Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1958 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publisher Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC Entered the Decatur, ImL. Post Office as Second Class Mattei Dick D Heller Presiaeu, J. H. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Bates: By Mall In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 18.00; Six months, $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50 By Carrier: 30 cents per week Single copies. 8 cents •

It’s still winter enough to drive carefully. o o Winter weather is here. We’ve had frigid temperatures, Snow and a little sleet. It hasn’t been as bad however as lots of winter days we remember, but It makes most of us wish for spring and summer. o—- o Automobiles that ventured out early on Saturday and Sunday were proceeding with caution. Streets were slippery and partly covered with snow. Motorists are finally learning that a little caution can save not only Injury but also property. o o Florida and other southern states continue to bask in freezing weather. It doesn't make too much difference now because the crops are ruined and the vacationers are coming back home by the thousands. ——o O’Major league baseball drills will start in earnest March 1 and be making ready for the long summer grind. Before long now the sports writers will come along with their 1958 guesses and it won't be long until t regular games start. 1 ——— This area has been extremely fortunate as far as serious auto mishaps are concerned so maybe it's a good thing that we have left of center and the like, charges y instead of more serious ones. At least t£ese minor charges if any make the record look good because who involved in a serious or fatal auto accident is going to appeal such a minor offense? —o—o Lack of attendance may force the Fort Wayne Hoosiers to close shop. Crowds at the last couple of games have dropped to a couple of hundred paid admissions. Os » • course we’ve seen games by the Pistons which drew only a few hundred and this is pretty good evidence that interest in basketball stops at the high school and college levels in this area.

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It still isn't time to get your lawn mower out. —-o The tourney draw is over and some 700 high school basketball teams will now knuckle down to drilling for the opening round of the great Indiana basketball tourney. The games will be witnessed by thousands and they will be played and replayed around the stove for the whole of next year. Salesmen and political candidates will have to take a back seat in Indiana to> the next few weeks as Hoosiers all take their basketball seriously. o——o You might save a lot of money and a lot of inconvenience if you j check the chimneys to your home and your heating plant. These are the days, when you’re overheating your heating appliances that fires can happen suddenly and tragically. Before you retire for the night, make sure your heat is turned down and it isn’t a bad idea to take a quick look outside for chimney sparks. —o—o World Day of Prayer, sponsored by the Women of the Associated I Churches of Decatur will be ob- i served Friday, February 21 at 7:30 o’clock in the evening at ! Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. An appropriate service has been arranged and the public is invited to take part in the serv-. I ice. A good attendance is always marked in this annual event and | the program will last just an ■ hour. It always is held in conjunc- ' tion with the Lenten observance, — . o o ; .There is no immediate let-up predicted for the cold wave which has visited this area and the entire midwest. Forecasters believe that perhaps we may get a little relief but nothing definite is promised. The cold blasts have brought the most severe weather of recent years and Decatur and this area doesn’t have any complaint when we see what has happened temperature ■ wise and snow-wise in other. parts of the state midwest.

