Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1948 — Page 2

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STATE OK INDIANA ADAMS COUNT!, SS In the Adam* Circuit Court February Term, IMS. Arthur D. Suttle*, executor of the ln*t will nnrf trwtameut of Sophia Anu Rupert. VS Mitrgir ArniMtroiiK William T. Huprrt JeNMe F. Rupert Harvey K. Rupert Sylvnn Rupert Mary Lnuffhrey < la re nre Helmer Notice of Sole of Real Estate by Executor The undersigned executor of the last will and testament of Sophia Ann Rupert, deceased, hereby gives snotice that by virtue of an order of the Adams Circuit Court he will, Ibetween the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the 11th day of March, 1948, at the office of the Suttles Company, Niblick Building, Decatur, Indiana, and from day to day thereafter until sold offer for sale at private sale all of the interest of said decedent in and to the following described real estate: TRACT NO. I: Inlot Number Fourteen (14) in John F. Hocker’s First Addition to the Town of Monroe. %dnm« County, Indiana. Tract N’O, 2: The undivided one fourth (1/4) of the following described real estate In Adanu* County. State of Indiana, to wit: I’he cant half of the following described tract, to wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of the northeast quarter (1/4) of Section three (3) in township twenty six (3D) north, range fourteen (14) eamt; running thence south eighty (SO) roils: thence west eighty (SO) rodn to the place of beginning, containing twenty (20) acre* more or le«M. Said sale will be made subject to the approval of said court for not Jess than the full appraised value of said real estate and upon the following terms and conditions: one third (1/3) of the purchase money cash in hand, the balance upon the delivery of an executor’s deed and abstract of title. Said real estate will be sold free of all liens and encumbrances except the 1948 taxes due and payable in 1949. Arthur D. Suttles, Executor I)«*vomm A Smith, Attorney* March 1-8 Photo Finishing Satisfaction Guaranteed Holthouse Drug Co.

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. Mrs. Daniel Stucky ' Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon F s Mrs. Maryann Stucky. 84. widi ow of Daniel Stucky, died at 1: 15 ! p. m. Sunday at her home in • Berne. She had been bedfast ' since suffering a fractured hip in ; a fall nine weeks ago. She was born in Adams county Sept. 14,1863, a daughter of Peter and Marianne Moser-Sprunger, . and was a lifelong resident of the Berne community. Her husband died in 1936. She W’as a member of the First Meiuionite church at Berne. Surviving are eight sons: Walter of Berne, Erwin of Monroe. Floremz of Berne. Elmer of Syracuse, Jacob and Ira, both of Berne, Martin of Willshire, 0., and Howard of Lancaster, O.; one daughter, Mrs. Marcus Moser of Berne; one brother, Benjamin Sprunger of Berne; 44 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Three sons, one sister and four brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the First Mennonite ‘church, the Rev. Olin A. Krehbiel officiating. Burial ’ will be in the MRE cemetery. The body was removed from the Yager funeral home to the residence this 1 afternoon. Friends are asked to omit flowers. The average daily requirements of adults for vitamin A is about 3000 to 4500 units. The first U. S. building and loan association was organized in Philadelphia in 1835. The lemon is native of India. * c ■U.. I ■ Jr W 1 ArflL ;/ 1 I /Z B * I J r 1 1 I (7c I «, ■ 0 f - . -" » CONGRESSMAN Ellsworth B. Buck a (R), N. Y., shows recent picture of Bedloe’s Island grounds sur- I rounding the Statue of Liberty, y which he claims needs the “new v look.” Buck is asking Congress f for $1,000,000 to improve build- r ings and grounds around the Freedom Lady. (International) j r APPOIXTMEWT OF AUMIMsriIATOH 8 ESTATE NO. 4414 t Notice i* hereby given. That the undersigned lias been ap- £ pointed Administrator of the estate c of Clinton Pontius late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. t llnrold C. Pontiu* AdinfniMtrator February 27. ID4N. * D. Burdette Cum ter, attorney | March 1-8-15 j RHEUMATISM ; Neuritis, Arthritis, Periodic i Pains, Neuralgia, Lumbago, all Aches and Pains are quickly ( relieved with Alf’s Compound W. G. tablets. Positively guaranteed. At all drug stores or send SI.OO to Union Pharmacal Co. Bluffton, Ind.

