Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1957 — Page 6

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Tail Os Blizzard In Northern Indiana i Three Traffic Deaths Blamed On Weather By UNITED PRESS The tail of a record Western blizzard swept across northern Indiana, dumping up to five inches of snow and leaving at least three dead in weather-blamed traffic accidents. The weather bureau reported 5 inches of snow at Warsaw this morning, 3 inches at South Bend .' and Fort Wayne, 2 inches at Goshen and varying amounts in other ... upstate communittees. To top it off, a freezing rain i iced the snow blanket at South Bend this morning while temperatures held just below freezing. Traffic accidents near Rochester and Auburn and in Hammond each killed one person, and many other accidents attributed to icy highways and streets were reported. The snow wasn't over. All areas of Hoosierland were due to get more precipitation, including snow in the north most of the day. rain mixed with snow in the central

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portion today changing to light snow tonight, and occasional snow late today in the south. Upstate, the snow began falling Monday morning. Downstate, rain i pelted the countryside. Temperatures crested Monday i at high points ranging from 32freezing at Fort Wayne and Lafayi ette to 55 at Evansville, Lows early this morning ranging from 29 at South Bend and Fort Wayne to 43 at Evansville were recorded. Today's highs were expected to range from the low 30s north to 42 south, and tonight's lows from 25 north to 34 south. Wednesday highs will range from 38 to the low 40s. and Thursday's outlook was for little temperature change. No precipitation was predicted for Wednesday or Thursday. The snow and freezing rain were accompanied by strong winds which felled ice-laden trees in some areas and interrupted utility service briefly. A New 1 ie HARTFORD, Conn. — W — A law partnership became a parenthood partnership for Attys. George J. Ritter and Robert Satter. Ritter's son was born a few hours after Satter's daughter. • - - — Trade in a good town — Decatur

British Physician Denies Statement Defense Attack On Arresting Officer LONDON (UP>-Dr. John Bodkin Adams denied today through his attorneys that he ever had told his receptionist “I will see you in heaven" when he was arrested on charges of murdering a Wealthy widowed patient. The denial came in a defense attack on the testimony of Detective Supt. Herbert Hannam of Scotland Yard, who arrested Adams. The physician is accused of poisoning Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell because he believed he was going to get a bequest in her will. Hannam underwent a 70-minute slashing cross-examination in Old Bailey today by Chief Defense Counsel Geoffrey Lawrence. The attorned also said that Adams had no recollection of making several other statements used against him in his trial. "I am now going to suggest to you quite plainly,” the defense attorney told the famous detective, "that he never said those words ‘I will see you in heaven’.’’ "He did," snapped Hannam. “They were very staggering words to me. I recall them quite plainly." The cross-examination of Hannam was the high point of the trial. Both he and Lawrence came as close to shouting at each other as is permitted in a British court. The courtroom clash came after [emergence of a torn up codicil cutIting Adams out of Mrs. Morrell's [5439,000 will as a vital factor in the physician's defense. The codicil — or amendment to the will—-was produced Monday by Mrs. Morrell’s attorney, Hubert. i Sogno, at the request of Lawrence. ; Sogno said the effect of the codicil was to cut Adams out of Mrs. Morrell's will. However, Mrs. MorrelFs son, Claude, agreed to have the will; probated without the codicil at-1 tached so Adams could get a Rolls-Royce limousine and a chest of silver worth $773.50 in the orig- i inal bequest, Sogno said. Sogno testified that Mrs. Morrell’s son sent him the codicil, torn in pieces, shortly before his moth- ; er’s death. But he did not say who tore the codicil up and Lawrence i did not press the point. The most helpless of all lizards I [ is the blind worm or slow worm I, which does not possess any legs | and looks like a snake. It is neither ] < blind, slow nor a worm. It possess- [ es small bright eyes, equipped with , eyelids, and can move very quick- ( ly on occasion.

