Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1949 — Page 6

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Slain Girl’s Friend Wanders From Home Reports Warning Note Is Received Milwaukee, April 12 — (UP)' — One of slain Patricia Birmingham's closest girl friends, who wandered away from home in a daze, was picked up at Kenosha, VVis., early today and told police of receiving a warning note to "watch your step.” Carol Leszynski, 15. was found wandering in downtown Kenosha early today hy patrolman Ralpn Fox. The slim, dark-haired girl, believed to be a key witness in the slaying of Miss Birmingham, disappeared late yestriday after starting home from high school at suburban West Allis. Her father, Joseph Leszynski, drove to Kenosha to bring her back, and told Kenosha police that she has been "an emotional wreck" since 16-year-old Patricia Birmingham’s body was dredged up from the bottom of the Milwaukee river March 20. .Milton Babich. 19, who eloped with Miss Birmingham's older sister, Kathleen, subsequently confessed shooting Patricia to death and dumping her body in the river last

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Feb. 10. Leszynski, who works at a West Falls farm equipment plant told police he believes the warning note his daughter received recently indicates that Babich had an accomplice. The youth has been in custody since his arrest with his bride in Minneapolis March 24, and presumably could not have written the note. 5 Leszynski said his daughter has ' j been under a doctor’s care ever 4 1 since the case broke, and that she , returned to school only last week ! I after an absence due to her emo- ' I tional strain. The girl told Kenosha police that [ she was a "very close friend” of i Patricia, and that "Patricia was i worried and afraid of Babich." In . his confession, Babich said he kill- , cd Patricia because she knew that . her sister, Kathleen, was pregnant. Carol told police that Babich al- . so “got fresh with Patricia." Her father said she received the warning note "a few days ago,” but he said his daughter refused to talk ’ about it and never told him who gave it to her or whether it came in the mail. Carol was questioned extensively by police after Patricia's body, weighed down by a concrete buildI ing block, was hoisted from the river. A note she had written Pat- i ■ ricia was found in the dead girl's: I clothing, but detectives finally dis- , missed it as schoolgirl correspondence.

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San Marino, Cal., April 12— , (UP)—Civic leaders began three separate funds oday to reward the rescuers who worked 53 hours k I in a futile effort la save little Kathy Fiscus. The golden-haired little girl died ■of suffocation Friday just two hours after she fell 94 feet into an . abandoned well. Her plight spurred men to almost superhuman efforts and grateful southern Californians quickly formulated plans to reward I the 60 volunteers who performed one of the most dramatic rescue missions of modern times. j But the workmen who toiled so , heroically said they weren’t buy- ■ ing any of that “hero stuff.” "We just wanted to reach that j little girl," said Bill Yancy, a husky sewer contractor who carried three-year-old Kathy's body to the surface Sunday night. “If only she had been alive that's what I counted." j O. A. Kelly, an unemployed maI ehinist, was the man who cut the hole in the casing of the well into J which Kathy tumbled while playing in a vacant lot Friday afternoon, "We were just doing a job,” he insisted. “What’s all the shouting about?" H. p. (Whitey) Blickenderfer, who stayed on the job as "foreman” until he collapsed and was hospitalized, said he was “no hero." "It was just a matter of simple humanity," he said. But the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce all announced establishment of reward funds. The VFW set up a public bank account here and asked that contributions be addressed to the' Kathy Fiscus rescue fund, San i Marino, The Chamber rescue fund committee's address is in care of postmaster, Los Angeles. Raymond A. Hill, engineer who I supervised the rescue drilling operations, made it plain there was no intention of paying the men for their work. “Money couldn't buy this job," 1

Standard Time Will Govern Liquor Sales Indianapolis, April 12 —(UP) — The Indiana alcoholic beverage commission announeed today that central standard time will govern al! liquor sales during the summer months. ABC made the announcement as

