Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1958 — Page 6

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Thinks Red Bombers On Alert Missions Senator Mansfield Backs U.S. Flights WASHINGTON (IP) — A leading Senate Democrat believes the Russians are sending bombers toward the United States on alert missions just as the U. S. Strategic Air Command does towafd Russia. This view was voiced Sunday by Sen. Mike Mansfield <D-Mont.> assistant Senate Democratic leader and a member of the Senate For-1 eign Relations Committee. He was ( interviewed on the ABC-TV prctJ

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gram “College News Conference." ! A questioner noted Soviet For- j eign Minister Andrei Gromyko's, recent statement that if the United States does not halt H-bomb j alert flights in the direction of | Russia the Soviet bnion plight feel compelled to reciprocate. Asked if this could lead to a “very dangerous situation," Mansfield replied: ; "I do indeed, and I would say. offhand, that I would be surprised if they are not doing so at the present time.” ” Mansfield fully supported the Strategic Air Command's flights as “the right thing.” He said if they, were not being carried out. ho “wcniloi ask for an investigation" of SAC. j A questioner then asked what

I would happen “if one of our planes meets one of their planes over this area?” He said the U. S. planes “aren’t going beyond, a certain limit which : would not be Soviet territory, and I would assume the Soviet Union is carrying on its activities in the same manner.” "There is always the possibility, of course, that something would happen.” Roadeo Winner Out Os National Contest - 1* * -r 'I Winner Is Arrested On Traffic Charge LOGANSPORT (UP) — Lee Yoder, 18, Wabash, won the Indii ana Roadeo Saturday but his arrest on a traffic charge a few I hours later deprived him of competing in the national teen-age driving contest. Judges picked Yoder* over 132 other entries in the finals of the contest sponsored by the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce. But Yoder didn't know about his ; win until a banquet here Saturday night. Meanwhile. Yoder, a student at Purdue University, had driven to Lafayette to appear with the school’s band. Yoder then started to drive to Wabash to pick up his parents and take them to the award banquet. State Trooper Richard Keyes intercepted Yoder when he saw him passing another vehicle improperly. Yoder was taken before Justice of the Peace Donald Freehafer, who fined him $1 plus costs 0f'514.25 Contest judges didn't know what to do. A winner cannot have aj moving traffic violation on his record. But Yoder had no violation when he won. So they struck a compromise. Yoder was awarded the SSOO scholarship for winning the state qpntest. But he was barred from the national finals in Washington in August. Richard Engle, 18. Bloomington, who finished second, was named to go in Yoder’s place. Other top winners in the coni test, which included written tests .and driving in normal traffic and Lan obstacle course were Melvin (Shoemaker, 18, Portland: Thomas Guthrie; 18, Angola: and Phillip JMaitlety 18, Portland.

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1 A s i * I Ira ® k-I t W' w'T" ***” Is ....J FIGHTING CITY HAIL—A mock defense of their tree house is ' mounted by 8-year-old John Templeton (lower left) and ‘ brother Kenneth, 9, in Atherton, Calif., as the city council girds for legal battle. City Attorney Churchill Black was instructed by the. council to institute proceedings against the airy “lair," deemed a violation of zoning rules. “Pretty silly,” commented Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Templeton as they vowed toYight city hall. (International Soundphoto)

Plan Reenactment Os Noted Murder Trial Almanac Used To Discredit Evidence BEARDSTOWN, 111. (UP)-The Beardstown Rotary Club tonight and Tuesday will stage a reenactment of the famous murder trial 100 years ago in which lawyer Abraham Lincoln used an almanac to discredit the testimony of a witness who claimed he saw a crime by the light of the moon. Circuit Judge Hardin Hanks, who is a descendant of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the Civil War president's mother, will play the role of the trial judge, James Herriot. Carl Loonran - win portray Lincoln, Cass County State’s Atty, Milton McClure will play the part of prosecutor Hugh Fullerton, and Nels Glesne will play the defendant, Duff Armstrong Armstrong was charged, along with James Norris, with the murder of James P. Metzker, who died of .blows on the head following a drinking bout on Aug. 29, . 1857. . ... Lincoln Offers to Help — A man named Charles Allen claimed he had seen Armstrong and Norris set upon Metzker-and strike him. Norris was. tried *in Mason ■ fenced to eight years m prison. Meanwhile. Hannah. Armstrong. Duff’s mother, who had befriended Lincoln when he lived at NewSalem, came to Springfield and appealed to him to help her son. Lipcoin, who in a few weeks was to become the Republican candidate for U.S. senator, replied in a note to Mrs. Armstrong that ha would help defend her son "to requite in a small degree the favors I received at your hand, and that of your lamented husband. when your roof afforded me a grateful shelter, without money and without price.” A change of venue from Mason County to Cass County was obtained for Armstrong and Lincoln went to Beardstown to join defense lawyer William Walker for the trial May 6-7. During the trial Allen claimed to have seen Armstrong strike Metzker jvith a "slung shot" Cites “Jayne’s Almanac” Lincoln made Allen go over his story again and again. Allen said it was about 11 p.m. and that he was about 150 feet from Metzker and Arrrfstrong. He said the moon was very bright, about , the same place in the sky that the sun holds at 10 o’clock in the morning. Then Lincoln drew from his pocket a copy of “Jayne’s Almanac” for 1857 and pointed out that on the night of the rl alleged murder, the moon had practically disappeared at 11 p.m. and a person could not have seen anything clearly at a distance of 150 feet. Lincoln also called upon Dr. Charles Parker who testified that the blows which caused Metzker’s death could have resulted from a fall from a horse. Five Are Killed As Train Hits Vehicle SPRINGFIELD. Ohio (IP) — A New York Central Railroad train struck a station wagon late Sunday. dragging it 1,200 feet and killing five passengers. . The train engineer, Elmer E Hast of Columbus, Ohio, said he saw the station wagon approaching the country road crossing but; he thought it would stop. The dead were identified as Charles W. Dempsey. 38. Springfield, his wife, Dora, 35, and three of their four children, Donald, 9, Ray, 7, and Unda, 5.

