Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1950 — Page 6
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Beggar Kept Daily J Account Os Profits Dead Man's Records Show Bank Accounts New" York Feb T - t rrr - The .tippled old man looked as though he didn't have a dime, - He sat slumped against a building. his one leg stretched out before him. a' e,rumpled iett hat at his-side with a tew yellow pencils in it Thank you ’’ he said politely whan sympathetic passersby tossed nickels, dimes and quarters to him. The old man’s name was Robert T Inales. He was' 62 And he I a i-n I as po-.t aa he looked.' The story of how be made a| nationwide business out of being | a beggar came out today. nearlytj two weeks after his death in the paupers' ward of Heilevue hospital on Jan 22 Ingles who also wa« known as Joseph E Addeison. lived in a shabby Third Avenue rooming house It was there police found a stack of ledgers In which he had I kept a careful accounting of hlsi daily earnings Police also found notations indi-j
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Jefferlon Jackson P Reservations Here Reservations Tor the annual Jeff - > erson-Jackson day dinner may ue obtained from Mrs. ( hartex Ixww ' Decatur: C. H. Muselman. Herne, er Mrs. Theron Baker. Geneva The dinner will be held March 4 at the Murat Temple in Indianapolis. eating Ingles had accounts Ip three j banks in New York and In 4“ throughout the country. One ac count with the Manufacturers Trust company had deposits of 22.5<»<>. police said. The amounts In the other banks were not disclosed Ingles also had made out a will. police discovered. In it he left everything to a niece. Catherine Hayes, of (532 14th St. North I Seatj tie. Wash However, police said ] they had been unable to find her. I Waiter J. Hayer. the attorney j who drew up the will, said Ingles once told him It was a disappointment in love which had turned him into a,, professional beggar. Ingles also told the lawyer he liad lost his leg 15 years ago in an accident. He wau believed to have been horn in Walla Walla. Wash The neat, carefully kept notebooks found in Ingles' room detail 'ed his yearly travels. He traveled ' by automobile, trading his old one In regularly when he passed i through Detroit. | A typical entry In his log hook l-WWHs..-:.. - • - ■ "Philadelphia, total pencils— B‘Ht at 9 p m |36 and 550 pencils at 6." Postcard* which Ingles sent hack to the attorney from Tampa Fla. to Portland. Me. reported how his business was going. tine report said ‘‘business Js good. I’m staying her* ’’ Another read, "business not so ' good I'm moving on.’’ u | map,’’detectives said "But it looks I like it will take awhile to straighten out how much money he left | ‘ Trade tn a Good Town — Dacatur
South Bend Holdup Mam Au a rICn Ai" JvlllCfllCu 50-Year Terms To Youthful Bandits South Bend. Ind.. Feb. 2—il’PI — Two hoMup men were sentenced to stt year*- in prison today, only its hours after they robbed a savings and loan company of $5,713. Superior court fudge J. Elmer Peak gave 30 years on bank rob bery charges and 20 years on arm ed robbery charges to John Greece. 24. Sutton, Mass., and Charles Sol Madxel 21. New York City. Peak ordered the teams be served consecutively “1 am giving you 50 years Instead of life because you will some day be eligible with good behavior for parole." Peak told the bandits Greece and Madaef held up the First Federal Savings and Ixtan Association Tuesday morning, fleeing with the money after forcing four employes and one customer into a vault They were arrested 61 minutes later on a Chicago-bound . elect detrain at Michigan City. Ind They confessed and pleaded guilty the .same day Parents of the youths came by plane to hear the sentence Louis Madset. father of Sol. said his son disappeared in mid-December. He said SoFs -wife gave birth to a baby two days before the holdup PROPOSES U.S. (Cont. From Page ->ne> shy for notifying the UN Meanwhile, chairman Tom Connaly. D.. Tex . of the senate for-4 elgn relations committee said hTavoTs in attempf at new negovhrtions with Russia — through the I'N —for effective international atomic control. Mr Truman refused to discuss H-bomb developments beyond hi» Tuesday announcement ordering i the atomic energy commission 'o j go abend— with worJuon th- super bomb. I . ' ■ ■-1 i Different part* »f the same f«rrj ■ pelt have different wearinK Quail tie". Th** barfcft of motii atiiuiai-> ‘wear better sides: the, | sides outwear bellies and paws ' ’4-
