Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1957 — Page 6

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One Man Killed By Explosion In Home Two Other Men In Serious Condition -CWAIMBWS, ted. te Chapter Smith Jr., 36, North Vernoh, died today in Bartholomew County hospital from burns sustained Monday when a gas explosion ripped a home under const ration here. In serious condition nt the hospital were Smith’s father, Charles S. Smith. Sr., 72, and Loren Barties, 54. North Vernon. The younger Smith was burned over his entire body. He was the father of four children. Barnes said the three were painting the kitchen of the new home when the blSst occurred. He said he heard an explosion in the basement apd "a big ball of blue flame rolled up the air duct.” The force of the blast knocked him flat on his back. AU three men rushed out of the home with their hair in flames. The younger Smith's shirt also was ablaze. He ripped it off and rolled around in a puddle of muddy water outside the home. The others splashed water on their hair. The three men then lay on the ground until aid came from the hospital two blocks away. The force of the explosion knocked the house off its foundation. Brick facing on the house was knocked off and window case-

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mcnt were blown 30 feet into the yard. Wisconsin Voting On Daylight Time r - JimeJLs HioWisht Os Spring Election MADISON, Wis. w — An expected 700,000 Wisconsin voters go to the polls today to cast ballots on the daylight saving time issue. ■ The “fast time" plan to advance Wisconsin clocks one hour on April 28 is the highlight of the spring elections.' The Milwaukee Association of Commerce spearheaded a campaign to approve daylight savings time, citing “better health, more recreation and better family life" as its advantages. Cities, in general, favor the "fast time.” Farm groups are opposed. A committee made up of farm, theater, and town groups, all opposing the advance to daylight savings time, sent out leaflets aimed at city dwellers urging them to vote “no” on the issue. The leaflets claim that “fast time” robs children of rest during the polio season, and says that the Milwaukee Braves will find playing twilight ball is “terrible—just like driving into the sun.” If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad — they bring results.

Woman 1$ Sentenced To Life For Murder Son Is Sentenced On Manslaughter Charge ■ C«OWW"POfWi Inti. w»'— Wry Gladys Martin, 35. who masterminded a plot in which her teenage son killed her third husband, began serving a life sentence for murder today. The son. 17»year-old Anthony Brewbaker, started a 2-to-21 year term in the Indiana Reformatory for following his mother’s orders and pumping six bullets into the head of his stepfather, Robert Martin, 32. last Oct. 29. Mrs. Martin and Brewbaker pleaded guilty before Judge William J. Murray in Lake Criminal Court Monday, the mother to first-1 degree murder charges and the' boy to a charge of manslaughter, i Mrs. Martin, a grim-faced bru-| nette. and her son did not speak 1 to each other before they were led from the courtroom to begin their punishment. Both received their sentences impassively-. Neither showed a flicker of emotion when Murray imposed their terms and told Mrs. Martin she was lucky she didn’t get the death penalty. The slaying occurred last fall on a lonely road between Gary and Hammond, where Martin s body was found by a swamp. At first, mother and son told authorities Martin was slain by a mysterious r ■

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I • - ' liitchhiker. Later, they confessed | the boy killed his step father on ’ his mother's orders because Mari tin was an “abusive drunkard." Brewbaker admitted firing the j death pistol in target practice the night before the slaying so his aim would be good when the murder plot was executed as the family drove homeward from a Sunday night iV*"** ,v^h — lb i Attended Rally Os Wabash Presbytery Ten young from the First Presbyterian church attended the spring rally of the Wabash Presbytery for youth, held at Wabash. Miss Betsy Burk, president of the Westminster here, was elected chairman of the citizenship area, and Miss Jane Stiverson was a nominee for clerk. Miss Burk is the first Decatur member elected a Presbytery officer in six j years. ■ — Recommendations Os Examiner Adopted WASHINGTON (If) — The Na- j tional labor Relations Board today announced it has adopted the recommendations of a trial examiner that the Hardware Engineering Co., Inc.. Garrett, Ind., be ordered to cease and desist from discouraging membership in the International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers. The NIRB also ordered the firm to offer full reinstatement of LiK liam R. Lower, an employe who charged she was fired more than two years ago for union activity. '2-- ad' ■ w —- 1 - ■ ■ ■■ l

