Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1958 — Page 6

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Mrs. Whitaker To Continue Testimony Returns To Stand To Defend Second Mate TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UP) — j Mrs,, Dorothy Whitaker, who traded husbands with a woman later killed in a triple slaying, was to return to the stand' in defense of her second mate. Her first husband, she testified; Tuesday at the trial pf Thomas Whitaker, had never cordmanded ( her love during 21 years of marriage. She also accused Stewart Martin, 42, with being sexually I abnormal. Whitaker burst into Martin’s home last June 25 on a shotgun rampage that killed his ex-wife, Mrs. Alma Martin, his son and J his daughter. Defense attorneys have pleaded innocence for him on grounds the truck driver was mentally incompetent at the time, j The shooting occurred three months after Whitaker and Martin had swapped wives, with Whitaker's children going with their mother to Martin’s fashionable home. Whitaker is on 4rial for the slaving of his daughter, Regina, 9Prosecuting attorneys objected strenuously Tuesday when Mrs. ;• Whitaker testified that her life, with Martin during the years 1936 to 1957 was tiot normal. “<’ne reason <1 was unhappy' was our sexual life,'’ Mrs. Whit-' aker said. “It was unpleasant.’ Earlier in the trial a detective quoted Whitaker as telling him j Mrs. Whitaker had said Martin ! was a sexual deviate. Defense at- j torneys have indicated this may, have been the reason Whitaker was so desperate to have his children returned to him. . Another witness, Dr. L.J. Ma*-’ lone, said Tuesday..h£_had examined Whitaker in 1942 and detected a hairline skull fracture incurred in an accident. He conceded under questioning, however, that “only a small percentage’’ of persons I suffering skull fractures “become insane ”—-: A third defence witness submitted records regarding Whitaker's injury-conhected disability from World War 11. Arthur W. Hendricks. an attorney for the Indianapolis regional office of the Veterans Administration, said Whitaker had been receiving a 40 per cent ' disability since the end of the war, 30 per cent due to psycho neurosis and 10 per cent due to trench foot. Also introduced as evidence by i the defense were quotes made by; Whitaker to VA officials during;

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I examinations following his discharge. Among his statements was an expressed "fear of getting real mad ...” leading to violence that “might hurt or Kill somebody.” r Plan Conservation Education Camps 13th Annual Camps J At Versailles Park ■ ~ . The 13th annual Indiana cohser- i vation education camp will be held ; this summer in Versailles state j park, Versailles, Ripley county, j The course will be given in two three-week sessions. The first session will start June 16 and continue to July 5. The second session ' will begin July 7 and continue to | July 26. Three semester hours of upper division credit will be given for completion of each session. Howard H. Michaud of the forestry and conservation department at Purdue University will be camp I director. The subjects of geology, soils, ■ forestry, water resources and ecology will be included in the first three-week session. Entomology, •fishery and wildlife management, social and -economic relations, and i curriculum development will be subjects given during the second three-week session. Michaud urges as many as possible t° attend, both sessions in order to receive the maximum benefit of the course. Credits earned at the camp may be applied toward the license requirement conservation for teachers and may also be applied toward a master’s degree. Total cost of the course, including fees, room, meals and instruction is $62.50 for three weeks or $125 for six weeks. Nonresident students are charged an additional fee of $22.50 for each three-week ! session. Many organizations in the state have scholarships available to teachers who apply for them. The camp is sponsored by Purdue, the state department of public instruction and Indiana department of conservation. Additional information may be obtained by writing Prof. Michaud, department of forestry and conservation. Purdue .University, Lafayette. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat i Want Ad— they bring results.

