Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1954 — Page 6

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Dishwasher Admits Bodenheim Slaying Ex-Convict Admits Poet-Novelist Death NEW YORK UP —A vagabond dishwasher has confessed he shot poet-novelist Maxwell Bodenheim to death in a * skid-row rooming house, police announced today. The dishwasher is Harold Weinberg, 25, a scar-faced ex-convict. He is being questioned about the brutal stabbing of Bodenheim’s third wife, Ruth Fagan. 35, whose body was found Sunday with her husband's in the |5-a-week room rented by Weinberg. So far he has not admitted slaying her. Weinberg, who had been sought from New York to Florida, was captured- in a basement room today less than 10 blocks from the Third Avenue room where the Bodenheim’s bodies were discovered. Police saia wetnoerg had not revealed his motive for shooting the 60-year-old poet. They said he confessed to using a .22 caliber revolver for the murder but that neither that weapon nor the knife which was plunged repeatedly through Mrs. Bodenheim’s body has been recovered. Greenwich Village acquaintances of the derelict couple said they apparently accepted Weinberg’s 25-a-week shelter after several nights spent in subways and hall-

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ways. The friends said Bodenheim had quarrelled publicly and vio lently with Weinberg on several occasions over Weinberg’s atten tio ns to his wife. They said he had once threatened to kill Weinberg if he did not leave the young woman alone, Weinberg was captured by police about 9:30 a.m. after a resident at 311 East 21st St. notified them that someone apparently was trying to break into his apartment. Police found Weinberg in the basement. The announcement of the confes sion came a few hours before funeral services were scheduled for the poet whose indifferenct drove two young girl poets to sui cide in his hey-day in the 1920’s and early '3o’s. Bodenheim’s first wife, Mre Minna Bodenheim, divorced from him 16 years ago, came out of hii past to arrange the penniless writ er's burial in her own family plot

Hoosier Youth Dies In Auto-Truck Crash PRINCETON. Ind. (UP) — Max R. Allen, 18, Veedersburg, was killed and Lowell B. Lewis. Chicago, Injured fatally late Tuesday when their auto and a truck collided on U. S. 41 south of here. Lewis died this morning in Gibson county hospital. Police said the truck turned into the path of the Lewis car in which' Alien was riding. The vehicles collided and the car overturned several times.

Two Ships Sunk By Atlantic Blizzard Fear Three Sailors Drowned In Storm HALIFAX, N. S. UP — A 65-mlle-an-hour blizzard sank two ships in the Atlantic today and another was reported missing. Three sailors were feared drowned. The 160-ton schooner Keith V. Collins broke up and sank 60 miles east of here and bits of wreckage from the 47-foot schooner Liberator were sighted off Cape Breton. Six crewmen from the Collins were rescued by the freighter Cape Smoky shortly after the freighter received the schoone/s distress message. There was no trace of the threeman crew of the Liberator and all were feared lost. The third vessel, the Jennah H„ was overdue at Glace Bay. , Although no trace of the vessel has been sighted. Air Force search-and-rescue officials • believe she may have pulled into a cove or ba* to ride out the fierce storm. Man Questioned On Boss' Disappearance Hoosier Is Held For Lie Detector Test

