Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1954 — Page 6

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Question Students In Hit-Run Death Four Indianapolis Students Are Held TERRE HAUTE. ’ Ind. (INS)— Four Manual high school students' were questioned in Terre Haute today in the hit-run death of a 64-year-old pedestrian. Nicholas C. Huemmer, of Terre Haute, was struck and killed when a ear jumped a curb in downtown Terre Haute. Paul J. Kinta, 28, also of Terre Haute, said he lost control of hla car when it was ' struck from behind by another auto.

PUBLIC SALE Wall Improved 60 Acre Farm & Personal Property Due to ill health, I, the undersigned will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder my following described' farm and personal property, located 1 mile east of Monroeville, Indiana, on SATURDAY, JUNE 19,1954 Commencing at 12:00 Noon Farm Sells at 1:30 P. M. 60 ACRES with Fine Set of Improvements Consisting of 6 room modern home with 3 rooms and bath down and 3 up, partial basement with furnace, pressure water system, garage, barn 36 ft by 60 ft, hog house, chicken house. These buildings built by owner. 60 acres fertile soil laying level, all under cultivation excepting 8 acres woods with salable timber. Farm is divided into 2 tracts, 40 acres and’ buldings with 20 acres laying directly south, but will be sold as one unit. Well tiled and the crops have been routed with plenty of clover assuring fine fertility. Owners share or % of 28 acres growing oats, corn, and soy beans to go with farm, balance of crops reserved. This farm owned by same family for many years and if you are thinking of buying, don't fail to see thia one. Possession: Immediate possession of buildings. Land upon closing transaction, subject to tenants rights. SHEEP—Five ewes, 3 yrs. old, 2 spring lambs. AUTOMOBILE—I 937 Plymouth 4 door sedan. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Westinghouse electric stove, like new; 2 pc. living room suite; library Üble; kitchen table; kitchen cabinet; electric washer; divan; beds; chairs; rugs; lamps; lanterns; boiler; tubs; fruit jars; crock*: diehes: cooking utensils. T MISCELLANEOUS—SingIe shovel plow; ladders; corn she Her; 2 wheel trailer; garden plow; 2 milk cans; shovels; rakes; hoes; lard press; sausage grinder; grindstone; chicken feeders, and many other numerous article*. r* - - TERMS—ReaI Estate, 20% Cash day of sale, balance upon delivery of deed and merchantable title. Personal property, Cash. ” Not Responsible for Accidents. For further information or inspection contact Auctioneer. THOMAS GRIFFITH, Owner Glenn C. Merica, Auctioneer Monroeville, Ind., Phone 3971 Wm. H. Cook—Clerk 9 17

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Captured in Brasil after stopping and then fleeipg the scene ofUhe accident were the four Beech Grove teen-agers in a car , driven by Jack MoClaine, 18. Other occupants were identified as Donald R. Fishero, 19, and two girls, 17 and 18, both also of Beech Grove. All four were taken to Terre Haute for questioning. McClaine also was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of litjpor ahd reckless driving. All four faced charges of having open beer cans in the car. The angler fiah regularly dines on fish bigger than it«elf, which it swallows whole. Its stomach muscles stretch to accommodate the enormous meal until it's digested.

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GOP Steamroller Tactics Charged .v Three County GOP Meetings Studied INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —An Indiana Republican central committee subcommittee today was tp hear charges of steamroller tactics in the conduct of a May 8 Martin county OOP reorganization meeting after hearing similar charges Monday in connection with Brown county. A third county reorganization, also disputed, is tentatively set for June 14 when Bartholomew county's troubles will be aired. Indications are that the three-man subcommittee, headed by new state GOP chairman Alvin C. Cast, of Kentland, will make no recommendations for formal hearings on the charges until after all three preliminary session® are held. In today’s hearing, Cast, flanked by tenth district GOP chairman Russell Robbins and 11th district chairman 1 11. Dale Brown, are to hear charges filed by Lowell Crane. Martin county precinct committee-man. Crane alleged that at the meeting in Shoals, conducted by the