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he said. "You couldn't get men to e I work this hard or fast, for money.” d I Blickensderfer, 43-year-old uns' employed machinist, is going to get e the hernia operation he's been needing for a long time—courtesy J of a Los Angeles doctor who o wouldn’t allow his name to be used, a The worker and his wife had been unable to scrape together I- money for the surgery. 1 “Then I’d like to get a job as an s auto mechanic, except that I have 1 no tools," he said. A former minI - er, he said he has helped rescue b ! men caught in cave-ins “but nhver | a little girl like that.” r I Kelly, 49, has been on relief since -1 last December. He said he's “very j appreciative” of the job offers that t I are coming in, but hasn't decided i on any yet. Dr. Paul Hanson, close personal t friend of the Fiscus family, reveals ed last night that Kathy might t have lived if her knees had not jammed against her chest. "She suffocated because she was ■ >' too cramped to breathe,” he said. > I “But there was plenty of air in ; the shaft and she wasn’t seriously hurt by the fall." > Previously it had been believed • the child drowned. Dr. Robert McCulloch, who des- , cended the 94-foot shaft to help • free the child's body, said she died i “in almost no time at all." >| Dr. McCullock estimated she; | died two hours after she tumbled >1 into the well. He theorized that j she dropped 90 feet originally, but, i ’ remained conscious and was not i' hurt seriously. When a rope was' II lowered to her, she tried to hang onto it but couldn't he said. Then she slipped another four feet and : I her legs became cramped in almost, ; a sitting position, McCullock said. ‘I Meanwhile, Kathy’s parents, Mr., i and Mrs. David Fiscus, remained j in seclusion, pending funeral serv-1 'I ices tomorrow morning at a mor-; i tuary in nearby Alhambra. Inter--ijment will follow at Glen Abbey :! Memorial park, Chula iVsta, Cal. ' The parents asked that well* • i wishers, instead of sending flow-; ers to Kathy's funeral, donate the money to children’s hospitals.

; local communities were debating ! whether to adhere to a state law i making "slow time” the legal time or whether to go on daylight time. “The problem became so confusing,” one ABC official said, “that we decided to issue this or- ; der, governing all communities of j Whether they will do business on ; central standard or daylight saving time." Liquor dispensing hours, the ABC'said, would continue to be between 7 a.m. and midnight.

New York College Sfedenl Strike Protest Racial Discrimination New York, Apr. 12 — (UP) — The police detail was doubled at City college today, but a small number of pickets protesting alleged racial discrimination on the part of two professors paraded without incident. Seventy policemen watched 70 pickets march as classes opened. Later, the number of pickets increased to more than 200. They patrolled the entrances to college buildings and along a block long campus frontage. Night students had , voted to join day students for the second day of the general strike. The night student body voted 844 to 3SO to stay away from classes and carry on the picket line® of the day students who jeered and fought with po'ice assigned to keep order yesterday. One policeman was injured by a striker who called him a "fascist" and closed his hand in a car door. Sixteen students, including two coeds, were arrested and booked for disorderly conduct and another was charged with third degree assault. Police estimated that SDO students picketed while 1500 milled about the campus. The strike was called by the day students who approved the action in a referendum sponsored by the student council. College officials said the walkout was about 50 percent effective. The students demanded the trial and removal of Prof. William E. Knickerbocker, who is accused of anti-semitism. and William C. Davis, an economics professor accused of being anti-negro. The college has a larger number of negro and Jewish students. Both Knickerbocker and Davi.' continued to teach classes. Dr. Harry Wright, president of the college, uromised them he would not submit to strike pressure. He said a thorough investigation of their cases by school authorities had convinced him there was no justification "for purltive action." It is harder to forget the sting of the bee than to remember the sweetness of the honey.

