtcltr it talroc mrm hotel clerk asked. "You should a w-cents-a-nignt hotel room that had laceration in me large cnurcn inn serves as tll.

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placed Speck in the hands of i wnere he was found covered with his own blood. Deep Gash Dr. Smith said Speck had a iwmamhAriwI iha tattnn ha JUC1JUI IdtC 1HU3 iU UpCL IllULI on television. nniipp i Dieeaine irom a cui vein. Smith, a resident surgeon at, I The doctor quoted Speck as rnnif rmintv Hosnital.

a saying later: "I'm scared. I'm and began rubbing the SIX DROWN Tokyo (AP) A ferry boat with 12-passen- scared." Separate Area Crashes Kill 2 looks something like a serious) patient's left arm and disclosed the tell-tale marking. Chicagoans. 15 to 20 Hours By noon Sunday, Associated Press writers who have been working 15 to 20 hours a day since last Tuesday had a chance to lean back, light up and reflect. There were no Sunday afternoon newspapers to ger capacity capsized Sunday Jack Lemmon, related that the patient was brought in by po while unloading 61 week end fishermen on a tiny island "We need more basketball courts, more swimming pools.

There's only three pools for people on the West Side. What do they expect us to do?" San Francisco Prevents Riot San Francisco (AP) An armed robbery in which a Negro policeman wounded a Negro suspect was followed by an arsonous. near-riot in San Francisco's Negro Fillmore district early Sunday. off Susami, 230 miles west of Robert Lee Dunn, 27, of rural White Heath was one of two Central Illinois nersons killed in lice at 12:30 a.m. under the name of B.

Brian. He had been found, cut and bleeding in a skid row flophouse. protect and there was tune to Tokyo. Six of the fishermen drowned. Smith reported that he made five stitches in Speck's left arm.

He also gave the patient a quart of blood. Smith said Speck "never did mention the girls or the crime." Nor, did he say how he was cut. Smith is a native of Michigan City, and a 1965 graduate at Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. think about second leads and separate automobile accidents deep gash in the crook of his left arm, where an artery was severed, and a superficial cut on his right wrist. When Speck was being wheeled into the operating room he asked Dr.

Smith: "Are you going to get the $10,000 reward?" Dr. Smith said he did not reply. South Side Community Hospital, where the eight victims were in training, had offered the reward. At 4:45 a.m. Speck was moved from Cook County Hospital to Bridewell Hospital, which is a part of the county jail.

He was put in a private room. features Jerome McGahan Noted Charleston Artist Dies Sunday. Dunn was killed Sunday morning in a one-car accident on a rural road about 7Vz miles northeast of Monticello near White Heath. His body was discovered shortly after 7 a.m. Piatt County Sheriff Harold Peck said the car was found upside down, Police controlled the out Joe Dill, the Southern Illinois University graduate and one of the real solid young staffers in the Chicago Bureau, was doing the roundup on Richard Franklin Speck.

"The guy had a thing about getting to New Orleans. He told everybody he met that's where he wanted to go. This trapped him as surely as the 'Born to Raise Hell' tattoo on his arm," said Joe. Jules Loh. Associated Press Newsfeatures writer from New break in a short time.

They said it was not racial, despite attempts of a few hard-cora Charleston (Special) Jerome (Rome) McGahan of rural Charleston, considered one of the leading primitive artists in the Midwest, is dead at age 84. body pinned with Dunn's underneath. black racists to exploit it. They do not expect more trouble. Negroes set seven fires, all LOS ANGELES POLICE CHIEF DIES Los Angeles (AP) Police Chief William Parker small, with gasoline bombs.

who died baturcuy McGahan, 49, of rural killed about 4 4 Picket'ers Overlook One Little Detail Washington (AP) Four "Draft George Hamilton" pickets paraded back and forth in front of the White House for a half-hour Sunday, attracting almost no attention. Two young men who identified themselves as Bill Trea-nor and Phillip Kete, students in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, were joined on the picket line by two young women. Hamilton, Hollywood actor, is a frequent escort of Lynda Bird Johnson, the elder daughter of President and Mrs. Johnson. Hamilton, who has a draft deferment as tha support of his mother, has passed his 26th birthday.

