Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1959 — Page 4

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,’ ■ < Decatur, Indiana April 23, 1959 HAFLICH & MORRISSEY SHOE STORE Announces they have purchased the Combs Shoe Store in Winchester, Indiana. Their First endeavor to get acquainted with the people of Winchester Community will be a “Change of Ownership Shoe Sale” starting today, Thursday, April 23, 1959, at 109 South Main Street. Winchester, Ind. If you are in the market for good Nationally Advertised Footwear that is suitable for Spring and Summer wearing, at rofck bottom prices, attend this “Change of Ownership' Shoe Sale” - in Winchester. * hMMS*"jb Good Color and Size Selection, for men, women and children. __ Sincerely, R. D. Morrissey

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Chain Gang Escapee Held After 19 Years FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—A father of nine children who was described by his employer as "honest and reliable” was held here today as a- convicted slayer who escaped from an Alabama chain gang 19 years ago. Robert W. Stevens, 42, was identified as the escapee by the FBI Wednesday from a routine fingerprint check made when he was arrested April 11 on a disorderly conduct charge. Stevens admitted the escape and said he made his way to New York where he was drafted into the Army Air Corps in 1942. He was assigned to Baer Field here during World War II and was discharged in 1946. While serving as an airman. Stevens met and married a local girl. They are the parents of nine children. The oldest, a daughter, is 14 and the youngest, also a daughter, is 18 months old. Jack Komlsarow, 1 secretarytreasurer of the Clark Fruit Co. where Stevens was employed as a truck driver for the past year and a half, described him as "a very good worker and honest and reliable.” “We will be glad to take him back any time after this thing is straightened out,” Komisarow said. Stevens was sentenced to prison in November, 1938, for the fatal stabbing of Willie Reed during a fight in a Montgomery, Ala., tavern. Authorities said Reed threw beer on Stevens and a woman companion and slashed Stevens with a knife. Stevens grabbed the knife and stabbed Reed through the heart Stevens made his first escape after serving six months of a lengthy, manslaughter term and was recaptured four days later at Birmingham, Ala. He then was assigned to the chain gang at Gadsen, Ala., from which he escaped about a year later. Allen County authorities held Stevens while they contacted Alabama officials. Suggestion Box SYRACUSE, N.Y. (UPD—The General Electric Company distributed a total of $28,590 to 1,094 local employes during 1958 for submitting worthwhile ideas through I the company’s suggestion system.

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Russia Takes Tough Stand On Berlin Crisis ■ LONDON (UPD — The Soviet Union made it plain today the West can expect no major concessions in Berlin at the forthcoming foreign ministers conference in Geneva. Soviet diplomats said Moscow was determined to stand fast by its plan to hand over West Berlin to the Communist East German regime regardless of any settlement for the Western party of the city. A series of Soviet diplomatic moves emphasized the tough stand the Russians were taking before the May 11 conference begins. Already the Soviets were accusing the West of trying to torpedo the talks. Wednesday, Russia accused the United States of trying to wreck tiie Geneva conference by stepping up missile base construction in Europe although the missile program is two years old. U. S. State Department Spokesman Lincoln White called the accusation “devoid of substance" and noted the Russians usually made such propaganda statements on the eve of important EastWest meetings. The Soviet Union, backed by East Germany, also built a major propaganda campaign around U. S. Air Force high-level level flights to and from Berlin although such flights have been going on for months. Wednesday’s accusations were contained in a note handed to U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. It said the supply of U. S. missiles ,to West Germany, Turkey and Greece endangered success of the Geneva meeting. The Western position is that the NATO nations were strengthened only against Communist threats. The day before, the Soviet delivered a similar warning to West Germany.

