Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1957 — Page 8

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Eyewitnesses Tell Os Nursing Home Tragedy

Editor's Note: Mrs. Myrtle Gordon. 68, was on the first floor of the Katie Jane Memorial Home when it burned Sunday afternoon with heavy loss of life. Here is her account of the tragedy. By MBS. MYRTLE GORDON As Told to the United Press WARRENTON, Mo. (UP) — I was under a doctor’s care for ( four days and that's why I was on the first floor. I was lying in bed and I turned over and I smelled something. I called the nurse and said, "is something burning?*’ She said, "No.” “It smelled like something burning in a skillet, maybe coming from the kitchen. That's all I smelled. After awhile church began and I was lying there listening when someone yelled, “Fire!” I just got up. I was all dressed and 1 put on my kimono and shoes. . Nobody helped me, I just walked out. I didn't need any help. Everybody was calm. Everybody just walked out. That’s all there was to it. Editor's Note: John J. Barada, 34, a hardware store owner, was at his home in Warrenton, Mo., Sunday afternoon when the tragic fire started at the Katie Jane Memorial Home. He rushed to the home and was injured in an heroic rescue. Here is his story. By JOHN J. BARADA As Told to the United Press WARRENTON. Mo (UP) — I was at home when I heard the fire sirens. I looked out and saw the smoke. I started running. When I got there, some people already had put up some ladders. I saw a man who was trying to coax a woman out of a window. But the woman, who was old and frightened, wouldn't come out the window. So I went up the ladder to the third story. There was a lot of smoke and fire on the inside. I couldn’t get ; in. I used some choice words and 1 finallv coaxed her onto the ladder and brought her down. Then I went back up. By that time the smoke was so thick I couldn’t see around me. I couldn’t see if anybody was < in the room or not. Then without warning the wall fell on me. The whole ceiling fell in, and I Blackburn Takes Oyey^< As Huntington Mayor i Republican DeVon G. Blackburn 1 took over officially as mayor of ' Huntington last Saturday from Democrat Roy Howell, who has served as mayor since March, 1956. The supreme court of Indiana declared Blackburn elected to the post in the 1955 election by four votes, upholding a decision by the Huntington circuit court. All members of the two courts are Republicans. The 20-dhy period in which to file a petition for a re-hearing with ttie supreme court expired on Wednesday.

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landed under a pile of bricks. 1 felt half the wall fall on me. Another fellow. Bill Turner, was on the ladder next to mine. He got his right in the face with bricks. He got a broken nose and leg. He fell down, too. (Mrs. Barada said her husband actually slid down the ladder after the wall started to collapse, and Jhe bricks fell on him.i Canal Salvage At Virtual Standstill Two Major Wrecks Blocking Shipping ISMAILIA. Suez Canal Zone (IF — United Nations salvage work on the Suez Canal was at a virtual standstill today.’ Two tihy Egyptian vessels sailed the full length of the canal Sunday and small cargo vessels now ply between Port Said and Suez with cargo but two major wrecks still block international shipping. Informed sources said the U.N. salvage team which is costing the United Nations $20,000 a day will be unable to meet its March 10 deadline unless full-scale work resumes immediately. - - It has not been mentioned openly here, but the whole operation appeared to hinge on the questioa of Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the coast«of the Gulf of Aqaba. Authoritative sources said Egyptian officials have made it clear to Lt. Gen. Raymond E. Wheeler, head of the U. N. salvage work, that there is no chance of getting salvage work into full stride until the question of Israeli withdrawal is settled. Salvage vessels scattered around the canal still nibble away at minor wrecks, but the two major obstructions remain untouched. They are the tug Edgar Bonnet near Ismailia and the frigate Abukeir at the Suez end of the canal. Enters Guilty Plea To Murder Charges Youth Surrenders To Police In Ohio ZANESVILLE, Ohio (UP)—Rus-' sell McCoy. today pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges in the fire-slaying of his half-sister and her husband near here Feb. 9. McCoy also pleaded guilty to auto theft at his arraignment here before Municipal Court Judge Robert J. Merry. He was held to the grand jury without bond. A special jury session was expected to be called early next week to hear the case. McCoy whispered “I’m guilty” when arraigned for killing Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd See. After the murders he set their cabin afire and drove to Columbus where he staged three holdups for escape money. McCoy surrendered voluntarily to authorities Sunday saying that "you can’t run forever." . “A fellow comes home when he runs out of money," he told Sheriff’s Deputy Fred Uffner. McCoy surrendered to Uffner at the county jail and told how he fled to Chicago, then to Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico. Asked why he committed the murders, McCoy answered: “I don't know. I had too many drinks. I lost my head.” U. S„ ISRAEL (Continued from Pare One) ever, that Israel and the United States are "always in touch” and that “matters always are under consideration.” Isreali Foreign Minister Golda Meier said on a television program from Washington Sunday that Israeli forces would be with drawn immediately from the coast of Aqaba if the United States would give an iron-clad guarantee to protect Israel shipping in the waterway. TEACHERS (Coatlnued from Pare O«e> “detailed answers” will be given Welsh “at the proper time.” The gas tax hike bill, passed oreviously by the House, was due to come up on second reading in the Senate, where Welsh said three attempts will be -made to amend it. ,_ u Democrats* wHI try to cut the increase from twO* cents to one cent a gallon, limit, the effects of the bill to two years, and insure the revenue is dedicated for highwav purposes, said Welsh. "There ’is some question as to whether two cents is needed,” he said. Charge GOP '‘Railroading” House Democrats expected to try to head off the controversial “right to work" bill. One of them charged it was put on the calendar in an effort to "railroad it through" on the day the lawmakers were slated to work on the biennial budget. But when the calendar of second reading bills was finished at noon (CDT), speaker Goerge S. Diener had passed by, the bill without calling it up.