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20 Y ears Ago | Today February 19, 1838 — Mrs. Lou Miller is appointed deputy county treasurer during tax-paying time. . - |- W. Guy Brown is elected president of Rotary club, Roscoe Glendening, Walter Gard and Herman Krueckeberg are elected as new directors of the Chamber of Commerce at annual meeting held last night. Decatur P.T.A. holds founder’s day observation. I Wabash river rises following recent heavy rains. f State police issue warnings to truck drivers that their trucks must be equipped with directional sibnals by March 1. Lt. Governor Schricker will be speaker at annual farm banquet at Monroe Methodist church next . Monday night. | o - Mercury Slowly Rising In Stale Weatherman Warns Winter Not Ended By UNITED PRESS The mercury stayed above zero: today and continued a slow steady rise in Indiana. But winter wasn’t over by a long sight. Five days of temperatures averaging 8 degrees below normal stretched ahead through next Monday, and long-range forecasts indicated, the moderating trend which started Tuesday might reverse itself by the weekend. Upstate, a harassed area containing 300,000 or more persons continued to fight snowdrifts New snows fell on South Bend and LaPorte and additional snow was expected today. At least two important high-! ways—U.S. 421 and U.S. 12—were blocked temporarily by drifts in the northwestern part of Hoosier-! land and driving was hazardous in spots. Three inches of new snow fell on South Bend, where the depth now measures 23 inches, and about an inch fell on LaPorte. Temperatures crested at heights ranging from 16 at Fort Wayne to 23 at Evansville Tuesday in the first letup in the winter’s worst cold wave. They dropped to lows ranging from 3 at Indianapolis to 12 at South Bend early this morning, and headed for highs from 18 to 28 today. Tonight’s lows will range from 6 to 12 and Thursday’s highs from 22 to 25.. . The outlook for Friday was a further moderation with overnight lows from 5 to 15 above zero and highs from 20 to 30. World Day Os Prayet At Monroe Friday Churches of the Monroe community have been invited to join in the observance of the World Day of Prayer Friday afternoon I at 3:45 o'clock at the Monroe , Methodist church. The program has been arranged by the W. S. C. S. of the church, with Mrs. Glen Stucky in Charge. The program to be used was written by Australian women. ——— Consolidated School At Orange Destroyed CONNERSVILLE (W — F i r e destroyed the Orange Twp. consolidated school southeast of here today, forcing more than 200 pupils to flee without their wraps into icy weather. ' s One volunteer fireman from Glenwood was burned about the legs while fighting the blaze and trying to keep it from spreading to an adjoining gymnasium. f The first patent for chewing gum was issued in 1869 to W. F. Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio.

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24 Italian Seamen Reported Missing Three Crewmen Are Saved During Night NORFOLK, Va. (UP'—A rescue Vessel reported today that 24 IthL i ian seamen still were missing in storm-swept waters off the North ' Carolina coast, where they were dumped from a lifeboat Tuesday i before the ship could haul them aboard. I The American liner President Adams radioed that it was con,tinuing a search for the men, but that its own lifeboat had to be abandoned “because of heavy I seas.’’ Three members of the Ital-j ian crew were rescued during the j night. The ship also reported that the i ore vessel Bonitas, abandoned by ; crewmen Tuesday when it was crippled in a severe' Atlantic storm, was still afloat j but “down by the head." Three Navy destroyer escorts, aj Coast Guard cutter and a mer-; chant vessel joined the search i during the night, the Adams reported. But heavy seas continued and visibility was greatly reduced by a “blinding snowstorm." Two of the men were saved in a rescue over the stern of the Adams, according to the message, and the third plucked ; from the towering waves moments 'later- The other 24 drifted away in the darkness. The search was centered about 150 miles off Cape Lookout, N.C. The liner which was headed for Panama, said the Bonitas was drifting "about two miles from my present position” with two of its holds flooded. Language Texts "Tlk" MOSCOW, Idaho — — Language students at the University of Idaho can now “hear” as well as I see their texts. A language labor- ' tory using records and tape recordings on- textbook lessons has just been inaugurated. Tapers are made from textbooks used in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian classes.

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Hutcheson Refuses Comment On Charge I Indicted Tuesday In Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Prosecutor John G. Tinder charged today Carpenters Union President Maurice Hutcheson apparently played the “dominant role” in an alleged plot to profit on land-buy-ing schemes and return kickbacks to officials of the Indiana State Highway Department. Hutcheson and two other top officials of the 750,000-member union refused comment on indictments returned Tuesday accusing them of bribing former assistant highway right -of -way director Harry Doggett. The carpenters were accused of plotting with Doggett to make $81,400 profits on land deals in Lake and Wayne Counties. Tinder charged the profits were split five ways to include Doggett, the three carpenters and former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith. The other carpenters officials were O. William Blaier, vice president, and Frank M. Chapman, treasurerTinder said the "common link” between the highway department and union officials was the friendship of Hutcheson and Smith, both long-time residents of Milan, a small town 75 miles southeast of here. Profit Repaid Smith, already under an appealed sentence >of 2 to 14 years I imprisonment in another phase of i the highway scandals, owned a I Milan insurance agency. Hutcherson operated a Milan auto agency. “From all the circumstances, it I would appear Mr. Hutcheson had the dominant role in the conspiri acy,” iTnder said, “with Mt. Chapman doing most of the leg work and with an assist from Blaier.” Last year, the carpenters officials repaid to the state $78.0X1 as their profit on 9 of the 10 deals involved in the case—all from i transactions on the Tri-State Ex- . press way route in Lake County. I Attorneys for the five defendants said it was too soon to say ' whether any of their clients might plead guilty. But Tinder said he expected no guilty pleas. “These kind of people don’t I plead guilty,” Tinder said. But he I added he was . “fairly confident' ■ I of convictions. F Tinder said “about 14 witnesses'* were ready to testify for the state. He’said he would introduce bank records showing Smith and the four indicted received their share of the profits from a “Frank Chapman Special Fund” Post $5,000 Bond Tinder said Smith was not indicted because he is already charged in another case with bribery. m connection with sales of more than a million dollars worth of equipment to the highway department. Doggett and the three union officials surrendered late Tuesday at Marion County Jail and posted $5,000 bond each. In still another highway scandal case, more witnesses were scheduled today in the trial of Austin house mover Marvin Preble. J Preble is accused of perjury [and filing a false, claim in pe- ; ceiving $8,850 in highway funds for a house-moving job that was never done. Deputy Prosecutor Asa J. Smith put two witnesses on the stand Tuesday, including Mrs. Ann Cain. She testified it was her