Indiana Coated By Late-Season Frost United Press International A late-season frost--coated the Indiana countryside today but temperatures generally stayed a whisker above freezing. It was 32-freezing at Goshen this morning. Other stations in the Weather Bureau’s daily check missed freezing by one to four degrees. Evansville and Fort Wayne recorded 33, Indianapolis and Lafayette 34 and South Bend 36. Forecasts issued Wednesday had indicated the mercury might dip as low as the upper 20s over the southern two-thirds of the state and bring a freeze which migh break low emperature records. But readings were a little higher than had been expeced. and recwere not disturbed. The threat of more freezing or near-freezing temperatures, now that the spring growing season is underway over the southern twothirds of Hoosierland, was dissipated for the time being with predictions that tonight’s lows will range from 41 to 47. Sunny and warmer weather was predicted for today and fair and warmer tonight, with temperatures hitting a range of 62 to 69 this afternoon and 60 to 70 Friday. But the clear skies will end., Friday afternoon or night with showers developing over the state, and cooler temperatures will come Saturday. Wednesday’s highs ranged from 56 at Indianapolis to 60 at Evansville. Over 2,500 Daily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur ?ach day.

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Daylight Time Will Start Early Sunday CHICAGO (UPD—The annual confusion that marks the start of daylight Savings time descends on nearly half of the nation at 2 a.m. Sunday. In daylight time homes, clocks will be set ahead one hour so that the family can enjoy an extra hour of early evening daylight throughout the summer and into the fall. Confusion in daylight time states and cities is usually confined to the first day when people who forgot to set their clocks ahead find themselves late for church. But transportation creates a deeper summar-long problem because of time differentials between states and even between cities only a few miles apart. Generally, eastern states and midwestern states east of the Mississippi River will be in the fast time belt. California and Nevada will be on daylight time in the Far West. The Deep South will remain on “flow” time. The "fast” time starts on the last Sunday in April * and ends either on the last Sunday in September or the last Sunday in October, depending on the area. Minnesota, where some metropolitan areas will be on daylight time, is an example of how things can get complicated. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth will go on “fast”, time which means that motorists driving to outlying points can get to their destination before hey started from home, a least by the clock. In Kentucky, Lexington and some other cities stay on daylight time year-long. But state law bans daylight time in state offices and buildings, which means clocks in state buildings at Frankfort and on the University of Kentucky campus at Lexington are an hour behind the rest of the town. A petition now is before the ICC to extend the eastern time zone deeper into Kentucky. Indiana, where confusion has existed in the past, will be 100 per cent on daylight time this summer, but for about one-third of its counties and one-half of its population it Will be nothing new. They’ve been on daylight time all winter in defiance of an unenforced 1957 state law which requires seven months of slow time and five months of fast time. In Illinois, daylight time now is at local option, but a compulsory statewide daylight time bin has passed the Legislature. If signed by Gov. William G. Stratton, it wiU take effect on July 1 this year. States which will remain on standard time include Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina t lowa Washington, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Idaho Alaska, North and South Dakota, Arkansas Tennessee and Arizona.

COURT NEWS

Complaint Case

On a motion by the plaintiff in the case of Wm. P. McDonald, The.,~vs Norman M. Guard and Barbara B. Guard, the cause was set for issues,. May 6 at 9 a. m. In the case of Mel Liechty, doing business as Mel’s Realty Auction company vs William H. Stavenik and Frieda Stavenik, an answer of denial by the defendants was filed by their attorney, Lewis L. Smith. Estate Cases The schedule to detremine the inheritance tax with reference to the county assessor was filed in the estate of James L. Kocher, Sr. The schedule shows the grand total of the estate to be $26,727.75. The second inventory was filed in the estate of L. A. Holthouse, showing the value of the estate to be $1,200. A petition to sell personal property at private sale was filed. A petition to redeem stock was filed and approved. a The final report was filed in the Katie Knapp estate. A notice was ordered issued returnable May 14. The last will and testament of Mary C. Holthouse was offered for probate. Letters testamnetary were ordered issued to Rosemary Holthouse. In the estate of John S. Colchin, the schedule to determine the inheritance tax was filed with reference to the county assessor, showing a grand total of the estate valued at $23,874.68. Trade in a good town — Decatui.

