Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1957 — Page 4

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American Priest Is Released By China Priest Released Six Years After Arrest HONG KONG (UP)-Communist China released an American Cath* olic priest, the Rev. Fulgence Gross, Omaha, Neb., from prison today six years after his attest. Reached by long-distance telephone from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Father Gross told the United Press he expected to get out of the country “within one or two weeks.” ”1 intend to get in touch with the British consulate about when

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and how I am going to leave China,” he said. He was the second imprisoned American to be released by the Chinese Reds this year. Eight other Americans still are behind bars in Communist China. Lutheran missionary Paul A. MaeKensen was released March 7 but has remained in Shanghai. Gross. 53, said he is in good health. He was arrested in Tsingtao March 39, 1951, and later transferred to Shanghai prison. Gross first went to China in 1932, two years after being ordained a priest. He returned to China from a trip home in 1951 and shortly afterward was arrested along with Bishop Ambrose Pinger who was released last August. Os the eight remaining American prisoners, four are Catholic priests and four are civilians. Two of the priests, Jesuits John A: Houle, Glendale. Calif., and Charles McCarthy, San Francisco, are scheduled to be released June 15 when their prison terms end. COURT NEWS Marriage License Rodger Allen Frey, 19, Decatur, and Ellen May McAhren, 17, Decatur, route five. Change of Venue The complaints for condemnation of easements by Indiana and Michigan Electric company against Roman Brite and others, and against John Brite and others., will be venued on motions submitted by the plaintiff. The court has granted the parties three days in which to determine the ocurt. Drainage Petition In the John Barger petition for drainage, Judge Wayne Hinkle of Jay county has accepted the appointment as special judge. A pretrial conference has been set for April 18 and the trial of the remonstrance has been set for May 2.

Connolly And Bride Leave On Honeymoon Czechs Rejoice With Olympic Champions PRAGUE (UP) — American athlete Harold Connolly and his pretty Czech bride left Prague today for a honeymoon in the country before leaving for the United States. Czechs rejoiced with the two 26-year-old Olympic champions, who climbed their way across the Iron Curtain to romance Wednesday with three consecutive weddings. Crowds flocked around local photographers’ windows gazing at pictures of the happy couple in Wednesday’s ceremonies. The city’s four morning newspapers continued their ban against any mention of the East-West union, even though all had several reporters and photographers at the weddings. About <,OOO persons followed the couple as they went from civil ceremony to Roman Catholic cathedral to Protestant church Wednesday, others accosted Westerners on the streets today, eager to learn about the wedding, one of the greatest occasions in Prague in many years. Western observers said the romance had a terrific effect on public opinion in Czechoslovakia. They thought this was the reason the Czech government relented andgave permission for the marraige. Hard Winter MASSENA, N. Y. — I® — St. Regis Indian chief Mitchell George predicted a long, hard winter for 1956-57. He said muskrats have built big houses and the raccoons have long hair.

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Circus Train Cut To Midget Size Annual Departure Minus "Big Top' SARASOTA, Fla. (UP)— The circus train, a mere skeleton of its former size, was ready to leave winter quarters of the “Greatest Show on Earth" today without the frills and fanfare that once marked its annual departure on the spring and summer tour. A few special railroad cars tor animals and three coaches for a handful of performers made up the train which in past years included two full sections of more than 50 cars each. Other performers and circus officials already had left for New York by train, plane, car and bus. Left behind in the 200-acre winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus were about 100 silvery and red railroad cars, which were beginning to show the effects of heavy rains and the Florida sun. The decline of the circus train is only one of many changes in the 1957 version of the “Greatest Show on Earth.” The big top is gone, lost in the middle of last season when owner John Ringling North pulled the circus off the road and said it would never again play under canvas. Large indoor arenas and a few baseball parks will form the stages for this year’s show. TV Future SYRACUSE, N. Y. — (W — Portable television sets with their own power source will be made by 1958,! according to General Electric Co., vice president W. R. G. Baker. He predicted the sets would use transistors and could be operated by batteries or from conventional electrical outlets. Age Os Cairo CAIRO, 111. — (IP) — This city is 11 months older than the state of Illinois which had its 138th birthday last Dec. 3. An act to incorporate the city and bank of Cairo was passed by the territorial legislature at Kaskaskia on Jan. 9,1818.