bouse along toe rout* of to* Madl-i son Ave. Expressway here that Preble contracted to move. The I job was never completed because of changes In expressway plans. Thefts Are Reported At Ice House Here Kenneth Milla, 122 East Oak street, reported to the police early this morning that sometime Tuesday night someone had broken into his ice house and had taken two ice chests, valued at approximately $lO apiece, and a 100-foot section

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CHAPTER 33 | RINDO’S SPRINGS looked like a graveyard at night, absolutely dead. “Let's go have a closer look,” I suggested. “On foot,” BUI Hageman eaid and dismounted. That looked like a far walk to me, nearly three hundred yards, but since Bill was running things, 1 stepped from the saddle. We led our horses off the trail and tied them in a clump of bushes. With Bill leading, we soft-footed around the edge of town and threaded our way through a littered alley. Once 1 feU over a stack of old boxes and raised a clatter. Bill picked me up and said. "Why don't you just yell out, Smoke, and let Overland know we re coming?” He started to move on, then stopped bolt-still when three shots hammered the night, the echo bucketing over the empty town. When he started to run, I followed him. Heck Overland’s String of pearls was in the middle of the block, on our side, and three barked shins later we were belli fighting to see who could get through the back door at the same time. Out front someone raced off the porch and mounted his horse. Closely following was the sound of a horse running. By the time we made the street, all that was left of the rider was a cloud of dust. “Let’s find Overland,” Bill suggested. I fumbled around until I found a kerosene lamp, then scratched a match to light it BiU took the lamp from me and began to move around the room, looking in all the dark spots. Then I remembered something. “He lives upstairs, Bill.” We went into the alley again, but the outside stairs were too rotten to trust “Around the front,” Bill said. “Our shy friend came from there.” After passing through the saloon again, we walked to the first gap between the buildings. Bill shined the lamplight into the crack and we saw the stairs. He went up first, two at a time, and found the top door open. I crowded in behind him, then wished that I hadn’t Heck Overland was there all right, but he wasn’t going to do Us any good. He lay on his bed. leaking blood. His eyes were wide-staring as though he found the dark ceiling utterly fascinating. Right in the middle of his chest three slugs had been planted close enough to be covered with the palm of the hand. I doubt that Overland ever knew what had hit him: he must have been asleep when the killer 1 cut loose. ■

I of drop cord. The thief or thieves I broke into the building by knocking off a padlock on the door of the storage room. Nothing else appeared to be missing at first check and the police are continuing the investigation. Sheriffs Report Is Issued For January The activities, report for tha month of January was released today by sheriff Merle Affolder. The report shows that seven prisoners

I BiU Hageman cuffed the back of his hand against his hat brim, shoving it to the back of his head. "Someone sure knew his way around.” He motioned toward the bed. "Without the light, a man would never know the bed was there.” "Let's get out of here,” I suggested, suddenly discovering that a man is never as brave as he thinks he is. “We ought to bury him,” BUI said. “AU right Can you get him down alone ? I’ll see if I can scare up a couple of shovels.” Digging a hole, then covering it up takes time; we buried Heck Overland in the alley. The night was pleasantly cool but we were both sweating by the time we were finished.

