Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1954 — Page 2

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lowa Farmer Slain By Hooded Bandits Slain For Refusal To Open His Safe MONDAMIN, lowa UP —Three hooted bandits shot a Mondamin farmer to death Monday nijht when he refused to open a safe, then disappeared through wteusive western lowa roadblocks. Slain was William Edwards, 50. Tied up by the gunmen but not Injured yere Florence Edwards* the victim's sister, and Mrs. Mattie tyyera, a cousin. Harrison county sheriff Harold Imrie, Logan, said the women told him they wpye visiting in the kitchen of the Inwards farm home when the three bandits, wearing over their heads, entered the room. The ringleader brandished a gun

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and told them: "Thlg Is a stickup." While pne ' man guarded the women, the qther two went to Edwards' bedroom and ordered him to open the safe. When he refused, the women said, one bandit, a black-haired man, shot him and again demanded that he open the safe. The wounded man shouted for his sister to call a doctor, but one of the gunmen ripped the telephone wire frqm the wall and knocked Miss Edwards down. She then was tied to a chair in a bedroom with adhesive tape and cloth torn from a bedspread. Mrs. Myers also was bound. The men' shot Edwards a second time when he again refused to open the safe. Although Edwards was unconscious, the men bound him before they left. They did not get the safe open, but loaded it into their car. Police believed the men also may have been driving a light truck. Miss Edwards freed herself shortly after the bandits left and called officers. lowa state police, the lowa bureau of investigation, local sheriff ß and Omaha and Council Bluffs police immediately, were alerted,, but no trace of the bandits was reported early today.

To Hear Arguments On Sheriffs' Terms Hearing Today By State High Court INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) — The Indiana SuP r «<n® court hears arguments this afternoon on a legal question which will determine whether 77 county (sheriffs may seek new terms this year. The hearing is on an appeal by the Jefferson county ; election board at Madison from a Jefferson circuit court ruling that sheriff Walter Sauley of Madison may run for re-election. Judge Harry E. Nichols ruled in 1953 that a ‘‘new cycle of office” began after a constitutional amendment became effective in 1951. The amendment changed the tenure of the office of sheriff from 2 to 4 years. Previously, a sheriff was limited to two 2-year terms in a 6-year period. The amendment Changed that to two 4-year terms in a 12-year period. Sauley had served two terms before the amendment applied. He finishes a third term, four years in length, this year. Nichols ruled, in effect, that any sheriff now in office can run again this year even if he already has served two consecutive terms. The 77 sheriffs whose futures are at stake include 59 Republicans and 18 Democrats. Any of them who may wish to run again in the event Nichols' ruling is affirmed by the high court would have to file by the May 4 primary declaration deadline of March 25. The ruling will have overtones because it might also apply to coroners and surveyors, the tenure of whose terms also were doubled by constitutional amendments. Believe Strychnine Caused Man's Death ROCKVILLE, Ind., UP — Authorities today said a 52-year-old farip-hapd “probably” died of strychnine poisoning after shootjpg Indianapolis nurse in a mur-der-suicide pact. They said Clarence Anderson of Putnam county apparently shot Mrs. Marie Myers, 53, dragged her body into the rear seat of his car. drank the strychnine and drove off. The'car crashed near a cemetery north of Bellmore Sundaynight, and authorities said a bottle containing traces of strychnine was fbuhd in J the glcrfd compartment.

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Woman In Germany . Confesses Murders Three Murders By Poison Confessed WORMS, Germany UP —Police said today that 29-year-old Christa Lehmann has confessed the “assembly line” murders of her husband. her father-in-law and a girl friend. For good measure, they said, she also administered poison to two dogs. She used poison tn all instances, police said. First, according to her confession, she slipped a few drops of poison into her husband’s breakfast milk. He died in 1952. of what until today had been listed as “a stomach ailment.” She dispatched her father-in-law with a lethal dose of the same poison—a weed killer—which she dropped into his yogurt. Her girl-friend, according to her confession and police findings, died soon after eating a bon-bon given her by Christa. _ The girl. - friend’s. Spit? dog turned up its toes after sampling one of the poisoned candies. Police spill Christa’s own DochshmSF Iwas poisoned, “peshaps, to

Place Game Orders By February 27 Franklin E. Liechty, secretary of the Decatur Conservation club, urged members and others interested in the propagation of pheasants and quail in the county, to place their orders with him not later than Feb. 27. Temperature Above Normal Forecast Spring-Feverish Month Continues INDIANAPOLIS UIP — Indiana’s spring-feverish February is likely to close out with high temperatures. Weathermen offered their fiveday outlook today, predicting temperatures will average 5 to 10 degrees above normal the rest of the w-eek. Normal maximums are 42-50, mini mums 23-30. Forecasters said only minor day to day temperature changes occur, and little or no precipitation will fall. They said, however, -there were chances of scattered - Thursday. - Traces of moisture fell over ma eh of Hoosierland early today . The mercury hovered between a low of 35 at Fort Wayne and 40 at Evansville. (More light rain was expected during the day and is the extreme north tonight. Temperatures were predicted to range between the 40’s and low 50’s today and in tire 3Q’s tonight. _ test the stuff before making other use of it.” After assembling this record in two days of questioning Christa, a police investigator said: , “This case Is beginning to get a bit complicated. No one knows where it will end.”

