Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1956 — Page 6

Doctor Arrested As 'Cal Burglar' Former Hoosier Is Held In California BELMONT, Calif. (UP)—A $15.-000-a-year doctor arrested as the “cat burglar” of this suburban community said today he "became unglued" because of overwork. Dr. John Francis Riordan, 35, formerly of Hammond, Ind., and anesthetist at San Mateo's Community Hospital, was arrested Tuesday as he stepped out of S'rgery. Police gave no details of .-t'e burglary with which he was charged. However, Riordan admitted he had entered one home in his neighborhood, jimmying a rear door with a metal rod. After he got inside, he said, he heard the radio playing, realized someone was at home and fled. Belmont police refused to say if they believe Riordan is the prowler who has entered a dozen or more Belmont homes in recent mofiths. Some articles disappeared after the prowler’s visits. Tiordan himself announced his X " est ”aT ah extraordinary press cc. Terence Wednesday. Present were San Mateo County author-

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1 ities and Dr. Harold Chope, San Mateo County health director and Riordan’s superior. Riordan is married and the father of a seven-year-old daughter. After discussing at some length an “obsessive compulsion neurosis,” Riordan astonished newsmen by disclosing he had been arrested as a burglary suspect. “I feel very bad,” he said. “I’m now seeking psychiatric treatment. Police Sgt. Don Harrington explained the term “cat burglar” is police language for one who enters a house after sundown while residents may be in the home. Harrington said in some of the entries,, nothing was taken, but in other burglaries money and objects ' of small value were stolen. Riordan was released to the custody of Dr. Harold D. Chope, San Mateo County health director, for whom the suspect worked. "I’ve been working the life out of the guy,” said Dr. Chope. "For two years he’s done a wonderful job . . . He had-this compulsion, whatever it is, since childhood. Lately he’s been too fatigued to fight back. He's sick as hell. He’s had a lot of mental trouble.” Dr. Riordan formerly worked as an anesthetist at Ft. Miley Veterans Hospital and had practiced in Hammond before coming to California. Police said he had no previous record. I

Negotiations Fail In Railway Dispute May Ask President For Intervention CHICAGO (UP) The National Mediation Board has indicated it may seek presidential intervention in a dispute between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and 140 carriers. Negotiations collapsed Wednesday when the brotherhood rejected a contract and wage offer by the nation’s railroads and refused to arbitrate the dispute. Spokesmen said the mediation board is expected to inform President Eisenhower that an emergency exists in an effort to avert a possible strike. However, Vernon W. Satterwhite, assistant to BRT President William P» Kennedy, said no strike vote has been taken as yet. Union negotiators, representing 135,000 operating trainmen, turned down an offer of a 26%-cent hourly pay boost over a three-year period. The union said it rejected the offer because the railroads failed to include clauses reducing the hours of dining car stewards and boosting the number- of paid holijdays to seven.

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The union had demanded a $3- i a-day pay increase for dining car | stewards, yardmasters, yard and roads service workers and other , smaller groups. The union also sought an extra $2.50 per day for 1 employes on short turn-around service. Under the Railway Labor Act, President Eisenhower could declare an emergency and appoint a fact-finding board to investigate the dispute. Die act also provides for a dejuay of 60 days or longer on ' any strike action. < Four Are Fined For Traffic Violations . Four persons appeared ip justice of the peace Floyd Hunter’s court Wednesday. Richard Denton, 33, a Dayton, Tenn., truck driver, was arrested for speeding on U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur at Coppess Corner and was fined $1 and costs. Victor K. Hoffman, 37, of Celina, 0., route four, charged with speeding on Mercer avenue Wednesday, was also fined $1 and costs. Raymond Mertz, of route five, charged with failure to yield the right of way following an accident last Friday, was fined $1 and costs. Lois Faurote of Decatur rou,te four, was also fined $1 and costs on a charge of operating a vehicle without a valid license.

Deep Freeze Chills State Os Indiana May Hit 8 Above By Friday Morning By UNITED PRESS A deep ‘freeze chilled Indiana today and the Weatherman said temperatures might tumble as low as 8 above by Friday morning. ■ Forecasters said colder- temperatures would be the rule today and tonight throughout Hoosierland. They said most of the state would get sub-freezing temperatures even during the "warmest” part of the day. Temperatures no higher than 22 were forecast today In the north. 29 at mid-state, and 35 in southern Indiana. The mercury will plunge to 8 degrees overnight in the north and 23 downstate, weathermen said. Evansville, with 49 degrees, was one of the state’s warmest spots Wednesday. Indianapolis got 45, Fort Wayne and Lafayette 33, and South Bend 30. The mercury dipped early today to 14 at South Bend and 30 at Evansville. * | . A few more snow flurries—in extreme northern Indiana only—were due today and tonight. Friday’s highs were predicted as 28 north to 35 south. Two Cars Damaged In Minor Collision Two cars were damaged in a minor collision Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of Monroe and Third streets. A car driven ' by Paul Conrad, 48, of Decatur, pulled away from the curb and hit a car driven by Jay D. Markley, 29, of Decatur. Damage was estimated at $25 to each vehicle. A parking meter on Monroe street was damaged Wednesday at 7:35 p.m. when it was struck by a car driven by Herman Strahm of Craigviile. Two Are Charged On Narcotics Possession ; SOUTH BEND (W — Two South i Bend men were charged Wednesday with unlawful possession of 1 narcotics for not paying federal j tax. They were Henry R. Joyce, 45, > and Dewey Epps, 37, held in St. i Joseph County jail on SI,OOO bonds. Lee G. Campbell, 30, Chicago, ' was released without charge after ' police did not link him with two 1 packets of heroin- they found’ in : .the possession of ; Joyoe aod Epps.-'■;

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Order Schools File Integration Plans Kentucky Schools Given Court Order OWENSBORO, Ky. (UP) — A Federal Court Wednesday gave two school boards involved last fall in racial disturbances until February to file integration plans. Judge Henry L. Brooks passed until further court orders the cases involving eight Negro students denied admission to the Sturgis High School and four pupils refused admission to the Clay Elementary SchooL The judge directed the Union County and Webster County school boards to file plans for integration in their school -systems. Eight children and their parents filed suit last fall asking a permanent injunction to prohibit Union County School officials from refusing to admit Negroes to the all-white Sturgis school. Their entrance touched off a student boycott which ended only when "the state attorney general’s office ruled they were attending school illegally, and they were refused admission.

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Trade in a wood To wn Decatut gl a- k HS ADLAI STEVENSON dons his hat for benefit of photographers in New York who asked him to do so to indicate he won’t throw it in the presidential ring, for 1960. Stevenson said he would resume law practice in Chicago, (International)