Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LU. No. 174.

Confesses Poore Girl’s Murder A ’•’ft' • ■,. < 1 r ( //< J L\ Jff f WT > I / 1 / l7|ni ■bbm*** g JL / ■ / 11' jW '*♦• : - •'. '' '’■■’v^ *‘ ' t'"' * F \ AfW HANDCUFFED Victor Hale Lively, 32 (left), <ff Beaumont Tex . confesses to the strangle murder of Dorothy Poore, whose, body was found stuffed in a dresser drawer in an Indianapolis hotel room. Sheriff Arthur Mosley holds a .32-c|fliber guh that; Lively was carrying tn a canvas bag when he was arrested white hitchhiking near Clayton. Mo. XT ' Talkathon On Atomic Energy Bill Cracked

WASHINGTON (INS) —The five-day talkathon on the administration's atomic energy revision .<lll was cracked today when the senate agreed for the first time to limit debate on an amendment. The agreement was reached aftv administration forces suffered the defeat they expected on a motion to invoke clpture — that ie, to limit dehate on the legislation In Its entirety. , It was the first .such agreement •enote Repehttean leader William - F. Know] and has been able to achieve since the '“filibuster" began test Wednesday morning. It came as the senate was soItered with news from ths Far East that Chinese Communist figiMer planes had attacked two U. 8. carrier atrcratt and Itad been shot 4oW|i. ; Members on, both sides quickly .spoke of “unity" in the face of the new “peril." The agreement limited debate on an amendment by Sen. Herbert Lfehman (D-N. Y.) to two hours —one hour for each side. Its significance lay in the fact that it marked a new approach -by the GOP leadership — olxalning debate limitations on individual amendments rather than on the entire atomic bill. Knowland at first proposed a limitation of one-half hour on the amendment. Lehman said he had no objection but Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind. Ore l proposed that this be increased to one hour for e:.ch side, or a total of two hours. Knowland promptly modified his request but k was accepted Without further objection. But before the agreement was reached the administration failed by 20 votes to impose cloture or "gag" rule on the entire bill. With 64 votes required to limit debate on the controversial legislation. supjforters of cloture could collect only 44. There were 42 agalnat the move. * Rejection came as no surprise to Knowand. He told the senate in advance of the roll-call that he wonld offer other cloture motions later end that he hae heen promised added support for them. Earlier in the day, he declared with the full hacking of President Eisenhower that the senate will be kept In session as long as nec- - essa-iy to break the filibuster <Tar» Tn l’«»» Ktakt) Church Extends Call To Lutheran Pastor The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt. Zion Lutheran church, has been extended a call to Ohrtet Lutheran church at Anderson. That pariah has beeh without a minister since ite pastor. the Rev. Martin J. Prifogle, accepted a call to Zion Lutheran church at South San Gabriel, Calif. The Zion church council at a special called meeting held between aervicee Sunday' morning unanimously parsed a resolution urging Rev. Schmidt to decline the crfl and to continue serving the lorel congregation; Congregational chairman Earl M. Cawton announced today that a voters’ assembly meeting has been scheduled for next Sunday immediately following the 8 o'clock service to discuss the call and the council recommendation. »

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NKWSRAMUI IN ADAMS COUNTY *

i State To Seek I Death Penalty For Murderer, Will Demand Death Penalty For Killer in Hotel Slaying INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—Victor H. Lively today offered to plead guilty to the dreeser-drawer murder of Dorothy Poore, if he can avoid the electric chair. The 25-year-old Texan made hte offer to police white he was being questioned again concerning his confession that he killed the 18 >ear old Clinton girl because she resisted hie sexual advances in a room at the Claypool hotel. But John H. Daily, Marion county chief deputy prosecutor, eaid: "Were not accepting any sec-ond-degree murder plea.” Second degree murder carries life imprisonment, instead of the chair. Previously, Daily had said: "If there ever was a case that called for the chair, this is it.” Indications are that the county grand Jury will be Asked to return an indictment under a clause in the law that calls for the death penalty if murder is committed during the commission of a felony. Lively has confessed that he made three attempts to attack the 18-year-old Clinton girl before he strangled het And crammed her body into a dresser drawer in room 665 of the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis. A preliminary hearing for Lively was scheduled before municipal judge Patrick A. Barton today. Meanwhile, two Indianapolis detectives left for East St. Louis, 111., today to question Al Cohen. 37-year-old employer of Lively. The officers will probe the relationship of Cohen to the alleged slayer. Cohen, who owns Better Business. Ind., a home improvement concern, said he was not iu Indianspoils when the murder was committed. He added: ' “The last time I was In Indianspoils was on July 12, the Monday l>efore the Poore girl was killed." Cohen had admitted picking Lively up just outside Indianapolis on July 4. Cohen said he gave the alleged slayer a job and kept a .32 caliber German ’Mauser gun for Lively. Cohen said: .“The boy was brpke and I help out a lot of guye.” The officers are seeking a girl named Betty because Lively has mentioned her name frequently. He said that Cohen, a former resident of Indianapolis, knows who (Cnatlaued Ob Page Kight) INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Low tonight 58-66. Hlgn Tuesday 86-92.

