Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LIL No. 269.

A-‘Medical Phenomenon’ ■ ■ B ;; - |F v ■■ t JM H|lpl|Sy >g>. •' A PREMATURELY-BORN TWIN, six-week-old Mary Healy (front), made medical history by surviving two major operations to correct injury suffered before birth. Mary also survived an intestinal condition wherein a baby is either born dead or lives a short time. She is shown with twin sister, Catherine, who had a normal birth. Mary is fed by Mrs. Healy at their home in Queens, N. ¥., on arrival from hospital. The father, Henry Healy, a policeman, looks on.

Officer Tells Os Questioning Sam Sheppard Arresting Officer Gives Evidence At Murder Trial Today CLEVELAND (INS) —The policeman who arrested Dr. Sam Sheppard for the bludgeon murder of his pregnant wife quoted the osteopath today as saying he fought a "white form" in the bedroom and a "dark tourt” in the .beaeh in front of hi* home Bay Village patrolman Fred Drenkham told a jury of seven men and five women the society osteopath, immediately following the July 4th murder, told hi tn he did not know whether one or two men attacked him.’’ Under defense examination, the policeman-friend of the defendant testified his department ‘‘conducted an investigation" after the arrest of Dr. Sam and is still probing the case" today. He also told of hearing "rumors’* that the Sl-vear-old brain surgeon was sterile but ■ denied heart ng anyone say Sheppard's son, Chip, 7, was illegitimate; Drenkhan detailed for the first time the series of questions he put to Dr. Sam as he sat dazed in the den of his suburban Bay Village home, naked from the waist up, moments after the vicious killing was reported. Under interrogation by assistant prosecutor Torn Parrino, following the end of defense questioning. Drenkham quoted Dr. Sam as 'saying he heard a "gurgling sound" as he entered the murder bedroom. "Tell the .jury everything Sam Sheppard said," Parrino told him. The handsome, surly-haired cop replied: “The defendant stated he was asleep :on a couch and awoken by his wife calling, it seemed to him. and it entered his mind she was have a convulsion. He gol off the hed and went rapidly upstairs. "As he got up the stairs he saw a white form at she side of the bed. He stated he could hear a gurgling sound as he entered the room. He was struck. . The policeman continued with the story Dr. Sam told him’’ "He pursued the form out and down to the beach and whereupon the black form appeared to hesitate and was going to let hint have it. He vaguely remembered grappling with him and next remembers his feet in the water, wallowing in water. He went upstairs to the bedroom and again looked at his wife, and covered a portion of her body with a sheet. ‘'He went downstairs. He didn’t know what to do and. the first thing that entered his mind was Mayor Houk, and he phoned him." Corrigan repeatedly tried to knock down the testimony by Drenkhan of last week in which he reported his examination - he was the first officer on the scene of the murder-showed three windows latched with 11 locks The white-haired defense attorney attempted to show that a prowler could have looked into the upstairs bedroom where Mrs. Sheppard was murdered through a small space uncovered on the window. The patrolman conceded this (Continued on Pa<e Eight)

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Murder Trial Opens Today In Capital Lively Is On Trial For Murder In Hotel INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The dresser - drawer murder trial of Victor Hale Lftrely opened to a packed courthouse in Indianapolis today, with the state asking the death penalty and defense denying the crime. s The 25-year-old Texan is accused of strangling 18-year-old Dorothy Poore, of Clinton. Ind., and stuffing her semi-nude body in the bottom, drawer of his dresser at Indianapolis’ Claypool Hotel. Althiough the slaying occurred early in the morning ,of July 16: the body’ wasn’t discovered until nearly four days, later .by leaning women. Lively was Captured at Clayton. Mo., outside St. Louis as be hitchhiked toward his home in Texas. He confessed the murder to St. ixiiils and Indianapolis police, both orally and in written statements. However,' defense attorney Ferdinand Samper is expected to put the red-haired defendant, wearing blue slacks and a charcoal sportshirt bought from S2O sent by a friend in South Carolina, on the stand in liis own defense and repudiate the confessions. Lively recently said police forced the confessions from him. He did not elaborate at ’he time on how the confessions were forced from him, but he denied them and said he did not kill the June graduate who had come to Indianapolis in search of a job. There also was indication that defense will demand that the state prove the cause of death. While he denies killing. Mies Poore. Lively admits the girl was in his room the night before the slaying. He said she led him to believe she was a prostitute. The short, stock defendant still sticks to the story he told in his repudiated confessions concerning the meeting between himself and Miss Poore. He said he was introduced to the girl by “Ruth." whom he ha? identified as Mrs. Grace Lawson, a 25-year-old former burlesque dancer. She dentes being a "Ruth." Lively claims Ruth told him the vice squad was too hot on the Kirkwood hotel and suggested he move to the Claypool hotel and register as Jack O'Shea. He said she ' went to his room at Claypool with him and Dorothy. He said Ruth left later. o The state has indicated it will try to substantiate Lively's confession in which he said after Ruth left, he strangled Miss Poore for resisting his advances. Marion county proseculor Floyd R. Mannon, who took over the (Continued on -Page Eight) Theodore L. Becker Dies In California Word'was received here Sunday of the death of Theodore L. Becken former Decatur resident, at bls San Diego, Calif., home. Death resulted front a heart ailment. He has been 111 only two weeks. ’ Becker resided In Decatur until a few years ago. He was a carpenter and contractor and Mrs. Becker operated a beauty parlor on Adams street. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Minnie Becker and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Jones and Mrs. Joe Kalins. Two« grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements were not learned, but burial will be at San Diego.