Rain And Snow Are Forecast In State Colder Weather Is Also In Forecast By UNITED PRESS Rain and sijpw were forecast, for Indiana today and Tuesday, and colder weather was due for a few days’ visit. Snow flurries in the north portion and rain oyer the rest of Hoosierland will precede the arrival of what the weatherman called a "cooling trend.” He said the colder temperatures will begin Tuesday night and continue until Friday. During the five-day period Tuesday through Saturday, temperatures will average 8 to 14 degrees below normal highs of 35 to 51 and lows of 19 to 30 over a two-state area which also includes Illinois. About one-fourth of an inch of precipitation in the form of rain was expected in the south portion during the period, with little or none in the north. The rain will come “mostly on Tuesday,” the outlook said. Snow was falling at South Bend and rain at Lafayette, Fort Wayne and' Indianapolis this morning. Temperatures hit highs ranging from 32 at South Bend to 45 at Evansville Sunday, dropped to lows ranging from 25 at South Bend to 29 at Evansville this morning, and headed for highs ranging from 35 to 52 today. Tonight’s lows were expected to range from 20 to 34 and Tuesday’s highs from the mid-30s to the mid--405. Plan Hearings Info Labor Racketeering Senate Group Will Probe Racketeering WASHINGTON OR — “Call girls,” vice lords, garbage collectors and city officials will figure in the Senate’s investigation into labor racketeering. sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said Sunday they will be Called before the special committee he heads when it begins public hearings. He said he expects the hearings to get under way Feb. 26. McClellan also revealed he has received some anonymous letters stating "implied threats” to his personal safety since the investigation began. But he said there "have been no direct threats made against me yet.” * McClellan made the statements on a television program (Press Conference, ABC). He said after the program the first series of hearings will concentrate on activities of the giant AFL-CIO Teamsters Union in Portland, Ore., and will run about three days. The Portland City Council has accused the union of trying to take over the city government. In mid-March, he said, the committee will start hearings on teamster activities in New York. Some union officials there have been linked in testimony with John DioGuardi, a hoodlum under indictment in the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. McClellan disclosed that committee investigators are at work in Chicago, Philadelphia, Screnton. Pa., and Minneapolis. Other unions which will be involved in the investigation include the carpenters. plumbers and steamfitters, allied industrial workers and building trades, he said. IKE (Cal Hmul rrom Pare Oa»r _ slight throat condition, Hagerty said fervently, "it is simply beI cause he has been busy.” I Trade in a good town — Decatur i / mH - few piowoib wn ATTILIO PICCIONI, head of the Italian delegation to the United Nations, is shown in New York as he addressed the U.N. Political Committee during debate on the Algerian question. Piccionl is the father of Piero Piccionl, who is currently on trial in connection with the death of Wilma Montes! in Italy. (International)