> escaped injury Monday when their ' ■ cars collided on an intersection on • the county highway near the Randt enbush school three and one-half 1 miles south of Decatur. Damage to ’ both cars was estimated at $375. ’ A car crashed into a utility pole ■ snd turned over one and one-half 'j miles north of here on the River road Monday. The driver Betty Jane Singleton, 20, Decatur, was unhurt. Damage to the car amounted to $250. John Thurston. 35. Rich- , mond, will appear in mayor's court .; today to answer charges of drunk- ' en driving. He was arrested by city , police at Second and Monroe streets Monday evening.

Case is Venued The complaint of Calvin L. Yost 1 vs Francis J. Schmitt over the pos- | session of real estate, has been | ordered venued to Wells circuit ; court. George Mock, of Wells couu- ! ty, is special judge. Real Estate Transfers Jacob Franklin Mitch etux to Belmore Mitch, land in Blue Creek ; Twp. Donald P. Jeffrey etux to Marcus Schueler, 100.64 acres in Washing- ; ton Twp. I Otto D. Weber etux to Anna J. Nesswald, 80 acres in Root Twp. i Anna J. Nesswald to Otto D. Weber etux, 80 acres in Root Twp. Delores M. Gerber etvir to Paul j F. Bauermeister, land in Preble Twp. 1 McMillen Home Bldg. Corp, to - Norman 11. Katt etux. inlot 74 in Decatur. i Elmer Gerber etux to Paul W. Reidenbach, 1 acre in Kirkland i Twp. Fred William Carpenter to Elnora Carpenter, inlot 43 in Decatur. Joby Werst etal to Hubert P. I Schmitt etux, inlot 32 in Decatur. Louis Mattax etux to Fredrick : C. Myers, 46% acres in Blue Creek Twp. i Frederick L. Amstutz etux to Thomas O. Lehman, 5 acres in Wabash Twp.’ Thomas 0. Lehman to Frederick L. Amstutz etux, 40 acres in Wabash Twp. James L. Kocher Jr. etux to Lewis L. Smith, part out lot 28 in Decatur. Lewis L. Smith to James L.

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Kocher Jr. etux. part out lot 28 in i Decatur. John I’. Braun to Bernard G. j Staub etux, 80 acres in Washington Twp. Arlie Ellenberger etal to Rufus ' Liechty etux, outlots 19 & 20 in I Berne. | Henry P. Braun etux to Francis 11. Geimer etux. 40 acres in I nion Twp.. DRIVE LAUNCHED (Cont. From Page One) tight to retain at least a good pait of the Taft-Hartley law. With Some Republican support, they are planning to back a substitute measure by Rep. John S. Wood. D„ Ga.. which would make only a few minor changes for the present labor law. Two County Students Graduate As Nurses Two Adams county students are included in the 42 senior students who will he graduated as registered nurses from the Lutheran hospital school of nursing, Fort Wayne, in ceremonies April 25. The Adams cc.uniy graduates are Miss Geraldine Andrews, of Decatur, and Miss Florence Habegger. of Berne. Baccalaureate services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 24, at the Redeemer Lutheran church, with the Rev. Werner Krug, New Palestine. Commencement exercises will be held at 8:15 p.m. April 25 at Concordia college concert hall with Dr. H. C. Dunstone. Fort Wayne physician, as the speaker.

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Ji M IB THE REPRESENTATIVE of what may be the UN's next member Aubm Eban (left) of Israel, chats with Iranian Delegate N asro u Entezam at Flushing Meadows, N. Y. Recent incidents ft I® border province of Azerbaijan indicate, tire nation might be the» coH war focal point

Milk Company Sale Is Announced Today James Helm Decatur young man. lias purchased the John Halterman Milk Co. of Decatur, it was announced today. The deal was completed last week and Mr. Helm has taken over the business. Mr. Halterman purchased the local milk distributing business about

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'a year ago from Milton Swearta -following the sale of his shoesC i He said today that he was * ! cided as to what he would do ft ; future. The Haltermans, reside, North Second street. Mr. Heft j graduated from Decatur high ' | a year ago and until recently r a 1 1 employed by the Petrie Oil Co. j Decatur. Trade in a Gocu u„