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Minor Damage Done I As Car Leaves Road 1 t rivpuij: slivriff Thib Shraluka ln ; ‘" vwigated an accident Wednesday 1 evening when a car driven by John Bright, of l»ec»tur. la attempting to go up a grade oh a county road near Monmouth, slipped off the! road and down an embankment. The right rear.end,„<rf,the car was slightly damaged, and. a wrefker' extricated the gar from the gully by ahchorntg li* a nearby Taflroad.! track. : Repair Crews Work On Mighty Missouri Only Minor Damage is Believed. Done Norfolk. V«.. Feb 2—(UPI— The navy hoped to report today the extent of the Missouri's damages and the cost of making her shipshape again. Repair crews drydocked the mighty Mo and went to work on j her scarred and battered hull only : a few hours after the 45.00 ft-ton battlewagon was wrenched free fnirn the Hampton Roads sandbar on which it floundered for the most galling’ 15 days of Its glorfou* ca'reer.-------- v---Rear Adms. Allan E Smith and Hirmer N Waltlh. in charge of the repair Job. were ‘confident that a bow-to-stern inspection would re veal only minor damage They be neve only three of 4W underwater compartpients were stove In when the big ship ran aground Jan 17 With luck, they said, it would be ready tor action again within three to five The Missouri, only active battleship in “the T . S fleet. was’refToated yesterday In a big pre dawn .salvage operation fust a« the monthly floodtide swept into HamptonHoads ’the home base of Hie AtIghHeyflevt A court of Inquiry convenes Sat uiday to determine just why the shi|> stiayed front the well marked ■channel and grounded on Thimbb i Shoals off <Hd PoitU Comfort. Va | At stake was the ttiluri- of tk»4 Mis.i.uri ted I'- new -klppey I <:ap- W U Blown.- - I A"Patifit war hero. Drown refit ed to comment on the Missourisad adventure, txrrpt to say quiet1 iv' . * , I can assure you Hie ship did not p d-rut.aL_ESsßi! .'?f. cafelwe- - B*SV . i HAVOC, F’roin !*:<«»• hup- and 'blwkiHl a h Sb !wav and railroad ira« k. (‘risi'iwH uork**d th rem ah—tththt ’-4** tU*‘. xnasK at. eaxllL, from bhwkinK that WQuM fhu.d tlb-ir iiearj?-* camp ~lf da i 1.. ;.(! \ H.ti •. uh nf ‘i- -'!• • ai d Mini* the -iid<* -r<'[n < .into :iw < ■ ' • 1 ulant. 7 ' . In I'.tn eU'llt -A’ -I--4” Hrai tor- were rreepin-’ ov. r art | of j.>od and ftwd to isolated farm* .Hill ’: U II- Tl •’ A • ‘ i*l I by the army, also hroncht. ont ; i sic k perKon* —i— : —; , The ice in north central' ‘was reported/worse thajti the.... bUj storms 'hat struck a rear ag(» and . in l*Hr> in the name area Fifty-i ■five Texas towns vot*re < off; 'hv telephone and almost a« many! Hrr smitkern Oklahoma .Pywer fail- ’ • tires were reported at Gainesville. : Bomha-m, Jlonev Grove. M< Kinney ami penton. Tex _ _J | A'bout 1 “>’’n square miles <»f Tes-. as alone was covered by ice . H|at > . pih d three inches’thick on wire*- - * In the Ohio Valley floi>d zone, i ■ rhe big river was risrng toward 5S i ,’feet- ti over flood Kfa.ge; with J .water Hsing into.jhe business .dis-! : tri. ts of t’ailettahurg and Ashland, I \Ki . c»t the 4>hjo> Jam lion *tthj j the Big Sandy | As ha« k water crowded tlie P.it iSandy. The Paintsvjll**. Ky . water wera...flooded out; of sejy-. he -The tow ns residents—iLere. I urge*l to conserve water as hilltop tank- l.eiih i-nnuvli for <»n!y. Iwh . davs ' ; At Frankfort. Ky? nearly 250 !_Uuuili«uL flod as the - Ke.ntiu.kv lU.V---jer approached a—crest 11 feet j above flood-stjige The army rushr] ed emergent v supplies nnd the Tied cjoss set up relief headquarters J.tn the 7n>tv urmor A■'-’Tn’ find out h<>w M _l* an ~ FgK <'nrneli Tested Cgus. Th» T average pressure required t<> break an egg was !• S fM.uiids. with the highest j'“ 7 pounds Pressure was applied from »-nd to end
Dutch Mail-Freight Airliner Crashes All Seven Aboard Are Believed Dead Amsterdam. Netherlands. Feb. 2. .- (VP» — Royal hutch airlines TfcLMI ntall-lrifgKT plane crigW in Qames early today in the North • was certain that ail seven crew. members aboard were killed. = The plane, a twin-engiiend C-47J Dakota, was <w> a routine nightly; run between Amsterdam and lam-j don The crew of five was supple- j merited by two extra co-pilots be-i fng ferried to London for InstrueJ tion in the lading system at Um-' don airport. ■ Six of those aboard were Dutch and th* -eventh. a co-pilot, was air! Englishman. Among the crew was ■ 1 ope woman. Katherine Mrners. 2C year-old stewardess. Rescue ships and planes found only floating wreckage and some of j the plane's mail cargo on the Sea j some 30 miles off the Dutch coast i where a Dutch freighter, the Rig i nor. saw a plane crash into th* 1 sea in flames. U. S. SCOFFS (Coni. From f*»g« One) *_ up Its naval strength in tlie area. "Russia has. 27<> t.> Md -übma- ! rines. and about one fourth of them are tn the Pmific. we .believe.” Sherman told a navy press confer- i ence. — . - i Earlier, at a pre-s conference held by all four members of the I’. S. joint chiefs of staff. She rman said the history <d two wortd wans shows the submarine threat is _2yery real." - ' - At this confetence. Sherman said the I'tilted States planned to In crease the'number of carriers in the western Pacific to two and ut divert a "half doaen destruyerfront th. Atlanrit / -?» - *«'•* kokomO -(C..,.