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FIREMEN FIGHT FLAMES in wreckage of a Sabena Belgian airliner that crashed at London’s Heath- , row airport, taking a toll of 19 lives. Three passengers, thrown clear of the ship or pulled to safety after it nose-dived in an emergency landing, survived the crash. (International Soundphoto)

Young Girl Admits To Killing Parents 17-Year-Old Girl Held For Murders Eminence, Mo.. March B—(UP) —A 17-year-old brunette was charged with first degree murder today after she confessed that she killed her'‘mother during an argument and then murdered her father so that he would not learn of his wife's death. Betty Jane Kroeger, attractive and well-groomed, said she shot her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kroeger, 48. through the head with an Italian automatic pistol her brother had brought back from the war. Then she went to the Variety store operated by her father. Fred Kroeger. 50’, and shot him as he lay on a cot where he had been sleeping each night since burg: lars broke in recently. The store is a half block from the Kroeger home. Miss Kroeger killed both parents with single shots through their heads. The girl’s sultry dark eyes flashed as she told Capt. J. A. Tandy of the state highway patrol how she and her mother argued Tuesday because Mrs. Kroeger refused to let her go to East St. Louis for a visit. “We used to live in East St. Louis and only moved here three years ago,” Miss Kroeger said, "I wanted to go there to see some friends but mother wouldn’t let me. “We argued about it and at last I got my brother’s gun and shot mother. I dragged her body behind a divan but then I got to think that my father would find out about it soon anyway. So I decided to shoot him too.” Miss Kroeger said she went to the store let herself in and shot her father as he slept in the rear room of the store. She hid his body under a couch. Then she took the family car and drove to East St. Louis. 120 miles northeast of here, where she stayed all of Wednesday. She became worried that the bodies had been discovered so she returned

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i here early Thursday. That evening she slept on the store couch with her father’s body lying beneath it. She spent Friday night in a hotel .room because she was “uneasy.” Meanwhile, neighbors had become suspicious because they had not seen the Kroegers and the store had not been open. They ' notified Shannon county prosecu- ' tor G. S. Sizemore who requested the highway patrol to investigate. ' Officers found the bodies and seized Miss Kroeger early yester--1 day. She was taken to West Plains. Mo., and held in the Howell county jail because the Eminence ■ jail has no facilities for women prisoners. She was held without . bond pending a preliminary heari ing next Friday. Miss Kroeger's brother, Fred, i Jr., is a soldier stationed at Camp Carson, Colo. — FOUR NATIONS <C«ntlnue<s from Page 1) > Alexandre Parodi of France —also - agreed to have Lie sit in beginning tomorrow. Vows Fight j Jerusalem. Mar. B—(UP)—Arab leader Fawzi El Fawkji vowed . from his mountain stronghold to- ■ day to fight a 25-year war against Zionism if necessary and to battle any United Nations force sent to I partition Palestine. “I am here to wipe out this partition intrigue and Zionism,” he . said to a United Press corres- > pondent in the first interview he [ has granted since arriving in Pal- ! estine Thursday night at the head t of an Arab volunteer army. "We came here to fight against t anyone who stands for partition, t be they .Jews, British or an inter--1 national force. Whether it takes £ one month or a year or a generai tion. we shall free this country from the Zionist menace.” 3 United Press correspondent Let von Kesbishian found Kawkji in r the village of Kabatia. high in the s Samarian hills 20 miles northeast of Nablus. The village contains r about 100 stone houses. Kawkji’s 0 headquarters is set up in one of e the central houses. >. “Y"ou would like to -know if we d have an air force,” he said. “Why. d you know we have them.”

