Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1956 — Page 8

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Drake Captured By New Orleans Police Robber Os Southport Bonk Under Arrest NEW ORLEANS. la. (UP)—W Rudolph Drake, 32. Indianapolis, charged with kidnap and robbery in Indiana, was arrested Monday with $17,000 on him six weeks after he pulled the second largest bank holdup in Hoosier history. Drake was sought since June 12, the day he kidnaped the Southport, Ind., State Bank president and fled with $66,542. PoJice eaid Drake admitted the holdup. At Indianapolis, federal officials moved to have Drake returned to Indiana for prosecution Leonard Blaylock, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, eaid at Indianapolis that Drake was captured at New Orleans by chance. New Orleans police investigated a auspicious man who called himself “Bob Murphy" and found him loaded with cash. Blaylock said police had no idea at first that "Murphy” was the slippery ex-convict who once escaped San Quentin, Calif., prison and left authorities against a blank wall when they sought him for the Southport holdup and another at Carmel, Ind., last Sept. 22. When Drake vanished on the day of the holdup, he left, behind his attractive blonde wife, Pauline 23. about $22,000 of the Southport loot and a bright-hued two-toned automobile which he used to "case" the bank. The license plate number on the ear led to his identification as the bandit. Mrs. Drake was sentenced to a 10-year-old prison term last week at Indianapolis on a guilty plea to conspiring to rob the Carmel bank and possessing money stolen in the Southport robbery. Two accomplices in the Carmel kidnaprobbery also were sentenced. As in the Indiana holdups, a woman figured in the New Orleans arrest. Drake was arrested in an apartment he shared with a pretty mother of two children, identified as Violet Yvonne Hunt Adams Murphy of Bogalusa. La. Police surrounded the apartment house in the city's Gentilly section.

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Drake was in New Orleans the last four weeks, police said. "Positive Identification of the New Orleans man as Drake was announced by the FBI after a fingerprint check. .Agents said Drake readily admitted his identity and said he was wanted in Indiana. The FBI Boated a-comparatively rare nationwide ‘Tlyer" June 20 In its search for Drake when a preliminary hunt failed'to unearth tangible clues of bis whereabouts. The Carmel and Southport banks were robbed in identical fashion. The bandit entered the homes of bank officers in the early morning hours and forced the occupants to accompany him to tlge bank. There they waited, the victims held at gunpoint, until the time mechanism opened the vkluts. At Southport, the victims were Mr. and Mrs. John F. Whalen. Eventually, the bandit held the Whalens and 11 other bank employes aud customers as hostages while watting for the valut to open. TV Will Educate Viewers About Law Film New Series On Actual Trials HOLLYWOOD (UP) -r- For two years television educated viewers with diseases oiWMedie" and this year the home audience, thanks to actor Joseph Cotten and producer Collier Young, will get boned up on law. NBC has sent “Medic" to the showers temporarily, so this fall a new filmed series on the network will dissect the law business. "On Trial" each week will dramatize area law case—from such historical trials aa that of the first woman to be hanged in this country to modern day may- , hem and murder. This “Meditf' —with —a—brief— i case will star Cotten in 10 of the 30 episodes and he will introduce each story. The veteran actor and producer Young are partners in the TV production firm, as they also are in a motion picture Cotten now is doing. “The Halliday Brand." “We made a trial episode for an anthology series last year," Cotten said. “It had a good reception so we decided to do an entire series. The show js based on trials taken from actual court records.” Cotten will not always play a lawyer in the stories because he does no<> want to be typed with one character, as actor Richard Boone wgs in "Medic.” In one episode Cotten plays a doctor who poisons his wife. In another he will portray a crooked lawyer, in another a judge. Young and his writers have been digging into the files of the Los Angeles county law library for ‘ material. ~ The yarns aren't selected only for melodrama. Each case "has some significance in the field of law or some effect upon humanity,” Cotten said. Network censors trembled with each "tyedic” script. Young promises the “Oh Trial” show that debuts Sept 7 will puM no punches, either. . - If y;u have something , sen n rooms tor rent. tiy a Demoend Want Ad. It brings results.

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ORVILLE E. HODGE, resigned Illinois state auditor, and his 77-year-old attorney, Arthur M. Fitzgerald (right foreground), are shown signing a. SIOO,OOO bond in Springfield, 111., after Hodge pleaded not guilty to 46 indictments charging he embezzled some $650,000 in state funds. (International Saundphotoj