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Dairy Tour To Visit Roger Bentz Farm Following the Ivan Sprunger farm visit on dairy tour Wednesday, the farm of Roger Bentz will be visited. This is a loose-housing dairy set-up with an upright silo with a self feeding bunk. Republican Leaders Meet With Teachers l Study Legislation Asked By Teachers INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Senate Republican leaders met Sunday night with a teachers’ organization spokesman in what was billed as a discussion of a thorny problem over a formula for distributing state aid to education. But senators who attended said , the matter was not discussed. The group met with Robert H. Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Association, in the office of Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker, presiding officer in the Senate. They spent most of the time talking about proposed legislation on teacher retirement pay, spokesmen said, and did not discuss a plan suggested last week by Rep. S. Paul Clay (R-Indianapolis) to freeze distribution of school funds on a simple formula based odunp rollment while a two-year study is made of a permanent distribution formula. —- -> Clay is chairman of the H*uae ways & Means "A” Committee which has been wrestling wittf a proposed record 790 million dollar biennial budget for the state for about a month.

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British Royally Visiting Portugal Report Queen Plans United States Trip LISBON, Portugal W — Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh moved today from their honeymoon yacht to separate suites in a pink marble palace tor the start of a three-day state visit to Portugal, Britain's oldest ally. The well-practiced pomp and circumstances of a royal state visit was given new significance by reports that all the groundwork has been completed for a similar visit to the United States next fall. Hundreds of Portuguese shivered through the night holding vantage points to watch the royal couple come ashore in a royal and ancient barge that was used by the Queen’s great-grand-father, King Edward VII, when he made a state visit to Portugal in 1903. The stiff protocol of a state visit decreed Separate suites for the royal couple in Quelez Palace, their official home for the day visit. They were reunited only Saturday after four months of separation and a week of gossip. British press reports said the formal announcement of an American visit would be made after Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Bermuda conference with' President Eisenhower. Preliminary negotiations for the visit were disc'.osed last month. Trade in a good town — Decatur

Ex-Vice President Os Notre Dame Dead SOUTH BEND, (W - The Rev. John J. Burke, 53, former vice president of the University of Notre Dame, died Saturday at the student infirmary on the campus. Father Burke joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1937 and served as vice president for business affairs from 1946 to 1951. He was steward of the-Holy Cross ; Fathers’ Indiana Province at the time of his death. Child Is Improved Aller Hear Hanging Imitated Cowboy Television Act BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (W - The condition of Bernard A. Crimmins Jr., 5, son of the ex-Indiana University football coach, was listed as "serious but improved” today following a brush with death while imitating a television cowboy movie “hanging.” The boy’s mother found him banging by his belt from a television set in the Crimmins’ home Saturday night. She called police. Two patrolmen used artificial respiration to start the boy breathing again. He was taken to Bloomington hospital. He regained consciouness Sunday about 12 hours after the incident Four other children watchinrwaeOtetoiKWith the victim said they had just seen a hanging scene cn a cowboy show. - .1 ■■ ■ ■ " 11 ■■ l 11

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1957

71 KILLED (CoßllMaaq M»ew» rase OWO> one of The buildings when they feared it, too , might catch fire. SEVERAL INJURED iCaattaaed frem Pare O—> Oscar Thomas Ray, 43, of Decatur route six, turned off the highway onto the county road and sideswiped a car driven by Mrs. Faye Phoebe Michels, 47, of 504 North 11th street, which was stopped on the county road. Both cars were totally demolished, Mrs. Michels and two passengers were sent to Adams county memorial hospital suffering injuries sustained from the impact. Mrs. Michels, who suffered a laceration to her head, was treated and released. Beverly Lambert, 15. of Decatur route six, sustained bruises to her left knee and ribs. She was dismissed from the hospital today. Mrs. Helen Marie Lambert, 40, of Decatur, route six, received a severe laceration to her forehead. She is being transferred to an Indianapolis hospital for specialist treatment. State trooper Al Coppes and deputies Arnold and Meyer investigated.