Current Report In Dredge Case Filed Current Report Is Matter Os Routine The current report of the commissioner, Homer Teeter, has been filed in Adams circuit court in the widely known Wabash dredge case —and the report approved by special judge Henry Kister. The report is little more than routine and hardly informative since it lists action already known in the “sidelight suit,” an action to mandate the commissioners to issue more than $30,000 in bonds for the dredging. Teeter's report cites the fact that “a motion for a new trial was overruled” in the mandamus action before Judge Earl B. Adams, sitting as special jurist in , this case, and that “an appeal to the state supreme court was granted.” It declares that “the commissioners can do nothing toward constructing the drain” pending the appeal action. Roscoe D. Wheat, Portland attorney, filed the report for the commissioner. Judge Kister's entries on the docket card denote that he traveled from Princeton to Decatur in the proceedings, approved the entry and returned to Princeton from this city. In another court action, Myles F. Parrish entered an appearance for the dependent in the divorce action of Alvena against Fred King. — o TEN DELEGATES (Continued rrom Page it and West Union, (6), 438 votes. Dist. s—North5 —North and South Washington. North Kirkland and North St. Mary’s. (4), 438 votes. Dist. 6—South St. Mary’s, North and South Blue Creek, North Monroe. (4), 396 votes. Dist. 7 —Berne A and C, Middle Monroe, (3). 437 votes. Dist. B—Berne8 —Berne B, French and South Kirkland. (3), 324 votes. Dist. 9 —Geneva A and B, South Hartford, (3), 343 votes. Dist. I(7—Ceylon, East and West. Jefferson, North Wabash and North Hartford, (5), 329 votes.

Chicago Woman Wins Radio Show Contest 68-Year-Old Widow Hits $22,500 Prize Chicago, March 8. —(UP) —Mrs. Florence Hubbard, 68, said todai she thought she would sell the boat, plane and trailer she won in the $22,500 jackpot for naming Jack Benny as the “walking man in a radio show contest. But she is planning to use the two-weeks, expenses-paid vacation trip to Sun Valley, Ida. She is also planning to accept the invitations to appear on Benny's radio program and on Truth or Consequences, the show which provided the prizes. She wasn’t sure she could get time off from her job for all the traveling. Then she got a call that thrilled her almost as much as the prize-winning call. It was from her top boss, whom she had never met. Mrs. Hubbard is a S3O-a-week saleslady in Corson, Pirie Scott & Company, and John T. Pirie. president of the store called. “Congratulations.” he said. “Take as much time off as you want.” She was so excited about winning the contest that she said she’d “been shaking ever since.’’ “I'd have no use for an airplane,” she said, “but the new Cadillac sedan will be nice.” She also plans to take the interior decorating job and the new tile bathroom if it is agreeable with her landlord. She lives alone in a four-room apartment on Chicago’s west side. Her husband, Dr. Charles F. Hubbard, an optician, died 13 years ago. Other prizes included a diamond ring, furniture, household arficles, and a SI,OOO fur coat. (f Flat Dive In Pool Blamed For Death Terre Haute, Ind., March 8 — (UP)— A flat dive into an indoor swimming pool was blamed for the death of a 14-year-old Indianapolis girl. A coroner's verdict of accidental death by asphyxiation was returned in the death of Charlotte Ann Bruns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bruns, Indianapolis. Swimmers at the St. Mary-of-the Woods college swimming pool said the girl, a student in the high school attached to the college, made a flat dive into the water, apparently knocking the breath otft of her. Coroner J. V. Richart eaid the blow had temporarily paralyzed her breathing muscles. She died shortly after climbing unaided from the pool. o The first settlement in the state of Arkansas was made at Arkansas Post, in 1683. o SCHRICKER, (Conttnued from Page 1) banquet at Indianapolis. It snowballed into a full - fledged boom at that time and president Marion Ayers of the I. D. E. A. said he was pressured into calling a special meeting of the association to adopt a resolution demanding that Schricker run. But Schricker removed the last hope of his supporters before the meeting started. He gave hie final answer on the day that his wife, first lady of Indiana from 1941 to 1945, was taken home from a hospital after a minor operation. The editors then adopted a resolution praising Schricker for his party record and saying that he was the be>t man for the job. Somebody at the meeting sug-

