Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1955 — Page 8

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Freed Missionaries | Fly To Philippines Both Missionaries, Are In Poor Health HOMO KONG (INS) --American missionaries Dr. and Mrs. Homer ILadshaw. released in poor health Tuesday by the Chinese Reds, were flown to the Philippines today in an V. S. Air Pore? ambulance pl pane. [ The Bradshaws were accompanied by the senior American Red Cross official in Hong Kong and by a woman member of the British Red Cross. The American, Richard Tomlin, said the couple would be given a complpete medical survey at the Clark Field hospital neaf^Manila. The decision will be made there EEGGE Tonight & Thursday • 0 OUR BIG DAYS! | First Show Tonite at 7 I /Continuous Thur, from 1:30 d BE SURE TO ATTEND! ! • , 0 Decatur Voted Thia Great Picture the BEST of the Year! Don’t Miss It! “BLACKBOARD JUNGLE” With GLENN FORD, Anne Francis, Margaret Hayes ALSO — Shorts 15c -50 c —o Fri. & Sat—Zane Grey Hit "Robber's Roost"—ln Color —o—u & Mon.—“ Desperate Hours” Story of an Indianapolis Family— Humphrey Bogart, Fredrlc March. —o— For A Joyous Christmas Give “Happiness Books” Good for Theater Admissions!

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whether they are fit to continue j their Journey to Pittsburgh, where I Mr. Bradshaw's brother resides. Dr. Bradshaw is the brother-in-law of Ohio Wesleyan Associate professor A. S. Bradshaw. Two other brothers are Charles D., of Akron, 0.. and James H., of Pittsburgh. 1 Both the Bradshaws were found suffering from severe malnutrition. Bradshaw was weak, but his wife, Wilda, weighed only 80 pounds. Dr. Bradshaw said the Communist mistreatment of his wife had left her “not normal mentally.” He said she was suffering from extreme fear and depression. Dr. Bradshaw is 54 and his wife about the same age. but both looked years older when they crossed the border into Hong Kong Tuesday. Mrs. Bradshaw’s hiar is completely white. Both native Pennsylvanians, the Bradshaws spent 27 years in China under the auspices of the Presbyterian church. Cardinal Spellman Visits In Tokyo Enroute To Korea For Christmas Mass TOKYO (INS) —Francis Cardinal Spellman visited with U. N. Far East Commander Gen. L L Lemnitzer and U. S. Ambassador John Allison today in Tokyo. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York stopped to chat with several enlisted men in Lemnitzer’s headquarters and posed for photographers before a decorated Christmas tree. The cardinal is in Tokyo to spend his fifth straight Christmas with troops in the Far East. He flies to Korea on Christmas eve to celebrate mass. This afternoon he is scheduled to lay the cornerstone of Tokyo’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral which has the same name as his home church in New York. Trade In a wood Tc-vn — Decatut

Strike Threatened On Greyhound Buses Union Is Demanding Driver Reinstated CHARLESTON. W. Va.. (INS)— A strike by some 725 drivers of the Atlantic Greyhound Corporation appeared imminent today. A walkout would tie up Greyhound bus operations in 10 eastern and southern stale's. The union is demanding the reinstatement of a driver. Alvin Craig, who figured in an accident last Sunday in which eight persons were injured. The union insists that Craig l —an official of the AFL Motor Coach Employee—be reinstated with retroactive pay. The dispute also involves payment of a bonus. Drivers struck for 84 days last year when other Atlantic Greyhound employes were given a bonus and they weren't. The union said that the action technically would not be a walkout. A meeting is scheduled for today and indications are that the drivers might continue the “meeting” indefinitely. Irvin Convicted On Murder Charge Jury Recommends Penalty Os Death PRINCETON. Ind. (INS) —Leslie Irvin, w'ho admitted the execution murders of five persons, faces today the death penalty for the slaying of a sixth, a filling station opeartor. A Jury deliberated only one hour and 35 minutes Tuesday night before finding the 31-year-old killer guilty of murdering Wesley Kerr, Evansville, lnd„ filling station proprietor, last Dec. 23. It recommended the death penalty, and Judge A. Dale Eby said he would set the execution date after the holidays. ' Kerr was found shot to death in i the station’s rest room. He had been shot In the head. His hands were bound and he apparently was killed in a kneeling position. Irvin has admitted the slaying of an Evansville woman, a Poser county, Ind., farm wife and there member sos a Henderson, Ky„ farm family. They also were shot in the back, apparently in a kneeling position. Irvin received the news with a face of stone but his mother, Mfs. Alice Irvin, of Evansville, sobbed. Defense attorney Theodore Lockyear said Irvin wjll appeal his conviction to the Indiana supreme court, but Judge A. Dale Eby said: “This man has had a fair trial.” The Judge praised the Jury for J great patience in the trial which ' I had dragged on since Nov. 14, with ! most of the time taken In jury ; selection. i Sherit Earl Hollen and six depi uties ranged themselves across the i front and sides of the courtroom, I [ two with drawn revolvers, just bei fore the court clerk read the jury’s ! verdict. Then the steamfitter de--1 fendant was rushed back to the ! county jail under heavy guard. Man Drowned While Placing Warning Sign CORYDON, Ind. (INS) —Walter H. Moreland, of Metropolis, 81., was drowned Tuesday while placing a warning sign for boats on an Ohio River dam south of Laconia. Moreland, an employee of the United States corps of engineers, and fellow-worker Homer Saltsgaver, 42, of Elizabeth, Ind., were in an aluminum outboard motorboat when went out of control and I was swept over the dam falls. Man Burned Fatally By Stove Explosion NEW CASTLE, Ind. (INS) — Burns suffered when a stove exploded in his home at Lewisville claimed the life of 72-year-old William Wyraman, Tuesday. Wyraman, who lived alone, was burned Saturday. Two-Year-Old Not Interested In Santa NASHVILLE, Tenn. (INS) — Two-year-old Michael Bohan was asked by a department store Santa Claus on whose knee he was perched what he wanted for Christmas. His reply: “I want down.” , A ADULT FARMERS (Continued From Page One) era specialize?” and “Problems in feeding hogs.” Further information on the course may be obtained by contacting any of the following farmers who are members of the voca-tional-agriculture advisory council: Ben Gerke, Oscar Fuelling, Lawrence Beckmeyer, Wilbur Selking, Dewey Plumley, Edgar Thieme or Eugene Helman, or call the vo-ag teacher at the high school Trade in a Good Town — Decatw

