Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1949 — Page 2

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Injuries Fatal To Trapped Coal Miner Trapped 14 Hours By Tons Os Rock Wfndben Pa., ,’sn. 12 -IUPI A c.»al miner rescued from beneath 25 ions of rock where be lay trapp <1 for II hours died today eigtht hours after fellow workers brought him to the surface. William Wallace, 27. lay beneath the crushing weight with only his head exposed as a rescue team la ■bored to remove piece by piece the rocks which trapped him in a narrow entry of the Cairnbrook < Pa. I mine of the Loyalhanna Coal Co. As otiier miners worked to release him. Wallace pleaded delir ously for his friends to “get this weight off me." He was taken to Windber hospital shortly after midnight, and doctors said he suffered extreme shock and other undetermined injuries. Wallace and his brother-in-law, Walter Groinack, were loading their second coal ear of the day yester day when the roof collapsed. Gromack had stepped away from the

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working place to adjust his lamp and wasn't hit. Wallace apparently had the presence of mind to dive beneath the car hut the weight of the fall crushed he car and pinned him beneath the frame, with only his head in the open. The fall dammed mine seepage and the .first job of a rescue team summoned by Groinack was to drill holes to drain water before it reached the level where Wallace was trapped. Walla, e lapsed into unconsciousness time and again as the 12 men that made up the rescue team took turns removing rocks from the narrow entry. They had to be careful they didn't "aggravate'' the fall. The careless removal of one rock could have collapsed more of the roof. Dr. E. Z. Epwjessy stayed near Wallace throughout the operations and administered morphine to dead en the pain of the crushing weight. In all. he gave four shots of the drug. "1 couldn't understand how the man kept alive," Dr. Eperiessy said. Put your faith into action and it will become a greater faith.

Juries Are Lenient To Mercy Slayers Trial Records Show Leniency By Juries New York, Jan. 12. —(UP) On Nov. 6. 1925. society women, club women sociologists and scores of curious jammed the courtroom at Littleton, Colo. For one week they battled each day for seats at the trial of Dr. Harold E. Blazer, an aged, retired physician who was accused of the “mercy killing" of his 32-year-old imbecile daughter, Hazel. Dr. Blazer's trial was the most dramatic of many such hearings that have held the attention of the nation in the last quarter of a century. A group of 379 clergymen have asked the New York state legislature to recognize the “right to die of certain incurables and pass legislation this year legalizing mercy killings by physicians. No State ever has done that. But trials show that juries usually are lenient toward mercy slayers and are prone to forgive. Earl L. Medskers, a real estate agent and prospective juror for the trial of Dr. Blazer said: “I believe in putting to death imbeciles and hopeless cripples." He was excused. "No one is justified in killing a person because he is an imbecile," said the next man examined. He also was excused for having formed an opinion in the trial. Finally a jury of 12 men, 10 of them married, six of them fathers, was selected. Dr. Blazer's other daughter testified that he loved her sister more than he did her. Dr. Blazer, who described Hazel as a “human husk,” testified his wife was dead and that he was afraid of leaving his daughter alone should he die before her. He said he had no memory of chloroforming his daughter nor attempting suicide by poison afterward. He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. His plea touched off one of the first major courtroom battles by opposing alienists summoned to testify as to his sanity. The prosecutor demanded the death penalty. After 14 hours of deliberation, the jury reported that it stood 11 to 1 for acquittal but was unable to return a unanimous verdict. The judge dismissed the jury, then on the prosecutor's request, dismissed the case and Dr. Blazer was free. k In 1929, Richard Corbett, an Englishman. was tried at Draguignan, France, for killing his mother who was suffering from a cancer. He was acquitted after testifying: “I loved my mother. 1 killed her because I loved her. Science could' not deliver her from her agony. I delivered her.” In 1932. James Stenhouse, 4G. was committed to a hospital for the insane after a grand jury at Millesburg. ().. refused to indict him for chloroforming his infant son who was suffering from an incurable brain disease. He was released after five months. In many instances, fathers and i husbands have killed themselves after the mercy slaying of some member of their family. John A. Barton, the "wealthiest man" in Two Harbors, Minn., killed himself in 1929 after taking the life of his ' invalid daughter, Beatrice, 17.