' I Coroner's Inquest ' Friday In Stabbing Lana Love Letters Revealed By Press HOLLYWOOD (UP> — Movietown productions presents: "The Mobster and the Movie Star”— co-starring Mickey Cohen and Lana Turner. Oddball billing? Not at all. It's a class “B” movie script ■ taken from real life. It's in pro-' duction right now, but you’ll never see the epic in your local theater. A vendetta was born Good Friday when the blond glamor girl’s daughter Cheryl, 14, stabbed Johnny Stompanato to death. Cohen swore he would get to the bottom of the "mystery.” "Lana was chasing Johnny.” the stubby Cohen maintains. “If she had left hirn alone Johnny would be alive roday. There’s more to this case than the public knows” Because darkly handsome Johnny formerly was Mickey’s bodyguard. Cohen, in true underworld tradition, reasons he owes his exhenchman some sort of justice. Monday Cohen was tried for slugging a waiter in a restaurant partly owned by Frank Sinatra, and he blames Lana for his conviction. “A coupla hours before I’m due in court she says she's afraid of a reprisal by the mob,” Mickey , said in wounded terms. “Then she asks for police protection “So naturally everybody thinks I’m guilty of punching the waiter.” Cohen paced the plush livingroom of his apartment in a pair of baby blue pajamas, the picture of outraged innocense. “I used to think Lana was an okay gal, but now I know better. She's -trying to ruin my reputation." Mickey, who’s been imprisoned, shot at, roughed up by the cops and generally shunned by the ' Blue Book crowd, is touchy about; , his reputation. "That's why I don't feel so bad ' about making available to the press those love letters Lana: wrote to Johnny. It served her; right. Boy, were they mushy. I! couldn't stand to read them myself" . ' Lana, after seeking protection, has clammed up. She wont talk ! to anyone, much less Cohen. Both have been subpenaed for Friday's coroner’s inquest. Letters from voluptuous Lana to Stompanato were printed Tuesday jin a copyrighted article by the

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Los Angeles Evening Herald-Ex-press. They badly dented Miss, Turner's story that it was Stem-" panato who pursued her—without encouragement — to London and Mexico. In them, the blond actress addressed Stompanato as her “dearest, darling love,” “dear lover," "honey pot,” “darling papito,” and “daddy darling.” The letters were written . from various parts of Europe to Stompanato and dated from last fall. Cheap Atomic Power May Be On Horizon Navy Breakthrough On Heat Conversion WASHINGTON (UP)—The Navy believes it is “on the verge of a breakthrough” in efforts to convert heat directly into electricity. If it is, cheap atomic power is 1 on the horizon and the existing conventional power industry faces a revolution. In testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee Rear Adm. A M. Morgan of the Bureau of Ships said: “We’ are on the verge of a ■ breakthrough apparently in con- ; version of heat to electric power through thermoelectric couples.” Morgan added that “We should have something definite on this • in a matter of three years.” In thermoelectric couples two different metals are joined, and I (one is heated. Electrons thus stirred up flow from one metal to the other, creating an electric current. Such couples in the form of tiny ■ bars or wires have long been used as temperature gauges and even as weak power supplies. The efficiency of conversion was too low, however, to make them useful on a large scaleIn his testimony, released this week, Morgan said: “In the past we have had such couples but their efficiency has been low, a fraction of 1 per cent. i The more sophisticated efforts i have gotten up to about 1 per ; cent. “We now'have a field of endeavj or which if successful will enable lus to get efficiencies comparable ' to those obtained with conventional power plants.’' ! Morgan did not specifically [mention atomic energy. But nuj clear power enthusiasts dream of ; finding away to convert atomic heat directly into electrical power. This would eliminate costly items like heat - transfer equipment, boilers, turbines and generators. I 1 1