McCarthy And Watkins Clash During Hearing Senator Watkins Is Witness At Hearing Os McCarthy Group WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Arthur Watkins appeared as a witness today at b public hearing of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s investigating subcommittee and the two clashed immediately over the case of ex-Maj. Irving Peress, Watkins, the Utah Republican who heads the committee which has asked the senate to censure McCarthy, told the Wisconsin sensince June 13 the names of army ator his subcommittee has had since June 13 the names of army officials responsible for "promot.ing Peress." One of the censure counts against McCarthy accuses him of “mistreating” Zwicker when the general, saying he was bound by an executive directive forbidding disclosure of such information, declined to tell the Wisconsin Redhunter “who promoted Peress." Watkins showed up an hour early for the hearing before McCarthy’s subcommittee, which originally was scheduled for 9 a.m. but was postponed until 10 and opened to the public after an earlier announcement that it would be held behind closed doors.'" Alluding to the Watkins committee’s claim that McCarthy should have gone after, ‘those culpable” instead of attacking Zwicker, McCarthy flatly asked Watkins: “Do you know who was, as you say; culpable?” Watkins replied: “No, I do not. But I think I can help you find the Information . . He then disclosed that he had been in contact with artny secretary Robert T. Stevens, who he said told him about a letter he sent last June 13 to Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R S. D.), attaching a list of 30 names of officers iwteq placed a part th the Peress case. Mundt at that time was presiding over the army-McCarthy hearings. Subsequently, he gave the “confidential” list to McCarthy who kept the names private but told newsmeh that five generals .were included on it. Watkins — who was not sworn in by McCarthy despite the “testify under oath" announcement — stressed that he had “no personal knowledge" of the Peress case except that his own committee had "uncontradicted testimony” that Zwicker was not to blame. However, he told McCarthy: “I do say now — in view of what was said to me by the secretary — that you do now have in your files the names of all the people responsible for the honorable discharge and promotion of Peress." Watkins said that .all. McCarthy has to do to learn the extent of their responsibility is to call each of the officers into closed hearings where they can testify with(Continued on Page Five) . Rebukes Russia For Failure To Assist Flays Vishinsky In U. N. Committee UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The United States rebuked Russia in the United Nations today for failure to make any contribu tion to President Eisenhower’s “atoms for peace" plan. U.S. delegate C. D. Jackson, former presidential advisor, flayed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in the political committee for attacking the peace atoms plan as “narrowed down" and sterile. Jackson declared in his first major address to UN that the U.S. proposal for an international "clearing house" for exchange of atomic materials- represents the fastest and least expensive meth od of getting thi* program under way. He declared: "Vishinsky rings his oratorical bell — he raises all his pre-ar-ranged doubts about the United States having ’narrowed’ its proposal.— but there is no Soviet contribution to atoms-for-peace.” U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was expected to take the floor this afjernoon to reply to Vlshlnsky’s demand for a veto power over the proposed international atomic agency, which will act as the "clearing house" for nuclear exchange. Lodge was to suggest that the agency submit periodic reports to the security council but without being responsible directly to t|he 11-nation body.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 15, 1954.

