Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1951 — Page 2

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Light Vote Foreseen Generally In State f 80 Indiana Cities In Primaries Today InndianapoHs, May / B.—(UP) — J'ewM than 500,000 Hoosiers were expected to vote today in city primaries where the issues were partisan and purely local and uniuvolved with world affairs. In many of the 80 cities where voters decided nominees for mayor, chief interest lay in whether incumbents would be endorsed or rebuked by the rank, and file of their own parties. | Crime and gambling, highlighted in the. recent Kefauver senate committee hearings and by Gov- . ernor Schrlcker'a slot machine ban, Were issues in some cities. As a result of showdowns on these and other issues, observers expected many of the 48 mayors with opposition in thelir bids for tenominatlon would be sent to the sidelines in defeat when the vote count is tabulated after sundown. ; Polls were opened at 6 a.m. CST for a 12-hour period.. That meant 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in cities operating on daylight saving time. -Many voted by machine, others by paper ballots. i The day dawned fair with the promise of sunshine and temperatures ranging from 70 to 75 degrees. ~a i. A light vote was predicted gen- % erally over the state. / Heaviest turnout was expected Lake county, where many namet> flooded fthe mayoralty ballots in five of* the county’s six cities. Only Crown Point, the county i' eeat.; had no primary races foi mayor.. L •" Observers figured about 100,000" ■s voter? would turn out. in Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Hobart and Whiting. \ Indianapolis, the-state's biggest city and capital, planned on a vote of 60,000 to 80,000. /i . ~ t Some 300,000 to 325,000 others w ill vote in the other Indiana rities to round out a total of roughly half a million. \ j Bars, taverns and liquor stores were shut 1 tight ias a drum by state law during hours the po}L were open. This penalised drinkers on the farm and in more than 400 towns and cities -where there were no primaries scheduled. Thee mayors under indictment by grand juries were among 48 mayors involved In fights (or survival today in their first tests to determine whether they stay in cffice four more years beginning ntext Jan. 1. •. They were — all /Democrats — Mayor Henry E- Scanning, Jr., Fort Wayne; V Andrew Kovacik, Whiting, ’and Mayor ' f rank Migas, East Chicago. Branding was indicted in an investiga- .. tion of coal purchases for city utilities. Kovacik and were indicted days apart by the same Lake county jury oh charges of , S fmlure to act to halt crime.

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Zuercher To Rebuild Accordion Factory! ir i ' ’. \ ‘ 1 Chris Zuercher, accord lan manufacturer of Berne, will rebuild his factory, which was destroyed by fire April! 26. He has purchased an acre of ground from Harmon Bagley Just south of the Berne city limits on the east side of U. 8. highway 27. J Zuercher intends to builds 40 by 40 foot cement block or brick building. He is nationally known for his manufacture of accordions. Three Men Arrested For Bank Robberies Admit/ Chicago Area Bank Lootings Chicago, May 8. —(UP) — The federal bureau of investigation today announced the arrests of three men on bank robbery charges and said they had admitted parts in two Chicago area robberies netting more than $50,000 in cash and checks, I• ; J A George T. McSwain, agent in charge of the FBI office bare, said the three were* John Patrick MoMahon, 20, Chicago; • Richard Blecha. 18 k Berwyn; and Albert Mario Stella, 20, Cicero, i Stella recently was married and McSwaip said Stella used his share; of the robbery proceeds to purchase a house for his bride. McMahon was a swimming star at Fenwick high school in Oak Park, where he graduated in 1949; Blecha was n football and basketball star. He attended Loyola here for on? term. Stella attended Fenwick for 2-V4 years, and Morton high school in Cicero for eix months. ■ • McSwain said the men admitted the’ holdups of the South H°B & nd Trust and Savings Bank Sept. 25, 1950, in which $32,940 was taken and seven employes and customers were herded behind the grill doors of the vault- and the robbery March 2, 1951, of the Roselle State Bank, Dupage county, in which $16,067.59 in cash,, and $5,790 in travelers fchecks stolen. Customers were herded into the vault at this bank also. McMahon, according to McSwain, said he got 114,000 from the South Holland robbery; Blecha $14,000, and Stella . about $5,000. . In the Roselle robbery they got about $5,000 in cash and $1,900 in checks each. ' I • - ■ k fT?bas,4he travelers checks and tha nieh’y desire for flashy automobiles that-led to their capture, agents said. , • .; Rumschlag Property Is Sold At Auction The Rumschlag property on First street was purchased at public auction Monday night by Clyde jß'itler. owner of Sutler's garage which is located next to the property. T£e high bid was $6,00U. Roy S. Johnson and Son and Melvip Liechtj conducted the sale. J 1 -