COLUMBUS, Ohio UP — Elijah G. Kerr, 27, Brazil, Ind., was held here today for a lie detector test as authorities sought information on the mysterious disappearance of his former employer. Kerr, arrested on a bad check charge at the home of his mother in Brazil Tuesday, waived extradition and was returned immedlately to Ohio. Authorities said Kerr formerly wcfrked for Darrel Long, operator of the Paint Ur Car Shop until his disappearance Oct. 25. They said Long left behind his car, a large bank balance and other assets. Police said Kerr took charge of Long’s shop and listed himself as owner. The bad check charge was lodged when several of Kerr’s checks bounced, according to complaints by Mr. and Mrs. Roland Morris, former owners, who later repossessed the business. Authorities said Kerr, driving Long’s auto, left the day after Thanksgiving and the car Ihter was found abandoned near Hiawatha, Kan. Tips enabled police to trace Kerr to his mother’s home. The bad checks Kerr was accused of passing were for 220 to Kerr for sls made out to an auto parts company, and two checks for |SO each made out to employes of the company. All were signed by Kerr. _ No clues to Long’s disappearance have been found, and his secretary and fiancee, Mrs. Thelma Kinniard, believed him dead. The Literature department of the Decatur Woman’s club will There are 365 steps from the architect’s office in the Capitol at Washington to the top of the dome. — If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Prayer Band Rally At Portland Sunday The second annual Victory prayer baifd rally for the Portland Gospel tabernacle Is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, it was announced by the Rev. James R. Meadows of this city, founder of the group. The Rev. W. C. Correll, pastor of God’s Gospel tabernacle of Peru, will be the principal speaker and he will be introduced by Rev. Meadows. Dwight Darr of Bobo will be the song leader at the rally and Mrs. Darr will preside at the piano. High School Girl. Slain In Chicago 16-Year-Old Girl Is Found Murdered CHICAGO UP — A 16-year-old girl was found dead and partially stripped of her clothes in a South Side parking lot today. Police believed she had been strangled. The girl was Caroline Baldwin, a student at South Shore high school and part-time soda clerk. Her mother, Mrs. Julia Wawrznik, came here about two years ago from St. Paul, Minn. The mother was divorced about 11 years ago from James W. Baldwin, the girl’s father, and had remarried, according to Lt. John Golden of the Chicago police homicide squad. Golden said he understood the girl had until about two years ago done considerable traveling with her father, a carnival employee. She came here to live with her mother and stepfather, but two days ago moved from her mother’s apartment, 8044 South Shore, to the Windsor Park Hotel, 7601 Saginaw. Her body, the shoes and stockings torn off, underwear and coat ripped, was found at the back of a building she left about 11 p.m., Tuesday. The unpaved parking lot is poorly lighted at night. It is about a half block from the girl's apartment. Mrs. Wawrznikwofks as a bookkeeper at the store where her daughter worked, but the girl left alone last night. Today a janitor leaving the back door of the store walked into a parking lot and found the girl lying on her back huddled against lhe building. — Ike's Conferences Short Os Roosevelt Cabinet Holds Far Fewer Conferences WASHINGTON UP — The 10 Eisenhower cabinet-members have held -a total of 12 news conferences thia year. It averages out at about two-tenths of a conference per -week, per cablneteer. m =—

(President Eisenhower has done considerably (better than his cabinet. There have (been three White House hews conferences since Jan. 1, 19&4. His total to date since he was inaugurated is 26. He scheduled his 27th today. ' But Mr. (Eisenhower’s average of one conference every two weeks in his first year is far short of Franklin D. ißoosevelt's. The New Dealers were a talkative crowd. On Feb. 23, (1934, which was nine days before he completed his first year in the White House. Fl® held his 100th conference with press and radio reporters. The Washington press or news conference remains a great journalistic and political institution, however, although it probably never again will be what it once was. Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson Is the cabinet’s press conference star now. Wilson was press-shy when he came here. He’s over that and schedules a weekly conference which not only is productive but which rarely is cancelled. He’s had five this year. Commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks an dtreasury secretary George IM. Humphrey hawe held no conferences so far in 1954. Sec-' retary of-state John Foster Dulles, attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., welfare secretary Oveta Culp HoiWby, postmaster general Arthur E. Summerfield and labor secretary James P. Mitchell have held one each. Interior secretary Douglas McKay has held only one conference since taking office, but he generally is regarded as the most accessible member of the cabinet. Unless McKay is urgently engaged upon public business, he usually is available for telephone or direct i questioning. Although most .jpabinet members, appear less than enthusiastic about news conferences for themselves, their aides in most departments are readily available. News barriers are neither as high nor as tough as the scarcity of conferences might suggest. The United States Senate has sat as a court of Impeachment 12 times.

Two $25,000 Jobs Given Out By Craig Lucrative Jobs On Indiana Toll Road INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Two $25.000-a-year jobs were handed out Tuesday in connection with a 282-milllon-dollar Indiana toll road, Hoosierland’s most costly government project in history, Albert J. Wedeking and Ralph Gregg drew the lucrative' jobs, which pay the highest salaries of any state positions—including gpvernor. Wedeking, chairman of the state highway commission, was given a five-year contract to head the toll road commission, and Gregg, Indianapolis attorney, was hired as counsel. Wedeking will continue as highway chairman but wijl serve in that post without pay. Meanwhile, Bruce Short resigned as secretary-treasurer of the commission to become a consulting engineer with the J. E. Greiner Co.. Baltimore, at $12,00(1 a year. This was much more than his salary with the commission. The Greiner firm has the contract as consulting engineers for the northern Indiana toll road at a $2,840,100 fee. Short received $5,000 a year |n his commission job. Gregg is national judge advocate of the American Legion, a veterans organization once headed as national commander by Governor Craig. Craig’s salary is SIO,OOO per year less than that of Gregg and Wedeking. Previously, the top salary paid in Indiana was $17,550 to Adm- Bertram Groesbeck, state health director.