Says Liner Sought To Avoid Collision | Says Andrea Doria Veered To The Left NEW YORK (UP) — A report of the Andrea Doria’s futile attempt® to avoir’, a collision indicated today that the Italian luxury liner may have veered across the path of the onrushing Stockholm. A spokesman for the Italian line said Monday night the sunken Andrea Doria was tracking the Swed-ish-American vessel on its radar scope just before the two ships collided last Wednesday night. “The Doria veered left and the Stockholm didn't pay any attention,” Hugh A. Gigante, public relation® official for the line told the United Presc. The report was one of the first detail? to bo learned of the situa-

tion on the bridge of either vessel prior to the collision which sank the Italian ship off Nantucket Island in the Atlantic. Gigant« said he could not confirm as a fact a report that the Andrea Doria sounded two warning blasts on its whistle just before the collision. Under international rules of the sea a vessel turning left sounds two blasts. But rules first call for two vessels approaching toward each other to veer to the starboard (right). “ The coast guard said that an oncoming vessel, intending to turn to the left signals twice on its whistle end then awaits an answering double blast from the approaching ship. Tn an emergency, the coast guard said, the vessel turning to the left continues to sound two whistle blasts as it turns. The Italian line said today 29 persons who wore aboard the Andrea Doria still were unaccounted j

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' for. All were tourist class passengers traveling In the lower section of the ship. The Italian Line said it had re- | covered two bodies and 18 other Andrea Doria passengers were missing and presumed dead. No Andrea Doria crew members were lost but five Stockholm crewmen were killed. A home merchant marine subcommittee, headed by Rep. Herbert C. Bonner (D-N. C.) comes to New York Wednesday to launch an investigation into the disaster. Marion Minister Is Stricken By Polio iMARION, Ind. (UP) — A Marion minister was ill today of an lllties’s' diagnosed as polio. The Rev. Ray Martin. Jr.. SI. of the Pilgrim Holiness church was taken from Marion general hospital to Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis Monday. Rev. Mgtin is the father- of three children ranging in age frpm

STASSEN GIVES ' (Conttaned from Page Owe) Thursday. He sought the “temporary” leave to have a free hand iu pressing bis anti-Nixon drive until the Republican convention in San Francisco is over. Although Stassen said he expected to return to ,his job after the convention, some highly placed White House associates believed — and frankly hoped — that he was leaving the administration team for good. These men, some of them close to President Eisenhower, said that even if StasSen is readmitted to his disarmament job, steps will be taken to reduce his promininfluence and authority iu the administration. Stassen had an appointment with Mr. Eisenhower this afternoon. but the White House emphasized that It was on details of his disarmament job, and was not j concerned with politics.

Three Persons Killed In Three-Car Crash Three Autos Figure In Crash Last Night MISHAWAKA. Ind., (UP) Three persons were killed Monday night when three automobiles collided in Ind. 331 about 3>4 mlleif south of Mishawaka. - . The dead were Identified as T.awrence M Guy. 20, R,R. 4, Phillip J. Longenecker, 20. It. R. 2, Leesburg, and Earl M. Steward. 55, a dishwasher at Norman BeatCy memoria’ hospital at Westville. Guy. one of two men riding in one of the throe cars, was killed outright Steward died half an hour after admission to St Joseph;hospital here, and Longenecker died 3Mi hou'-s after the accident. Authorities said Guy and Longenecker were in one car, Steward in anothor, and Hiram A. Baker. 14, Chicago, in a third automobile. Baker, a representative of the claims department of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. home office, told police Steward's car was weaving from one side of the highway to the other a moment before the collision.

Baker said he blinked his lights to warn Guy and Ixmgenecker who were fpllowing Baker and headed in the direction opposite from that Steward was traveling. But Steward sideswiped Baker's car and plowed head-on Into the third car. The three deaths raised to 27 the 1955 traffic death toll in St. Joseph county, which a year ago this time had recorded only 10 fatalities. Trade in a Good Town — Decattti If you hare something to sen or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings resa'ts.

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dfIHR jiflK.;.. •-" MMI. KHRUSHCHEV, daughter of Soviet Party boss Nikita Khrushchev, proved to be a shy tourist on her visit to Athens, Greece. She was recognized while taking in the sights with a party of Russian visitors. When she realized what had happened she tried to hide her face. It was too late. The photographer had steady mandge» get this revealing picture of hW. ffetemritionef ?.Tcl»rsi»’ < ’'

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BRITISH ORDER — tC-oaiintwl from l*aae Oaf I to all bhipa. informed sources said such a declaration had been framed by the Big Three representatives who have met in London for the last three days. . Reports from Cairo said tbat Egypt would reject British moves to establish an international board to control the Suez Canal. The "ceftain naval moves" on Britain’s part were interpreted by observers to mean that Washington had given the goahead tp a firm line of action aghinst Egypt In the Suez situation. The admiralty announcement came less than an hour before the resumption of the Big Three rep-

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resentativea’ talks. Informed sources said these talks on strategy probably could not be completed by tonight, as originally planned. However, French foreign minister Christian Pineau flew back to London from an overnight trip to Paris for a conference with his own government and promised that France would "do everything” to. avoid exclusive EgyP J tian control of the canal. ASSERTSNAVY READY <C<l tln»»4 From Paas <>■** ing forc°o are one of the most efficient allocations of the national resources yet devised for use in warfare.” .. Trade in a Good Town — D*c» ur.. I