Mississippi Rapist Is Executed Today ! Loses Anal Battle ! To Escape Execution Laurel, Miss., Negro rapist Willi? McGee died in his bedroom slippers In the state’s portable electric chair early today with calm, quiet contract to the frantic final hours of his six-year fight for life. : The furore which the case Created continued even after his death. As the body of the 38-year-old truck driver was being carried from the two-story courtroom, the crowd of some 500 white persons on the |awn cut loose with a series of rebel yells. v McGee, whose case attracted world-wide protests from leftist groups; was convicted three times for raping a white housewife. He mg. ° sentenced to death seven times, reprieved six times, hut lost his last hour plea for a seventh reprieve to the U.S. supreme court. One bolt of current surged tor 6b seconds through his body and foft McGee, dead at 12:08 a.m. CST. I“I have everything fixed all right,’’ were McGee’s last words. |r am ready- to go,” he told the Rev. T. W. Patterson, k negro minister. fyMcGee puffed calmly on a cigar while his head was being shaved and made do show of emotion while he was being strapped in the chair in front of the judge’s bench in the courtroom where he had seven times been sentenced to die. A detachment of state trbopers kept watch outside but (he death watchers were orderly and the only demonstration was the one which greeted the removal of the body. Among the 100 witnesses to the execution was the husband Os the white Wqman the negro was thrice Convicted of raping here in 1945 in the presence of two of her children. The ‘last minute” stays of execution that, twice spared McGee’s life could not be obtained this time although a battery of attorneys in Jackson, New Orleans and Washington worked feverishly to secure <■ ’ j , I All hope was lost late last night when chief justice Fred M. Vinson of the U.S. supreme court refused to grant a reprieve. Earlier in the dpy, justice Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas had refused to intervene. Other appeals were made yesterday to U.S. district judge Sidney” Mize in Jackson judge Waype Borah in Npw Orleans. Former leftwing congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York headed a group of three attorneys which handled the Washington appeals. Nipsco Sends Out Checks For Taxes 1 Hammond, Ind.. May 8. —Presl dqnt Dean H. Mitchell of the Northern -Indiana Public Service (so., said today checks totalling $1,310,619 for spring tax payments have been sent to counties serviced by the utility. . The- biggest payment, $575,325, went to Lake county. Others included: Adams, ss,o4tt Allen, $89,106; Cass. $12,439; Do Kalb. $4,461; Elkhart, $63,239; Huntington, $976; Kosciusko, ; Laporte, $202,210; Marshall, $32,408; Miami, $10,956; Noble, $2,191; Porter, $54,534; Tippecanoe, $438; Wabash, $5,719; • Wells $4,292; White, $36,092 and New DePauw Building To Be Opened Friday - ! • 4 Greencastle, Ind., May 8— Eugene C Pulliam, Indianapolis pul>and pePauw alumnus; will make the principal address at the opening of DePauw University’s new -Memorial Student . iFnioa building Friday, president dlyde E. Wildman has iJoining President Wildman and Pulliam at the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a. m." which will officially open the $750,000 structure w|ll be Robert E. Crouch union director and secretary of alumni affairs, and Ira Brown, Niles. Mich., btudent president of the union’s governing board. * The Memorial StudehP Building commemorates the 105 Depauw persons who died in World War 11-