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IN THE U. S. on request of the American League for a Free Palestine, Maj. Samuel Weiser, London, England, will promote interest in the Holy Land and the Hebrew legion, which he has founded. The legion is composed of 33,000 members who are willing to go to Palestine to fight if necessary. (International'

gested former U. S. Sen. Samuel D. I Jackson of Fort Wayne for the editors’ endorsement. But the suggestion went no further than that, a spokesman said. —-o INDIANA'S LEADING who smashed in and found Lockridge sprawled in the front seat. ( His legs hung over the running board. City firemen attempted to revive him but gave up after an hour. Friends doubted that a suicide episode in his book had anything to do with his own death. In the book, a woman character named “Susanna Drake” throws herself into a river after burning down a house. The book was a semi-historical novel of a typical Indiana county. Lockridge had returned only recently from Hollywood where he had adapted it for a forthcoming movie It was the only book Lockridge had written. Into it he poured an almost-passionate love for the countryside and people of Indiana. He had supported his family by teaching English at Indiana University and other schools during the seven years in which he wrote the lengthy novel. Lockridge was educated at Indiana University where he was a member of the varsity track team and received the B. A. and M. A. degrees. He became an instructor at the school here after graduating, and then taught at Simmons College, Boston, where he started work on his book. The novel ranked second among best-selling fiction books two weeks ago and was third last week. Besides his wife and their four children, Ernest, Jean, Larry and Ross HI, Lockridge is survived by his father, Ross Lockridge, Sr., a historian and lecturer who is now retired from the Indiana University faculty. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomnlslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature io soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION fcr Coughs,Chest Colds, Bronchitis N // /IpX}?OV?G. V PURINA (f M CUSTOM I } MIXING \\ // SERVICE LET US MAKE YOUR GRAIN WORTH MORI W«*ai« equipped to grind your grain and balance it with a Purina Concentrate for more meat, milk or eggs. We use approved Purina formulas. See us today. Stiefel Grain Co. 217 N. Ist Phone 233 HOHM4K

SALE CALENDAR MAR. 9 —John KZ. Frauhiger. 6 miles West of Bluffton, Ind., on then sonth 14 mile. Well Improved 92 acre farm, r> Ayrshire Cattle, Full line Tractor Farm Equipme Household Goods. —Midwest Realty Auction Co., J- rmann, Auct. w MAR. 13—The Heirs of Alma Hill, 1024 West Adams St., Dew House and household furniture. Roy & Ned Johnso Melvin Liechty, Aucts. (h jd MAR. 16 —Donald E. Young & Samantha E. Young. 1 mile sou e i 1 mile east of Salem. 3 miles south and 2 miles v Wiltehire, Ohio. 60 acre farm and personal propel ■/• & Ned Johnson and Melvin Liechty, Auctioneers. MAR. 17 —Ray Schumacher, I’4 miles north of Mluffton, Ohio. ■ t sal sale of 34 Registered Holsteins. Roy & Ned and Melvin Liechty, Aucts. ~-f ; MAR. 17—Bernard D. Cox, 10 miles Southeast of Marion, Ina.. f Improved 56 acre farm. Milwest Realty Auction CoSanmann —Auctioneer. ch . a MAR. 20 —Merl D. Kraft. Denver. Ind. Welding and Machine ■■ completely equipped. Two Story Concrete Block 810k■ f 9 Room Modern Home. Midwest Realty Auction Co., Sanmann —Auctioneer.

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