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Gamma Globulin Not Yet Proven As Cure Scientists Continue Study Os Inoculation WASHINGTON UP—A ctfthmittee of scientists reported Monday that gamma globulin—the '‘miracle" polio serum-has not yet been proven a curd or preventative ot the disease. ~ -- The committee said in a report that the government has not yet had time to test the serum adequately so that a true evaluation of its worth can be made in the fight against infantile paralysis. The group was appointed by the public health service to evaluate the data collected so far from cities where gamma globulin has been widely used. The committee reported that preliminary data indicated that the seruhi had not "measurabTy” reduced the number of polio cases in households where members had been inoculated after one of them had been seized by the dread disease. The scientists also reported that the serum has shown “nd measureahl6 affdct" at cutting the "severity" of paralysis on persons to whom it was given after they had been stricken. However, Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said in New York the committee’s report in “no way” questioned the value of gamma globulin as a temporary preventative when it was inoculated iriioehildren on a mass basis. He said the report on the drug’s ineffectiveness when used for “family contacts" was “to be expected.” He said the foundation will make gamma globulin available this year only for mass inoculation. Trade in a Good sown — Decatur.

Missionary Will Speak In Decatur Presbyterian Church Speaker On March 3 The Rev. Alexander N. McLeod, Ph. D., Presbyterian missionary on furlough from Formosa, will speak at tbe First Presbyterian church in this city March 3 at 8 p.m. Dr. iMoLeod has been a missionary in the Far East since 1930, most of the time in China, but for the last year and a halt he has been on the island of Formosa where he was teaching in the theological college at Taipei. China was home tor Dr- 'McLeod even before he was appointed a missionary under the Presbyterian board of foreign missiqns, for bis parents were missionaries and he was born in Ningpo, and bis life up to his college years was spent in the land of his birth. When be returned to China his f|rst assignment was to evangelistic work in Tunghsien in Shantung Province. This involved a great deal of rural ihineration, and the supervision of mission work in the country districts. In 1938 he Joined the faculty of North Chjna Theological Seminary and helped in the training of future pastors and evangelists. This did not mean that he gave up his country work entirely for on weekends be visited many different rural places, often taking his students with him to give them some practical training in evangelistic work' While carrying a full schedule in the seminary he also atught a class in iMateer Memorial Institute, and served as registrar and assistant treasurer of the senrnary. For a period he was superintendent of tbe mission hospital. (hiring the war Dr. McLeod spent two years in a Japanese internment camp. After repatriation and recuperation in the United States he returned to China in 1948, and resumed his teaching in the North China Theological Seminary which had moved from Tunghsien in North China to Wusih in the Yangste valley because of the advance of the communists. In 1949 it became necessary for missionaries to withdraw to Hong Kong, and here 'Dr. McLeod spent three years working on Biblical commentaries to 'be translated into Chinese. In 1962 he took up his work in Formosa. Dr. McLeod -is a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., and of Princeton Theological Seminary. He has done graduate work at Harvard and at Princeton, and spent a year in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a Gelston-Winthrop fellowship. District Legion Meeting In Angola The fourth district meeting of the American Legion will be held .’March 4 in Angola, with Post 31 as host. Dinner will be served by the Auxiliary from 6 to 7:30 panA business meeting will follow.

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b ■■ ' 1 MRS. EDNA MAY AARON is Shown in Cleveland, where, on • her 21st birthday, she told police she said to her husband. “I’m going to shoot you, James," and did, nine times with a ,22-caliber automatic rifle. He was sitting in the kitchen eating a late breakfast at the time, and died in a hopital an hour later. The killing ended a three-year marriage Interrupted by arguments and separations. The victim was 33. (International) Federal Grand Jury Votes Indictments Charge Conspiracy On Surplus Sales WASHINGTON UP — The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury/fierfl has indicted 18 individuals and 7 corporations in connection with the purchase and later resale of surplus tankers after World War 11. The Indictments were returned by the grand jury in April, 1953. But they remained sealed by the court until today, when the justice department decided that defendants not in this country are not likely to return. Among the defendants were Stavros Niarchos, f a-b ulou s1 y wealthy Greek shipowner; Julius C. Holmes, former U. S. minister to Great Britain; and former Rep. Joseph iE. Casey IHMass. Casey and Arlstoteles S. Chassis, a relative of Niarchos, were indicted earlier this month on ejjar|;es of making false statements in connection with the purchase of surplus vessels in the,postwar period. ; Most of the new/drfendants were charged with conspiring to violate the la wagainst making false statements to the government. Some were accused of breaking terms of a purchase contract for five tankers by changing the ownership of the tankers without U.S, government approval. , Trade m a good Town — Decatur If you have something to sell or rooms far rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.