Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1957 — Page 4

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Boom Develops For McCarthy's Widow Seek Appontment To Senate Vacancy MADISON, Wis (W — A boom was developing today for the appointment of the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’! widow to his U. S. Senate seat. Republican legislators were working to give Gov. Vernon Thomson, a Republican, power to appoint a successor. State law prescribes a special election. Democrats, led by State Party chairman Philleo Nash, charged that appointment of an interim senator would be “not in the way of a democracy but the way of a dictatorship." Support for the appointment of Mrs. Jean McCarthy to succeed her husband was led by GOP Rep. Alvin E. O’Konski. STOP THAT ITCH! IN JUST 15 MINUTES. It aleaneS. yowr 40c back at bay ire* stare. Try isataatMtryiaa ITCH-MK-.VOT far Iteh at ecaema, rinaworm, iaaect bitea. feat iteh ar Other carfare Iteh. Eaay to aae day er aiwht. New at Kehae Drag Stere

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•The voters elected Joe MoCar* thy and his philosophy for six years,” O’Konski said. “There is no one who could represent his point of view better than Jean.” State Seri. Gerald Lorge, longtime friend of the late senator, said he favored a change in state law to permit the governor to name McCarthy’s successor prodded the successor was Mrs. McCarthy. Lorge added, however, that the law should be changed only if the 31-year-old widow announced publicly she would accept. The Wisconsin legislator said Mrs. McCarthy should be allowed to seek a full term In the Senate if she desired. Thomson apparently would make the final decision. Key Republicans suggested that Thomson indicate whether he favored a special session or the personal authority to name an interim senator. The governor's preference was expected to be made known after a series of meetings with top party members and state legislators. According to reports, Thomson —should he make an appointment —probably would choose a “noncontroversial” Republican, such as ex-Gov. ■ Oscar Rennebohm, rather than a potential special election candidate.

Meanwhile, State Sen. Walter L. Merten, a Milwaukee Republican, asked the legislative reference library to draw up a bill which would permit an interim appointment. A similar bill was reported in preparation in the State Assembly. It was the first open move in a drive to bypass a special election to fill the vacancy. Democrats served notice they would wage an all-out fight to forestall any change in the law. Girl Plans To End Fast Sunday Night Without Solid Food Since Easter Sunday CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — — Lily Evelyn Jenkins, 16, plans to ,end a three-week “glory of God” fast next Sunday midnight because “I can’t stand the publicity.” The attractive, brunette girl who has gone without solid food since Easter told newsmen at her border home near Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., that she also had received criticism in the mail. She had previously indicated she might extend her fast beyond Miss Jenkins said she began her fast so she “may learn to save souls” when she becomes a missionary. She said she has had nothing but water since the fourth day of her fast. Before then she sipped a little fruit juice. Ashked why she did not like publicity she replied, “I just don't. It will get a lot of stuff started that I don’t know about.” The girl appeared noticeably thin but in good health. “Sometimes I get real weak,”, she confied.

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Missionary Tells Os Torture By Reds Franciscan Priest a Now In Nebraska OMAHA (UP) — A Franciscan missionary said Wednesday that “only the half baked.mind” could be greatly influenced by the brain-washing techniques of the Chinese Communists. The Rev, Fulgence Gross, imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese Reds for more than six years, said brain-washing is a “diabolical and effective technique if used to make a person confess certain guilt.” ■Die same technique, Father Gross said, would eventually wear off if used to change a person’s political or social conviction. The priest, released by the Reds in Shanghai March 28, made the comment at the home here of his brother Frank Gross, where he expects to spend a month. Father Gross, 53, said American “turncoat” prisoners of the Korean War were probably influenced by the brain - washing because “they could not distinguish between extreme capitalists and normal capitalists.” The Roman Catholic missionary blamed “extreme capitalism” for the exploitation of Far Eastern peoples. He said the Reds "didn’t do much brain.washing with me.” but tortured him brutally for 10 days when he was arrested in 1951 for allegedly spying on behalf of the United States. The priest said he was confined with American businessmen and others, who, for the most part, were educated men. They attended study periods conducted by “leaders” indoctrinated in communism. “They would teach that socialism is better than capitalism.” he said. ‘We had studied socialism before these fellows were born,” Father Gross said. “We could detect the sophistry in their arguments." Residents Vote For School Consolidation PERU W — Jackson Twp. of Miami County and Richmond Twp. of Grant County have voted to consolidate with Pleasant Twp. of Grant County to build a new high school, election results showed today. Jackson and Richard Twp. resident favored the proposed consolidation 579-226. The election was held. Wednesday. Pleasant Twp. did not have to vote on the issue.

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Firemen Ara Called To Service Station The Decatut fire department was called at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to the Marathon station at the corner of 13th street and Nuttman avenue when an acetylene torch broke . and threatened to spread flatties. Damage was confined to the torch. Vietnamese Leader Speaks To Congress President Speaks To Joint Session WASHINGTON (UP)—President Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet Nam told Congress today that Asia stands at the crossroads of communism and democracy. \ Addressing a Joint session of the Senate and House, the 54-year-old visiting Vietnamese leader paid high tribute to “the generous and unselfish assistance” given to his nation by the United States. He said, however, his country still faces perilous times because of its strategic position in the front line of the anti-Communlst nations of Southeast Asia. Diem's address to Congress was one of the highlights of his four* day state visit to Washington as the guest of President Eisenhower. Earlier he conferred at the White House with President Eisenhower and other high American officials. Following his speech he was the lunch guest of Vice President Richard M. Nixon. He was to confer later today with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and visit the U.S. Supreme Court Tonight he will be honored at a dinner given by Dulles and Mrs. Dulles. “The Asian people—long humiated in their national aspirations —their human dignity injuredare no longer, as in the past, resigned and passive,” he said. “They are impatient,” he said, and “are eager to reduce their immense technical backwardness.” Diem said Western aid is playing a large part in the efforts to "safeguard liberal democracy” in Asia. “For the honor of humanity,” he said, “the United States has made the most important contribution to this end.” Diem whs expected to urge increased American aid to Viet Nanf to bolster it further against threatened red aggression from Commu-nist-controlled North Viet Nam. He wants more than the 280 million dollats per year in U.S. military and economic aid he now is getting. .

