Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1957 — Page 12

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High Court Studies Obscene Mail Ban Ruling Is Expected ; Before June Recess WASHINGTON (UP)— The Supreme Court is pondering whether the government can protect housewives from being "hit in the face with sex in the morning mail.” The question before the court is whether federal banning of obscene matter from the mails is a violation of freedom of speech and the press. The court is taking its first direct look atthe obscenity question since the federal ban was enacted more

Public Auction Real estate & personal property Os The ESTATE OF FANNIE E. NYFFELER, DECEASED 54 ACRE FARM Saturday, April 27th, 1957,1:30 P.M. LOCATION: 34 miles Southeast of Decatur. Indiana: or Southeast of Decatur on No. 33 to Drive-In Theater, then straight on gravel road to first set of buildings past railroad crossing. This 54 acre farm is good producing soil and will make some one a good investment plus a fine home dose to Decatur. It has a nice large yard with plenty of shade, a good 7 room home with 5 rooms plus a room that could be used for a bath on the first floor, 2 rooms on the second floor. Ittas a nice front porch and enclosed back porch, large basement, good roof and solid foundation. There is a good 28 x 66 barn with 7 stanchions, rat proof crib and granary on one end; machine abed; chicken house; fruit orchard with apples, cherries, pears, plums and grapes. Inspection and further information can be given if you will contact Auctioneers. Immediate Possession of House and Buildings; Possession of Fields subject to tenants rights. PERSONAL PROPERTY: 4 Section Bookcase; 2 Pc. Living Room suite; Upholstered Rocker; Oak Rocker; ANTIQUE Round Table; Singer Sewing Machine; Perfection Oil Heater; 6 Dining room chairs; SMALL ANTIQUE ROCKER; End Table; Battery radio; Book shelf; Oil lamps; Table lamps; Pictures; Sewing box; Washing machine; Odd chairs; Bench; 9x12 Cong. Rug; Kitchen cabinet; AUTIQUE DISHES and some other dishes; Gas stove; 2 Hole Johnny stove; 6’ Westinghouse refrigerator; Kitchen table; Sideboard; Good studio couch; ANTIQUE MANTEL CLOCK; Commode desk; Duo Therm oil heater with blower, like new; Odd stands; 11x12 Ex. Rug; 7x9 Olson rug; 2 Complete bedroom suites; Dresser; Kalamazoo coal stove; 2 brooder houses; electric iron; many other items too numerous to mention. - TERMS: Real Estate, 20% Cash on day of sale, balance upon delivery of Marketable Title. Personal Property—Cash. ROBERT S. ANDERSON, Executor of The Estate of Fannie E. Nyffeler, Deceased. Gerald Strickler, D. S. Blair—Auctioneers C. W. Kent, Sales Mgr. Pauline Haugk, Clerk Voglewede 8t Anderson, Lawyers Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty & Auction Co. « Decatur, Indiana Phone 3-3390 Not responsible for accidents., April 3-10-16-19-24

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than a century ago, * The high court was .expected to rule' before recessing in June on the issue along with two companion cases challenging the constitutionality of obscene book laws in New York and California. It heard arguments on allthree Monday. Samuel Roth, a New York publisher convicted of sending indecent matter through the mails, challenged the constitutionality of the law. He was sentenced last year to a five-year jail term and fined 95,000. Federal attorney Roger Fisher told the court the government can decide that obscene material “is not worth carrying” when society almost unanimously objects to it. He said mailing of obscene material is “an invasion of the privacy of the home.”

He said without the ban American housewives would be a "captive audience ... hit in the face with photography of sex in the morning mail.” He told the dignified justices that the government has left with them “sealed boxes” of material seized by postal authorities for ttyeir consideration in weighing the case. He said the material represents the “hard core” of “dirt for dirt’s sake.” He said the material included $5 French illustrated booklets and 9100 movie films that are “the most vile in any form oLpornography.” Justice William O. Douglas told his colleagues a line from one seized book. It went: “Leave the . light on, it makes it more cozy.” Roth’s attorneys, David Albrecht and O. John Rogge, contended that Congress cannot legislate against mailing any printed material without violating constitutional free speech guarantees. Albrecht said the Constitution gives the states power to regulate matters affecting morals. He said it is up to the states to initiae any acion to curb mailing of obscene material, though they could ask the federal government for help. Rogge also argued that the federal law fails to define any “substantial evil” resulting from mailling allegedly obscene material. In the California and New York cases, attorneys representing booksellers argued that the state laws were unconstitutional because they authorized a form‘of censorship. High School Senior Answered By Reds Questions Answered By Short Wove Radio CLEVELAND (UP) — Dick Kuehn, 18, who had three of his 10 questions about Russia answered by Soviet radio broadcasts, hoped the Russians will pay his way to the World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium, next year. The suburban Rocky River high school senior—a shortwave radio enthusiast—heard the answer to his third question Monday night in the one-a-night answer program by the Soviets, begun last Saturday. The question: “Since Stalin’s death Russia relaxed its grip on Communist parties in foreign countries—is that a good or bad idea?* 1 Radio Moscow, which uses a different’ commentator each night, said the parties in foreign countries were never controlled from Moscow and the basic function of ‘the parties in other lands is to

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promote peace. The commentator described Stalin as "hprsh. but not unduly harsh.” Dick said he got most of his questions from a series on Communism published in a magazine (Fortune). • He submitted a list of questions by mail to Russian authorities and the Soviets said they would answer one a night for 10 consecutive nights. The broadcast is received in Cleveland at 6:50 p.m. and a rebroadcast is heard at 9:50 p.m. on international shortwave. The exchange began as a lark when Dick and a friend heard the English language broadcast from Russia. They wrote to Moscow telling of their reception and received a letter asking them to submit questions about Russian life. Their first set of questions covered three pages. They were answered by mail. The second set is now being answered by the radio broadcasts. What?’ LEWISTON, Me. — M — Wilfred F. Perreault sent a 942.97 bill to Lewiston’s Board of Public Works after a tree branch dropped on his new automobile with this note attached: “What if it had hit me on the head?” No Seat OWINGSVILLE, Ky. — ffl — A Danvenport, Ky„ man had to borrow a pair of paints from his jailer to appear in court here to answer a drunken driving charge after his car struck a police cruiser. The collision threw the man from his car, and he skidded along the pavement in a sitting position. Trade in a good town — Decatar

/ * |- IwM *w ww'i * f MAI. ARDIS L CRUMPTON, 34. Vacaville, Calif., was the pilot of the Air Force C-97 plane missing with 67 persons aboard, including 38 Air Force personnel. 16 soldiers, 11 Navy men, one civilian employee of the military and one woman dependent. The plane was presumed to have crashed in the storm-lashed, shark-infated watery off Japan. ( 1 I ißt « Y Hagg MBH . . ~.JHI BRITISH Prime Minister Harold A. Macmillan 16 shown on his arrival for a formal dinner at Government House in Tucker's Town, Bermuda. Ho was joined by President Eisenhower, British Foreign Secretary Solwyn Lloyd and Secretary of State John Footer Dulfa. (MtnuMonal) ,

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No Cooperation SIOUX FALLS, S. D. — — The traffic - department finished painting crosswalk and lane stripes on Phillips and Main Avenues in the business district. The next day, the street department applied a fresh coat of asphalt and gravel as a seal coat for winter. Trade in a good town — uecatur

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A Different One PORTLAND, Me. W - Cassey Jones works for the Maine Central Railroad. The U.S. Post Office Department owns 19,000 trucks and contracts for an additional 3,500 trucks. In addition, the department uses many more commerical trucks for bulk mail shipments between cities.