Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1952 — Page 6

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Jesse Cook Dies i Today At Hospital Funeral Services Friday Afternoon A Jesse Leroy Cook. 74. retired JeTferson tqwnship farmer, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at th?* Adams county memorial hospital. He was born in Adams county June 2. 1878, a son of Jacob ahql Frances Abnet-Cook, and was a Ijfelbijg resident of the county. , ) Surviving are one son, Albert Cook of Geneva; three daughters, Mrs. Altie Lister and Mrs. Erma Crandall of near Geneva, and Mrs. Wilda Landers of Geneva; five ‘ grandchildren; and two brothers', ' Jacob Cook of Berne and Grover ' Cook of Fort Wayne. Two brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. . Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Apple Grove I'. B. church, the Rev. Walter Burkholder officiating. Burjal will be in the Daugherty cemetery. The body was removed to the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, where friends may call after nooh Thursday until time of the services. 4 * £ ypEn if I II' 1 1 1 J (t iii i « •= Ift ' i ■ - ■ 'IHL ■ t . ' ' ■ :' ■ " I'. • Key Largo Color • Cheese Keeper I ■ ■ • Butter Keeper * o Model 928 i 9 Cu. FL ■ V * . ■ ‘ '■"■ $' ’299-’5 I HALGKS HEATING - APPLIANCES PLUMBING Across from Court House South Second St. V I I

Twins Are Born Ta Ingrid Bergman j Rome, Italy, (U l P) 4- Twins — “both beautiful’ — werq born ; Wednesday night to aetress Ingrid Bergman at Rome International hospital. Arrest Suspect In Robbery, Beating Office Manager Os Laundry Is Victim INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Police iarrested a suspect Wednesday in the robbery and beating of a laundry office manager after receiving ;a tip he was “in on the robbery.” Slated fok arraignment oVi preliminary charges’ of >robbery was Thomas Bellamy, 25, (identified by Mrs. Flossie Doweny, 54, the victim of the holdup and beating, and two witnesses who said they saw him flee from the laupdry station. Mrs. Downey,. manager of the United Laundry and cleaners pickup office, said Bellamy s raided the cash drawer in the office while another man beat her. An undetermined amount of money was taken. .4 -.- '’ | , Police also checked the room of a man—belipved to the accomplice. They said they found a pair of bloodstained pants; thought to have been worn by Him ij Police said the suspect still at large was shot in both legjS by Mrs. Downey’s son, James McIntyre, 33, who arolused by his mother’s screams and chased the robbers; firing both barrels of, a 12-gauge shotgun. Pellets from one ol theijcharges struck a pedestrian, Norbert Bauer, 62, whb was on his way, to work. was treated and fe-\ leased. Downey Said he l)ad been accompanying his mother work recently because of a wave of robberies in the neighborhood. . . J ..j Dirksen May Nominate Taft At Convention WASHINGTON, (tIP) — Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-111., probably will make the nominating speech for Sen. Robert A. Taft at next month’s Republican national convention, informed sources said Wednesday. The Ohio Republican regards Dirksen as the “most likely” man to place his name in nomination for the presidency, these GOP insidersr said. Trade in a Good Town—Decatur’.

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Zoologists To Aid In Hunt For Snake Fort Wayne Snake Is Sighted Third Time FORT WAYNE, Ind., (UP) — Sheriff Harold Zeis said Wednesday he planned to call in zoologists to he)p trap an 18-foOt snake with a head "the size of a bulldog’s” after (two more witnesses reported sighting the reptile. Zeifc said two steel construction warehouse workers told officers they saw “about six or eight” feet of the snake’s tail as it slitheredinto undergrowth near the warehouse. said he would question the men further. Meanwhile, he' planned to contact zoologists at either the Lincoln Park or Brookfield zoos in Chicago. Zeis said the last report — the third since the snake was sighted Friday—convinced him the snake is real. "There’s no doubt in my mind now.” Zeis declared. Tuesday, Eugene M. Lefavour and two sisters, Violet and Marguerite Schneider, spotted the