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Bond Savings Plans Installed By Firms T. F. Graliker, chairman of the Adams county U. S- Defense bonds committee, hag bees notified hy Robert W. Fowler, director;! Indiana U. S. savings bonds division, that during the last 30 days' more than 200 important Indiana business instil utions have either decided to install payroll savings plans to sell defense bonds tn their employes or to reactivate sales plans that already have been in effect. Fowler said thgt this by far the most Important gain that has been made in the number of companies installing the payroll savings plan gjnee the close of World War 11Mrs. Harry Becker Injured In Accident Mrs. Harry Pelle Becker, of South Bend, daughter of William RXfolchln, is a patient in the Pawating hospital, Niles, Mich., where she is a nurse, recovering from s compound fracture of the right leg and multiple bruises sustained in a five-car accident near Niles last Thursday night. , * Only one person was injured 'in the accident. Mr. Colchin, Mrs. Anne K- Smith and daughter Miss Marilyn haVe returned from Visiting Mrs. Becker, whose condition is reported satisfactory following surgery.! ,

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Film Actress In Suicide Attempt p ‘ ■'? Takes Overdose Os Sleeping Pills van Nuys, Calif., May B.—(UP)— Academy award winning actress Mary Astor, 45, attempted suicide today by gulping an overdose of sleeping pills in the library of her San Fernando Valley home. The actress was rushed to Valley Receiving' hospital after police officers R. O. Ernst and D. R. Gardner found Her sprawled on a cot in her home clad only in a nightgown. Her husband stock broker Thomas Wheelock, was not Home when police arrived. The officers said sleeping pills were scattered about the library. Miss Astor’s stomach was pumped at Valley hospital and she was transferred to Culver City hoapita| 4 Dr. Ralph Harris, staff physician at Valley hospital, said the actress would recover, but that she still was unconscious. ij Attendants at Culver City hospltar admitted Miss Astor was under treatment there but would give no further information. Attendants at Valley hospital said she was treated for an "overdose of barbiturate.” Officers were summoned tb the actress’ home by the Rcv.FWilliam J. Smith of St. Cyrils Catholic church in nearby Encyno.

The priest said Miss Astor telephoned bis home last night and told his house-keeper to Have him to “coipe quickly because she was very 1115’ The Rev. Smith >a|d he “suspected something was wrong” because Miss Astor was When she telephoned. He called police and went with them to the honie. Father Smith told officers Miss Astor had been despondent for some time. , j\ -1 . '.I Miss Astor, who won sn academy award in 1942 for her supporting role in “The Great Lie," was a star of both silent and talking pictures. I ' ? ' M' ‘ -A" 11. S. Rejeeh Pw Os) method of writing a Japanese treaty in 1947. Russia at time proposed a big fbur meeting after the United States had proposed that the 11-uatiou far eastern couimission write the pact. The United States now is consulting with 15 nations, including Russia but not Red China. ! 4 The state department today made it clear thpt this government will continue its plans to draft a Japanese I|rea(y if Russia refusues to gccept the principle of -bfoad negotiations. j The Kremlin made the proposal yesterday in an 11-page statement which included a scathing and detailed denunciation of U. S. policies and intention? toward Japan.

- — President Truman 67 Years Old Today *'• ’ i J V ''i 4 \ "• ' ■ Quiet Observance Planned By Truman i f Washington, May 8 — (UP) -4 President Truman fold the nation last“'?ight an atoniic war j- with Russia is “a real possibility” but it would be more likely under the \pojlciei of Gen. Douglas MacArtliTrr, Mr. Truman atomic warfare might wipe out some of the nation’s major citie? and “I do n<s Want to! be responsible for bringing that ■ about.” Mr. Truman declared his jjosition in a speech, which was broadcast nationally, before a meeting of civil defense officials. The president didn’t mention hjs ousted far eastern commander by name but ?e turned down, point by point, the measures MacArthur has advocated for extending the Korean conflict to Communist China. MacArthur urged the bombing of Red bases in Manchuria, a military and economic blockade of China and use of Nationalist, troops from Formosa. Ahd, the general said, if necessary we should go it alone.' Mr. Truman gave his.reasons for rejecting such proposals. Among

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them, he said, it might: • 1. Lead to a bigger ind longer war in Asia, with enormously increased casualties.. > 2. Endanger Japan and the Philippines and “units the Chinese people behind their communist rulers.” I\ 3. Lone allies against communism in Europe and leave the United States to “go it alone.” He said that if “we go it. alone in Asia” we may destroy (he unity! of free nations. • “The path of collective security is our only sure / defense, against the dangers that /threaten us,” he said; “It. is the path to peace in Korea; it is the path to peace in the world.” > ’ j

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