Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1951 — Page 7

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Year-Old Triangle Ended In Slayings Slays Wife, Lover, ( Commits Suicide I Grand Rapids, Mich., April 16 — — A wealthy business man 1 shattered a year-old love trian\gl3 , ■by killing his wife and her suitor and then committing suicide after telling his young son to “go back ( to bed/'’ authorities said today. Police found s the bodies of Robert ,i/;Le-'Roy Sr,/ 39, former president of the paper Corporation of America, his shapely brqnet wife, Wayne, •r 38, and Arthur WeStlund, 50,’ a' L N. Y. rubber executive at Le-Roy’s $40,000 home Saturday night. J ’ ; A dote written by Le-Rdy said: “My wife has admitted infidelity, on several occasions with WestlundAfter one year of trying to straight en out the situation, she now tells ! /.me she is in love with him. 50,..!" It was signed: “Bob Le-Roiy.” i \ Robert Lfe-Roy Jr., 12, called police After stepping across tke bodies of his father and mother and Westlun\l, who had gone toj Grand Rapids to visit the family after attending a contention. f Young# Le-Roy said he saw his father standing outside their home with, a deer rifle Saturday night/ " ' ; / .“What are you going to dp, dad?'’ the boy asked, t “ ‘Son,’ my v father said, /do you remember the affair between your another and Westlund I told you about' a year ago,’” YoungiLp-Roy told police. , /T\ \ The boy went to bed and shortly afterward heard ( a sho?. In another bedroom he found Westlhnd sprawl.

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ed across a bed and Le-Roy standshots. When he reached the hall “lie told me to go back to bed,” the youngster told police. “He said mother wouldn’t be hurt.” peen asleep in an adjoining room but a minute later, heard more shots. When he reached the hadllway, his parents were lying' dead. , Police said Le-Roy had shot bis wife twice and had'killed himself, by firing a .bullet through the roof of f his mouth. (Robert had to step across the bodies .again after calling police to. comfort his younger brother, Roger, 6, and sister Sharri, 8/who had been asleep in an aljoining room. Undersheriff Arnold Pigorsh said a drinking party apparently had preceded the’’ slayings, The Le-Roys moVed„ to Grand' Rapids from Scarsdale last Septeni- \ ber, the boy said. He tpld police his parents and Westlund had many' arguments before the Lie-Roys moved to Grand Rapids. ’ \ “Mother and Mr. Westlund mbst of the time took sides 'against dad,” ypung-Rebert said. Three Minor Wrecks Investigated Here /« Little Damage Done v In Three Accidents City police 1 investigated two minor accidents ip .the city and Sheriff Bob Shraluka one in the county over the weekend, the lat- ' ter occurring when cars driven by Leo Sheets, 937 Walnut street, and another by William Long, of Monroeville, collided on U.S. 224 about three miles east of Decatur. \ was enroute west Sunday o l n U.S. 224; his car collided with Long's as jth'e latter pulled cinto' the highway from'state roaditOl. Sheets’ car left the! road and went" into a ditch.v Total damage \ was estimated at $175. / | . In a Saturday accident, a car driven by Robert Gage, 72S North Fifth street, prephrihg ’to back into a parking .spot in tlje 100 block of North Moiiroe Street, was sideswiped by a car driven by Charles Bittner, route 2. Total damage woa $45. . ■ I The' other accident investigated iby city police occurred Sunday fit Thirteenth and Monroe when a Car driven by John Davis, of Chicago, turned off Monroe onto Thirteenth in froqt of the car' oriven by Elijio Fernandez, of this city. Damage was negligible. L/‘ / ; — b f ■ Army Deserter Is \ Seized At Hqmmond Hammond' Indi. April 16 —(UP) — Roland G. \Prine, 21. was held in city jail today pending release to iii-ilitai’jr authorities who said l-he deserted ’from the army last Oct. i IL# Prine, who was working in a I steel fabricating 'plant here, was arrested yesterday by police and FBI agents. , ■ ; . , Award Fellowship To Pyrdue Teacher Lafayette, Ind., April 16 —(I T P) — A GuggefiTieim i fellowship ( was awarded to I)r. R. M. Cable of the department! of biological science staff at Purdiie University, for the academic year 1951-52. Dr. Cable will be on sabbatical leave during that time to!continue biological studies he had Conducted for 10 summers. s ■' .V ■ . v If'Yoii Have Anything To Sell Try A Want Ad —lt Pays. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

i , j Two Decatur Young Men Sing In Hanover College Gle&Chib J > ~ \ /- . - \ A ' ._ ______ . - . ' Tiie Hanover College men’s glee club, under the direction of Prof. Frank W. Blanning, go on spring tour starting April 18. The 28 voice group will give its fir t performance in the vharch Wednesday evening, followed on successive days |>y evening concerts in the Presbyter,ian churches of Huntington, Kendallville and South Bend. /' / The club will sing during the Sunday morning worship service of the First Presbyterian church of Mishawaka. Saturday the group will transcribe a half hour radio program for WIIHB, Benton, Harbor, Michigan, .? . . \ | Top row—Don Kissel, Indianapolis: Jim Campbell, Newton; David, Bailey, Indianapolis; Lancb Deer, Franklin; Bob Myers, Knightstown; Al Kamradt, East Chicago; Hob Simpson, Columbuis; Bob Crawford, Crothersville; Gerald Clary, Rossmoyne, Ohio. Middle row—Rich Anderson. Monte Visa, Colo.; Roger Gentis, Decatur; Larry Mogre, Greensburg; John Hawley, Evansville; Bill Zimmer, South Bedd; Dick Haupt, Covington, Ky.; Gene Hinds, Dupont; Daniel Mills, Decatur; Bob Garner, Greensburg. Front row—'-George Ha|ey, Lafayette; Angus Washburn. Kentland; Dicjk Park, Whitehand; Dick Moore, Greensburg; Charles Lipp, Minneapolis, Minnl; Bill Florent, Huntington; John Walker, Louisville; Fred Harlow, Union City; and Cljbff Koehler. Evansville. /