Rainfall Heavy In Parts Os Indiana \ Cooler Temperature Follows Rainfall PRESS * Heavy rain dumped more than two inches of magnified “April I showers'* on parts of Indiana Monday and faded away into light drizzle today. Danville's 2.35 inches apparently headed the list of state precipitation measurements. Others included 1.93 at Noblesville. 1.41 at Muncie, 1.42 at Anderson, 1.37 at Portland, 1.09 at Bluffton. 1.00 at Terre Haute, 1.56 at Indianapolis, 90 at Fort Wayne, .30 at South Bend and .40 at Evansville. The showers peppered down most of the day, hitting hardest in a band across the central portion of the state and tapering off at lesser accounts in the far south and far north. A little rain or drizzle was due in the northern two-thirds of the state * today, and rain again Wednesday night in the southern two-thirds. The south may get more showers Thursday while fair and cool conditions prevail in the north. The rain sent streams rising but no serious flooding appeared likely. Cooler temperatures followed in the wake of the rain. Highs Monday ranged from 51 at Lafayette to 68 at Evansville. The mercury fell to a range of 37 at South Bend to 54 at Evansville early this morning and continued to drop slightly in most areas. Highs today were expected to range from 45 north to 60 south, lows tonight from 32 north to 42 south, and highs Wednesday from 43 north to 50 south. The cool wave was expected to last through Thursday at least. Sir Anthony Eden Suffers Relapse Speeds Timetable Os Hospitalization WELLINGTON, New Zealand (UP>—Sir Anthony Eden suffered a "slight relapse” of an abdominal disease and doctors today ordered him to speed up his timetable for hospitalization at Boston. Eden had planned to await a convenient sailing passage for Boston before leaving New Zealand, perhaps the end of’ this month. "* Reliable sources said Eden probably would fly in’stead, perhaps leaving Thursday. It was at Boston where he underwent surgery in 1953 for a gall bladder ailment. The illness returned and forced his retirement aS British prime minister last January. He had hoped a leisurely vacation in New Zealand would restore his health, but he has had recurrent attacks of fever. His New Zealand doctors were called in to examine him again today and immediately messaged Eden's physician in London, Sir Horace Evans. In London, Sir Horace said "the situation is really unchanged except that there has been a slight relapse and as a result, I have advised that the Boston visit should be sooner. “There is no cause for alarm." Am*sh Rig Stolen, Later Destroyed 1 An Amish rig was stolen at about 10 p.m. Monday from the Joe R. Wickey farm on Berne route two and later destroyed. The buggy was pulled behind an auto at a high rate of speed. It became loose and crashed into a fence and was smashed apart. The sheriff's department is investigating , the theft. Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. — Spurgeon. 'Die greatest men are those who are humble enough to be of service to others. The mature person is one who gives without remembering and receives without forgetting. Trade in a good town — Decatur

•/"V \ " c z -'' A ‘- ' if Y'''' i 1 • .... jfl S JFL. > If* : ...o iff Ws -fB Al mJ v K v sk Z L A /M RECENTLY-MARRIED Mr. and Mra. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt are shown on their arrival in Paris. They were wed In Mexico City March 12. The millionaire sportsman said he would be in Geneva, Switzerland, tor a week in connection with the convention of the World Veterans Fund, of which he is president After thatthe couple will continue on their three-week tour of Europe. (International)

7 TURNCOATS—-WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW?

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THE TURNCOATS who came back from Communist China, after electing to go there when captured "in the Korean war, have been back for some time, now, and what are they doing? Otho O. Bell, a former Mississippi farm boy, is a maintenance man in East Olympia, Wash, He was captured in 1951, when he was 18. Richard Tenneson, who was in Red China 22 months, worked briefly in his home town of Alden, Minn. Now he's a truck driver and helper for a job printing plant ih a Minneapolis suburb. Samuel D. Hawkins, who decided he didn't like Red China, says he has been received “very well” by pre-army friends in Oklahoma City, Okla. Lewis Griggs says he recognizes his turncoat decision is a “black mark" on his personal history. He is attending a college near Jacksonville, Tex. The others have gone their various ways and are attempting to integrate themselves into normal life. . ~ fliifeniofioMoD

