Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1958 — Page 2

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Attorneys Seek To Counter Prosecution Make Insanity Claim For Alleged Slayer TERRE HAUTE <UP) — Attorneys for accused slayer Thomas Whitaker will try today to counter P prosecution case which includes a detective's testimony that Whitaker had threatened to kill after a wife swap. Court-appointed pauper attorpeys N. George Nasser and Warren R. Everett said after Vigo Circuit Court recessed Monday that two of their first three witnesses would be “medical.” , Whitaker, 41, pleaded innocent on the grounds he was of unsound mine at the time of the shotgun slayings of his ex-wife, Mrs. Alma Martin. 32, his daughter, Regina, 9. and his son, Jackie, 10. The. truck driver was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Regina last June 25. Nasser said Whitaker’s wife, Dorothy, who was Mrs- Stewart Martin before her first marriage and divorce, would be one of the first three defense witnesses. Nasser said he would call “12 to 15” witnesses including Whitaker. Detective Charles Koll testified Monday that Whitaker told him “he didn’t want his children Jiving under the same poof with Martin and if he couldn’t get a square deal from the court he would eliminate the cause.” KolL said during cross-examina-tion he assumed ‘the cause” was Martin. Whitaker and Martin switched wives a few months -before the night of the slayings when Whitaker allegedly broke into Martin's $30,000 home armed with a shotgun. Authorities said when his exwife was given the children, he was enraged. Koll also testified Whitaker had charged Martin was a sexual deviate at a court hearing on Whitaker’s fight to regain custody of his children. Whitaker admitted at the hearing on March 21, 1957, the charge was based on an alleged isolated

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incident 18 years before. Koll said Martin’s ex-wife told Whitaker about the incident. , Martin, a wealthy store owner, testified earlier thirt his e*-wife became attracted to Whitaker and he became attached to Whitaker’s wife at community dances. Whitaker has a 40 per cent disability allowance from the Veteran's Administration as a psy-cho-neurotic, his attorneys said. They said they hoped the case can go to the jury by next Monday. Six Persons Die In Flaming Explosion Auto Smashes Into Gas-Filled Truck BAYTOWN, Tex. (W — A mother with her four children in her car tried vainly to avoid collision with a gasoline truck Monday night but failed. She, the four children and the truck driver died ip a flaming explosion. A car driven by Mrs. Mary Edna Taylor. 33, smashed into a gasoline filled tank truck which had jack-knifed across the road. The impact ripped the tank, causing hundreds of gallons of gasoline to explode. Four children. Leonard, 14; Mary Isabell,’ 12; Linda Elane. 10; and John Harvey. 6, died in the flames. Truck driver Milton Heaton, 26. also was killed. Frank White, of the Public Safety Department, said the truck apparently was coming downhill on State Highway 146 when Heaton slammed on the brakes, jackknifing the trailer. $3 In Conscience Money Sent Store The twinge of conscience got the best of a local resident this week, Don Whitaker, manager of the Gamble Store, reported today. In the mail today an envelope with three $1 bills had the following note " Enclosed is $3 for R< thing I took long ago. so I can be | right with God. GocFsees all.” The | note was unsigned.

Continue Probe 01 Michigan Air Crash Exhaustive Probe Os Crash Uhderway MIDLAND. Mich. (UP)—Government officials ‘ said today it would probably be a week before they pin down the cause of a Capital Airlines Viscount crash that killed 47 persons. Experts also tackled the job of identifying nearly half the bodies of victims. State police crews and FBI fingerprint men had solved the identifies of 26 victims by Monday night. Trailers were hauling away bits of Wreckage from a water-soaked cornfield where the British-built turbo-prop airliner crashed while attempting to land at Tri-City airport Easter Sunday night. The plane, Flight 67 en route from New York to Chicago, fell 2,500 feet short of the runway. Civil Aeronautics Board investigator Fred G. Powell of Chicago, said work would begin today in digging out the four buried engines of the plane. A lengthy piece by piece inspection of the wreckage Was planned. Powell Said it qould be at least a week before any reason couldbe given for the cause of the crash, but authorities said the pilot. Capt. William J. Hull. 44. Westwood, N J., might have misjudged the runway on his approach. They said the cause might also have been power or instrument! failure. The tragedy brought a renewed demand from Rep. Alvin M. Bentley <R-Mich.) for installation of a control tower and instrument landing system at Tri-City Airport. Bentley said he has been trying for three years to get modern navigational equipment at the airport. - C.A.R. BOSTON <W — Massachusetts’ new registrar of motor vehicles is Clement A. Riley. His initials fit the job.