New Holsum Bread In Detafur Today Improved Bread On \ Market Here Today New improved Holsum bfead, in a/|>right new wrapper, appears in Devatiir stories today. new Wrapper, adopted by the Ifoßum pak/ry. will 1 their cellor.hahe HolsumAvrapper which has been familiar th Ipcal housewives fori the past 12 months. / Packaged in a bright orangered. plastic routed wrapper, the new Holsum will rhe easily recipg•fized ' and will! make a colorful display in the stores where it is sold, according! to EJC. Forks, president of the Holsum Bakery company. , . / *« In announcing the introduction cf the . new Holsum to i'ecdjur shoppers. Forks said the' Holsum brand 4‘as originally selected 25 years ago because the f ame emphasize? the g<w>d tasting end healh-givii|ig qualities of t read, the basic food of most families all over the world“Holsiijn is <ine .<iif> the most widely distributed brands in North America," Forks said. “It appears oh family tables in 39 cf the 48 states, as veil as in many part’s of panada. According to Fork’s annouhnemmit, the bak ing process and I the formula from wl»ich the liew, improved Holsum ' read is produced give the’ bread a fresh, homebaked flavor and aroma, which is sealed in by the plastic boated wrapper. -The Holsum Bakery company, producers of Hodsum bread, have served residents of Decatur since 1922. The linn was founded in 19W/ ' \ | I Forks poiihtedj -tuj. that the Holsum k Bakf 4 y is purely a home industry and that its independence is not affected by the fact that bakers' in piany other parts ol the country are using the brand and protiucing the same high quality loaf of bread. No outside interests] are involved an the company, anjd no changes in personnel have been made in adopting the 'improved Holsum formula and the new wrapper. More than 30 salesmen of the Holsum Bakery attended a nieet!pg Saturday to nee the new Idolsum package am the advertising program which accompanies i s introduction. At the meeting the men were presenjled the improved, bread aijd the new wrapper. The advertising and stales program was presented by J. A. Smith of the W. E. Long Co upany, Chicago agency, which prepared the »program and has handled the promotion of Holsum bread since 1909. ' ’ \ ,/ . — J Start Selection Os Murder Trial Jury # Primeton, Ind.. April —(UP)— Selection of a began today in Gibson circuit \court for , the firsti degree murder triUl of Rufus Glenn ! Sisk, 35, accused] of the pickax ( slaying of an 'Evartsville filling station operator. [ Sisk, a former packinghouse I worker, is accused of killing Hanl cock, 44. during aiji attempted robbery last fall. Hancock’s body, with a 24-inch pick emlredded in his skulk was found a newsboy last j Sept. 4. Receipts o( the station were miSsing., < Farm Meetings More than 35 million persons In the United States attended meetings, demonstrations and tours held by county lama agents in 1946.

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State Traffic Toll Lower Over Weekend Four Are Killed In Weekend Accidents ; By United Press Indiana’s weekend traffic deaths boosted the past tew weekends by multiple death accidents fell this weekend in rpite of mostly fair weather and heavy traffic. ! At least four persons died ip automobile accidents during th® past two days compared to 14 in crashes last weekend. 1 V Berget H. Blocksom, 65, Michigan City, was killed when his car was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio railroad y train about nine miles south of Uaporte Saturday. The other tw:o traffic victim? were Owh Crossgrove, 25, Grabill,. killed Sunday when his car struck a bridge abutment on In. 1 about one mile north of St. Joe, and Josephine ,E. Michael, 14, Detroit, who died of a skull fracture Sunday after she was thrown from a car when it ran off U.S. 24’about three miles west of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Edna Jacoutot,,6s, Kokomo, died last night in St. Joseph’s hospital at Kokomo of injuries suffered in a two-ear crash on U.S. 31 bypass. Sheriff George Scott said Mrs. Jacoutdt was thrown from her car when she drove onto the bypass and into the side of a car driven by Harold Kessler, 17, also of Kokomo. ' \ J

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Family Forced Out By Basement Blast \ Joliet? ill., April 16.—(UP)— Members of the Ravnsbeck farriily something was WTongf vhen they heard a du|l roar frorti >. the basement of their home and then their piano fell over, windows broke and the foundation of the house moved. ! But\ at first they couldn’t figure out “what caused that noise,” Fred Ravnsbeck, Chicago manufacturer, said. ' Later they discovered Lt came f -orri an explosion from the basement heating plant. Then they found the force of the blast had shattered every window in the ’ Louse and shifted the foundation so the living room floor was taised several inches. Cause of the explosibn was not known. \ ' ■ — **— . - ' , A Democrat Want Ad —It Pays, it You Have Anything To Sell Try

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