) ' . . '■ .... - ■ ■ .■. . !ui . jimnmmDMNMMMMMMMMI IKiP MEMBERS OF THE CORSAGE committee of the Decatur Garden club Spent Wednesday afternoon preparing corsages for their club to wear at the twenty-sixth annual state convention of Garden, dubs, which is being held at the Van Orman hotel in Fort Wayne today and Friday. A number of local Garden club women are attending today’s session, and even a larger number is expected to attend tomorrow s meetings, as the Decatur clubs will be the hostesses. , Pictured above are, from left to right, Mrs. Roy Runyon, hostess; Mrs. Robert Garard, Mrs. Lawrence Green, Mrs. Hersel Nash, Mrs. G. D. Mac Lean, Mrs. Mae Butler, and Mrs. Cal Yost. — (Staff photo)

Alleged Killer Is _ Captured Al Gary Sought For Slaying Os Estranged Wife GARY, Ind. (IF) — Charles Sexton, 58, sought since Tuesday in the dynamite slayings in Arkanses of his estranged wife and her five-year-old son. was captured today in a police trap sprung by three women who volunteered to “play detective.” Sexton denied planting explo-. sives beneath the bed of his wife Edna, 38. and her son by a former marriage, Charles Bittinger, at Paragould, Ark. But he signed papers permitting Arkansas authorities to extradite him. Sexton was captured on a tip from his nephew, James Sexton. The nephew said he received a telegram from Sexton yesterday, sent from Murphysboro, 111., asking for bus fare. The nephew, terrified at the -thought his uncle might come to Gary, notified police and left home. Police enlisted the help of two neighboring women. One watched die Sexton home and planned to flick on her porch light if Sexton's uncle appeared. The other watched for the porch light and planned to notify police. The plan worked. But before authorities could get to the house. Sexton left. The two women called anotheY neighbor woman and trailed Sexton on foot until they met a policeman. The officer arrested Sexton on a temporary charge of carrying a switchblade knife, a weapon banned by a new Indiana law. Officers said Sexton denied being in Arkansas at the time of the bombing. But Gary police said authorities in Arkansas claim thel can prove Sexton purchased 38 sticks of dynamite, five detonating caps and three feet of fuse in Kennett, Mo., a day or two before the blast. The explosion ripped apart the house where Sexton's wife and her children slept. Another daughter, Nancy Bittinger, 13, was injured seriously. Highway Race Ends With Seven Killed Head-on Collision Results From Race POMEROY, Ohio (UP) — Seven persons were dead today as the result of a highway race between two cars that ended in a head-on collision Wednesday night. Nancy McCoy. Cheshire, one of two persons critically injured with a skull fracture in the crash died early today. The state highway patrol reported six others were killed in the accident or died en route to a hospital. The patrol said a car driven by John Carter Smith, 21. Middleport, Ohio, was racing with another when Smith attempted to pass a truck. Smith’s car struck head-on a car driven by William Halley, 31, Cheshire. Smith and Halley were killed and their cars demoished.. George R. McCoy Jr.. 6, Cheshire. died at the seene and three others were dead on arrival at a hospital here. They were identified as Mrs. Elizabeth Halley, 32, Marshall McCoy, 40, and Mrs. Charles McCoy, 19, all of Cheshire. The other injured were Mrs. Ruby McCoy. 37, in critical condition with a skull fracture, and Ruth Anny Halley, 8, Cheshire, with minor injuries. Smith was alone. All the other dead and injured were in the Halleys’ car. Hubert Boyd, the truck driver, was uninjured and his vehicle was only slightly damaged. Colombia is the only South American country with bdth an Atlantic and Pacific coastline.

COUR'S NEWS Marriage License Roy French, 66, Terre Haute, and Velta W. Pickell, 62, Decatur route five. Set for Trial The divorce case of Patricia L. Brandyberry against Klesson Brandyberry has been set for trial May 20 on motion of the plaintiff. On motion of the plaintiff, the divorce case of Mary McGill against Perry McGill has been set for trial June 4. Estate Cases The inheritance tax report for the estate of Clifford L. Clapp has been submitted. It shows a net value of $319.62, with no tax due. A petition to sell personal property at private sale has been submitted in the estate of tester L. Morningstar, and sustained. The inheritance tax schedule for the Harley M. Tumbleson estate has been filed and a notice has been ordered returnable May 31. The report shows a net value of $14,595.26. with the widow, three daughters and a son as heirs. In the estate of Ida Myers, the inheritance tax report has been submitted, showing a net value of $5,100 with no tax due. The final report showing the balance of $5,100 has been filed and a notice

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has been ordered returnable June 5. The amended final report for the estate of John R. Clendenen has been filed. The last will and testament of William H. Frazier has been offered and accepted for probate. A bond in the sum of $24,000 has been submitted and letters have been ordered issued to John L. DeVoss. The will bequeaths a life interest to a sister. Katie Frazier, and stipulates that, at her death, the estate be divided equally among Ralph, Doy and Paul Stone and Leah Chronister. The inheritance tax schedule for the estate of Robert E. Parr has been filed and a notice has been ordered issued returnable May 31. It shows a net value of $2,189.59, with the widow, the father and the mother as heirs.

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