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Paul Dunten Namtd To State Position INDIANAPOLIS - (W — Governor Handley appointed Paul Dunten, LaGrange attorney, to the Indiana State Office Building Commission Monday. Handley was forced to name six new members to the nine-man commission when six legislative members were ousted by an Indiana Supreme Court decision last week. The governor originally named James R. Fleming, co-publisher of the Fort Wayne Jounral-Gazette. When Fleming declined to serve for business reasons, Handley selected Dunten. Attack Problem Os Aged Health Care Form Joint Council To Attack Problem # CHICAGO HR — Four of the nation's top health groups Monday night announced organization a of a joint council to attack the problem of health care .for the aged. The new organization, known as the joint council to improve the health care of the aged, is sponsored by the American Medical Assn., the American Dental Assn., the American Hospital Assn., and the American Nursing Home Assn. The objectives of the council will be: —To identify and analyze the health needs of the aged. —To appraise available health resources for the aged. —To develop programs to foster the best possible health care for the aged regardless of economic status. ■■ ■ — Th? sponsors said special research projects are contemplated by each of the associations on the health problems of the aged. The research then will be pooled and programs developed In an effort to provide the aged with adequate care at a reasonable cost.

Comb Jobless Areas For Seasonal Work To Intensify Form Labor Recruitment INDIANAPOLIS IW — The Indiana Employment Security Division indicated today it will comb industrial areas racked by unemployment to find men for seasonal farm jobs.* Director William C. Stalnaker said the agricultural season "is expected to provide employment opportunities for laid-off industrial workers having previous experience in farm work.” Farm labor recruitment activities will be intensified in urban areas which have not been sources of farm labor supply in recent years when industrial demand was high, Stalnaker said. Stalnaker said that Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell asked earlier for fullest utilization of the nation's domestic farm labor supply and the curtailment of the use of foreign workers in agriculture. Indiana has depended on several thousand out-of-area workers for farm jobs in recent years, including many Texas-Mexicans. Stalnaker said the division’s Farm Placement Service will seek the full cooperation of agricultural employers in holding down the number of “imported" farm workers so that more seasonal jobs Will be available to Hoosiers this year. Convicted Slayer Seeks New Trial GREENSBURG — W Everett Ray. 32. Greensburg, who was convicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter a month ago in the Thanksgiving Day slaying of his wife, Nettie, filed amotion for a new trial Monday in Decatur Circuit Court. Ray was sentenced to 2 to 21 years in prison but is free on $5,000 bond pending action on his appeal.

Industrial bivision Luncheon Next Monday The April luncheon meeting of the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held next Monday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. . Lloyd E. .Beatty. vice president in the tfdat, department of the Lincoln National Bank and Trust company. F6rt Wayne, will be the guest speaker at this meeting. His subject will be “Everyday Economics,” which is termed the successful key to proper planning and savings towards the retirement day we are all looking forward to.” Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, asked the members of the industrial division to send their checks for payment of the luncheon costs for ■ the second quarter to the Chamber’s offices before Friday. Blame Heart Attack For Woman's Death INDIANAPOUS — W — A heart attack was blamed for the death of Mrs. Leona Lee Schumaker, 52, wife of Indianapolis industrial executive Herman A. Shumaker, at the wheel of her car Monday. The car swerved off a street and hit a stump. but authorities said crash injuries were not .severe enough to kill. Ecuadorean Airliner Is Reported Missing QUITO, Ecuador W — An Ecuadorean airliner, 25 hours overdue on a light here from the big Pacific port of Guayaquil, is believed to have crashed in the Santo Domingo jungle. The fate of the 28 passengers of the two-engined DC3 was unknown. So far as was known, there were no foreigners aboard the plane A . The poet Chaucer called the daisy "ee of the daie.” In Ben Jonson s time the flower was called “Day’s Eye” and later became known as “daisy."