The appointment of Normal F. Schafer, Boonville, as administrative assistant to the highway commission chairman also was announced. Schafer will get $7,200 a year. He will serve additionally as engineer of maintenance for the toll road commission but will receive no pay for that job. Four Dog Owners Arrested In Chicago Charge Violation Os Dog Quarantine CHICAGO, UP — Police today got tough with dog owners who allow their pets to roam the streets during Chicago’s current mad dog scare. Four dog owners were arrested Tuesday and their dogs placed in a pound for observation. They face fines of from $25 to SIOO for violating a county-wide quarantine on dogs. Meanwhile, a long-unused annex to the city dog pound was readied for use to handle - the growing number of strays captured in an all-out city, state and federal drive to end the epizootic of rabies. ' ' - ~ -■ At least 1,778 stray dogs have been captured — and many destroyed—since the quarantine was imposed last month. Police commissioner Timothy O’Connor said his men would arrest all dog owners who refuse to muzzle, leash or pen their pets. Persons who violate an order requiring inoculation of all Chicago dogs also faced fines up to SIOO. The rabies outbreak here has taken the life of one child, seen several mass attacks by mad dogs and thousands of dogbite cases. From 80 to 100 persons are bitten by dogs every day and in all cases when the dog cannot be captured and-observed for rabies the victims must take Pasteur antirabies inoculations. Two rabid dogs were detected Monday, and health authorities said 26 had been found since Jan. 1.

NOTICE To The Public . Notice is hereby given that it is unlawful to throw or place rubbage, garbage, cans, ~ etc. on the right of way of Public Highways. That such practices puts an extra financial burden on Highway Maintenance. That all effort will be used to further prohibit such practices as provided by law. ' -7 ’. ■ Board of Commissioners, Adams County. By FRANK SINGLETON, Highway Superintendent.

East Germany Reds Seek To Crush Unrest Police Ordered To , Deal Ruthlessly In East German Unrest BERLIN UP —East Germany's Communist regime today was reported to have cancelled all leaves and called back all men on furlough to crush spreading' unrest and mounting demands for Western type free elections. The Red police underscored with gunfire, which wounded one German on Berlin’s city frontier, their orders to deal ruthlessly with anyone suspected of agitating against the Red puppet regime. The West Berlin “Fighting Group Against Inhumanity” reported that the Communists have brought their militia-like police force up to its full, 204,000-maiti strength in fear of a new workers revolt, similar to that of last June 17. Official confirmation of the report was not immediately available. But the U.S. high commission's German-language newspaper Neue Zeitung said discontent is spreading rapidly as a result of the refusal of Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov to accept the west's plan for free all-German elections and reunification of the country. A food and fuel shortage also gripped the Russian zone. The fuel shortage was reported to be so acute that many cities were without bread because bakeries had no fuel for their ovens. Power cuts limiting service to eight or 12 hours, were said to be In effect in many areas. Homes were without heat in bitter winter weather in many East German communities. Workers demonstrations, work stoppages and similar manifestations of deep-rooted unrest were reported from Halle, Leipzig and many other East German cities. With all hope of a Big Four agreement on German unification virtually gone, the Communists sought to blame the west for the failure and tighten their grip on the eastern one-third of the nation. The Reds apparently feared that if the Big Four foreign ministers admit their failure and go home with Germany still divided. antiCommunism among the 18,000,000 Soviet Zone residents might revolt. To meet this threat and offset growing unrest," the Communists sent thousands of “agitators”— propagandists—into the zone. They have been speaking at rallies in industrial centers and rural communities. And they have been bitterly attacking the west. They claim that the Western Allies' proposal for free elections was designed to give power to militarists and Nazis. They claimed that the Soviet proposal to establish a provisional German government with Communist participation is the only one which could give Germany peace and unity. Anti-Soviet feeling has be en growing rapidly. Already, western officials said, some 1.000 persons have been arrested for demanding free elections. Arthur Godfrey May Lose Pilot License NEW YORK UP — Radio-tele-vision star Arthur Godfrey faced a possible 30-day suspension of his pilot’s license today for <flying low over the control tower at Teter'boro, iN. J., Airport Jan. 7. The civil aeronautics administration disclosed in Washington Tuesday it had recommended the suspension for Godfrey’s “careless" flying. The civil aeronautics ■board still must rule in the case.

Deny Surplus Farm Producfs To Reds Announcement Made By Secretary Weeks WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of commerce Sinclair Weeks announced today that the government will not let U. 8. exporters sell government - owned surplus farm products to Russia or her satellites. The announcement served as a rejection for the application of a Minnesota soybean miller to sell 3,000 tons of government • owned surplus cottonseed oil behind the Jron Curtain, though the application was not mentioned in Weeks’ statement. W>eks said the new policy would not necessarily bar export of such “non-strategic" Items as farm produce to the Soviet bloc if the produce was obtained from regular markets. But export licenses would be required as usual, he said. Dwayne Andreas, Minnesota miller, was turned down earlier on his request for a license to export 20,000 tons of surplus'butter to Iron Curtain countries. Today’s announcement applied

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