Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1949 — Page 2

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Legion Hears Story Os Communist Spy Rev. Gillander Is Speaker Last Night Monday evening at the regular meeting of the American Legion, Adams Post 43, the story of Elizabeth Bentley, former Communist spy against her native America,

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was told by the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander of the First Presbyterian Church, who heard the reformed communist speak at Kendallville. Rev. Gillander first gave a biographical sketch of the woman spy. Miss Bentley, as a brilliant young college graduate in the early 1930’5, .saw Fascism at work under Mussolini in Italy, and returned to der pression-ridden America hating the i narrow nationalism and lack of . freedom offered by the Italian diet j tator. When she heard of the ,! '•American league against war and

J Man of the Year i ~ || ■ fl ' fl HLJH Dale W. McMillen, Sr., founder and board chairman of the Central Soya company, has been named "Man of the Year” by Council 212, United Commercial Travelers, Fort Wayne, in recognition of his business leadership and philanthropic enterprises. In 1933, .Mr. McMillen purchased Ihe sugar beet factory in this city, which later was liquidated and in j 1934, founded the Central Soya j company. Today, Central Soya, with its vast plants in this city, Gibson City. 111., and Marion, Ohio, is one of the largest soybean processing industries in the country. Feed mills are located in Harrisburg. Pa., and Memphis, Tenn. Mr. McMillen endowed the McMillen Foundation with $1,000,000 in July. 1947. The foundation has made grants of aid to community projects, including the experimental rural recreational agency established in this 1 city anl Ailed county, parks, swimming pools and Girl Scout cabins in Fort Wayne. fascism” she became interested without knowing that the highsounding name hid a Communistfront organization. She heard that j "Communism is 20th century | Americanism,” believed that her I ideals of international brotherhood I could be worked out under the red I banner. With other young college I graduates, she was quickly and i thoroughly indoctrinated in the works of Marx and other Commun- ; ist writers. The web of Communi ism was woven more tightly about j her until she counted her own life fcs nothing compared to "the cause.” Deception, double 'life became hers, stealing American secrets for the international ideal. Her red duties eventually made hen messenger between Earl Browder, No. 1 American Communist, and the Russian secret police. Then it dawned on her that she was not working for any great international ideal at all, but was betraying her own country for a Russian nationalism as narrow and brutal as the Italian Fascism she had hated. On that awakening, she went to the American F. 11. 1. and worked with I Edgar Hoover. j Miss Bentley analyzed the faults i in her own background which had j enabled her to become an American . dupe of Russian imperialism: | 1. Discouragement over the I American "capitalistic failure"! which she now knows is rich comI pared to Communist “prosperity 1 for the masses.” 2. Hope for a < bigger ideal than national narrow-j ness, and failure to understand that ! Russian Communism is but nationalism disguised. 3. A brilliant education, but unbalanced and weak in appreciation of American I Bona Vesta Night Dairy Auction 82nd Dairy Auction Wednesday, May 4th 7:30 E. S. T. Bona Vesta Sale Pavilion < 2 mile Northeast of Bryan, O. on State routes 2 and 127 — 80 — SELECT HOLSTEIN'S AND GUERNSEYS Registered and Grades Young and Typy Fresh or Close-up 2 Registered Holstein Bulls with pedigrees that warrant their being in the best of herds 2 Good Guernsey Bulls. Nice Ones | Bona Vesta Farm, through its years of selling with the same owner and the same auctioneer, has become noted for offering animals of superior quality and breeding, with honest testing. All animals have passed 2 clean Bangs , tests in the last 30 days. Many are calfhood vaccinated. Milking cows, mastitis tested. 6 Imported Registered Yorkshire Gilts, elose-up 2 Registered Yorkshire Boars, ready for service. BONA VESTA FARMS sSS2BSBWn3SBB2SEEZ!!3BH33B!I

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government and the American way of life. 4. A weak, fuzzy religion, which permitted her to hope that I greatest good for mankind could I be wrought by a brutal philosophy I which ignores God and therefore I overlooks the fact that each human I being is of infinite value as a child I of God. Rev. Gillander ended with these I words: “Miss Bentley emphasized I the point that I went to KendallI ville hoping to hear—that a deep I appreciation of the American way ( I of life is not likely without intelliI gent religion. When American I Legion leaders spend money putI ting up signs emphasizing the place of the church in American life, they know what they are doing as patriots. The American ideal is impossible without recognition of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Communism has to destroy religion iir order to establish its crushing dictatorship. If our enemies understand the r value of religion, and we <fb not, I then we give them a tremendous I psychological advantage over us.” Pleads Not Guilty To Leaving Scene Berne, April 26 — Raymond Wil--1 Hams. 47, Indianapolis automobile - mechanic, pleaded not guilty to a 1 charge of leaving the scene of an 1 accident, when arraigned in Clinton ■ county circuit court at Frankfort • Saturday. His trial was set for Nov- ■ ember 21. He is charged with leaving the scene of the accident in ■ which Lofton Moser, 31, of Lebanon, was instantly killed a few weeks ago. Moser was a native and ! almost life-long resident of Berne. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Youthful Killer Is Acquilied By Judge Reverses Previous Verdict In Chicago Chicago, April 26 — (UP) Howard Lang, 14. the yongest murder defendant in Chicago history, I was found innocent in criminal court today of a charge of having murdered a seven-year-old playmate. The verdict, handed down hy judge John Sbarbaro, reversed a previous ruling under which Lang had been sentenced to 22 years in the nenitentiary for killing little Lonnie Fellick during an argument in a suburban woods Oct. 16, 1947. In his decision, Sbarbaro said the boy was capable of judging right from wrong and held that the state had failed to prove the boy's capacity to commit such a crime. In his first trial 14 months ago, Lang interrupted the proceedings to plead guilty and was sentenced to prison. However, the state supreme court set aside the sentence on the ground that the boy did not understand the meaning of the plea. Lang’s retrial ended April 8. but Sbarbaro withheld his ruling until today pending complete investigation of the boy’s background and conferences with state and city officials about the case. The case was highlighted by testimony of Gerald Michalek, 10, who said Lang fatally stabbed Fellick and crushed his chest with * a chunk of concrete. Lang and Fellick had argued, he said, after a youth-

ful gang to which they belonged had engaged in sexual perversions. Sbarbaro said his verdict “brings this case to a close but does not close the problem of juvenile delinquency.” “The boy was emotionally disturbed and could not control his action,” he said. “He did not know good from evil at the time of the crime.” He made five recommendations: ’ A study of delinquent children who are potentially capable of being taken away from their parents; overhauling of the state's delinquency laws; censorship of movies to tae the extent that operators would J lose their licenses if they showed movies potentially harmful to ‘ children; that statutes should he ’ set up to control comic books dangerous to children; that all high ! school students should have a com- , plete child training and develop- ’ ment course. i Lang, who had been described as ■ the victim of a broken home, re- - turned to jail after the verdict and i obtained his belongings. It was ex--1 pected the youth would be released • in the custody of the attorney. > •

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