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Utility To Resume Dividend Payments Indianapolis. Jan. 12 (IP) - The Indiana Public Service Co. announced yesterday that cash dividends on its common stock would be resumed June 1. R. A. Gallagher, president of the company, said the firm had disposed of most remaining invest ments in capital stock of the Indiana Gas and Water Co., inc., after providing for the dividend payable in the stock March 1. He said some 48,000 shares of the gas and water company stock were sold to institutional investors and 1 12,000 shares to Collect £ Co., Inc., ifilianapolis. Wholesale Food Al Low For 20 Months Index Drops Four Cents Past Week New York. Jan. 12 — (UP) — Wholesale food prices dropped last week to the lowest level since May 27, 1947, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., reported today. The Dun & Bradstreet index of wholesale food prices dropped four cents last week to $6.08, a cumulative decline of $1.28 or >17.4 percent from the all-time high qf last July 13, when the index hit $7.36. The all-time low ’was $1.49 on Jan. 31. 1933. The index on May 27, 1947 was $6.02. Today’s index figure of $6.08 compares with $6.12 last week and $7.28 a year ago. The index is the total of the price per pound of 3. foods in general use and in the past week there were declines in the prices of 11. gains in 11 and nine were unchanged. Higher prices were reported for flour, wheat, corn rye. barley, beef, beans, peas, eggs, currants and hogs. Declines were noted in oats, lard, cheese, sugar, cottonseed oil, cocoa, potatoes, rice, steers, lambs and butler. In 1935, Mrs. May Brownhill, 62, was sentenced to death for putting her imbecile son, Dennis "to sleep with 100 sedative tablets and gas.” The jury pleaded for leniency and the cry was taken up by the public. Mrs. Brownhill was set free. On May 12. 1939, Louis Greenfield was acquitted in New York of a charge of murder after chloroMnning his 17-year-old son. He said: “I should never have been put on trial. The lawmakers should be put on trial. The people whose laws condemned my son ■to live and condemned my wife and myself to live with him. Jerry should have been put to death at birth." In May 1942, four French nurses admitted the mercy slayings of sevrn incurables who could not join the mass flight from the German army. They were convicted of "homicide by imprudence,” fined one Franc each and released. In July, 1944, Mrs. Louis Flack. 28, a Kansas housewife, was convicted in a California court of starving her paralyzed eight-year-old daughter. She was sentenced to one year in prison. Trade in a Gcsd Town — Decatur

21 Persons Hurl In Streamliner Wreck Jumps Rails Second Time In Two Days • Leesburg, Fla., Jan. 12 — (UP) — A seaboard railway streamliner, the Orange Blossom Special, jumped the rails last night for the second time in two days and plunged into a swamp pear here, injuring 21 persons. Twelve of the deluxe train’s 16 pullman sleeper cars left the track, some careening down a 10-foot embankment. The engine rolled a quarter of a mile down the track and burned. None of the passengers or crewmen of the fast northbound train, heavily traveled by winter tour-i ists between New York and Miami, was injured seriotitiy. Among those hurt was Mrs. Victor- Lavin, Trenton, N. J., and expectant mother. On .Monday the Orange Blossom Special, using different equipment, had a similar accident near Milford. Va„ and 25 persons were injured. Railroad officials were unable to determine the cause of either wreck. The diesel-powered train derailed last night as it whizzed past the Bay Lake water tank. 35 miles south of here. The injured were brought to two hospitals here. Most suffered only minor abrasions and five were released last night. County Extension Committee Meets The Adams -county agricultural extension committee will hold its first meeting of 1949 in the home economics room of the Decatur high school at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Dennis Norman will open the session with mixer and songs Chairman August Selking will then call for reports on the township extension leaders conferences and the various project committees. At noon a pot-hick lunch will be served. In the afternoon session, the report will be completed and discussions will be held on the proper expenditures of the county extension funds allotted foi extension exhibits, and time and location of the 1949 4-H club show. The annual election of officers will take place near the close of the vfternoon session. The man who bows down to himself cannot bear the burden of himrelf. — Luccock.

All Farmers Invited I TO Wrtw liipleurnt Co. Highway 27 Decatur, Ind. 4 _ • FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 - ALL DAY EXHIBITS OF SPRAYERS and PLOWS AGRICULTURE'S NEW CONQUEST GRAHAM - HOE ME WEED CONTROL WITH AGRICULTURAL PLOW YOLR GROUND WITH THE GRAHAM HOEME “WEED - NO - MORE” revolutionary plow. A PROVEN PLOW — LARGER A PROVEN ESTER FORMULATION YIELD — MUCH BETTER OF 2 i-D — PRODUCTS OF FASTER DRAINAGE — SHBRWIN-WILUAMS RESEARCH - PROGRAM AT 12:30 P. M. Featuring Movies of SPRAY METHODS & GRAHAM PLOW Resells of Weed Spraying and Plowing - - SPEAKERS - - t. E. ARCHEOLD — County Agent DR. OLIVER C. LEE -»Purdue University L. E. WILLIAMSON and MR. WHITE From the Sherwin-Williams Co. ALL FARMERS INVITED REFRESHMENT