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Jr' JP - Tp I Ji H’S FRIENDLY SMILES all around as President and Mrs. Eisenhower greet Uruguay’s President Luis Battle Berres and his wife at the White House for tea. It was,President Eisenhower’s first official social function since his heart attack. Later Uruguay president said Ike impressed him as a good family man. (International) • - S’ « T O OsLje * ■ ' THIS DUTCH family, the De Ruyters, whose entrance into the U. S. is sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, is shown on liner Maasdam in New York harbor. The family is en route to Buffato; 'Nr'Y., to live. From left: Bertie, 12; Mrs. Francine de Ruyters, holding Franklin Delano Roosevelt de Ruyters; father, Dirk; Jacob, 3, Viktor, 2. (fnterHcßwHal SoundphotoJ 1 — .4 * i. ■■ S Ml 1 THE FORMER Dorothy Warren, 24, gets kissed from two puckered fronts at once, by her father, the Chief Justice of the United States, and her bridegroom, Dr. Carmine D. Clemente, 27, UCLA anatomy professor. The wedding was in Palos Verdes, Calif, near Los Angeles. (international Sonndphoto) M. *• ? ': r,t fnki.oßßß r’SjZt, • •- EHH A- -vtwls J- . i. - J » -> HERE IS A PHOTO of one of the two earth satellite models made by Popular Science Monthly, which are on display in Chicago’s Museum o£ Science and Industry and New York’s Planetarium. They simulate the one being built by U. S. scientists for launching during the International Geophysical year. (International)

Man Indicted For False Tax Return Indianapolis Man Is Freed On Bond INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A 49-year-old Indianapolis man today faced charges of listing a dead grandmother and two non-existent daughters on his income tax return. Harry K. Wilkerson, Sr., is free under $2,000 bond following his arrest Tuesday at work. He was indicted Hist week by a federal grand jury on charges of filing a false return In 1952. He is accused of listing as a 1952 dependent a grandmother, Mrs. Mary S. Etherton. who died in He also listed two fictitious daughters, Alma and Dorathea Wilkerson. The following year he listed three non-existent daughters, Alma. Aleatha and Nora Wilkerson, in addition to the grandmother. Officials said Wilkerson actually has three children, a son and two daughters, but all are married and cannot be claimed is exemptions. : Westinghouse Loans Over 400 Thousand , Loans Os SIOO To Striking Workers PITTSBURGH (INS) — More than 4200 strikers at Westinghouse Electric’s east Pittsburgh works have borrowed $421,800 from the company in the form of SIOO loans. Some 8000 other strikers and furloughed employes may draw their loans atthe plant today and Thursday. A company spokesman says that the company has given out. a total of $835,500 to some 44,000 strikers represented by the CIO-AFL International Union of Electrical Workers and about 10,000 members of the unaffiliated United Electrical Workers. The U. S. attorney general. Incidentally. has asked the subversive activities control board to the UE as Communist I dominated. The move was seen as an attempt to eliminate the top leadership of the UE which once represented some 600,000 workers in the electrical industry. UE now has about 100.000 members. In addition to its loan scheme, Westinghouse has offered to pay strikers tor 1955 vacation time due them during the week beginning Dec. 26. The IUE has been on strike for a wage increase at 29 plants while the UE has shut down 10 plants for the same reason. High grade optical glass is 90 percent transparent. Dutch settlers worked New Jersey copper mines in 1660. Length of the U.S.-Mexican boundary is 2,013 miles.

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