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Name Miss Indiana At Michigan City MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. - Miss Indiana, the state’s official representative in the Atlantic City Miss America Pageant, will be selected in this Lake Michigan summer resort community this year. The competition and coronation will take place on the evening of July 6 in conjunction with Michigan City’s gala mid-summer festival. Girls from throughout the state will compete first in sectional contests, then will vie here for the coveted beauty and talent title.. Winner of the Miss Indiana crown will compete in the national Miss America contest at Atlantic City, N.J., in September. Van Doren Conqueror Knocked Off Monday Woman Attorney Is Beaten On TV Quiz - NEW YORK (UP>-Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, the gal who knocked off quiz champ Charles Van Doren, was tumbled herself Monday night by a lanky young medical research consultant Mrs. Nearing, a blonde attorney' who works for Warner Bros., retired with $5500 and a grin. “I only cried when I won.” she said after the show. "There were no tears for my loss.” Mrs. Nearing, 30, was defeated on NBC-TVs ‘Twenty One" Bjr Henry (Hank) Bloomgarden, a Cornell graduate who ran his ! stake on the show to $21,000 before evening's end. He did it by taking $10,500 from a $16,000 pile Mrs. Nearing had built and by winning another $10,500 from Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, another contestant on the show, ~ I Bloomgarden, a carry-over guest i from last week, was leading Mrs. [Nearing 11-10 in the scoring before their play opened Monday night. The TV quiz is based roughly on the card game, "blackjack.” In their opening round of the evening, each was called upon to answer a question in the category, “World Isles.” Bloomgarden correctly answered a query worth 10 points to give him the top score of 21 in the game. Mrs. Nearing missed an 11-point answer' and saw her total fall to zero. That final score, 21-0, meant $10,500 to Bloomgarden—the difference in their scores multiplied by SSOO per point, the stakes in the game.

Workers On Federal Property Pay Tax State Os Indiana Wins In Court Test INDIANAPOLIS W — Indiana , won a State Supreme Court case ■ today and a deputy attorney general said it meant all workers on federal government property 1 would have to,pay gross income taxes. ' . The high court overruled a lower court decision and said the ; Pierson Construction Co., Benton Harbor. Mich., was not eligible I for any refund on $79,707 in gross i income taxes assessed on federal : contracts totaling $7,487,535 from 1941 to 1946. > The firm contended the property was not under the jurisdiction of Indiana. Marion County Super- , ior Court agreed that much of the property at various military installations was not taxable when the taxes, were paid and ordered a $66,920 refund. ■ The Supreme Court decided the property was liable for Indiana • taxes. ’ Deputy Atty. Gen. Carl M. ' Franceschini said "the same prin- , ciple will apply" to workers on ' federal installations — some of whom have not been paying individual gross income taxes. ■ Confesses Slaying ■ St. Louis Divorcee ; Ohio Man Admits To Killing Woman 'I COLUMBUS, Ohio (UP) — A ; : 27-year-old supermarket employe admitted A'tenday night that he killed a St. Louis divorcee when 1 she sought to prevent him from returning here to his wife and ; child. Authorities said Jackie Ray Lawi son admitted bludgeoning and , choking Mrs. Credia Mullins Mal- ( lady, 29, last Feb. 26, then driving to Columbus with her body in the trunk of his automobile. Mrs. Mal- ’ lady’s body was found in a creek , near here March 16. Lawson, police said, will be re- ■ turned to St. Louis to face murder charges. Lawson said he went to St. Louis lin late January and lived with [•Mrs. Mallady until Feb. 26. When ,: he started to leave, Mrs. Mallady : told him he "didn’t have a wife” and that he wasn’t leaving. Lawson said. He said she then blocked the door and threatened him with a butcher knife. Lawson said he knocked her down and choked her with one hand while he wrested the knife from het grasp with ,the other hand. He hit her on the head with a bottle, then wrapped two pieces of clothesline around her neck, stuffed a towel in her mouth and removed some of her clothing to make it appear she had been raped, Lawson told police. The next day he returned, cleaned up.the kitchen, placed her body in the trunk of his car and headed for Columbus. Arriving here Feb. 28, Lawson said he spent the next six days driving around with the body in the back of his car before dumping it into a creek March 5.