I leaned,on my shovel and said, 1 "You know, killing Heck was 1 pretty stupid. Luther’s been convicted of killin' Everett and i everyone will figure that whoever done that has been rustling too. Seems ‘o me that with Heck dead, folks wiU start to wonder- . ing if the wrong man wasn’t sent i to jail." “I don’t think many folks ever > come over here," BiU said. “Heck > could have laid up there, dead for I weeks, maybe a month before i anyone ever found nim. Then - what was to say Heck wasn't I shot and robbed?” He shook his i head. "We’re right back where we started. Smoke, but we’ll flush • him yet.” Right then I wouldn’t have 1 given a lead nickel for our 1 chances. Fifteen minutes sooner » and wed have caught our man j coming down those stairs, but I then I guess a lot of good things - are missed by fifteen minutes. "Nothing more to do here,” I said and Bill agreed. We walked „ out of the dead town to where o our horses were tied and started e back to Ponca City. i A man can do a lot of thinking while he’s riding and come up - with some very odd answers, t Maybe BiU was doing the same. J but if he was, he was waiting for e me to draw the first conclusions, e which didn’t take long for I've d never learned to keep my mouth - shut d “Overland was killed to shut him up,” 1 said. "Somebody's II scared." o "That’s no lie, but who?” I. 1 didn’t know but I intended e to find out. "It was no secret d what me and Heck fought about :- in Lanahan’s.” I said. "Any damn s fool could have figured it out ;- from our conversation before the d fur flew.” , “That's a big help," Bill said r dryly. “I wonder where Randolf it is tonight?" ir I laughed. “Not Vince’" BiU turned his head and looked

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were confined in the county jail during January. The department investigated eight new criminal cases, covered 14 property damage accidents, covered two personal injury accidents and made four arrests resulting from accidents. Papers served totaled 34, and approximately 8,500 miles were traveled in the two patrol cars. Two persons were initially committed to the state hospital and one was returned. One alcoholic was committed to the hospital.

at me. “Smoke, you can’t tell everything about a man from his face. People ain't always what they seem." I wondered if he was talking about Cord. That might sound strange, my willingness to include Cord tn with everyone else as a suspect, but since I’d been suspicious of one brother, it wasn't hard for me to move on to the other. Anyway, I was sure going to ask Cord what he had been doing all evening. And 1 was going to get an answer. I guess Pete Lanahan’s Colt .45 made me feel man-sited. When we got back to the city, BiU took the horses to the livery stable while I went on to the hotel. 1 had no idea which room Cord had. but 1 was sure Edna would know; she’d just have to

forgive me for waking her at three tn the morning. As 1 approached her door I stopped, for she was talking, not so loud 1 could near her words, but talking nevertheless. Then I heard Cord's voice, indistinct, but still his, unmistakably. They sounded like they were arguing, then the voices cut off quick and I heard Edna step to the door. There was no place to hide, just bare walls and a dozen doors. Quickly 1 backed, tried the first knob my hand reached and felt it give. I just managed to close it to an inch crack when Edna JlWlgLher door open. . “Just get out,” she said flatly. “Cord, I would never help you, not after what you did to Luther. That was a cruel thing, and if I disappointed you, I’m glad." Cord stepped out, his face darkly angry. “You can’t change what you are, Edna. You’re a tramp and it’ll come out in time.” He canted his head sideways and spoke more softly. "You know what Ma would do if she found out? She’d kick you off the place." “Then go tell her,” Edna snapped. “Tell her now. You’ve nothing to gain by keeping it from ' her." Cord’s shoulders rose and fell slightly. "Plenty of time, Edna You remember what 1 told you now." He turned then and walked »n down the halt Behind me bed springs squeaked unexpectedly and I nearly had my heart jump out of my throat. . Ma’s voice said, “Who’s there?" 1 was in her room! Edna had closed her door and ' 1 guessed that Cord had started . down the steps, so 1 quickly , stepped out. . .. 1 “1 showed her the gun under ! my coat. Tm going to face Cord and have it out,’ I said." Tomorrow the story continues 1 to a dimax.