Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1950 — Page 7

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MnbtorOiTrH For StiMofy Rapt U-Yuar-OM Giri TMtitios At Trial BMtM. IL, Jaa. n - <UPI —a 14-year-old girt who charged that ter aiiaieter tottered ter unborn child, claimed today that be toM her their Bildt, leva affair did no*, concern their souls. Tte pretty aolt-spoten school girl told a Jary of II men and one woman that JaaMa L. Pettit, former minister of the TbompeoavUle. ill. Baptist church, told her ttet intiui acles veto "a matter of tte flesh only." Pettit, Who la IT. married add the father of g ion in the army, la be

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I wrote that ever an article in the Clarion l«pt «eA bet I didn't lite deine K After all, tte man H was atoned at"*-Slim Henderson —fa a gaed friend rs urine. Slim nme into quite a windfall last month, and bought the old Clarke place. The deed gave him title to a/l the land- right down to the street. Then Slim started to take up the sidewalk to mate his lawn look better. ‘ -Tfeft it-wasiiT fair to tte town and said so in my article. Neat . morning Slim eomes around and wants to know what I "mean—get-

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ing triad to Franklin coualy cir cuit eoort tor statutory rape. Tte girl's mother, who testified after ter, said tte girl was six months pregnant. The state may rest its case today. The gin said she first met Pettit when he called cm her and her two sister* and invited them to join bls bible class. On a trip to Carhondale. 111., to get Sunday School supplies last Inna 10. she said, he gated ter "to be his girl friend." He and his wife weren't getting along, ho said. She promised to be his "girl friend. ’ she said, and Pettit took her to his home. There, she said, he kissed her several times and they were intimate for the first lime. petit's wife ya* working in a factory at nearby Zeigler, 111. Between July and September, tte

ting folks riled against him. I felt ornery myself, and we had quite a set-to over th* whole business. From where 1 sit. ttet was featish. One* we'd cooled eff (e»*r lunch and a bottle of beer at Andy's Taveral.Slim decided tte sidewalks should stay—for tte common good and I promised neat time I’d tote a good leek at tte otter fellow's paint es view before writing aay articles about hist! £)oe

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girl said, she went to Pettit's home "about a doxen lime*'' and was intimate with him. She said skn went there on th* pretext of cleaning bis home. The minister, she said, told her their relations were not wrong because it wag "a matter of the flesh only; It does not bother the soul." The girl denied on crosa-esamln-ation that she was Intimate With other men. Circuit judge CharlM Randolph upheld a state objection that the question was Irrelevant de spite defense attorney S. M. Ward's protest that the jury was 'entitled to know" that she waa "guilty of Indecencies not becoming at her age." Charges were filed against Pettit last October after doctors found the girl pregnant. He later resigned at minister, saying he had flittered with some members over churcii policies Rut his parishioners put up 17.000 bond so he would remain free. Fetfit maintain* there is "no sense" to the charge Hie wile has de< liuod comment. He la now working in a nils* oft ice In Zelxler. Although Its spinal cord w*u severed, ‘a kitten al the llllnoi Institute of Technology soon learn d»ii In th it Ik run pVpii Ntbriiiu.

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Pky 6th Symphony, Clarinetist Dies Flout Tradition Os Number, Artist Dies Stockholm. Sweden. Jan.' IT.— (UP)— Some English musicians believe that Tchaikovsky's "Pathstiqtto" is fatal to men who play it. The director of tte Nottingham. England, orchestra ha* banned tte symphony because oae of Bls musicians died each lime it was performed. " Bat Johannes Norrby. director of the Stockholm Concert Assoeiatloa. is not a superstitious man. He de elded to Include Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony In a .performance Wednesday night. Just before tte “performance he called a special pres* conferenceW announce he was flouting the Eng- • liah HupcrslUton « "Tchaikovsky * sixth symphony does not murder musicians." he told the reporters The orchestra went through the performance without incident- up to and including Pathetlque Then 1 they swung into Shostakovich'* ' sixth ll*|f*Ay through the Scterao • one of *<J>e clarinetists, Ludwig WaiM-hr-dskl who bad played In

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lb* Stockholm symphony for so year*, collapsed. —— Hix doctors in tte audience rushed to tte stand. Ttey could do nothing. They pronounced War* chewski dead Tchaikovsky was said to have foretold bt* own death In Pattetl'iue The first death I* the Nottingham orchestra after it played Pathetlque waa about lib year*: ago A horn player waa suddenly taken ill during rehearsals of the numtier and died a tew hours later in a hospital The Up-Man Nottingham group did not play Tchaikovsky’s sixth■ again until a year ago. " A eelllM died a few day* later in an auto accident Last Christmas Eve tte founder of tte Nottingham orchestra. Gase Cooper, announced that be had j banned Tchaikovsky's sixth from tte group's repertoire He mention Rural Yvulh Meet Here Monday Night | Ail members of (he Adams coun-i ty rural youth are urged to.be at the county extension ogive at 7: SO p. m Monday for the annual "Workshop" period. The "workshop” will consist of mlmeograph1 Ing tte 1»SO programs.

ed the two depths as the reason tor his action. "It h> ■ r»ry strange coincMence because 1 think they are the only two who died since the orchestra waa formed seven years ago," Cooper said. _ Cooper, a well-known Egyptologist and Archeologist, said he certainly yas not superstitltlotu. He Mid he keeps * piece of King Tut s .phroud around the house. But, he slWi, he fait “uneasy" every time he heard Pathetlque. Forestry School Is Held Thursday Thirty-three people attended the extension forestry school at St. John's Thursday evening. Arthur ; Parrish extension forester, gave i valuable information to 4-H dub I Boy. Scout leaders. He also showed a colored movie of wildlife. Wm. Uln u. Pitt.inan-Kobiimn 'wildlife researcher told how slud les ware made of game animals and bifd* In Indiana lie also told how efforts were Ix-ing made to Increase the number of game birds and animals to provide for the pleasure of hunters and wildlife enthusiasts I If Vau Have something Ta Sell Trj i A Democrat Want Ad—lt Paya.

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Bedford, lad.. )oo.il~4Vr)State police said today Roeleloa Stemberger. U. Baton, YM .W---jured latoUy yaster4*y *M ter aatomoMle ran oft C. A. M. >• mile* soathwaat of ter* aad orertarned. If Yau Haw* teMtotag Ta Ml in K Dameerat Want »»-lt Faya. aad triatpiiwga yeu cm a** •l-5» SATURDAY NIGHT MUIflrJ VtRA CMUX, INOIAMA ' ' on to* Walia Adame cauaty line - •auto *f 1» •CM ibc aad 20c per battle Eaat 0 Welle Ceunty Game Farm.