Kidnaping Charges Filed On Student Two Kidnap Charges Are Filed At Bedford BEDFORD, Ind. ffl —Two kidnaping charges were filed Monday in Bedford City Court against Van B. Thompson Jr., 24, an Indiana University senior arrested last week in Columbus in the abduction of a 14-year-old Seymour girl. Thompson, of Des Moines, lowa, was held in $20,000 bond in Jackson County Jail at nearby Browns, town pending arraignment on a charge of forcing the Seymour girl to accompany him at knife point to his apartment in Columbus. Meanwhile, the new charges were filed after two 14-year-old Bedford girls and a 9-year-old girl identified photographs of Thompson as the man who forced them at knife point to accompany him. The 9-year-old said a man answering Thompson’s description took her to Bloomington last Jan. 14. The 14-year-olds said they were accosted last Wednesday on a dark street in Bedford. Rbw v** Vi THE “Eisenhower Doctrine” is absolutely and Irretrievably tied to the major oil compartles, declares Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (D), Wyoming, in Washington. He’s chairman of antitrust subcommittee probing oil for Europe. (International

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Department Called Out By Truck Fire A truck fire in front of the Zion Lutheran church on Monroe street brought out the fire department at 5:05 a.m. today. The fire was caused when the wheel bearings burned out. The truck was a Comoco, Inc., vehicle from Los Angeles, Calif. Summerfield Warns Os Cut In Services Warning Issued To Senate Committee WASHINGTON (IP — Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield warns he may have to end Saturday mail deliveries and postal money order services if Congress does not restore a SSB million House-approved cut in the postal budget. Summerfield told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Monday that an end to these services would be the result of a "hatchet approach" to the post office budget for the 1958 fiscal year. * If the cut is not restored, he said, a cutback in postal services “cannot possibly" be avoided. He cited the following "possible reductions” of service: —Eliminate all mail delivery on Saturday. —Restrict Saturday mail deliveries in cities to first class mail only. —Reduce mail deliveries in business sections to two a day. —Eliminate the sale of money orders by all except country post offices. —Fail to provide any new city delivery routes in cities and suburbs. . .... Trucker Fined For Weight Violation Leroy D. Emenhiser, 36, of Monroeville, was arrested by state police Monday for driving a pickup truck over the. registered weight on state highway 101 north of U. S. highway 224. He was fined $1 and costs in justice of the peace court Monday night. ♦ , ■

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TUESDAY. APRIL 2. 1957 » !

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Legal Loophole Is Plugged By Court U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Two Appeals WASHINGTON (UP> — The Supreme Court has plugged a legal loophole used in southern states to circumvent racial integration in government - operated cafeterias and other facilities. The court acted Monday in cases appealed from St. Petersburg. Fla., ahd Houston, Tex. In St. Petersburg, the dispute centered around use by Negroes of a city swimming pool. In Houston the controversy was over their admission to a cafeteria in the new county court house. In both instances local authorities tried to draw a distinction between a city’s action as a government and its role as the operator of a business. ■ . - In the St. Petersburg case, the Florida city contended its pool is operated as a proprietary activity of business rather than as an agency of government. The high court rejected St. Petersburg’s appeal from a decision by. the sth U. S. Circuit Court of appeals that a state can in no way remove any of its activities from the scope of the 14th Amendment. Houston authorities went one step further and leased their county court house cafeteria to a private individual. The county argued it had turned over to the business firm only a, quasi-private function, not a primary governmental operation. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad, it brings results. How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your false teeth annoy and embarrass by slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gurnipy, gooey, pasty tas» or feeling. Does not sour. Checks ■'Mate odor” (denture breath) Get FASTEETH today at any drug counter.