Mangled Body Os Young Woman Found Find Mangled Body Along Rail Tracks BEARDSTOWN. 111. (UP)— The mangled body of a young woman apparently in her early 20s was found along the CB&Q Railroad tracks here early today, dismembered by the wheels of a train. Authorities were unable to identify the body. Police said it appeared to be that of a young married woman, for a wedding ring was on the left hand. The dismembered body was found shortly after 7 a.m. by James Utter, Vermont, a CB&Q track supervisor, who was riding a railroad work car into Beardstown- ThwTtocation of the apparent accident was in an industrial area near the Illinois River. Utter said it was first thought the woman must have been crushed under the wheels of a train earlier this morning, but later indications were that the body had been on the tracks since late Monday. Jack Gray, Beardstown, a CB&Q Railroad detective said the young woman was dressed in a dark red jacket. The body Was taken to a local funeral home and an investigation begun. Police here said no one who might be the dead woman had been reported missing locally. The body was found about 30 yards south of a viaduct crossing the Illinois River. Warn State Workers To Pay Old Debts Warning Is Issued By Deputy Auditor INDIANAPOLIS W — Deputy State Auditor Allen J. Lindley warned state employes Monday to pay their old debts or find their Indiana pay checks cut off. Lindley said his office is getting tired of serving as a “collection agency” for creditors of persons on the state payroll. He said his office was served with 200 garnishment orders and tax levies last yeas. “The state shouldn’t be called upon to handle these cases,” Lindley said. “It could cost several thousands of dollars to set up a system to withhold , money from pay checks.” Lindley said one payroller piled up more than $1,200 in unpaid bills for art lessons, candy, tailormade clothes, furniture and loans. Another owed federal income taxes for one quarter of 1956. Some owed state gross income taxes. Lindley said he has notified all department heads to make sure their employes pay their bills. Lindley said the heads agreed except Motor Vehicles Commissioner Robert McMahon, who said it would make him “personally responsoble” for the bills if his workers failed to pay them. Lindley said his ofice will not; honor garnishment orders but that levies for unpaid taxes get quick action. Trade in a good town — Decatur

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Wren Lions Club Flans Box Social The Wren, 0.. Lians club will sponsor a box social open iothe public at 6:30 p.m. April 16, all proceeds to go to the community projects, Pat' J. Moreland, president, reported today. The ladies are to prepare a lunch tor two, and the boxes will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. The club had decided to sponsor the Little League baseball team for the coming season. The Rev. W. Purdy was speaker at the 'Wren Lions club meeting held last Saturday night. He spoke on the Easter theme. _ Soil Conservation Officers Reelected Election Meeting Held Monday Night AU officers of the Adams county soil conservation district were reelected Monday night to the offices they have held since the district was formed in 1953. , Ben Gerke. prominent dairy farmer of Union township, was again chosen chairman of the group. Ivan Huser, of Hartford township, was rechosen vice chairman, and Ben Mazelin, of Monroe township, was chosen secretarytreasurer. The other members of the board are Herman Bulmahn and Richard Scheumann of Preble township. Four individual farms and one ditch group were brought into the district Monday night. John Ludy. of Monroe township; Albert Ewel, of Preble township; Arthur Hartman, of Preble township; Erma Lewton of Root township, and the Martin Selking ditch group of Preble and Root townships were approved by the supervisors. Harry Moore, assistant state conservationist, Sheldon Boone, watershed project leader, and Waldo Bailey, area engineer, were scheduled to arrive in Decatur today to make a tour of the LongAmstutz watershed. Residents of the Long-Amstutz watershed have applied for federal aid in their area under the small Watershed act. The 2,500 acres which drain from rolling high land into the 600 acre flood plain area need basic conservation practices to hold back the water which rushes over the flood plain near the Wabash river. A dike is presently maintained, but another pump is needed, and help In maintaining the dike will be asked. Booklets for ministers on soil stewardship week. May lj-18, with sermons on soil stewardship, were received by the supervisors, and plans were made to distribute the pamphlets to the ministers. An application to. select three boys to attend the Olive Lake conservation camp this June was drawn up. The applications will be available to youths 12 through 15 years of age from agriculture teachers in the county schools. They include questions on all phases of land, water, forest and wildlife conservation. Three youths will be chosen, and the district will pay sls towards the six-day camp, while the applicant will pay the remaining $5.