Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1955 — Page 2

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Press Aids Seizure 01 Top Criminals Aid In Capture Os Most Wanted Men By JAMES LEE WASHINGTON (INS) —Today tngrks the fifth aluiiversary of a project, which has proved a remarkable successful weapon in the war against crime. On March H, l»50. International News Service began its continuing series of stories and pictures spotlighting the desperate criminals listed by the FBI as the nation's “ten most wanud” fvgUives. Four days ia'er, an event occurred whiph was to keynote the excellent results of rhe program. William 'R. Nesbit, an escaped murderer, was captured at St. Paul, Minn., after two young boys recognised him from the INS picture and the story which had appeared in the St.' Paul Dispatch. Since that time, no leas than 76 of the fugitives who have'appeared on the “top ten” roster have been brought to justice. The INS program was inspiration for similar widespread publicity offered ,by other media-peel’s, radio, television and magazines. FBI Director J. Edgar HooiSer said today, in an anniversary statement: “This cooperative enterprise on the part of the FBI, the nation's press and other public information media has proved of exceptional value in combatting one of law enforcement’s most perplexing problems-. the fast-movilig, far-rang-ing criminal fugitive. “Os the 76 fugitives brought to justices so far, 33 were located as a direct result of information provided by alert, law-abiding citizens. “These successes resulted from data concerning the fugitives appearing in newspapers, magazines, on television and radio programs and the ‘wanted’ posters concerning these fugitives which are distributed nationally ty the FBI.” Hoover, citing examples of the