.snake coiled on a road about four miles from where it was first reported. The sisters described it as “beige” colored and Lefavour said it' looked “like a two-by-four.” The sisters refused to leave the car, so Lefavour got out and sent them for help. Lefavour started after the snake but lost sight of it near a stream. Whbn Zeis and his men arrived. Lefavour was standing on the roadside, his face “white as a ghost," the sheriff said. Thf\ snake has defied the efforst of and hs iIOO-man posse of volunteers, national guardsmen and mounted deputies to track it. After Lefavour’s report, the men followed the snake’s patch into the underbrush, but they never caught up with it. The snake first was seen by the D. A. Crance family on a road ’in a city par* They said it was 18 feet long with a head like a bulldog's and “sickly blue” in color. Threatens To Halt Work On New Plant J, ' Terre Haute Plant May Lose Contract TERRE HAUTE, Ind. UP — The general manager of the stHkebound Allis-Chalmers plant said Wednesday the firm faces the loss of a sub-contract to manufacture jet engine compressors. The firm also threatened to stop work on construction of its new $4,000,000 defense plant unless the strike is sttled quickly. Manager M. L. Carson, in a letter to the CIO United Auto Workers, said the firm was advised the Wright Aeronautical Co., Dayton, Ohio, was instructed by the air force to “remove all machine tools from our pilot plant and from our main plant now under construction.” The Allis • Chalmers plant, a sub-contractor for Wright, has been idled six weeks by a strike of 340 workers over a wage issue. The union called the strike, declaring, “no contract, no work.” Carson said all machine tools intended for the firm were ordered diverted to other manufacturers. He said the air force is putting pressure on Wright to get into production somewhere else if necessary. In his letter, Carson told Raymond Berndt, regional UAW director, “Unless you immediately demonstrate to us your willingness to negotiate in gowd faith for a longterm contract,” work on the new plant will be discontinued. \ Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

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Polio Incidence Is Decreased In State INDIANAPOLIS, UP — The incidence of poUo among Hoosiers IX) date is running about one-third lower than last year, according to a report Wednesday, from the Indiana health board. Nineteen Hoosiers and one oui-of-state visitor have been stricken with the disease thus far in ISS?. as compared with 29 cases reported during the same period lasl year- \ ■ : ■"; -. ] | Seek Evidence Os { Suicide In Death ■ I Death Os Woman In Michigan Is Probed r GRAND RAPIDS, (UP) —Police looked for evidence of suicide Wednesday in the death of a flatnosed. mentally-ill former registered nurse whose kerosene-soaked body was found flaming in a clump of bushes near a public playground. An autopsy performer on thp body of Mrs. Frances Marie Mikita, 31, showed no signs that she \ .

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had been beaten or assaulted, according to police Capt. Walter Gilbert. Her flattened nose suggested she might have been beaten, but her husband told police “her nose was always that way.” “Everything points to suicide, but we can’t be absolutely sure this early in the game,” Gilbert shid. \ Three boys playing tennis at the playground saw smoke rising over a clump of trees about 150 feet away late Tuesday and ran to investigate. They found the woman’s body in flames, an empty kerosene can nearby. ; Police found no footprints other than Mrs. Mikita’s around the spot. The death scene was two blocks from the modest northside home where Mrs. Mikita lived with her husband, John, 33, a factory worker. and her mother. Mikita told police his wife was discharged six months ago from the Kalamazoo, Mich., state hospital, where she had been a patient a year. He described her as ”a strange one” who liked to wander away by herself. • Uapt., Walter Coe said police were checking neighborhood shops th an effort to trace the kerosene ban. _ j “If we can prove that she bought the can of kerosene,” he said,

“then we’ve pretty definitely established that it was suicide and not murder.” State Receives Bids On Institution Coal INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana officials checked bids Wednesday for supplying the state about 200;000 tons of coal and said the average, cost is less than a year ago. Charles R. King, deputy director of the division of public Works and supply, said 160 bids were made to supply &oal for state Institutions during the fiscal year starting July 1. King said the bids averaged $3.40 a ton as compared to $3.75 \average last year. \ _ 4 _ ■ Airman Killed In Fall From Truck ■I r ’ HOUSTON, Tex. UP — Airpiaii Thomas E. Aiken, 21, of Osgjood, Ind., was fatally injured when he fell from a moving pickup truck, Ellington air force base officials , disclosed Wednesday. t The public information office , said Aikeh suffered laceration of the brain and later developed pneumonia Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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