Poll Reveals Peace Is Top Issue Os 'SB ' Ninth Annual Poll Is Conducted By Senator From lowa By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)-The most urgent questions confronting Republican and Democratic politicians alike In this congressional campaign year are these: —Which issues and problems do the voters rate as most important? —How do they- stand on those issues and problems? The campaigning politician who knows the answers will know, also, how to get himself elected. It is almost as simple as that. With that in mind, consider the poll being conducted now by Sen. Thomas E. Martin (R-lowa>. Martin has published a compilation of first returns from what he describes as his ninth annual questionnaire to the people of lowa. He reported that in February he mailed 40,638 questionnaires to lowans, addressed to every 20th householder in town and country. Suggested 16 Issues The senator obtained the names from rural directories, city directories and telephone directories. No ordinary pollster is Martin. He reports how many questionnaires he distributed and tabulates replies in terms of people instead of percentages- Morevoer, the returns down occupationally and between men and womens Martin asked his lowans to <ndicat among 16 suggested issues those which they considered most important today. Laboring men, businessmen, white collar workers and miscellaneous respondents made government spending the No. 1 issue. Farmers made farm prices and farm policies No. 1 by a lop-sided margin. Professional men named American foreign policy. Women voted overwhelmingly for maintaining peace. The women's second choice was government spending. Their third, farm prices and policies. Laboring men rated taxation and maintaining peace after government . spending. Farmers put government spending in second I place and maintaining peace third ‘.Businessmen voted second and ’third places to peace and labor policies Second and third choices of professional men were peace and spending. White collar workers rated taxation and American foreign policy two and three. Miscellaneous respondents named peace and taxation. Favor More Building These preliminary returns were from 5,638 replies received of which 1,242 were from farmers and 2.295 from women. Labor contributed 651, businessmen 366. professionals 324, white collar 432 and miscellaneous 328. Each category gave a favorable majority vote to this question: Do you approve increasing the federal debt to build hospitals, highways, schools, flood control projects etc., to stimulate the economy w’hen needed? All categories except labor favored federal law to prohibit the union shop, the so-called right-to-work law. The labor vote was 312314 against such. Women voted most heavily for a law to require unions to report their financial The combined votes of all categories made peace the No. 1 political issue of 1958, government spending No. 2, farm prices and policies No. 3 and taxation No- 4. Least interest was in the administration of outer space programs. Rain Is Forecast Throughout State Rainfall Forecast Tonight; Thursday By UNITED PRESS More rain headed for Indiana today to add to the Easter weekend precipitation totals. The Weather Bureau forecast rain tonight and Thursday throughout the state with more showers likely on Friday. The fiveday outlook called for additional rain, about Sunday. Temperatures, meanwhile, remained moderate and were expected to stay slightly below normal the rest of the week. Highs Tuesday ranged from 48 at South Bend to 62 at Evansville. The mercury dropped early this morning to lows ranging from a sub-freezing 28 at Fort Wayne to 45 at Evansville, then headed for highs expected to range in the 50s today. Tonight’s lows will rarige in the 30s north and 40s south and Thursday’s highs from 46 to 54. The five-day outlook for the period ending next Monday called for temperatures averaging 2 to 5 degrees below normal highs of 55 to 68 and normal lows of 36 to 50, with minor day-to-day changes. Precipitation . will average less than .25 of an inch north to .25 to .75 inches and locally more in the south and central portions.

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THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. Decatur plant, made a gift of $2,000 to the Adams county memorial hospital recently to help complete the new addition to the building. Pictured above, left, is Cal E. Peterson, chairman of the hospital board of trustees, receiving the check from George W. Auer, plant manager. Looking on is George Laurent, personnel manager of the Decatur plant. The $2,000 will be used to buy equipment necessary to furnish the addition which includes 35 memorial units, two surgery rooms, a new nursery for the second floor maternity department, and new rooms for the doctors and nurses.—(G. E. Photo'