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Attacks To Be Loaded Again For Next Year INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Three Indiana high school basketball championships in four years for Indianapolis Attucks? Don’t bet against it. The Tigers will be loaded with experience next year. Coach Ray Crowe loses just one starter through graduation—6-4 forward Albert Maxey. His standin. Fred Upshaw, also will be gone. Maxey was Attucks’ top offensive player during the tourney wind-up and Upshaw did a fine job as his replacement when Maxey went to the bench with four personals against Terre Haute Gerstmeyer last Saturday. But as a team, Attucks should be as tough as nails. Back will be lanky Odell Donel and Edgar Searcy. Jerry Hazelwood is only a sophomore now, and little Laverne Benson will be a starter for the third straight seasqn. But that’s not all. Crowe is bringing up some tall and talented ' youngsters for a new bid. Dardeen Lost To Cats Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, on paper, is in sad shape. The Black Cats lose every starter except center Charlie Hall. Gone will be Howard * Dardeen, Sam Smith, Ronnie Greene, and Bill Newton. Dardeen was the top single-game shooter last Saturday, rifling in 33 points against Attucks. •‘lf we make it to the state finals during the next four years, it’ll be a mjracle,” said coach Howard Sharpe. But he indicated he won’t give up. It was the fourth time in five years his team went to the finals and camb back empty-handed. “I promise you,” he told a crowd of well-wishers when the team returned home Sunday, "we at Gerstmeyer will give you a state championship or die trying.” They’re still flying high on cloud No. 7 at South Bend Central —and chances are they don’t give a hoot at this stage what happens next year. One Coalmen Back Shed no tears for the big Bears. True, they lose classy John Coalmon, Herbie Lee and Lee McKnight, but John’s brother. Sylvester. will be only a junior and playmaker Denny Bishop and Joe Winston will also be back. So it looks like Central can hold its own. Lafayette will face the same problem—lack in height. Coach Mfcrion Crawley will retain Larry Butz and Dave Price. His top losses are Trester Medal winner Bob Perigo and Lynn Cooper. “We lose five boys," said Crawley, “and our handicap next year will be size again. We don’t have any big boys, not even on a pretty good B team.” Lafayette’s fine tourney showing through the years is partly based on the fact the Broncos have a relatively easy road through their sectional and regional. Crawley admits he hasn’t had a "strong tourney contender” since 1951. That year, his club upended undefeated Gary Froebel in the third round but lost to ultimate champion Muncie Central in the state finals, 51-41. Trade in a good town — Decatur

Northwestern Net Coach Quits Post EVANSON, 111. (IB - UP Waldo Fisher, who resigned as Northwestern University basketball coach to become assistant athletic director, had his first job cut out for him today—find a successor as cage coach. Fisher, coach of the Wildcats for the past five years, quit his coaching post Monday, and promptly was named assistant to Stuart K. Holcomb, director of athletics. No Delay In Paying Korean Vets' Bonus Ruling Is Made By Attorney General INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The Indiana attorney general’s office has informed state auditor Roy Combs unofficially that the omission of a phrase and the wording of another in the Korean bonus law will not delay S2OO payments to 42,000 combat veterans. The omission was a clarifying clause which the experts said more or less emphasized other portions of the law specifying the qualifications for receiving bonus payments. The wording of another clause raised a question of whether payments could start to the rank and file veterans before the last of the checks for disabled veterans and 1 ' J • ' .

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next of kin of deceased veterans wre distributed. • * State attorneys said they informed Combs he could go ahead and start making payments anytime. , Seven Persons Dead In Head-on Crash Indianapolis Couple Killed In Florida VERO BEACH, Fla. (IB — Two automobiles, one of them traveling an estimated 100 miles an hour, crashed head-on Monday killing seven persons. The Florida Highway Patrol said one car carrying six Negroes roared out of control on a long curve, crossed into the wrong side and slammed an eastbound auto carrying two Indiana tourists. Patrolmen identified the two victims as James P. Dillon, 70, and his wife, Mary M., 50, of Indianapolis. ’ The Negro victims were Mary Lou Pettis, 29, and Robert Lee Pettis, 15, both of Fort Pierce, Fla.; John Henry Keene Jr., 32; Saul Allen Pedleton, 29; and Wilhelmena Warren Murray, 30, all of Qearwater, Fla. A Negro woman, Gertrude Gaskin, 36, of Clearwater, was the only survivor. She was injured seriously. 1 If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad they bring results.