EXPAND (Cont. From Page One) ed, “I feel that considerable study should be given to this project so that the proper equipment and amount of equipment be placed in proper locations. Walter J. Kriek, superintendent of city schools, heads the recreaional committee, to which the Decatur Community allocates $1,500 annually for playground development. PLANES AID (Cont. From Page One) plasma, baby food,.bread, canned milk, medicine, coal and baled hay. Helicopters took off from Lowry field at Denver. Private pilots equipped their planes with skies. Farmers near Gordon marked an “X" in the snow if they needed food and two “XX's” it they wanted the planes to drop medicine. Other isolated prairie dwellers laid out blankets to attract the fliers’ attention. Forecasters had hoped to be able to predict that rising temperatures would melt the big drifts and sheets of glassy ice laid over the west by recent storms. Instead forecasts today were for continued suMreezing temperatures. OPEN HOUSE (Cont. From Page One) speaking class, and have devoted much time and energy in the preparation of this program. A new microphone has been purchased by the P. T. A. for the Lincoln school auditorium which will bring clearly the words of all the speakers to the entire listening audience. POSTAL (Cont. From Page One) yesterday. His receptionist, Mrs. Alice Collier, said the slayer was a middle-aged man in a shabby overcoat who shot down Pruett, walked calmly to an elevator and disappeared. Donnelly gave himself up to a postofflce employe, Tom Chaphurn. Police said his first statements concerning the slaying were confused. The federal bureau of investigation entered the Harkins case because it occurred in the federal building. Agents said police found a .22 caliber pistol and long knife in the slightly-built suspect’s pockets Mrs. Collier was scheduled to visit the police station later to

view Donnelly. She said she got a good look at the middle-aged Snfer who asked to see Pruett' and after shaking hands with him said, "my wife and I are going o get a divorce.” ■ I burgman (Cont. From Page One) chned to discuss fee exact nature of his commentaries. They said that, since the war. Burgjnan has been living in Ger-

Real Estate Audi; 2 FARMS—HARDWARE STORE—COAL YAkffl 2 HOMES k PATRIOT, INDIANA Monday, January 24th anil I Tuesday, January 25th J Sale Starts at 1:30 P, M. Each Day The 2 Farms will sell Monday. Jan. 24th, and are located as to j FARM No 1 at 1:30 P. M— 90 Acres located % mile west oil Indiana There is a good 5 room home, room for hath, hot J water electricity, screened in porch, outside cellar, a 60x70 16 stanchions, cement floor, a cement block milk house, a good <1 house, good corn crib, and garage. There is some good tinsel good many Locus posts and the land is extra well fenced. I located, being only % mile west of Patriot on state road No. J FARM No 2at 3:00 P- M.—so Acres located 4% miles southof?l Indiana, it has a large 60x80 barn in good repair, % of barn J for tobacco, balance for hay. • This is one of the best producing in this section, as it is high bottom land, and at present it hu J of Alfalfa, balance in Rye. It will make a fine return on yoml TUESDAY, JAN. 25th - 1:30 P. M. j Hardware Store—Feed Mill—Coal Yard—2 Hoitt* Located in Patriot, Indiana The Hardware Store and Feed Mill are located in a 40x5(. : | brick building, with large basement. It has a 15x40 shed aJ The hardware store is completely stocked and equipped. Tie] mill is equipped with J. D. W. Power unit. J. D. 14" Hammer Mi] set Howe scales, complete stock of feed, fertilizer, lime and a. of seeds. Th# coal yard is equipped with incline to River for] ing barges and yard has storag ) capacity for 2000 tons. Thd Fairaeld coal loader; a Chev. dump truck and a Ford dump mJ The coal yard shows a nice yearly profit. 2 Houses located on a large lot 150x300. One is an 8 room all] home. 5 rooms and bath down, 3 rooms and hath up. full bd ■‘-toker furnace, hardwood floors down and kitchen has built-in Pi There is a 20x30 barn, and a 4 car garage. Also nice large gardetl The small house is a 3 room frame building in good repairs. These properties have been well cared for and are all good ments. Your inspection is invited and any questions will be an promptly by the owners. POSSESSION: of the Farms will be given on March Is POSSESSION of the Houses in 60 days. POSSESSION of the Business given upon final settlement. TERMS: 20% Cash, day of sale, balance upon delivery of tia and bill of sale. Liberal loan can be arranged on hardware, fe and coal yard. * Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bunger, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bunger, Jr. Own D. S. Blair & C. W. Kent—Auctioneers Gerald G. Strickler, Sales Mgr. Sale Conducted by • THE KENT REALTY 4 AUCTION Ct).. Inc. Decatur, Indiana — Phone SB. Not Responsible For Accidents.

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! many. He was lance by U. S. ies while his case was b eit l igated by the justice | Two other former N a!j J ers are scheduled to CO3l /| this month. They are j'l Sisk, alias Gillars, the fo r 'l Salley," and- -Martin j J Brooklyn, who allege, 1 army air force plane J German lines during tjdl joined the infamous Nrn t guard. I