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effectiveness of the program, referred particularly to five especially dangerous fugitives apprehended through materia] originating with INS. Besides Nesbit, they were: Thomas J. Holden, triple murder suspect, arrested by FBI agents at Beaverton. Ore., June £3, 195 J, after a citizen had recognized his picture and description in the Portland Oregonian. Joseph J. Brletlc, notorious gunman, apprehended after a citizen read the INS story about him and scrutinized his picture in the Feb. JJ. 1f»53, issue" of the Log Angeles Evening Herald and Express. Chester Davenport, bandit, apprehended Jan. 7. 1«54. after a citizen recognized him from INS material which appeared in tha Vallejo Calif. News-Chronicle. Anthony Btancato, a desperado who surrendered to the RBI In Sau Francisco on June 29. 185-1. after he saw the INS story announcing his addition to the “top ten.’-’ V Material appearing in newspapers has accounted fqr 13 of the fugitives, the "wanted” posters for 12, magazines for five, radio and two. television for one. and harddigging detective work by the FBI and local police officials for the others. The undoing of many of the criminals apprehended has been the presence of tattoos, including names and nicknames of girl friends, such slogans as "union and liberty,” "death before dis? honor,” "in memory of mother,” and ‘•needlework” pictures of animals like a black cat, or reptiles, like a coiled snake. Beginning Tuesday. INS will present up-to-date stories on the fugitives enrolled on the current “ten most wanted" list. The ten are: Henry Randolph Mitchell, bank robber; Frederick J. Tenuto, escaped murderer; James Eddie Diggs, escaped murderer; Charles Falzone, banditkidnaper; Clarence Daniel Keegan, murderer; Palmer" Julius Morset, bandit; Flenoy Payne, murderer; Patrick Eugene McDermott, escaped murderer, and Garland William Daniels, forger. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Farm Bureau Co-op Meeting Tuesday The annual meeting of the Ad* ams county Farm Bureau co-op will be held at the Adame Central gym Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, Forest Tucker, manager, ,has announced. * Entertainment will feature colored slides, door prizes, Zurcher’s accordion band and free refreshments. Highlights of the annual report will also be presented. Nominates Slave For Hall Os Fame Recommends Indian Girl's Nomination HOLLYWOOD (INS) —,A slave who once was traded for three ponies and a white buffalo skin has been nominated to the hall of fame by movie actress Donna Reed. She is Sacajawea, the Shoshone Indian girl without whose help the Lewis and Clark expedition might have met with failure 150 years ago. "1 became interested iu Sacajawea," Donna said, “when Penny Jane (the actress' 8 - year • old daughter) joined the Brownies. A long time ago, the Girl Scouts chose the Indian woman as their inspirational heroine. "Then I became even more interested when I found 1 had been selected to play Sacajawea in a movie, ’The Far Horizons.’ I read everything I could find about her and finally decided that someone as courageous as this Indian girl should be in the hall of fame.” Sacajawea whose life story reads like a fairy tale, was the daughter of an Indian chieftain, but was captured by the Minnetarees and enslaved. Later she was sold to a French trader, who. in turn, was hired by Lewis and Clark. But it was Sacajawea, rather than the trader who proved the most valuable addition to the expedition. When Clark became ill, it was the Indian maid who cured him with herbs. She sewed buckskiu shirts and moccasins for the men and coached them iu how to deal with unfriendly tribes helping to make Lewis and Clark two of the most successful explorers in American history. Again, it was Sacajawea who found enough horses to carry the expedition across the Rocky Moun tains and was its sole guide from the Jefferson to the Yellow River “This is really Sacajawea's yens’*7 Dbtiw said. A lt’« Lewis and Clark’s sesquicentennial and she should be named this year.” The plucky Indian girl, who lived to the ripe old age of 96. has been nominated twice before to the hall of fame. She was in the final balloting in 1935 and again in 1945, but failed to win enough electoral votes to put her in this shrine for great Americans at New York University. Only other Indian woman to be nominated to the nation's highest niche of honor was Pocahontas, but she too, failed to make the grade. To date, only eight women (including Martha Washington 1 have been named to the hall of fame during its 55-year history. DISARMAMENT (Continued from Pax» One) "We support a dependable ban on all weapons—nuclear and other wise — except in defense against aggression. "We still hope that the Soviet Union will work with us along this line .now, as the late Mr. Vtshinsky lid last Sall, but it is a hard road.” TRAFFIC TOLL (Continued from Page One) had just returned from . church and was turning her cgr around so it would he on the right side of the street. .. Oscar E. Ooley, 40. oU Martins ville, was killed Saturday night when his pickup truck was struck by a heavier truck along a narrow Monroe county road. Daniel W. Green. 68, of Jasper county home, was killed when he was struck by a car on Ind. 114 near Rennselaer. Two men were killed early today in a fiery truck crash on U.S, 20 in Elkhart county. Dead .is John Tranoswki, 30. of Youngstown, 0.. and an unidentified male passenger. CITESREASONS (Continued from Page One) .Under questioning by Capehart. Martin ‘ supplied the committee with • a set of figures comparing stock market activity last’month with conditions in 1929. . ’ ■ included that, the (j&. alii xiiyf ._ ♦ Jia -w-nv--• ttx/VD ’ tl xSX TrUt •xxvtlVtßoAT • vlitj.rv to tally* thing particularly wrong ” with the don’t agree with that conclusion. The fact’s speak for themselves ” Martin, onetime "boy wonder” of Wall street, testified that stock prices have risen 17 percent since September, 1929. while wholesale prices are up 77 percent and consumer prices have advanced 56 percent