Decatur Man Is Fatally Burned Saturday Night In Fire At Body Shop

Expect Probe Os Nation's Defense Plan Investigation By 84th Congress Is Likely Next Year WASHINGTON (INS) — The administration's entire continental defense System and its emphasis on massive retaliation as a defense appeared headed today for all-out congressional investigation next year. An inquiry by the 84th congress Into the “new look” in the nation’s military program—based on the assumption that the best defense is a good offense — is expected to be a hush-hush affair. But at least two phases of the, continental defense program, the army's anti-aircraft guided missile, Nike, and warning radar systems in the far north, shaped up as subjects of additional probes. Some congressmen have expressed concern over whether the nation's city dwellers have been, oversold on the protection which Nike can give them. One army source said the Nike is believed capable of knocking out the kind of guided missiles launched from a plane — unless an enemy has some of tremendously high speed. The first Nike model reportedly had a speed of 1,500 miles an hour and could catch and destroy any slower missile. The old Nike already Is being supplanted by larger size “Nike-B," 25 feet long instead of 20, and with a range of 50 miles instead of ,25. However, advocates of speedier action on the radar warning installations far to the north and those favoring a stronger continental defense in general, have raised the question as to whether Nike launching sites near at least 18 American cities are adequate. Rep. William C. Lantaff (D-Fla.) commented that "a lot of people have the impression that Nike is the answer to all our problems, and we can go home and go to sleep." As long ago as last June, Dr. A. G. Hill of the Massachusetts institute of technology, urged doubling the present expenditures on the northern radar screen and declared: “Our of five bombers, four may get through.” Congressional debate coming up will be mostly behind closed doors with reports of proceedings carefully screened for security reasons before they are made public. Essentially it is the old military argument of offense versus defense in military spending. On Nike, some military sources, annoyed by the wide publicity giv(Cksitlnued on Page Five) China Nationalist Ship Is Destroyed Destroyer Escort Is Sunk By Reds TAIPEH (INS) — Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek met with his high command today to map counter - measures against the Reds in the wake of the sinking of an Amerlpan-bullt destroyer escort torpedoed by Communist gunboats. \ The Nationalist defense ministry said 40 crewmen are still missing and presumed killed by Red torpedoes that ripped into the warship Sunday off the Tachen islands, some 200 miles from Formosa. Rescue vessels, picked up 140 officers and men when the destroyer escort Taiping, burning badly, sank after making a futile effort to reqch safe anchorage. As Chiang met with his top advisors, Nationalist planes took to the air in an intensified search to ferret out Communist gunboats believed to be still lurking In the area.

Alleged Bank Robber Trial Set Dec. 7 Richard E. Clark Trial Date Is Set ; The criminal docket for the November term of the Adams circuit court was set this morning by Judge Byles Parrish. Most important on the docket is the trial of ißichard E. Clark, a young Celina, man charged with the May robbery of the First Bank of Berne. On a motion by the court, Clark’s trial has been set for Dec. 7. Clark has been held in jail since hfe4 aiOu|gnmeirt in September when he pleaded not quilty to the charge of robbery. He is represented by D. Burdette Custer. Action on the criminal docket begins this afternoon when four Lima, 0., men are arraigned on charges resulting from the breakin of Pleasant Mills high school last week. Three of the men, Richard Judy, 26, Thomas Kelly, 19, end Richard Lytle, 27, face four counts, entry to commit a fleony, second degree burglary, grand larceny and auto banditry. The fourth, Cecil Eugene Perrine, 26. is charged ■‘with being an accessory before the fact to grand larceny and entry to commit a felony. Also to be arraigned this afternoon is William Booher, 30-year-old Hartford City man who is charged with the theft of a check fn Geneva April 24. A companion, James Gates,-has already been arraigned in connection with ttje same theft and forgery and has pleaded guilty. Judge Parrish has postponed sentencing Gathes until after the Booher arraignment. Several smaller cases remain on the criminal docket but will probably not be disposed- of during the November term because of unreturned warrants. An appeal by Albert Davidson, who was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol in city court is .also pending. Latest action in the?case was a motion by prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith to dismiss the appeal. Richmond Family Is Terrorized By Duo Market Manager, Family Terrorized RICHMOND, Ind. (INS) — The hunt turned toward Florida today for the missing member of a duo which terrorized a Richmond family in the course of staging a $5,000 holdup. Victims of the holdup were Glen Hulett, manager of a ItTchmond supermarket, his wife, and their 12year-old son. They told police that Ralph Jennings Johnson, an employe of the store, accompanied by the husband of another employe, came to the Hulett home Friday night while the wife and son were alone. Both were roughed up, bound and gagged, and the same treatment was given Hulett when he returned Home. The men took the grocery keys and obtained a safe combination from Hulett, he said. The son freed himself and then unbound his parents. ( Johnson was nabbed Saturday at London. Ky.. and half of the grocery loot was found-on him. He admitted the holdup, and said his companion was Richard Poole, hus- . (Pom tinned <«n Page Five) Court House Rest Rooms Open Nights Fred “E. Kolter, secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the board of county commissionerß this morning and requested .(hat the mt rooms In the.court house be left open until 11 o’clock each evening. The rest rooms were dosed in - the evenings after Grover Cottrell retired as night policeman. The county commissioners approved the plan, since the newly hired merchant policeman, Loqie Drake, has promised to protect the county property during thj» late hours.