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same subcommittee. Brown county "iknie of the prejinct committeemen or vloe-committeemen present was permitted to take any part in th convention. . . ” .At Monday's session before the county chairman. Hugh Gray, chairman G. T. Fleming—Roberts •was accused of using “bulldozer and steamroller tactics" in reelecting himself chairman. Roberts, a mystery story writer, is aligned with tho faction of the Indiana GOP headed by U. S. Senators William Jenner and Homer Capehart, which lost control of the state party organization to Gov. George N. Craig at the May 19 reorganization. Roberts himself did not take part in the Monday session. He left after his attorney, JohnsonBrown county prosecutor Robert Yeung, of Franklin, got into the record that the subcommittee was merely serving in a fact finding capacity and would make recommendations to the entire state central committee about a format hearing. — - The implication was that any formal hearing will have to be heard by the entire state central committee. Before leaving. Roberts gave newsmen a statement in which he declared the matter of his reelection was not important but “we had better put oUr own house in order before some glib Democrat brands this administration in Indiana as one conceived in deceit and dedicated to the proposition that all men can be propositioned." Stanley Roberta, the precinct committeeman who filed the charges against the Brown county chairman, told' the subcommittee that the reorganization session started at 12:55 p. m. and ended three minutes later. He claimed Roberts gaveled through the nomination and election of the four county party officers without recognizing efforts from other precinct committeemen to nominate Theodore Sellmaer as chairman. Another witness, Dorris Fleetwood, said the meeting started at 12:56 p. m. to which Roberts observed tartly: “My watch showed the meeting started exactly at 1 p. m. The responsibilities of the county chairman can hardly be extended to include the accurate workmanship of all the watchmakers in Switzerlasd." It you nave something to sell or rooms 4 for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Judging Teams To Roundup At Purdue To Participate In Contests Thursday Four members of the Decatur Future Fanners of America will represent their club in the crops judging contest at Purdue University, Lafayette, Thursday morning. The team of James Holt. Gerald Grote, seniors at Decatur high school, and Lisle Knittie and Marvin Grote, former graduates, is coached by William 11. Journay, agricultural Instructor at Decatur high school. Members of the Berne-French townefinrteam, taktngpart tn tiiei 4 H poultry and egg judging contest this week, are Roscoe Wulliman. Van Wulliman, Duane Bluhm, and Karl Rich. They are coached by Leonard Kingsley, vocational agriculture instructor at the Berne-French school. Also from Berne is an F. F. A. poultry and egg judging team of four: Lester Smith, Ned Kipfer, Jerome Lehman, and Galen Baumgartner. Membership of the Adams Central judging team, coached by Martin Watson, has not yet been announced. The judging contests are held during the annual 4-H roundup, and more than 2,500 youths from all parts of Indiana will attend. Miss Irene Hanley To Speak At Berne Irene Hanley of East St. Louis, Illi, will address the county-wide Youth for Christ rally which will be held next Tuesday evening at the First Mennonite church in Berne. Mrs. Hanley, a converted Jewess, comes highly recommended as one of the finest speakers and missionaries in the world today. She has spoken in scores of Youth for Christ rallies, college campuses and summer encampments. Just recently she has been appointed as an itinerant missionary for the American association for Jewish evangelism with headquarters in Winona Lake. The rally will begin at 8 o’clock. Ushuaia, Argentina, is the southernmost town in the world. Its population Is 1,990.