Frank Bender Is Killed As Car Overturns r Killed When Auto Overturns West Os Decatur Saturday Franklin Eugene Beader, 29, who resided one mile wist of Yoder, was killed instantly at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night when his auto overturned and Crashed into an embankment two and one-half miles west of Decatur on U. S. highway .xT .• iThe accioent victim was- returnring to his home after caring for z pome livestock for a relative near this city, who is visiting in California. > Witnesses said l Bender was traveling at a high rate of speed. He had passed two other westbound cars when his auto overturned. Officials said Bender apparently turned his car wheels too sharply when returning to.the right highway bane, causing the chi* to upset It flipped bver twice in the highway and th6n hit headon into an embankment and rolled back cn its wheels. The Victim's head was crushed and his neck fractured. Mr. Bender graduated' from Kirkland high school in 1943 and had been employed at a die caster at the Fort Wayne General Electric plant since 1944. He was bom in Wells county Nov. 30. 1924, and had lived with Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Helmrich, onehalf mite west of Magley from the time he was nine years of age until his marriage Oct. 13, 1945, to Miss Mary Lengerich of near Decatur. The family moved near Yoder a year ago. Mr. Bender was a member of the St. Aloysius Catholic church at Yoder. Funeral Tuesday Surviving in addition to his wife ere three sone. Allen Eugene. 8. Ijarry Dwight. 4. and Kenneth Franklin. 3; his father, Ray Rowen. Fort Wayne, and his mother, mM Harold Hankl&s. Also of Ybrt Wayne. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, and will be taken to the Hetanrich residence, one-half mite west of Magley. where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. The Holy Name society will meet at the Helmrich home at 8 o'clock tonight to recite the rosary. Funeral service* will be conducted at 9 a. tn. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Investigating the z crash were state trooper Bernard Maag. sheriff Robert Shraluka, deputy sheriff Merle Affoider and coroner Harmon Gillig. - ----- ■ . ■ 1 • Policeman Wounded In Wild Gun Baffle * Four Os Five Bandit Suspects Captured INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — One policeman was shot and four of five bandit suspects were captured '.n a wild chase and gun battle today in Indianapolis. The fifth suspect was said to be cornered along White River bottomlands. Indianapolis police identified the injured policeman as detective Joseph Chestnut. He was shot in the foot and was reported in fair condition. At least one of the suspects was pulled out of White River near Victory Field baseball park. Most of the caps-end-robbers chase took place along the river near the baseball park. The wild gun battle, which lasted 39 minutes, began after police were notified that five men held up an Indianapolis finance company near the baseball park, and slugged the manager, fleeing with 155. 1 Three of the four me« taken Into custody were identified as Jerry Martin, 29, and Joe Ray, 27, both of Chicago, and WllHam Chadwick, 29, Cleveland. <3l ■ " Theft Is Reported At Wayne Novelty Articles valued at 925 were stolen from the Wayne, Novelty company over the weekend, city police reported today. The thief is thought to have entered the building through a window on the east tide of the building and tert through the door on the north aide, or through a sliding door on the west aide.

Decatur, Indtaaa, Mqpday, July 26, 1954.

