Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1954 — Page 8

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Two Men Wounded Badly In Gun Duel Flood-lit Backyard Duel In Oklahoma SHAMROCK. Okla. UP - The} wives of two men. who shot each , other 16 times while the ladles ? attended a PTA meeting, said today they were still friend# and knew no reason for their husband's duel. Meanwhile. Arthur Simpson, 32, and J. R. Johnson. 39. were in a Cushing, Okla., hospital in critical condition from wounds suffered when they shot each other in a flood-lit backyard duel Monday night. __ ' Sltnpson. an employe of a pipeline company, was hit six times by .38 caliber., bullets. Johnson, a hit 10 times by .22 caliber bullets. Have a Drink "1 don’t think either one of them knew what they were doing," Mrs. Johnson said. said they got together tor a "drinking party” while their wives went to a ParentTsachera Assn, meeting. “If our husbands had just been present at the PT A meeting," Mrs. Simpson said, “nothing like this would have happened.” J. J. Coilyar. Simpson's neighbor, apparently was the only eyewitness. He also knew no reason for the gunplay. He said he saw Johnson and Simpson walk into the letter’s backyard and one of them yelled to “turn on the floodlights." -.-•• p didn't know what it was all about,” Coilyar said, "but 1 turned on the lights. Then all hell broke loose.” He said Johnson had a pistol and Simpson a repeating rifle. They fired at each other until the guns were empty, and then each collapsed. Manufacture Os New Auto Tire Announced A new automobile tire that gives 25 percent more mileage and which does not squeal or hum. has been announced by United States Rubber Co. It has the greatest advances in performance and appearance since the introduction of the extra low pressure tire in 1947. according to company officials. The dire, called the U. S. Royal 8. was specifically engineered for both tube and tubeless construction, and both types will be available locally from Decatur Super Service, at 224 W. Monroe street. It is believed the tubeless version will be original equipment on several 1955 automobiles. the extra mileage results in part from the new tread design. The usual design has been reversed. and the narrowest rib is on the outside, edge to eliminate annoying tire squeal and hum.

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French Forces Battling Reds Nearing Hanoi Red Units Within Six Miles Os Red River Delta City HANOI. Indochina UP — Counterattacking French Union ground and air forces today battled Indochinese Red units which have closde to within six rnilea of this capital of the vital Red River della. A French military spokesman described the new Communist threat to the rice-rich Red River delta area as "serious but not desperate.” Red units, in battalion strength, opened a series of probing attacks against Hanoi’s outpost defenses Tuesday in a possible prelude to an all-out drive.to crush this main center of French resistance. sieze Outpost The Communists seized xuam, an outpost barely six miles outside Hanoi. The French feared the Communist strategy might be to attempt to cut, the highway and railway lines linking Hanoi with its port at Haiphong, 53 miles away, and starve the- city into submission in the pattern of Dien Hien Phu« ■French ground forces moved out at once to counterattack and smash the Red threct. French bomber and fighter planes also were ordered into a new series of air strikes at Red toe-holds and supply routes in the area. . Twenty-six bombeis, a big mission tor the tiny air force decimated at Dien Bien Phu, took off this morning to pound at supply depots and Communist-held village citadels between Hanoi and the sea along the supply route the Reds are trying to cut. A high French general told reporters the situation in the Hanoi delta was "serious but not desperate." These were the same words used at one time to describe the fortress of Dien Bien Phu and did little (o ease the tension in Hanoi. Today’s plane attacks were directed at targets 35 miles southeast of hereas the rebels pushed steadily in pn the delta triangle, the richest piece of Indochina territory still in French Union hands. The French high command refused to disclose result of the counterattacV against the post on the outskirts of Hanoi seized Tuesday in a series of strong attacks from the west. •- , , Bodet Appraises Situation Gen. Pierre Bodet, deputy to Fr each supreme commander Gen. Henri iShgene Navarre, told a press conference Tuesday the rebel Viet Minh government js entirely under the control of Communist China. He said Peiping ordered the capture of Dien Bien Phu to open a path to Thailand and Burma. Bodet said there was not any immediate danger to Hanoi and the Red River delta, the heart of French military strength In Indochina, and called the situation “serious but not desperate.” " —He said that before the rebel divisions of Red Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap were in condition to make any all-out attack on the delta Franco-Vietnamese forces -would be ready to defend it. Glap's 100,000 Communists in the Hanoi delta appeared to be making a major effort to cut Hanoi off from its port city of Haiphong, 58 miles to the east, and let it wither from lack of supplies. Indiana Traffic Toll 352 To Date In State INDIANAPOLIS, UP — State police Supt. Frank A. Jessup said today Indiana traffic accidents killed 352 persons so far this year up to midnight Sunday. That was nine fewer victims than during the same period of 1953, Jessup’s provisional report said. It listed 265 fatalities in rural areas and 87 resulting from crashes in cities.