; Missing Man's Body 1 Is Found In River CLINTON LIP...— The ..body of Baptist Ricauda, 56. Clinton, who disappeared March 13, was found during the Weekend in the Wabash River near Terre Haute. Ricuada’s car was found on a bridge near Clinton the ifey he vanished. It was assumed he jumped into the stream and drowned but searches failed to substantiate the theory until a fisherman found the body Sunday. Agree To Postpone Decision On Tests Delay Decision On Suspension Os Tests COPENHAGEN, Denmark (IP) — The United States and Britain ! have agreed to postpone a decision—on nuclear test suspension, perhaps by ’ six months, informed sources said today. This is the estimated time presently required for scientists to complete their inquiries on the basis of th eimpending series of ; "hew" anttßritish "testsand for amendment of the U. S. McMahon act for greater atom infor-fnation-sharing, the sources said. During this time, detailed proposals on the terms qf global nuclear test suspension k will, be the -Soviets. The NATO Allies will be given full information (on the < present status of the controversial test question at the (current meeting of the NATO ministerial council. The U. S. and Brita® also have agreed to stick by /the disarmament package plan which links conventional arms cuts to simultaneous nuclear disarmament, and makes either conditional on adequate controls, the sources said. BILL <Cdntinued from Paone) “union monopolies” to cure the recession. The committee is considering ways 7 to help end the business slump. Civil Defense: Dr. Ellis A Johnson, director of the Johns Hopkins University operations , research office, recommended spending about „12 billion dollars on a system of shelters against radioactive fallout of an H-bomb attack. Civil Rights: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Gordon Me. Tiffany to be executive director of the new Civil Rights Commission. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) planned a speech late today answering denials by Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission that the Military is making its atomic weapons’ “dirtier.” Trade in a good town — Decr',ur Lir Leaguer ‘"A '//'a “Is that what they call a good hittin’ pitcher?”

Contest To Clarify Tax Guide Failure 212-Word Sentence Stumps TV Panel NEW YORK (UP)—A contest to decipher and clarify a 212-word sentence appearing ‘in last year's federal income tax guide produced no winners Sunday night but clarified at least one point—understand it or not, you still have to pay; “The winner is really the Treasury Department. ’ said Dr Bergen Evans, moderator of the CBSTV panel show * the Last Word” which debates proper usage of English. To which panelist Inez Robb added: “It always is.” The closest any of nearly 700 contestants came to rewriting the (sentence in “simplified English” was Page A. Mead, a sales engineer of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. His entry was judged to contain five mistakes. He was awarded a copy of the book _ "Simplified English," a Bible, a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and Evans’ “personal admiration for his being able to understand the sentence at all.” Present for the announcement was Sen. Arthur W. Watkins <RUtah), who initiated the contest March 20. Watkins offered the first two prizes himself after encountering the marathon sentence on Page 8 of the Internal Revenue Service booklet “How to Prepare Your Income Tax Return on From 1040A.” When letters swamped his office he turned the contest over to “The Last Word." The panel program admitted defeat along with its nearly 700 contestants—Even the four judges, tax experts from New York University, were stumped. They admitted they could not rewrite the sentence in simpler terms in less than 300 words—and not including any 212-word sentences—and still make it retain its essential mean-. ■ ing. The "gobbledygook” sentence, was ruled “extraordinarily com-: plicated” but “legally binding.” j. Brevity— is not nprpcsarily a vir- , tue in official documents, the ex-' perts said, but precision is. The I taxpayer is responsible whether he understands it or not. » ‘IRVIN (Continued from Page ane) I ' recaptured in San . Francisco a 1 few weeks later. State court held! that his escape cost him his right i to appeal for a new trial. Irvin originally was scheduled | to be electrocuted in the spring of 1956- Since then he has had several stays of execution. i

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Three Farmers To Test New Chemical Three farmers in the Decatur area will be among 2,500 corn and soybean growers who will field test a new farm chemical, Monsanto Chemical company announced today. Ervin Schuller of Preble township, W. L. Gerke of Root township, and Wilmer R. Steffan of kirkland township are among the growers chosen. The group will test randox, a pre-emergence herbicide for the control of annual grassy weeds in corn, soybeans and other crops. Under the program each grower will devote one acre of his corn Or soybeans to a field trial of randox. Applied at planting time, randox is supposed to control germinating foxtails, pigweed, crabgrass and other ahnual weeds without injqry to corn, soybeans and other crops. The idea is to eliminate the need for rotary hoeing, to save at least one cultivation, and to increase per-acre yields.

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MONDAY, MAY 5, 1958

Two Men Narrowly Escape From Death INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Donald Murphy, 27. and Gerald Lauderbaugh. 32, Indianapolis, were lucky to be alive today. Their 1&foot outboard motorboat stopped on the lip o! White River dam Saturday anr. stayed there with a dead motor, instead of plunging to rocks 10 feet below, until -police ‘rescued them. MASONIC Royal Arch Chapter Stated Meeting, Tuesday, May 6 7:30 P. M. w. M. Bumgerdner, H.P.