....... • . : " ! — — Reveal Red Airplanes Fired On U. S. Planes; Two Os Enemy Downed

Chinese Reds Apologize For Aerial Attack Express Regret For Shooting Down Os British Airliner HONG KONG (INS)-Red China expressed regret today over the shoot*ig down last week 6f a British airliner and said the Communist fighter pilots thought they were attacking a Chinese Nationalist plane. The Peiping regime, in a formal reply to Britain's strong protest note Saturday, said it is "considering" payment of compensation tor the loss of nine British and'American lives in the tragedy. Nine other persons, three of them American, were rescued after the bullet-riddled airliner plunged into the South China Sea. One a Chinese woman, died shortly aft-j erward. Red China’s statement quoted by the Peiping Radio, was worded in typical Communist language and padded with charges against “the Chiang Kai-Shek gang.” But the statement confessed that Red Chinese, fighters tHtee fesponslbte for the attack on the ed, dfetehsfetess SkYmaltM- which was carrying 12 passengers, including women and children, and a crew of six on a routine commercial flight from Singapore to Hong Kong. It virtually was the first time in*a lengthy post-war history of similar incident around the fringe of the Red empire that a Communist government has made such a frank confession and apologized. Still to be tested is the Peiping attitude toward a possible protest not from the U.S. over the presumed loss of three American lives in the tragedy. Reports from Washington indicate that the U.S. intends to deliver such a note in the near future. Meanwhile, two American aircraft carriers — the Philippine Sea and the Hornet — are patrolling the South China Sea to keep Communist planes from interfering with the continuing hunt for any additional survivors, although hope for them virtually has been abandoned. Among the nine passengers and crew members missing are Leonard L. Parish of lowa Park, Tex., and his two small sons. Parish’s wife and their six-year-old daughter, Valerie, were rescued. The Peiping radio broke into its regularly scheduled programs to announce that Red China's reply to the British protest note had been handed to charge d'affaires Humphrey Trevelyan by vice-for-eign minister Chan Chang Fu. The reply said Red China’s min*, istry for foreign affairs originally bad received a report that Red (CMtlaavd Ob Paar Klaht) Auction School Is Opened Here Today Over 80 Students Registered Today Classes for the 61st session of the Reppert school of auctioneering began this morning, with more than 80 students registered. Members of the school faculty met this noon at the Fairway restaurant with the Chamber of Commerce board of directors. The student auctioneers will be welcomed this afternoon by- Mayor John Doan and Ronald Parrish, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Today marks the beginning of a three-weeks eeaaion of classes and practice auction* including a benefit auction Saturday, Aug. 7 for St. Mary** Catholic church. Arrangements for the benefit auction are being made by Mr*. William Kobne.

Charge Vietnamese Troops Deserting L French Say Three Defense Posts Fall HANOI (INS)—The French high command announced today the fall hf three defense posts through the ‘‘‘treason’’ of Vietnamese troops deserting to the Communist-led Vletrinh forces.' Tie pre-truce lull In the IndoChina fighting was broken- by a flurry of Communist attacks all through the French sone of the Red river delta. .. A cease-fire Is scheduled for 7 a.ra. Tuesday (8 p.m. EDT Monday). The high command said the Vietminh has begun an intensive campaign to persuade the Vietnamese troops who fought alongside the French to remain in northern Vietnam. The high command did not specify how many Vietnamese soldiers deserted but said that three posts, Dong Thon, near Hanoi, Dai Than, near seven pagodas to the northeast of Hanoi, and Dong Ky, near Bao Ninh, had "fallen by treason.’’ The French said the Vietminhbqgan many minor actions Sunday aim'll at isolating as many Vietnamese regular and irregular units as possible. They said there was “almost no activity"; against the French forces. , j A Ftrnt-h spokesmgn said that the Communist-led Vietminh forces attempted a commando attack at Nha Trang, but were driven back. Nha Trang is on the China Sea coast only 180 miles northeast of the southern capital at Saigon. This is far south of the partition line created, in the cease-fire agreetCeatlaae* Oa Page Klabo List Appointments For Civil Defense Zl A Z Advisory Council Lists Appointees Several posts in the Adams county civil defense organization were filled at a meeting of the county civil defense advisory council Friday night in the Berne city hall. Mayor John Doan was elected by thp council, to serve as its chairman. John G. Gordon, county civil defense director, was in charge of the Friday session, which was the first meeting of the council. Lu th er Yager pf Berne was named to fill the post of deputy director under Gordon. He will assist Gardon in the organization and operation of the county setup. Serving in the post of executive director will be Gene Hike of Monroe. Dr. Harold Zwick of Decatur, head of the Adams county medical association, was elected health di rector. Others named to various posts were Robert Smith of Decatur, legal officer; Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, intelligence officer; police chief James Borders of Decatur, communications and attack warning officer; county sheriff’s department, director Os police, and Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, emergency care. A meeting of these people and the members of the 17-member advisory council will take place in Berne In the near future. Lai t her Yagpr is in charge of arrangements for the next meeting. Two Indianapolis Carriers Injured INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two young Indianapolis Star carriers remained In critical condition today after being struck by an automobile and dragged 78 feet while making their deliveries. * The victims are Marvin King, 12, and his helper, Stephen Mayfield, 13, who were struck by a car driven by Henry Holland. 25, of Indianapolis. Holland was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the Influence of intoxicants and reckless driving. J