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Teen-ager Confesses I To Brutal Killing Query Detroit Boy For Other Crimes DETROIT UP — A teen-aged ' boy who admitted -slashing and beating a fourtyear-old girl to death was questioned today alxmt other violent, crimes and the motives for his horrifying assault. Police said the boy, Terrance DeMoss, 15, confessed that he clubbed the girl with a two-by-four and cut her body many times with a razor blade. The girl. Marlon Jo Zobrovitz. was found in a garage Tuesday with a crushed chest and a fractured skull. Her body was badly mutilated. She died later in Receiving hospital. Officers arrested young DeMoss within 6 1-2 hours after the girl was slain on a tip from a y policeman neighbor, patrolman Andrew Hunter. Meantime, the .youth's mother was getting ready to turn him in. Hunter said he recalled that De- ■ Moss liked to dissect cats and! other animals. The boy previously ' had been arrested and'aceused of i slashing a woman's coat with a razor. i Detectives also questioned De-; Moss about the mysterious slaying ■ 18 months ago of Jo Ann Gillespie, -the. lictim-of- a sex fiend. The attack on (Marion Jo occurred within 14 blocks of the Gillespie murder scene.' Patrolman Charles Schulte said DeMoss was wearing bloody clothing when they arrested him at his home while he was telling his mother about the sadistic assault. DeMoss, skinny and bespectacled, said' he was passing through ■ ..an alley when he saw'the little; girl in front of her garage. He said he persuaded her to go into the garage with him. "We talked 5 or 10 minutes,” DeMoss said. “I was sitting on the chair. I choked her. I don’t know why, but I choked her until she stopped breathing." The youth said he went to a nearby wood pile, got the two-by-four and began beating the girl with it. He then slashed her with a razor blade. Dairy Surplus Sales Exceed Purchases WASHINGTON (UP) —The agriculture department reports it disposed of substantially more government-cAvned dairy surpluses in April than it bought. This was the first such trend since last October. The department bought, 66.254.032. pounds of butter, Cheddar cheese and drfed milk under the new reduced price supports during April. It sold or donated 162,119,444 pounds of surplus stocks. Pre-School Exams Thursday Morning Plans are complete tor the examination and registration of children of pre-school age who will enter Decatur kindergarten next September, it was announced today by Mrs, Joseph A shell, Lincoln school, parent-teachers association representative. That organization has charge of the pre-school examination each year. The examinations for both boys and girls will be held Thursday morning at Lincoln school. Boys examinations will start at 8 o'clock and girls examinations will start at 9 o'clock. Decatur’s three optometrists will have charge of the eye examinations and local physicians will give the physical examinations, it was announced. Registration for the September term also will be made immediately following each examination. All Decatur children who will be five years of age prior to September 15 are expected to take the examination and register for the 1954 'toll- kihddtgaften term. Mrs. Azbell said. ARMY COUNSEL (Continued From Page One) rity risk problems, although an occasional outside check is all right. He also said it was reprehensible tor an army officer' to give out confidential information . . . without authority:—a-comment oh McCarthy’s testimony that an army intelligence officer gave him data from a secret FBI report. The subcommittee agreed at a closed meeting to add an hour and a half to its daily- tplevtped sessions by starting earlier and quitting later. Acting chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) said that for the rest of this week the hearings would belt) :'3O, recess at 12:30 p.m. for gin at 10 a.m. EDT instead of lunch, and resume a 2 pin. instead of 2:30. He said the hearings would Tun uutil 5 p.m. instead of 4': 30. Soft Landing NEW v JTaVEN. Conn., UP — Two-yeir-old Daryl Weiss fell 25 feet from a second floor apartment window and then crawled back I Into the building to tell her mother about it. She escaped injury because she landed on sandy ground.