Urges Senate Ratification Os Paris Pact U-. • £ Eisenhower Urges Prompt Action On Paris Agreements WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower urged the senate today to ratify the Paris pacts granting sovereignty to West Germany and inviting the Germans into NATO. The President told the senate that the pacts were of “very great importance” to the security of the United States “and to the cause of peace and freedom in the world as a whole." Mr. Eisenhower made no reference to the last-ditch Russian effort tosidetrac VW estern Europea n unity through a multi-nation conference on general European collective security. He said: "One of the principal specific consequences of the new arrangements will be the addition of a substantial increment of German resources to the Atlantic defense system. “At the sama time, t want to emphasize the fact that these agreements are founded upon the profound yearning for peace which is shared by al Ithe Atlantic peoples. - ■ . —■- “The agreements endanger no nation. “On the contrary, they represent one of history’s first great political experiments in the international control of armaments. "Moreover, their fundamental significance goes far beyond the combining of strength to deter aggression. Ultimately we hope that they will produce -a new understanding among the free peoples of Europe and a new spirit of friendship which will inspire greater cooperation in many fields of human activity." Specifically, Mr. Eisenhower askedthe senate to takejrompt action next January to ratify two 1 agreements. The first would grant virtual sovereignty to West Germany by ending the occupation controls now exercised by Britain, France and the U. S. The second would admit west Germany to NATO. Charles D. Snyder Dies At Fort Wayne Native Os Decatur Is Taken By Death Charles Dale Snyder. 51, a native of Decatur, was dead on arrival St. Joseph’s hospital. Fort Wayne, at 4 p.nt. Sunday after becoming ill at his home, 2509 New Haven Ave. in that city. Death was attributed to a blood clot. t"' Mr. Snyder moved to Fort Wayne about 30 years ago and was employed at Frank's department store until ill health forced his retirement last April. Mr. Snyder was a member of St. Andrew's Catholic church. Surviving are his wife, Euphdtnia; three daughters, Mrs. Dowenu Lapodot, Mrs. Helen Hood and Mrs. ’ Lois Manor, all of Fort Wayne; his mother, Mrs. Cora Snyder of Tam pa. Fla. ; a brother, Charles of Lake City, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Nola Loose of Syracuse. Mrs.-Elo.rqnce Schnltz of Decatur and Mrs. Lillian Hattendorf of Tampa, Fla., and three grandchildren. The body was removed to the Tom Mungovan funeral home, where frionds may cal laster 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ,f~INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 30-38. High Tuesday around 60.