Rhee Conies To United States To Seek Unity Korean President Enroute To U. S., Seeks Uhity WASHINGTON (INS) — President Syngman Rhee, who fought for 40 years to obtain his country’s independence, comes to the U. S. today to plead the cause of a unified Korea. The 79-year-old Korean patriot was traveling in the private Superconstellation of Gen. John E. Hull, U. S. Far East commander, accompanied by his wife and party of high-level aides. Rhee is coming in response to an invitation extended by President Eisenhower. He will address a joint meeting of congress Wednesday, attend the usual receptions tendered a visiting chief of state, and visit American historic sites, including Arlington national cemetery and Mount Vernon. He will leave for New York City July 31. But primarily, Rhee's visit is not for pleasure. The aged but stillvigorous leader of his war-ravaged land comes to plead with President Eisenhower other American leaders for early action to unify Korea. Rhee seeks a clearcut agreement on Korea's unification, by force if necessary. He also seeks increased American military and economic aid. Mr. Eisenhower was expected to take advantage of the opportunity to attempt to improve KoreanJapanese relations, which have remained strained. Rhee has been a long-time foe of the Japanese, who occupied Korea for 35 years. Major disputes between the two Far Eastern nations concern fishing rights, war reparations and the .status of Koreans living in Japan. Rhee is expected to request assurances or safeguards from the U. S. against a militarily resurgent Japan in view of America's policy of aiding Japanese rearmament. The U. 8. already has a military pact with South Korea. The Korean chief Shade it clear to newsmen beforpihis departure for Iff pose of nis trip is td‘ win America's support for his insistent thesis that Korea’s unification can be gained only by a "march to the north.” There is little chance, however, that the U. 8. would agree to any renewal of the Korean war. ('rare Ta Paca Kight) Runoff Is Assured In Texas Election Run-off Election Set For Aug. 28 DALLAS, Tex. (INS) — A runoff election is assured between Gov. Allan Shivers and attorney Ralph Yarborough of Austin for the Democratic nomination for governor in Texas. With returns 96 percent cmplete. Shivers held a 17,000-vote lead ov'er Yarborough, but It was not enough to give him the nomination. Two other candidates, Cyclone Davis aifd J. J. Holmes, received 35,000 votes between them, making it impossible for either Shivers or Yarborough to gain a majority; Shivers, who threw his state’s support to the Republicans In the presidential election two years ago, had defeated Yarborough by more than 300,000 votes in the last election. Yarborough, who supported the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson, for the presidency, ssid at his Austin home that the closeness of the Texas "primary "indicates that the political machine which has dominated Toxas for five yesrs is cracking up.” The run-off election will be held Aug. 28.