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Five Junior Leaders To State Conference The 23rd annual Indiana 4-H junior leader conference is scheduled for June 29 to July 2 at DePauw -Unive r sity—at Greencastle. Adams county 4-H junior leaders who have been selected and will represent the county are: Audrey Kuhn of Jefferson township: Rowena Merriman’ of Root township; Norma Jean Bailey of St. Mary’s township; Arnold Gerke of Union township and Bill Rumple of Jefferson township. Mary Frances Smith, assistant 4-H club leader at Purdue University, is chairman of this year’s ’program committee. Kenneth Harris, county agricultural agent at Greencastle, is chairman of the general organization committee. More than 500 4-H junior leaders are expected to attend this conference which is sponsored jointly by ■ the Indiana Klwanis clubs and Pur.due. Training in the organization of clubs and direction of agricultural and home economics projects is planned for all junior leaders attending the four day get-together. Speakers for the conference In- i cludg Russell. F. Humbert, president of DePauw University: L. E. Hoffman, associate director of agricultural extension service at Pur- ; duet Jack Raney, Indianapolis, Vite president of Kiwanis International; Dr’ Frank Liddle, state Y.M.C.A. secretary; and Russell F. Handy, - Miami, Florida. t * If you nave something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Hoosier Convicted For Armed Robbery Richmond Resident Convicted By Jury ST. PAUL. a: inn. UP — A Hoosier charged in a 1109 holdup of a Minnesota bank was convicted Tuesday on a charge of armed robbery. (Muri Russell Jarvis. 29. Richmond. Ind., was found guilty by a jury of six men and six women in the robbery of the First National Bank at Cannon Falls, iMinn.. last Dec. 8. Jarvis was not sentenced immediately. His case was referred to the probation office for presentence investigation. The jury reached its verdict less than 90 minutes after it retired in midafternoon. Federal Judge Robert Bell had instructed jurors to bring back a verdict either of guilty of simple bank robbery, or innocent. JarC-is’ defense attorney, Jerome Hoffmann, offered no witnesses and no evidence. He told the jury in closing arguments the government failed to prove conclusively that Jarvis was the bandit. Hoffman said one of the jurors 'looked so much-like Jarvis that a witness might easily have identified him as the bandit instead of Jarvis. “The father of recollection is suggestion," Hoffmann said.

Too Much Moisture For Hoosier Farms Report Some Excess In North Counties INDIANAPOLIS UP — Some Indiana farm lands last week got too much moiature, instead of not enough, a U. 8. agriculture department crop bulletin said today. Soil moisture—deficient in many counties for many months—was ample in fnost of the state, with some excess in northern counties, the report said. There were still occasional reports of too little moisture in southern Indiana. About half of last week was suitable for farm work. Some waterdrenched areas were a little behind in farm work, while other areas were several days ahead. week's cool weather meant delays in some planting, but most seed beds have been at least partially prepared. Other findings: Corn and Soybeans — Plowing about 85 per cent complete, except in northern wet areas; planting in south, but very little north. Rye — About three - fourths is headed. Wheat—Slightly more than a foot tall north, nearly two feet south. Oats —Retarded because of cool weather. * L Pastures —Condition excellent. The report said frost damage was not considered ’serious. Frost jyas on Hint, potatoes, tomatoes, corn and beans. It was too early to estimate frost damage to friu-t, statisticians said. . Motorist Is Fined On Speeding Charge Ralph LaMar Haines. 17, Berne, route two. paid a fine of $5 and costs in Justice of peace court late Tuesday night, following his arrest on Thirteenth street by city police. Police asserted that Haines was driving at approximately 90 miles per hour when they clocked him. Total fine and costs amounted to DEFENDS (Continued From Pace Ont) "partisan carping criticism" so that the government would not be "paralysed and rendered impotent” just When it must make critical decisions on Such vital issues as Indochina. - - - • He < spoke out just as the Democrats were stepping up their attack on the administration's handling of the Far East crisis and individual Republicans were replying sharply. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results d

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Disastrous Storm Sweeps Off Japan TOKYO, UP — A disastrous storm that swept Japan s northern seas sank 51 vessels, mostly fishing boats, damaged 255 others and left 25 missing, the coast guard announced today. Loss of life was feared heavy. A coast guard spokesman called the storm which began Sunday night “one of the .most disastrous that Japan hap known in recent years." Margaret Truman To Play In Summer Steck NEW YORK. UP — Margaret Truman will make her stage debut in stock this summer at Mountain Home. Pa., in a play called “A Church Mouse," a comedy by Ladislaw Fodor. The former president's daughter previously has confined her professional activities to the concert stage, television and radio. She will appear in “A Church Mouse" of June 20 at Rowena Stevens' Pocono Playhouse in Mountain Home. Examinations Listed Under Civil Service An examination for librarian has been announced by the U. S. civil service commission for positions in various federal agencies. Applicants must pass a written test and,. In addition, have completed study of ‘training and have had appropriate experience in library- work. Information and application forms may be obtained from Earl Chase at the Decatur post office.

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