Three Convictions Reversed By Court One Draft-Evasion Conviction Upheld WASHINGTON (INS) —The supreme court today reversed the draft-evasion convictions of three members of Jehovah’s Witnesses but upheld the conviction of a fuorth follower of the religious seek Upheld by the high bench was the three-year, draft-dodger sentence of Phillip A. Witmer, 25, oi Reading, Pa. The court pointed out that Wit mer first had claimed to be a farmer - on land not worked foi 23 years - and later made his claim as a Jehovah's Witness minister. In overthrowing the three othei convictions, each by a g to 2 vote, the supreme court held that the men should have been classed at conscientious objectors. New GMC Trucks On Display Here Soon New GMC “Blue Chip” trucks embodying the greatest numbei of styling and engineering im provements in the history of GMC truck and coach division will make their debut locally in ths next few days. First of the 1955 units to grace the showrooms of Butler's garage will be the completely restyled light-duty models. These smart ly designed vehicles combi us sleek passenger car styling witt functional ruggedness. The shipments wiH be followed by other models in GMC’s family of light, medium and heavy-duty trucks. More than 100 new 1955 basic models, the largest numbei in the division's history, are be ing introduced by GMC. South Vietnam Leader Escapes In Bombing SAIGON (INS) -Gov. Tran Van Lam of South Vietnam narrowly escaped death today when a hand grenade was thrown into bis automobile. .......... Police at Saigon said the governor’s car was baited in a traffic block en route to the Tran Van lam’s office. The grenade exploded and ripped the car’s body just after the governor and his bodyguard leaped from the car. Grain Storage Space Still Short In U. S. WASHINGTON (INS) —Conclusive proof is at hand that grain storage space is still very stort in some areas despite an enormous expension of commercial storage in recent years. The revelation came in an agriculture depart - ment announcement that it will fleet for the emergency storage of about 24 million bushels of grain. Farm Economics School Wednesday A farm economics schdol on “Horse Sense in the Hog Lot” will be presented by the Adams county extension office at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Coop administration building in Monroe. A. M. Niehter of the Purdue University extension economics staff will lead the discussion. Included in the program will be consideration of the Importance of bogs in Indiana farm income, the place of hogs in the farm organization; comparison of hogs with -other livestock enterprises in regard to feed, labor, equipment, and cost of production. Also on tap are discussions of seasin and cycle variations in hog prices; seasonal price factors in hog feeds; systems of hog production, including one litter systems, and multi-litter systems and the meat-type hog marketing program as recently developed along with current hog outlook. The meeting will be open to the public, according to Leo N. Seltenright, county agent, IKE REPORTS <Continued from Paste One) all European defenses and said U. S. plans include “preparation for a bilateral assistance agree ment with West Germany and the establishment of a United States military assistance advisory group in the country.” Mr. Eisenhower said the NATO partners in Europe spent It toil iiou dollars on military prepared ness last year and will spend about the same amount this year.. He pointed out this is ‘more than twice the amount spent for de sense before the Korean conflict.’ In Asia cumulative arms ship metita’ through 1964 - reaebed s tht total value of one billion. 900’mil dollars. In during the fiscal jTar sending in June, ano ther 555 million dollars is earmark ed for mutual security programs other than military aid and di rect support of military forces. If you have something to sell o> rooms for rent, try a Demoerai Want Ad It brings results.

50,000 Phone Workers Strike In Nine States Southern Bell Is Struck In Nine Southern States ATLANTA (INS) — Fifty thousand telephone workers in nine southern states struck today after their contract with Southern Bell Telephone Co. expired. Dial service was not affected, and company officials said arrangements were made to have supervisory personnel continue long distance and local manual service with a minimum of delays. First to leave their jobs were workers in Atlanta and Columbia, Tenn., who jumped the gun, walking out in advance of the designated hour. Negotiations continued as the strike began, but neither side was giving ground on the chief stumbling block to agreement — the company’s demand for a “no strike” clause. The “po strike” clause would bar walkouts during the life of the contract. The company said this would halt “quickie” walkouts, and said there were 105 of those between mid-1951 and mid-1954. Last week Southern Beil offered a six million dollar annual wage increase which company spokesmen said would mean a pay boost for nine out of 10 employes at once. At the same time, the company offered to broaden the base of arbitration. The offers , were contingent, however, on union acceptance of the “no strike’ 'clause. The union, on the other hand, asked to put the dispute to arbitration, but the company rejected that idea. ' Southern Beil provides telephone service in Alabama; Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, serving more than 4%-million telephones. Atlanta is headquarters for the company.

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Northern Indiana Plans Expansion Northern Indiana Public Service company will spend 354,000000 for expansion and modernisation of facilities during the next two years, Dean H. Mitchell president of the company, told shareholders today in the utility’s annual report to stockholders. Mitchell said the huge expansion program is designed to meet the growing demand for gas and electric service in northern Indiana. He noted that since 1950, the population In that area had increased about 7Mi percent and said that a 1964 estimate Indicated there were more than 1,275,000 people living in the territory served by the company. The report also disclosed the company’s net Income was |lO,199,028 in 1964 Earnings during the period equaled 38.45 a share on the-3,602,867 common shares outstanding. The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gifts ft Greetings from Friendly Business Neighbors and Your Civic and Soctsl Welfare Lerders On tht eccttion e/r The Birth of • Baby Sixteenth Birthdays EngagementAnnouncetnenta Change of residence Arrivals of Newcomers to City Phone 3-3196 or 3-3479