Death Continues To Ride On Highways Highways Jammed In Ideal Weather INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Death continued to ride Hoosier highways as ideal weather drew hundreds of thousands of motorists to the open spaces during the week-end. - ..j. The Indianapolis weather bureau .today predicted that the fine - weather would continue. The fore- : cast was fair with little change in temperature today, tonight and ■ Tuesday. Two Fairmoiint residents were killed when an automobile left Road 31 and struck a tree four miles south of the Road 7 intersection near Columbus. The vic-' time were Wilbur Stout. 62. and Clyde Chester Holloway, 41. Franklin E. Bender, 29, of Yoder, died when his automobile left Road 224 two and one-half miles west of Decatur and overturned several times. A two-car crash resulted In the death of Eulas Vance Lindsey, 34, of Indianapolis. The accident occurred south of Lebanon. In another two-car collision on a country road near Mechanicsburg. J. C. Smith, of near Frankfort, lost his lite. Herbert Butx, 25, of Lafayette, was killed when Ma automode missed a turn, and sUunk. a .bank Oh A ewfrtry tosfllhree tnlles n«W» of Springboro in White county. Also, Kenneth Roark. 16. of near . Hagerstown, drowned in an abandoned gravel pit near DaitCn. Companions said he went in swimming soon after eating and slipped under the water. The btply was recovered 20 minutes later. Gilbert Baugh, 33, of Indianapolis, drowned and two women were rescued after they waded into a deep spot on the beach of a Mississippi River island at Peruque, Mo., 30 miles northwest of St. Louis. Those rescued were Miss Geraldine Young, 28, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Arliss Calloway, of St. Louis. Clarence Filpott, 31. of Salem, drowned while swimming in Starve Hollow Lake near Vallonia. George E. Wood, 14, of Logartkport, met death when he was (Ceatlaaag aa Pace Eight) « «■ Three Persons Hurt In Sandusky Blasts Bulk Plant Rocked By Eight Blasts SANDUSKY, O. (INS) — Three persons were injured, one critically, when a series of eight -explosions rocked the Gulf Refining company bulk plant in Sandusky, igniting some 45,000 gallons of gasoline. . John Baker, 26, who lives in a home located next to the bulk plant, is in critical condition a( Providence hospital suffering from burns. Truck driver Robert Williams of rural Norwalk, who was in the, company yard at 5:45 a.m. when the first blast ripped the plant, was taken to a hospital and treated for shock. Mrs. Elizabeth Barbour, occupant of the bouse In which Baker lives, received .chest injuries from flying Police evacuated some 300 persons from the heavily populated residential-industrial Area- in which the plant is located. Fire chief Wilson McLaughlin said that the fire Is under control. He warned, however, that three other storage tanks in the vicinity may explode because of the intense heat. The Perkins volunteer fire department, cable to the aid of the Sandusky department. George Mishaux, co-owner of the plant, theorized that the blaze and explosion may have been caused by static electricity or a short circuit. Mishaux said he would give a damage estimate later, after having a chance to view the burned out area.

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U. S. Planes Attacked On Mercy Flight American Planes Down Two Enemy Planes On Attack WASHINGTON (INS)—The U.S. announced today that American planes shot down two Communist sire raft which attacked them as they searched for survlviorw of the British airliner destroyed by Chinese Red airmen Friday over the South China sea. The state department said the carrier-based American planes returned the fire of Red fighters, quickly brought down ' the two Communist aircraft, and continued their mercy mission. There were no U. S. casualties in the aerial duel. The Pentagon announced that defense secretary Charles E. Wilson was preparing a statement on the air battle. Sec retary of state John Foster Duties declared the U. S. “will protest most vigorously against this further evidence of Chinese Communist brutality.” President Elsenhower conferred at the White House With Wilson, Dulbw. Adm. AxtAurW. Radfordthalftnati nt m Jotot chiefs nt staftf and Gen. James A. Vafi. Fleet, who has just returned from a Far East inspection trip. \ ‘ Earlier, Dulles ’conferred with British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins, who, in comment op the a!r duel, said: "These American aircraft were attacked over the high seas and naturally they retaliated.” Admiral Felix B. Stump. U. 8. Pacific naval commander who is In Washington for consultation, told a news conference that American pilots in Asiatic areas operate under "standard orders to shoot back” if attacked. Stump said that the pilots had no special orders to be quick on the trigger, but merely followed the "standard orders.” The atniral declared: "If our plane Is approached with obviously liostile intent in peace or war our commander has the right to shoot.” Members of congress denounced the "piracy" and "savagery" of the Chinese Reds, lauded the U.S. airmen involved in the dog-fight off the Chinn coast, and appealed for bipartisan unity in the tense situation. The U. 8. sent the carriers' Hornet and Philippine Sea to the area off the Red Chinese-held island of Hainan Saturday to provide protection for rescue and search operations. . Eighteen person® were aboard the British civilian' plane, eight of them Americans. Nine person* were reported missing, of whom three are Americans. Peiping has admitted shooting down the British plane, and has "apologized” to London. The Reds said the plane was mistaken for a Chinese Nationalist transport. Dulles' statement sold: £ "As l announced on Saturday, July 24. the secretary of defense had ordered two United States air craft carriers to proceed to the scene of the Chinese Communist assault upon the British commercial airliner which resulted in the death of three Americans and the wounding of three others. “The mission as stated then of lhese ships and their planes was to conduct and protect further tescue and search operations in the vicinity of the tragedy. "This government is now informed that two United States carrier based planes of the rescue’ type, while conducting their mission on mercy and seeking possible survivors. were attacked over the high sew* by two Chinese Communist fighter aircraft, apparently of the same type as shot down the Cathay Pacific commercial airliner. ». "Th* United State* plane* returned ths fir* and the two Chinese Communist planes were shot ' down. There were no casualties <<oatlau«4 Oa Page Eight)