< i rmi r. s- One) . rngtif,... : . The-student leaders walked out of the meetiir.-, w.i word tliat-tb.-y would urge .strikers to resume their studies A dbxen pickets met students yeMerda, as they galhetesl in buxaitUL laughing gr.m|.. near three main etiirain-*-s to Hi-liuil.l- --; lOg- ■ - '■ " The pi. Io is. passed out iiati.l—htH* w-lm-lt —(.*.*. la tow! wini.ini: the. -st.rti.',. ~.■■.■» of students joined the linos and nuuaJied liac.k and forth outsid- ; i h«- doors ■ However, some pupils who r-fus.-d' to join fTn- rebellion slip;.. -I pa-t tin- gifard- ami entered the Imllilitic Othets .fit-re I through a fourth, unguarded dmir Th*, demoted coach ,a|.|*eare.l <*n the- -> tin.-: step. and ple Me-l htiefly W •■■l tile students -■■■' up their strike. "You can't win aiivthiin: toi was. he. told rioni
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But few responded Hi his plea I Aa the day wore on. the strikers broke up and straggled home or .duasruowu Jallhisig.. UVJBTILE. .IwBK-, puts. — Swlhart promised strikers that they would not lie punished when they returned. But Intaril members said they [ would not give in to pressure audj restore Trohaugh to the coaching. position * Have yoqr paper read.v_ for Boy Scout pickup Saturday.’
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SALE OF REAL» The undesigned. Rolland O. Poling. M administrator of the Estate of Charles B. Poling, deceased, by virtue of an order of the Adams ClrI cult Court made and entared tn said estate, being cause number 3X74 OB the Probate Docket of said <-ourt hereby gives notice that ou Wedaesday the 15th day of Feb., 1950 I between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day 'and if not sold on said day between said hours of each succeeding _ day thereafter until sold, he will oiler for sale to the highest and l*eat i bidder on open bids at private sale at the law office of Ferd L, LMterer at No. 144 South Second street, Decatur. Indiana and for not leaa than the full appraised value thereof, the following described real estate ih Adams County in the State of Indiana, to-wlt: Commencing at the north east corner of the north east quarter of the south west quarter of section seventeen (17> in township twenty-seven (27) north range fourteen (14) east, thence west on the north line at said quarter section fifty-three and one-half i&3>4> rods, thence south Sit rods parallel gtlli ’lts •’ ■ east line of said quarter section to the south line of Mid north east quarter of said southwest quarter. thentH east fifty three and one-half (5341 rods to the southeast corner of said north east quarter of said south west quarter, thence north So gods to the place of begliilnng containing. IS 2/3 acres more or lea* 28.66 acres. Also the west half of the soqth east quarter of Mid section seventeen (17) In township twenty-seven (37) north range 14 east .aintaining eighty (SO) acres more or les*, except there- _ from (5) acres descrilied as follows: commencing at the south west corner of said west half’ thence east ten (10) rods thence north eighty (SO) rods thence west ten (10) rods, thence south eighty (S<H r*als to the place of beginning, containing after said exception 75 acres, more or leas This farm consists of lot acres and has on tt a 7 room frame house and a barn 36x72. garage, grainery and hen house. This farm is all under cultivation except 6 acres of woods. It Is ' located two miles south and one and half miles west of Decatur. TERMS GF SALE: The purchaser of said real estate Is required to pay at laest one third of the pur. hsse price on the day of sale and the balance of the purchase pri* e upon the delivery of the deed to the purchaser for the real estate purchasi-d together with an abstract of Hile for the said real estate |<Un has*d brought down to date showing a title free of i liens except taxes for the year 1940 payable ill the year 1950 and except a mortgage lie . of the Phoenix Mutual Life insurance Company recorded in Mortgage record -tl on page 256 of the records of Adams County. - Indiana upon whb h there the -principal .sum us llAOO.ftd and — Interest in the sum of 172'<0 and which mortgage lien the purchaser inifst assume and except the right of lhe tenaiit on said real estate to . retain possession of said real estate ufitil March I. 1150 and the right lo'f said lennant to come back upon said real estate and harvest the s b.-.it I rop planted "Il said t*al estate in the fall ot 1949 and the right | of -..d-l tenanfdii retain th*- tenants share of said wheat crop ROLLAND G. POLING Administrator FERD L LITTERER. Attorney 26 2 DEMOCRAT WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
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