DePauw Will Grant Honorary Degrees Give Nine Degrees At Graduate Rites GREENCASTLE — (IP) — Eight men in addition to British JPrime Minister Harold Macmillan will receive honorary degrees from DePauw University at the school's H9th annual commencement June 8. Mar .dllan will make the commencement address and be given an honorary doctor of laws degree. Dr. Leroy E. Burney, U.S. surgeon general and former Indiana state health comissioner, will receive a doctor of science degree and Robert W. Conder, vice president of the Chrysler Corp., a doctor of humane letters degree. Charles B. Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, will be presented a doctor of laws decree. Other hororaries will go to Robert H. Deardon, presidentelect of Anderson College, and Francis M. Hughes, Indianapolis attorney, and the following ministers: Revs. Guy D. Carpenter, Evansville, Charles M. Smith. Valparaiso. and Paul Yinger, Upper Montclair, N. J. New Castle Records First Traffic Death NEW CASTLE — (IP) — Newcastle's first traffic fatality in more than two years was recorded today with the death of Pearl Williams, 77. who was struck by an automobile Tuesday night as he walked with his wife to church for a revival meeting. Williams died early this morn-„ ing in Henry County Hospital/ first victim of a traffic accident in the city since Dec. 4, 1955. The car was driven by Keith Rains. 31, New Castle. — Air Force Announces High-Speed Gun Test EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. ■W — The Air Force reported Tuesday it has tested a research gun capable of firing a .60 calibre projectile at a speed of 8,000 miles an hour. The gun is powered by compressed nitrogen gas. IKE (Continued xrom page one) damage world leadership of the United States. —After first refusing with a crisp no to evaluate chances of GOP congressional candidates in ■ the fall elections, he said they can win if they work hard and intelli- ; gently. Cites Higher Food Prices , In answering one econ o m i c ’ question, the President said that I he had found that it was not unusual for living costs to go up during a recession. But he added that he wished it was not so. He said the rise in living costs ■ was due mainly to increases in the prices of food and services. 1 He said some other prices had fallen, but not enough to offset > hikes in food and services costs i The President was asked if he > expects to make a decision on cut- • ting taxes this month. He said i that he sees no need for one this month. He sgid the question might , run along until the end of this ' session of Congress, which is expected to wind up in July. The President said he sees no ’ need for any such emergency action as cutting taxes now. He said his mail has not indi- ' cated any public clamor for a • general tax cut; that most of the people writing him about cutting ( taxes want some particular excise > tax cut. | ■ - Trade in a good town — Decatur

Seeks Decision On . Tavern Closing Hour Attorney General Asks Early Ruling INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—lndiana Atty. Gen, Edwin Steers today asked the Indiana Appellate Court to speed up a decision on the closing hour for Hoosier taverns during the five-month daylight saving time period beginning April 27. e Steers requested in a petition to the court that it move the case up on the docket and try for an early ruling beer use "fast” time is only 2% W'eeks off. The tavern closing time issue was raised last year after the 1957 Legislature enacted a law declaring Central Standard Time was the legl time for Indiana seven months of the year and Central Daylight Saving Time was legal the other five months. Indianapolis taverns sought a declaratory judgment to permit > them to stay open until 1 a.m. • c.dt. on grounds the existing [ liquor laws closing taverns’: : ‘t£t midnight meant c.s.t A Marion Superior Court ruling held that taverns could stay open until 1 a.m. The Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission appealed the ruling. Steers said in his petition that confusion exists. He said some taverns are planning to stay open to 1 a.m. and others plan to close at 12 midnight. He said both litigants have filed briefs stating . their cases fully and that unless an early decision is made law enforcement will be “more difficult and practically impossible.”