Heavy Traffic Toll — Reported In State Toll Heavy Despite State Police Patrol INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Despite the presence of a state police phantom patrol riding in unmarked cars, a dozen Hoosiers were killed or injured in week-end highway accidents. Uniformed troopers from all posts put heavy emphasis Saturday on football routes, toured the state’s highways during the weekend but the fatality toll continued high. A one-car accident claimed two lives on a curve along Ind. 21 two miles south of Peru, late Sunday. Mrs. Vernice Godfroy, 50, and Paul W. Buck, 49, both of Peru, were killed when the car blew a tire and went out of control, slamming into a utility pole. Mrs. Godfroy was thrown 38 feet and killed. Buck, thrown 15 feet, died a short -time later in Dukes hospital at Peru. Eighteen-year-old Brook Risner, a soldier living near ißensselaer, was killed Sunday when his car left U. S. 41 three miles north of ' Kentland. The car overturned three times and threw him to the highway. James L. Britt. 22. also of Rensslaer, was injured seriously when he was thrown from Risner's car, but Richard Wood. 21, also from Rensselaer, w-alked away from the crash with minor cuts. Monie Gill, 47, of Fort Wayne, died early Sunday morning, in the Parkview memorial hospital. He suffered a broken neck afid concussion Saturday when he was thrown from his tractor trailer truck. It struck a bridge abutment on a country road two miles west of Fort Wayne. Gill’s truck also collided with a car driven by Rush Hotzberg, 30, of Fort Wayne, who suffered minor injuries in the crash. A Saturday night crash claimed the life of 30-year-old Paul Bonar. The Cromwell man was killed when he was thrown against a rock from his motorcycle off Ind. 5, a mile north of his Noble county home. i. An autopsy on the body of "rank Garfield Hettinger, of Fort Wtyne, disclosed death was due to injuries suffered when a Nickel Plate freight engine hit his car Saturday at a Fort Wayne crossing. The report showed the victim died of a ruptured liver although it did not entirely rule out the possibility he also may have suffered a heart attack. Four Meh Rescued From Ditched Plane Navy Patrol Plane Lost In Atlantic NORFOLK. Va. (INS) —The coast guard today rescued four of the five crewmen! aboard a navy patrol plane lost Sunday night off the North Carolina coast. <A spokesman for the fifth naval district in Norfolk said the four airmen were floating in a life raft five miles south of Buff Point, N. C., after 7 a. m. EST., by a coast guard plane. The spokesman said that the fifth member of the plane’s crew lost his life. The navy identified the survivors as: Lt. Robert Lawton, the pilot, of 1823 Edgewood Rd., Towson, Md.: Lt. Cmdr. George Sanford Smith, 134 Fairview Dr., Fairfax, Va.: Lt. Albert Winston Funkhouser, Edgewater Post Office, Md., and i airman apprentice dtjnitrius Georg-i iuc Sotiropoulos, 6600 Sth St. Washington, D. C. Listed as missing and presumed dead was seaman apprentice Richard Zigmund Garlenski of 1314 S Street, S. E., Washington. All evcept Funkhouser are naval reservists. Funkhouser is In the coast guard reserve. Two other flyers, who joined in the search for the downed patrol craft, are also feared lost. They (Contlnuad on Page Five)

Tommy Leonard Dies Os Burns In Shop Fire Lifelong Resident Os Decatur Dies Saturday Evening Florenz T. (Tommy) 45, died Saturday night in a fire which almost completely destroyed his auto body and fender shop at the corner of Second and Marshall streets. Leonard, who was discovered inside the shop, received bad burns about his face, neck and chest. Coroner Harmon Gillfg said that death resulted from pulmonary edema caused by inhaled fire and smoke. » Investigation as to the cause of the fire was being continued this morning by Cedric Fisher, fire chief. Fisher said the fire probably started in the paint room where an oil heater was placed. Fumes from paint might have been ignited by the flames in the burner. The fire alarm was turned in at 6:25 p.m. by Mrs. True Gephart, who lives -next door to the shop. Rhe said that Leonard had come to her house and asked her to call the fire department. Firemen were not aware that Leonard was inside the building until a short time later when it was discovered that Leonard was not around. Wilbur Reynolds, (Robert Railing, Floyd Hunter and Julius Baker applied artificial respiration and the fire department resuscitator was used but Lebnard did not respond to the treatment. By the time a physician arrived to administer a hypo to Leonard's heart, the man was dead. The body was taken to Gillig and Doan funeral home. It took firemen more than an hour to kill the blaze which raged through the small shop. Several small explosions of paint and lacquer cans made it difficult to fight the fire. Fire chief Fisher said the building was like a torch. The fire victim was a member of the Moose lodge, the American Legion, .the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. He belonged to St. Mary's Catholic church. % Born April 25, 1909, In Decatnr to Thomas and Frances Leonard, he had lived most of bis life In this community. He served four years In the IT, S. army with the 29th infantry division and was stationed overseas from “D” Day until his discharge In 1945. He is survived by his wife, Doris; his mother; a son, 1 James T. Leonard; four stepsons and one stepdaughter; two brothers, Charles of Decatur and Raymond of Elwood. and three sisters, Mrs. Gerald Gage of Decatur, Mrs. Edward Ehinger of Portland and Mrs. Dale Myers of Memphis, Tenn. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.tn. in the funeral chapel of Gillig and Doan funeral home. The Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph J. Selmetz, pastor of St. Mary's church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. ... The body la at Gillig and Doan funeral home, where friends may < all after 3 p.m. today. The rosary will be recited Tuesday at 8 p.m. Grandson Os Local Lady Dies Saturday Car) Ohniar Cook. Jr„ 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cook of near Claypool, died Saturday night at the Warsaw memorial hospital after an illness of two weeks. Surviving in addition to the parents are three sisters, Emille. Elizabeth and Avonelle, all at home; and the grandmothers, Mrs. Emallne Beihold of Decatur and Mrs. Ohtnar Cook of Warsaw. The body waa removed to the BllbyMcllatten funeral home In Warsaw.

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