Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1946 — Page 7

■R.., mikih

Dead iiiiir u'i ' || "' l ■' ,i SB' 1 i'"'" 1 '• *'" MB'' v. ■ ■" '■'■ Hw ' *■' ■' ;r ' ! “'' iH* SouHmcd For State Park ■H*. ~ •• . i: i ' g|||w r * * ' ' " ■ ■' ' 1 * BHr* u»: I"* 1 " ■IK “•' |j ' '* ; 1 " '' |j». t »■• |! ■ " * , ‘ l >■? . i ■■. B • ■ • ■K.® I|. -<|'l Huor SEIZING >r«» "" r ’ _ : Illi "lc ■H A,.! I :'’ r ' '" ||K .■ UK ■ ■■' ■ UK ' * * i'll 'i ■'' |I|H .. . , I . -ill ».. ■ n; ■\ ■L * z M 4 IWe Rings A £■ r* < ’ ¥ HH cMctivtd and j*i MStateU by \ HB dtimen of out P» reputat on A) «>th Selected X MM Diamonds of V |BI superb fiery if SHI brilliance and X Ciarity. ■ §

popular | fIKB Murder! I 9I Mystery I iwflVJI now Bffwffl appear ■Mp|B in ■wflr ser * HKlf Ik ' » Jf/ form K* beginning l Frid ’y, March 29th RIR DAILY DEMOCRAT

'Black Coupe' Owner Sought In Slaying Murder At Dunkirk r Is Still Unsolved Dunkirk. Ind., March 3k H'P|— * Reports 'hut Cyrus Frasier previously had boon “threatened with death" were under investigation by alate police today a® new clues were uncovered In the rdaying of the .l.tyearold Yorktown farmer. State polico detective Truman Hlere refused to elalmrate oil Ilin . statement that be had learned the r victim wan threatened hi York f town. f Blerle aho said Rumors that Era sier “frequently naw a woman in Dunkirk** were being probed. The I presibility of a love triangle was not discounted by police, although I tiny refused to comment further, i lllere did not «ay whether the i Dunkirk woman" was Frasier*! i former wife who lived near the lonely cemetery road where he was shot to death early Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, authorities continedu to check earlier rc|H>its that a “black coupe" followed the truck driven by Frazier toward the cemetery from Dunkirk. Em bullet- | ridden In’dy was found in the cab . of the truck. State p lice detectlvc't and Blackford county authorities believed the driver of the mystery car might ’ Im- the elderly card-playing friend of the Ilk-yeai old Yorktown farm er. Frazier* bcaly was slumped over the steering wheel of tin* truck when ptdice were called to investigate the parked yehicle. lie had , been shot three timer Neighbors told authorities they heard another machine drive away from the scene. In I ceil ve Truman Birrie said Dunkirk residents told him they saw tho coupe following Frasier's truck toward the cemetery road shortly before i a in. Tuesday morning. Ilierie said tile identity of tile elderly man with whom Frazier was reported to havo had a “mild argument’* at a Dunkirk restaurant a short lime before his death was Htill a mystery. Blerle xald he Itelieved Frazier was enroute to the homo of his former wife. Mrs. Pauline Bantz Frailer, to vkeit her uid their two children. But he was attacked by ills U)lirjje.ng-. Indore he leached his *FAIi nation. Frazier's prexetit wife. .Mrs. Anna Williams Frazil*!-. told authorities her husband failed to come from a trip to Muncie to obtain baling wire ami tile. But she said she was not alarmed because he ' often played cards ami stayed out I laic . Sale Os Restaurant Is Announced Today Announcement was made today | of till* sale of Hhaffer's restaurant on Winchester street Ity Mr. ami Mrs. Cecil Shaffer to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Vian, of this city The name of the business, operated for the past four years by Mr. Shaffer, will be changed to Polly's Restaurant.

Civilian Pilot Is Killed In Crash Elkhart. Ind., March ZS (fpj — Harley K Kautman. 31. Middlelimy, died In an Elkhart hospital last night of Injuries received in the crash of an slrplaue ho was piloting. (leraldine Barnes, 21, a passesger In the Taylorcraft plane, was in a critical condition, suffering from fra< lure of Ihi th lege, a fractured shoulder and Internal iu* juries. Kaufman wua u mechanic and garage owner al .Middlebury and held a idiot's license. Cause.- of the crush was not determined. —— " --0. — Capital Man Nabbed On Extortion Charge Threatened Lives Os Two Children iii'lianapolls, Ind . March 2M tl ! . P.i John It Frost, OS, t<dd the Federal Bureau ot Investigation to day th.«l he threatened the lives ot an attorney's two children because In- needed money to pay his rooming house rent. Frost, who lias been living on unemployment compensation, said he hail “absolutely no .nteiitlmi” ot carrying out his throat to kill the iwo small mum ot Herald W. Ohm, hearing judge tor the Indiana alcoholic beverage commission. lie c-mlessed. liowever, writing four extortion notes to Ohrn demanding He signed the notes ’tho goon" and in one ot them he wrote, "it hap'iened in Chicago ami it can happen here." The reference was lo the Chicago rapemurder last January of uii-year-old Suzanne Degnan. Frost was arrested lust night iu a telephone imdh as he was making a call to an FBI agent who posed m (thru. J. L. Dolton, special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said Frwrt culled ohrn's number from a drugstore Tin FBI was waiting for the call. "This is the goon." Frost said “This is the lunt canev to save the live® of those you l->ve. Here's how I Hunt the money." FBI agent traced th* call and raced to the drugstore, arriving at the telephone iamlfi' while Frost still was bargaining. Frost told FBI agents that his action was Umpired by the Detftead case. Hi- said he chuse Ohrn as the victim when he read in a newspaper that the attorney had returned from duly with the navy and had Is t«n appointed Io the .date IsiHt Auihoiities sai-j Frost formerly lived at itiMhvilie. The suspect told tlx- FBI In- had no near relativep Although h>- claimed he needed money to pay hin rooming house rent ami tiiiit he b id be< n living on unrmploymi-nl benefit eh e c ks, Frost had SZJo on his person when In- was arrested Ohrn was an assistant prost-eut-ing alt irney of .Marion county before Im entered Hie service. I'poa his return, he got back his old job. But he resigned in January to accept the ABC (msition. While iu the service Ohrn was on duty iu the South Pacific war theater. — If . — Th** man that endures is the man Uiai will®.

