Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1958 — Page 8

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Holds Police Station For More Than Hour Prisoner Forced Out By Tear Gas, Slain HOMESTEAD, Fla. (UPD — A prisoner with a wounded hostage held the Homestead police station for 90 minutes Monday before police flushed him with tear gas and shot him to death. The hostage, Ted Beam, a policeman and father of two boys, was shot three times and given only a 50-50 Chance to live. Police Chief F. R. Dewitt broke a bone in his left hand durirfg the wild melee, a jailor was slugged and two women clerks trapped in the jail with the gunman were treated for shock. The hour and a half ordeal for Beam started when Robert Shaffer, 26. a Negro jailed Sunday for disorderly conduct, called out from his cell: “I’m sick.” Jailer Frank Welch opened the cell door and Shaffer jumped him. The prisoner wrested away Welch’s /rlub.~ struck him down with it, and ,ran toward the front of the building where Beam was sitting at the duty desk. Shaffer hit Beam from behind and opened a gash in his head. The two men - grappled for Beam’s gun. Shaffer got ’it and shot Beam in the back. Dewitt rushed from his nearby office at the sound of the shot and was met by a bullet which creased his skull. Dewitt dived to ■Hie floor and broke a bone in his left hand, his gun hand. But he grabbed his revolver with his right hand and fired at Shaffer. The bullet struck Shaffer in the side but failed to stop him as he backed into the fingerprint room,

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dragging Beam, as a shield. Dewitt telephoned for help. He said the Negro threatened to kill Beam if anyone came after him. Two terrified woman clerks, Mrs. Julia Cato and Mrs. Mary Lou Burnett, barricaded themselves in a front office. They couldn’t enter the hall to leave the building without coming in Shaffer’s line of fire. They finally were freed by officers who broke a window and pulled them out. Officers then fired tear gas into the room. Shaffer shot Beam again but staggered into the hallway to escape the blinding tear gas. He was felled there by a shower of bullets. SAFETY Uuntlnueq from page onel of secondary school educators in emphasizing the safe driving theme. The nation’s top race drivers, Indianapolis Speedway veterans, were selected in order to gain and hold the attention and respect of students, many of whom are familiar with their names. , More' than any motorist’ on the highway, he points out, professional race drivers know the crucial necessity of driving with a mind constantly alert, With sound judgment at all times and with a constant spirit of courtesy. They know the importance of having cars in sound mechanical condition. For these race drivers themselves drive from 35,000 to 50,000 accidentfree miles per year — on public highways—traveling rfom race to race and school to school. In his lecture and flannel-board demonstration with mock cars in certain hazardous highway situations, Freeland draws upon his own rich background to bring home the safety message. Each anecdote is an object lesson—how circumstances on a race track compare with highway - driving problems, but with this vital difference.,— when a professional driver gets in trouble, he knows what to do; when the average motorist gets into trouble, he is neither equipped nor prepared to meet that emergency. Weekend Highway Death Toll Grows GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPD — John L. Buckle, 37, Indianapolis, died in Putnam County Hospital late Monday night of injuries sustained in a two-car crash on U.S. 40 west of Stilesville last Saturday. Buckle became the 13th Indiana weekend traffic fatality. Trade m good town — Decatur.