Driver Arrested On Traffic Count Albert G. Smith of route 1 was arrested Monday by state police for passing over the yellow line. The alleged offense occurred three miles east of Decatur on route 224. Smith will appear In justice of the peace court. Killer Confesses To Fifth Murder Another Man Now Serving Sentence NEW YORK (INS) — John F. Roche, admitted rapiM and slayer of four New Yorkers, reportedly has confessed to a fifth murder which had been considered "solved” and police doublechecked a sixth "solved” killing. Rocha was said to have admitted “with a great deal of accuracy” the slaying last summer of sailor Edward S. Bates. — An ex-cobvifit, Paul A. Pfeffer, 21. was convicted’ of the Bates murder on the basis of a: confession he later repudiated. Pfeffer now is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence. Detectives are investigating Roche's part, if any, in the Bates killing as well as probing the “solved" strangling of Mrs. Josephine Brown, a pretty mother-to-be. in July, 1952. Oliver L Freeman, 18. was convicted of the Brown slaying on the basis of his confession. He also admitted 20 other attacks on women. A district attorney promised a statement on the probe into both cases within a few days. Meanwhile, a solemn requiem mass was scheduled Thursday for Dorothy Westwater, 14, who died Sunday as a result of injuries inflicted by Roche. Roche remained under constant police guard in his cell. He refused to see an assistant district attorney who reportedly wished to question him again about the Bates and Brown slayings— Detectives pointed out the Bates killing—he was beaten to death apparently as he slept — fitted Roche’s behavior pattern. If vou have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Another Attempt To Settle Long Strike Indianapolis Bus Strike Continuing INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Federal conciliation officials met with representatives of both aides today in another attempt to settle the lengthy bus strike in Indianapolis. The organisations are the* Indianapolis Transit System Inc. and Division 1070, AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach Union. .Mayor Alex iM. Clark of Indianapolis has urged dally meetings. In a letter to conciliators Clement J. iMurphy, of Milwaukee, and James S. Allen and Arthur 11. Pierson, both of Indianapolis, the mayor recommended that the meetings be held with "the people who can speak with authority on both sides.” - ■ . '/>■' * - --■ . Utility officials said their representatives have received authority from the board of directors to ; act with full power. Union headquarters said their representatives • could speak with authority, subject . to ratification by the union membership. Superior Judge John L. Niblack Tuesday continued until September i his order against picketing the terminal shed where out-of-town - busses load and discharge passengers. However, picketing is al- ■ lowed around the Traction Terminal Building, which the company 1 owns. I - --3 ' - . Miss Kathleen Smith Duquesne Graduate 1 Miss Kathleen Smith, daughter of Mrs. Anne K. Smith, received 1 the degree of bachelor of science • in pharmacy at the seventy-sixth commencement exercise pf Du- - quesne university, Pittsburgh, Pa., ’ Sunday. Miss Smith served as secretary- • treasurer of her class during her 1 junior-senior years reporter for j the Duquesne pimrrnacist four 1 years, was a member of Lambda 1 Kappa Sigma, Tau chapter, of the 1 university and Rho Chi, national honorary sorority. She has accepted a position with Gray Drug Stores, Inc., and will be affiliated with their Mansfield, 0., branch in the near future.

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William Lenhart Is Taken To Hospital Friends here have received word that William Ixmhart, Fort Wayne, formerly of Decatur, is a patient at Park View hospital in that city. Some months ago Lenhart underwent an operation for removal of a nasal growth and since then has been confined to-> his home. His condition is regarded as serious. For many years Lenhart . operated a saw mill and lumber business in Decatur. Trucks Involved In Accident Today Trucks driven by Arthur Neadst'ne. 36, of Decatur, and Alfred R. Ashbaucher, 70. of pecatur were involved la. an accident today about 12:30 p. m. on the Win-' Chester road north of Decatur. A? Ashbaucher attempted to pcsa Neadstine, who wa» driving a Yost ready-mix truck, th,e two collided causing about S4OO damage to the two vehicle®. Neither driver was injured. Deputy sheriff Merle Affolder investigated. No Remonstrances To School Purchase No remonstrances against the special appropriation necessary to purchase land for the two proposed grade schools was made yesterday when the representative of the state tax board appeared at the county auditor’s office, W. Guy Brown, superintendent of public schools in Decatur, announced today. Brown emphasized l that this does not yet mean that the appropriation has been approved, but that it will*now be considered by the state tax board. The two new school sites, located to make attendance easier for grade school children in the southern and northern parts of Decatur, were recommended by the Indiana University School survey commission. „ Work Is Started On Community Center Work on Decatur’s $200,000 Community Center began yesterday, officials of the Yost Construction Co., have stated. Nearly 20 of the 98 piles have already been driven. No trouble has been encountered, and the piles are being driven 27 to 28 feet down. Cal E. Yost stated. If the wwather continues fair, he expects to complete driving the piles by early next week. A steam piledriver, which, when adjusted and placed, drives the 30 foot piles in a matter of minutes, is being used on the job. Immediately after the piles are driven, work will be started on the rest of the building. After the foundation and floor have been laid in concrete, it may be possible to estimate the date of completion of the building, Yost added. DULLES WRITES (Coatiauee Frew P— O»e) were: 1. Great Britain has counseled caution in efforts to create a free world collective security system in southeast Asia until afwr the Geneva conference results are known. Thia British, stand frustrated Dulles* efforts to form an alliance so that the free world would have a position of strength from which to negotiate at Geneva. If the Geneva conference collapses, as Dulles indicated it may, then Britain will have to face up to the necessity of making a firm decision on the united action plan. 2. France is reeling in the Red river delta and Hanot and Haiphong are threatened. France Is faced with the unpleasant "alternatives of accepting the harsh Molotov peace or calling upon Allies to help her fight in Indo-China. 3. The U. S. still has to make its decision. Strong elements in the U. S. want to fight now to cut off Communist aggression. Dulles said this nation will not fight without Allies in Indo-China unless the Chinese Communist forces enter the war. There is little reason to expect that to happen as long—as the Vietminh troopg are doing so well.

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