AUCTION SALE ANTIQUE FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD GOODS SATURDAY, APRIL 12th, 1 P.M. LOCATION: 632 South 13th Street, Decatur, Indiana ANTIQUES: AU of these antiques are in excellent condition. Marble top chest, walnut pulls, swivel mirror; Walnut chest with carvl ed pulls and top drawers; Walnut chest w|th original acorn pulls and swivel miAor; Light chest with walnut trim; 3 Drawer chest with solid ' marble top; 2 Large mirrors with walnut frames; Large oak frame ' mirror; % Ash bed, walnut trim; % Walnut poster bed, acorn carved • head board; Full size walnut poster bed; % High poster solid maple ■ bed; Walnut table with' white marble top; Round walnut table; Maple . stand; Organ stool? Pitcher; Ash stand; Magazine rack; 6 Maple chairs with new cane bottoms; Drop leaf ext. table; 8 Day Welch clock; 8 Day French marble clock, walnut base; Love seat with walnut frame on casters; Cherry and Oak fireplace mantels; 7 Box spyings and innerspring mattresses to fit above beds. ; HOUSEHOLD GOODS: Occ. chair & rocker to match: 2 Tilt back chairs & ottomans; 2 Pc. Living room suite; ,2 Reed chairs; Reed ‘ lamp table; 2 Walnut lamp tables; Coffee table; End tables; Console ’ radio; Floor & table lamps; Dresser & bed lamps; Desk lamps; HaU 1 trees; Occ. tables; Walnut desk chair; Pictures; Frames; Mirrors; 1 Walnut book shelves; Formica top kitchen extension table, 5 chairs; ■ Deluxe electric aut. stove; Mixmaster; Sandwich toaster; El. corn popper; High chair; Childs chair; 4 Metal folding chairs; Old fashioned kitchen cabinet; 2 New England Maple milk stools: Baby crib, : mattress; Baby carriage;. Play pen: Baby walker; StroUer; Bathint ette; Baby car seat; Kiddie car seat; El. bottle warmer; Single bed. - springs & mattress; Vanity; 7 Ft. Umbrella tent; Flower pots, dishes, 3 pots, pans, etc.; 31 inch Power mower; Duo manifold for Chev.; Pot 1 belly stove. « TOYS: American Flyer Elec, train, complete with 2 switches, lights, 3 tunnels, extra track, accessories, trestles, on plywood; Lots of toys 1 such as pool table, carom board, lawn set, wagons, etc., Model planes; • Engines and accessories. t STUDENT TRUMPET. ' MISC. ARTICLES: Lawn chairs; gas hot plate; Porch glider: Venetian 5 blinds; Galv. tubs: Tub stands; 2 Sleds; Hand sprayer; Garden culti- ■ vator; Catsup bottles and capper; Cistern pump; tool 1 chest; Wooden planes; Saw vise: % & % Elec, motors'*; 100 Ft. cord; 5 14 Ft. extension ladder; Elec, hand saw. t LUMBER, ETC.: Cleaned & bundled wood lathe; Window frames & s screens: various size sash;'Spouting; Cabinet doors: Various size - and style doors: Porch column; 4x6 Native sills; 3 - 10x12 Beams; Dimension lumber and many other items. I..*’) ' ' . ■ . TERMS—CASH. ' Noah J. & Martha Schrock, Owners ' Gerald Strickler, D. S. Blair—Auctioneers 5 Everett Faulkner—Clerk ' C. W. Kent, Sales Mgr. I * • Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty & Auction Co. Decatur, Indiana Phone 3-3390 Not responsible for accidents. Apr. 2. 5, 9

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CUBAN (Continued from page one) ber of American newsmen — including John T. Skelly of the United Press — cm a tour of prisons and captured rebel hideouts intended to offset “the lies printed in your papers. ’ The newsmen were shown a printing plant which police said had been turning out “war tones' for the Communists and for Fidel Castro’s rebels. ■ » LEAST 28 (Continued from page one) tive years in the House. He is senior Republican cm and a for--1 mer chairman of the House Commerce Committee Rep. Karl M. LeCompte (R---lowa), a member of Congress since 1939 and ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, has announced his decision not to seek re-election. Two of the House members who won’t be back are now committee chairmen—Engle, who heads the House Interior Committee, and Chairman Thomas S. Gordon (DI1L). of the Foreign Affairs committee. Gordon is retiring, as is the No. 2 GOP member of the committee, Rep. John M. Vorys (Ohio). North Dakota will send an entire new delegation to the House next year. Both of the state's representatives — Republicans Usher L. Burdick and Otto Krueger — are calling it quits Others retiring from the House are Benjamin P. James <Pa.). Cliff Clevenger (Ohio), Hal Halmes (Wash.), Donald W. Nicholson (Mass.) and Hubert B. Scudder (Calif.), all Republicans. If you have something to sell Oi rooms forrent, try a Democra. Want Ad — They bring results.