Under normal circumstances, 26 is the ceiling for being drafted for military service. Treanor seemed unimpressed when a newsman pointed out that Hamilton had had a deferment since he was 18 and that was long before Lynda and the Miles Evans, West York was p.m. Sunday in Seven Neero vouths. included night in Mattoon Memorial Hos died Saturday night, after coi- a Car-pickup at a tpctimnnial riinnpr the wounded suspect, were ar-! pital. and his niece, Jennie Cell, rested.

nationwide recognition for A white ambulance driver pags of such prairie life scenes as hoe butchering xorK assignea io cover me tuiuaiuu ai a miai tius-igjven partiCally in his honor sacre. was out on his feet. He roads about five miles south of i sajd had gotten to bed at 2 a.m. Sun- Martinsville in Clark County. Cause o' deatn wag not im day, only to be called out at 3 Evans, driver of the pickup mediately known but the when Speck was arrested, truck, died shortly after being i yearH officer had returned t0 "I know what I want to say admitted to Crawford Memorial only last month but I just can't technically put Hospital in Robinson.

an extended leave with a heart the words together," he His wife, 39, was reported ailment and corn husking. McGahan, a retired carpen- was manhandled but not badly hurt. Five suspects in the robbery one armed with a long-bladed knife, fled. ter and farmer, made his home I with his 62-year-old niece. Bob Hinds, assistant chief of critical conaiuon iaie aunaay in McGahan began his painting; career in 1956 at age 74.

Shirley i Tremble, a Charleston artist-; photographer, was the first to: recognize the talent of McGa-; han and his niece. Illegal Moslem Group Charged Jerome McGahan 'Mm iLJS McGahan and his niece became widely known for their (the Chicago Bureau. They were the hospital, i working up an insert to clarify! Also admitted to the hospital I one point of the Speck arrest. rwere tne Evans' 16-year-old 1 'Going to Bed' daughter and 12-year-old son. "Do you know what I'm try- Driver of the car was Raying to say?" Loh asked Hinds, mond Tyhurst, 19, of I was just talking to viUe.

who was treated at a you about an hour ago," Hinds Martinsville clinic. said. (See Central Illinois Deaths) "Okay, write it," said Loh. 1 "I'm eoing to bed." POLISH WHISKY sional show by mistake. Not realizing he was entering i thp nmfpccinnal hnw Mp- paintings after Tremble convin- (cl 1966 New York Times Cairo ced them to enter a few of their ir.ahan i-f, ui: Snrar actor ever heard of each works in the Town and Countrv! i.

Complete forecast on Page 12 Inside Today The government has charged Aft show at the University of'u JT olner- mpmhprs nf the illegal Mosle Vu LmversMy 01 honorable mention cash prize of; Jd Tai him a profession- DINOSAUR EXPOSED An auuiuiuies nave iHdiru i i i t- third attempt within a year to McGahan and Miss Cell nf 1 Ciudad Muzquiz, Mex. (AP) assassinate President Gamal their "true primitive expres-'iifc uniSr.it? art toa' Heavy rains recently washed Abdel Nasser. slon." trr.ahan snH away topsoil and exposed the Newspapers Sunday reported It was by accident that Mc- hi nipce beloneine to "that bones of a 25-foot-tall dinosaur 1 Jack Quigg of the Los Ange-j Warsaw, Poland tA) tsnage i'age a les Bureau and Don McKee, At-! The first samples of Polish-j Classified 13-17 lanta. both members of the AP made whisky are being aged Comics 12 raciai task force, were off in a in oaken casks and will appear Crossword 5 corner writing stories that toid soon on the domestic market, Editorials 4 how quiet was the West Side of the Warsaw Evening Express Weather J2 Chicago this Sunday morning, (said. "Experts say it does not Obituaries 2, i Privately they were betting differ from the original scotch Radio-TV 7 that there would be more trou-iio taste, aroma or color," the Sports 10-11 ble in the area this paper added.

I Women's 6 the indictment against eight Gahan became a professional in nf Zti arti believed to be millions of vears ho orlromicl rplit. 1QC1 Winn SmaU 6' UP I natle ania members of the extremist retig-1961. his losuig right to coin- Ttoiiiii i km A tnmmr that is fast diminishing from Ulu- u- ious group, hose goal is tne pete in amateur shows. lliaic adiu UK MlCllUIl. IUUJ1U the American scene." establishment of a theocratic I At the 1961 Illinois State Fair state.

I be was directed to the profe? I here in northern Mexico, was about 70 million years old. DR. LEROY SMITH Identified Speck (St Central Illinois Deaths).