Two Gary Workers Gain $20,000 Award Top Steel Industry Suggestion Award GARY, Ind. (UPD—Two ememployes of the Gary Steel Works were given a $20,000 award today for suggesting a new method of separating molten iron from slag. The award was given to Oscar M. Dansler, 61. and Salvatore Lumella, 39, both of Gary. It was the largest amount of money ever given in the steel industry under an employe suggestion plan. Dansler, a Negro who was born on a farm near Morrell, Ark., and came to Gary in 1923 to work in the blast furnace division of the United States Steel Corp., first had the idea for the plan. He and Lumella then worked it out together. Dansler said he began thinking of ways of earning extra money when the foreman told him that cash would be paid for money saving ideas. “I just kept looking at the iron flowing 7 from the furnace,” he said, “and kept thinking ‘how can you get some of that money’.” After three weeks, he got together with Lumella and the two men worked out the details in a sand box. They solved a long-standing steel mill problem by simply constructing a basin to catch and funnel the heavy molten iron into a ladle and an ingenious series of s gates to trap the slag floating on i top. Previously, the slag and iron had been simply transported to the dump and separated as scrap. “Some of the guys laughed at our enthusiasm.” said Lumella; “but I guess we’ll really laugh all the way to the bank.” Body Found In Well On Abandoned Farm Find Woman's Body In 10 Feet Os Water ATTICA. Ind. (UPD — An autopsy was scheduled to be performed today on the body of a woman found in 10 feet of water in a deep well on an abandoned farm near here. State Police said the body was weighted down with bricks and fastened with wire. Positive iden-, tification could not be made immediately because the body was badly decomposed. However authorities believed she might be a former schoolteacher missing from her home here since Sept. 25. The body was discovered by two hunters late Monday about 12 |miles southwest of,here. Police ’ said the victim apparently had been beaten to death and her ankles and hands were tied together with clothesline before she was lowered into the 30-foot deep well. Authorities said the victim was dressed in white shoes, a print dress and wore a necklace of blue-white imitation pearls. They learned that Miss Leona Disseldorf, the missing woman, had collected costume jewelry. A bad odor led the hunters to the body—They were sitting on boards covering the well when they noticed the smell. They picked up the boards, dropped wire down the well shaft and discovered the body. State Police, the Fountain County Sheriff’s Office and local authorities investigated the case. They said robbery may have been the killer’s motive. Ex-Fort Wayne Man Settles Tax Debt INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Uncle Sam has settled a tax debt of nearly $20,000 charged to a former Fort Wtiyne coal dealer for $7,700. The case against A. Eugene Martin, now of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was settled in U. S. Tax Court Monday. The government dismissed a $6,000 fraud penalty but assessed Martin nearly S4OO for “gross negligence” for a three-year period beginning jn 1948. Robert E. Johnson, Internal Revenue regional counsel, said the government also will collect about $1,300 due in income taxes for 1950. NORFOLK (Continued from page one) tion fee for children to attend the schools. Results Not Binding State law' leaves it to. the governor’s discretion whether to return the schools to local control when petitioned to do so by both the gverning body and the school board of locality. Gov. J. Lindsay Almond has said he would not prejudge any such request. The referendum, strictly informational, would not be binding on City Council to petition Almond, although Mayor W. Fred Duckworth said most of the sevenmember council would feel obligated to follow the outcome.

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General Electric To Cldse Wabash Plant WABASH, Ind. (UPD—The General 'Electric Corp., announced Monday that its television cabinet plant here will be closed down in the near future. About 150 persons are effected. H. E. Olson, plant manager, said the action was made. necessary by the effect of plastics and metals oni the wood cabitet industry. Olson said, however, that he would try to interest other GE operations into utilizing the plant. Labor Violence In Texas Under Probe Rackets Committee Studying Violence WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Rackets Committee is spinning a tale of Texas labor violence that rivals some of the' yarns about the old West. The second chapter beginning ' today features a real-life Texas' ranger who could serve as a model for a TV western drama. Zeno Smith is the name. Smith was expected to tell about how he went into action when trouble broke out down San Antonio way during a Teamster Union organizing drive involving the Southwestern Motor Transport Co. The committee got some background Monday from Roy J. Gil-! bert, company president, and j Buck (Curly) Owens who said the Teamsters hired him tp steal! some dynamite with which to bomb Gilbert’s trucks. Earlier the committee transacted a bit of old business with Benjamin Dranow, former Minneapolis businessman who had been sought for a year for questioning about a million-dollar Teamster loan. Dranow, who said he now lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., claimed possible self - incrimination when asked about money he borrowed and whether he had been dodging the committee. The committee said the union only got back about SIB,OOO of tile million it lent Dranow’s department store, now involved in bankruptcy proceedings. The Texas phase of the committee’s current, secondary boycott- inquiry Was started off by Gilbert who said his company was subjected to ‘a campaign of violence, sabotage and terror” after he refused to enroll his employes in the Teamsters Union.

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Insurance Agents In Annual Convention The Indiana association of insurance agents is meeting at the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis Monday through Wednesday of this week for ; its 60th annual convention. ' Insurance agents from Adams county 'attending the convention are Glenn Hill and Leland Smith, of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Glen H. Neuenschwander of Berne/ Motorist Arrested For Drunken Driving A local resident was arrested by the city police department Monday afternoon for drunken driving and placed in the Adams county jail to await trial in mayor’s court this afternoon. A * Everett P. Sheets, 49, Decatur, was arrested on East Monroe street by the city police and charged with drunken driving. He was apprehended by the department at 4:58 p.m. and taken to the county jail where he was given the breathalizer test. He is to appear in court this afternoon before Mayor Robert D. Cole for a hearing.

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