|X-? • ' . i t ' ! J, '•*•*! w ,v > ■ U» »* ■ i *• j AFTW TAKING th* head and facial measurements of thousands of men, a woman anthropologist •elected U. Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, war-time commander of the Ninth Air Force in Burope, as • Mr. America." Dr. Alice Bruea gathered the statistics deluding 86 measurements on each of 3.076 soldiers, to aid the Chemical Warfare Senice in designing gaa masks. She compiled her findings into a "Mr. America" bronze bust, and teas named the general, a nephew of Michigan's U. 8. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, as its coimt*rp«U CfjUUMMuI)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. DECATUR. INDIANA

Building Order To Slow Construction To Stop One Out Os Seven Buildings Washington. Mar. 2k— (UP)— The new order restricting construction will prevent the erection of one out of every seven bulldlng.i uontemplslcd this year, according to civilian production administrator John D. Hmall. Kmall said l2,oiM),(MH*.otm worth of imnessentiai construction would hr eliminated by the new order. A previous CPA building goal of over sl4.(MM).um),ono has been lowered to |i2,KOO,OOVJNM>. I.« said, because of material shortages. Tlie new CPA estimate includes s;:.»im,oim,tmo for housing. |5.000.mm.ooo for repair, and 13.700,mm.mm for industrial and commercial construction. ('PA will control all nou-rcsl-dvntial construction which has be< u cut “across the board" by the new order. No priorities assistance will Im* granted for such construction even after permission io build has been granted hy CPA except in 'extreme cases," Small (minted out. Housing expeditor Wilson Wyatt said the national housing agency will control all residential constru< lion Wyatt uid priorities assistance will be extended lo disaster victims as well as V'-terans. Virtually no other housing will Im* constructed. Small said the new regulations would Im- sufficiently flexible to meet hardship cases, however. A new drug store already under construction may be permitted In a m-w community but banned in otii* which lias a drug store. - -■ —— o Wyoming lias only one repre seulalivc in Congress.

JI ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■«■■■■■■■■■■«■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Z THIRD EDITION I “SHORT, SHORT STORY I OF ADAMS COUNTY” ■ ■ ~JBY“ FRENCH QUINN ■ : ON SALE » JR ■ — Decatur — |®B || * KOHNE DRUG STORE, BQh |H ■» ■ SMITH DRUG STORE, nB 9| K ■ Z HOLTHOUSE DRUG COMPANY, |R SB ©K J DECATUR DAILY DEMO( RAT KO? Bi Uy ; STENGEL & CRAIG, Berne ■ BANK OF BERNE, Berne ■ BUCKMABTER Drug Store, Geneva pvft CAPY I BANK OF GENEVA, Geneva. raiK Wf 1 ■ p ” PUBLISHED BY i AMERICAN LEGION ■ ■ - - - ADAMS POST NO. 43 - - - ■ ■ ’ . 4 • • ’ ‘ ' Ah a Public Service and sold at the Cost of Printing ■ ■ g gm wjs Out-of-town mail orders must be accompanied by 50c and l»ook will Ih- mrl. ■ WVA Mg ADDKESS—A.MEHICAN LEGION. ADAMS POST 13. DECATI H. INDIANA. ■ »• ■ ■■■•■■■■■■ an ■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■« ■■ ■■ ■■■■■■ ■■ a. ■ ■ ■ ■ a l ,

As Council Rejects Russia’s*Proposal to Ignore Iran Dispute MW* bPW ■ aL j h Im % 1 . z r- 1 * * .?■ i’ w

SKUMTV COUNCIL members of T > ' * • r'% • tlio United Nations Organization “-f&r are shown above &j they voted »- down, nine to two, the demand by Russia’s delegate, Andrei A. Gro- SKwr myko, that ths controversial '.MaM’' • T ' Russian-Iran dispute tie left off K'*’* M ; tho councils ag-nda. Gromyko is shown left in the photo at tho BjF > <1 right, pn o-nti! t i ph a an S'r Aii-xatidcr Cadogan *d Gr* .d iint- g| B ‘r. Zg am hat i fore, ir !» - a' h f-.a ?-S ■«£•'.'« ' - ■ 4 -1’ t ljsw Russlac i w -rH n;tc t- I- ,M I- 1 ' .__.*■ i i’.tg ■MMiMMwgti '• < 11 t,. >,t i! • i . . <. ■ • x ’■ ir * • r a -' 'M®' at; ter Cet’cat!. V ';. I.hr i ■Bfe' , --W'*'T? 1 ' W- V* 'T f ' lai..id, V. . lit I; J Jr. of the CS. h. .i-t tv t ; Ky-WL • " : % f: ’ * Ftate Janas F Itvrta'. v.':::; I \ for tho !■ H; Witham I! Hoi:: son. voting for Australia; l*r. Pe-iro Leao Velloso, voting for \ Br izil, and Trygve Ue of Norway, council president. (International) -> - a—JmMmrE

PAGE SEVEN