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PRODUCTION cutbacks by manufacturers have resulted in exhaustion of the supply of Salk polio vaccine, U. S. Surgeon General Dr. Leroy F. Burney tells the House government operations committee in Washington, D. C. (International/ j At the Adams county memorial hospital: Marcus and Ho Grote Schueler of route 2, are parents of an eight pound, 15 ounce daughter, born today at 8:30 a.m.x A daughter was born this morning at 9:55 o’clock, to Paul and Icr.a Smitley Zueicher, of 816 Franklin street, Berne. Potatoes can be made into satisfactory silage by mixing them with hay or dry corn fodder.

Murder And Suicide In Home At Metz Bodies Are Found Wednesday Night METZ, Ind. (IP) -The bodies of an elderly Montpelier, Ohio, woman and a Metz man were found riddled with bullets Wednesday night in an apparent murder and suicide. Police said Roger H. Snyder, 60, a native of this small Steuben County town, apparently fired four shots from a. 22 caliber rifle into Mrs. Pearl M. Shaffer, 73, and then took his own life. Sheriff Harry Dirrim said he discovered the bodies while investigating a missing persons report from Mrs. Shaffers’ son, Clair, in Montpelier. / Dirrim said the bodies were found in the kitchen of Snyder’s home. He said she had been shot twice in the head and twice in the chest. Snyder was shot once in the head and again in the body, Dirrim said. Dirrim said the victim’s son told him that Snyder picked up his mother at her home in Montpelier earlier Wednesday. Dirrim said the pair had been dead about eight hours when he found them.

Fort Wayne Slayer Ruled Not Insane Kiefer Scheduled For Trial April 4 FORT WAYNE, Ind. — (IP) — A court appointed psychiatrist testified Wednesday that Richard E. Kiefer was not insane when he allegedly killed his wife and daughter in their home here earlier this year. Dr. H. C. Dunstone told Circuit Judge William H. Schannen “It is my further opinion he is not insane at the present time.” Kiefer signed a statement admitting the slayings of his wife, Pearl, and five-year-old daughter, Dorothy, following an argument over money and drinking. Their mutilated bodies were found in the basement of their home by another daughter. Kiefer disappeared after the murders, but returned and gave himself up a short time later. Another psychiatrist is slated to submit his report to Schannen by April 1. , Kiefer is scheduled to be tried for the girl’s slaying April 4. Marion Child Killed In Traffic Accident MUNCIE, Ind. (IP) — Jane Lynn Siler, 7, Marion, died in Bajl Memorial Hospital early ’today from injuries sustained when an automobile driven by her mother went out of control on N.S. 35 eight miles north of here. The mother, Leona, 46, was hospitalized. Authorities said the automobile left the road on a curve, crashed through a fence, ran through a field, crossed the highway and hit a house throwing the little girl out of the car. Defrauded Widow Out Os SIO,OOO OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. (UP) —Cody F. Barton, 33, Allentown, Pa., will be *sentenced next week following his guilty plea Wednesday to transporting money obtained by fraud across state lines. An indictment returned against Barton at Fort Wayne, Ind., recently states that he defrauded a widow out of SIO,OOO in insurance money. He allegedly brought the money here in June of 1955 to open a night club.

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ment. Walsh was convicted of illegally laying his hands on a recruit. Conroy was the officer in charge of Porter’s recruit platoon and has been suspended from these duties since Feb. 9 as a result of the investigation into Porter’s charges against Walsh. Porter claimed Conroy came to his barracks on the night of March 13 and attacked him with his fists. A United Press reporter who saw Porter the following day noticed a bruise on the private’s cheek. Wood said no date had been set for Conroy’s trial. But under normal circumstances, it would probably begin within 10 days. A Switch HOUGHTON, Mich. — (IF) — Houghton County Sheriff Fred J. Paulson and Hancock Police Chief Raymond Smith swapped jobs Jan. 1. Smith defeated Paulson in the Republican primary and then won the general election. The Hancock city council then decided to make Paulson Smith’s successor as police chief.

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