Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1947 — Page 7

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Tim tabular fiKur«*n klkiw *4H| annual fnr-reaaea after the sixth .scar Inxtead ot the *4« Mt out in the i<-xt of the law. Cleon 11. Foust. Indlnna attorney general, ruled that the tignrM would control amount * [wld teai liero. Keep Cords from Pipes Electric extension cords should never be run over steam or hot water pipes or over hot air registers

Reardon Defense Surprises State Contends Girl Did Not Murder Father St Ixniis. .Mo.. March 27. (Vl’t Ihdcn-e counsel offered today to remove a bullet front the back of Mary Catherine Reardon, 14. in .ill effort to prove th.it she did not murder her wealthy father. Defense attorney Henry fl. Mor- ! ris. said the slaying was committed hy « 13-year-old boy who was a “pal of Al Capone.** In a surprise move Morris said Mary Catherine was wounded while struggling with her boy friend. Michael D'Arcy, who he Identified as the slayer. Both the ! D'Arcy boy and the girl's father. 1‘ .1 Vincent Reardon, were killed when Reardon's automobile plunged out of control after the shoot- ! ing Feb. 8. Reardon was driving the girl I home, after he had found he> and the D'Orcy boy in a tourist camp ! where they had spent the night. The prosecution was dutnbfound- , ed by Morris’ assertions. The state i had built its case on a long list i of witnesses who said the girl had ; admitted shooting her father in a | frenzy of anger. Mary Catherine walked to the 1 front of the court room yesterday

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and stood ealmly before the jury. Morris rolled tip the sleeve of her green sweeter to show the Jury small scars, where he said the bullet entered. Mary Catherine then pulled up her sweater and exhibited two more scars on her under arm and armpit Dr. Victor J. Mfanbardt. a de sense witness, identified the scars as the healed bullet wounds he found when he examined the girl five days after the shooting. St. Units county prosecuting at torney Stanley Wallack requested the court appoint a physician and an X-ray specialist to provide Impartial testimony on the bullet. Circuit judge John A. Witthaus took the motion under advisement Morris said the one bullet caused all three scars and said it was fired from the same J3S mm Mau-er i. tomatlc which the has identified as the murder weapon. He said, if necessary, the bullet would be removed by an operation, to prove his contention. In his opening statements to the jury Morris said that D’Arcy was a "pal of Al Capone" and was friendly with "gamblers who operated out of a garage" near his , former home. Two school mates of the boy i testified that Michael boasted of knowing Capone and had described him ax "a good guy." They said also that D'Arcy kept a revolver in a locker at school. 0 Gory Newsboy Is Electrocution Victim — (•ary. Ind. March 27 (t’Pi1 Police and fie officials today plan- 1 I ned an Investigation of the death! of Jimmy IliggeiHon. 13. a news- ■ pajier delivery buy who was elet ; trocutid when he touched a steel! ' light pole Jimmy was killed yesterday while ! | making his newspaper rounds. He 1 rode his bicycle to a corner near hli home and sat on tin- curb to, fold his papers. A liool friend )>a-.aed. Jimmy, waved ills hand accidentally tom bed the pole. Passers-bys found him lying in the street The pole was smoking — —oUTILITY RATES ON ■i' nl in uit From Pair* One) | panics and five byi telephone con I cents. Fortyunit other rati- increase ap I plfcatiiius yet are to be scheduled | for hearing*. Commission officials point out | : rate Increases were granted when--1 ever the utility satisfactorily proved mounting operating costs. "t'tility rales." said one commission member, "have not increased I Ip* to today's increased prices on all other cominbdities. "Yet. the utilities have bad to pav high r wages and greater prices for their material and equipi ment." I, F Shepherd, nresident of the Indiana A aso <• I a I e d Telephone Ito FALSE TEETH Rock. Slide or Slip? FASTF.I-: t it. .oi Improv ! p-iwder to l>- »|.rliilit< I mi iiliper or eivv-r id it. . ii..ld- rulx- t.itli more firmly In ide- I'. U'-t ;-lld«-. slip or r... k N-. : imniy. hooey pa-tv i '-" .f t< linu I'iHTKETII l« alkalim «n»n-a<i.l> I nut i»our C.iei-ks pill od-.l" lllelltllri- 10. Itlll Cet FArflWI-rrtl at any drug store x-r. -wxn

. spoke for most phone com-11 patties in the state when he told the commission i "Our company has had no rate > Increase in 16 yearx and some of the present rate# were established 1 I in 1019 " ! < Shepherd's company serve# 71,- 1

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otto telephones out of 33 exchanges. Its headquarters is in Lafayette, with other key points at Wabash. Logansport. Goshen and Dal’orte. Associations like the Indiana Bel! Telephone contended that in creases in operating expenses long have surpassed increases tn r«-v-1

enue Bell will appear lieture the corn mission on April 14 to argue its demands for an overall 10 percent increase. The company has 481,000 telephones in 48 counties and operate" l"3 tenfr-d exchange?, in , 83 cities.

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Generally, consumer groups and city officials offer little opposition to telephone rate increases. People can do without a phone, they say But there is some opposition throughout the state against efforts to increase water rates.