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Teen-agers Held For Beating, Knifing INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Marion County juvenile authorities held seven Indianapolis teen-agers *on assault and battery charges today in connection with the beating and knifing of two Shortridge High School pupils. Five of the youths appeared in Municipal Court Wednesday and admitted taking part in a gang attack on Paul McCammon, 16, and his brother, Oscar, 15, Tuesday. Paul was stabbed in the side and Oscar sustained severe head injuries from being clubbed with a pipe. Both were treated and released at General Hospital. Ronald Anderson, 15, was accused of the knifing, and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Melvin Green, 15, charged wfth clubbing Oscar, was slated for an appearance before Judge Harold Fields today.. The oldest of the group, Warren Maxey, 18, was held in Marion County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bond*. His assault and battery case was postponed until May 1. City police said the incident resulted from a month-old rhubarb over ROTC discipline at Shortridge. Ruling Is Given In Condemnation Case

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Trial juries should fix the entire damage award in state highway condemnation cases and then allocate the money among leaseholders, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The ruling was made in a Montgomery Circuit Court case involving land along the Lebanon bypass of the new Indianapolis-to-Chicago interstate highway. The State Highway Department sought to award damages to the owner of land used by a service station and a roadside case. Troy Haney, operator of the case, petitioned the lower court for a separate trial and asked that damages be fixed in a separate action. The high court said statutes provide that the trial court may separate actions as to various parcels of land, but the statutes- do not apply to various leasehold interests in a single lot or parcel of land. “In this case,” the court ruled, “the jury will determine the entire,. damage for the taking of all the interests involved in the parcel of land and will allocate the amount of the damage to the different interests held.” Indiana 30th In Per Pupil Spending WASHINGQN (UPJ) — Indiana ranks 30th in the nation in the amount pf money it spends on each public school pupil, a tabulation compiled by the National Education Association showed today. The report showed that Indiana’s outlay on public schools this year comes to $325 per pupil compared with the extremes of $535 per pupil spent by New York and $164 per pupil spent by Alabama. The national average is $340, or sls more than Indiana’s expenditure.

Mrs. Warren Crowle Is Taken By Death Mrs. Warren Crowle, 53, a native of Geneva, died Wednesday morn-, ing in her residence at Dixon, 0., after an Illness of three months. She is survived by her husband; two sems, T/Sgt. Marion Crowle. .Ft. Riley, Kan., and Stanley, at home; two. daughters, Mrs. Katherine Eaken, in Germany, and Mrs. Virginia Rice, Dixon; 15 grandchildren, one sister, a halfsister, and two half-brothers. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy, the Rev. P. H. Gerken, officiating. Burial will be in Convoy at the IOOF cemetery. Indianapolis Youth Killed In Accident McCORDSVILLE, Ind (UPD— James Mills, 21, Indianapolis, was killed and another person injured seriously today in a car-truck chash on U.S. 36 a mile east of here. Roy L. Johnson, 56, Ilexandria, the truck driver, was taken to Handock County Memorial Hospital at Greenfield with possible internal injuries. Good Old Days EASTON, Pa. (UPD—A Lafayette College expense ledger for a year in the 1840’s came to light recently and included such items as: “Building whitewashed, $3.50; 103 pounds of beef, $4.12; toll to Jersey for a girl, 24 cents; to stfanger for apples and pears, 44 cents/’

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Assassination Plot On Castro Revealed NEW YORK (UPD — Police today received a tip from the Cuban government that six men had been sent here as part of a plot to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. A memorandum sent out this morning to all police commands said the men had arrived in New York from Philadelphia, Chicago and Florida. Five of the men, brothers, were reported to have arrived in a gray Cadillac, bearing Michigan plates. The sixth man was said to have arrived in a car with Florida plates. Information on the alleged as. sassination plot was relayed to New York police from Havana, the memorandum said. The assassination plot was disclosed shortly before Castro paid a visit to Mayor Robert F. Wagner at city hall. Traffic Injuries Fatal To Woman PERU, Ind. (UPD — The death of Mrs. Ruth Richar, 57, Marshall, Mich., in Dukes Memorial Hospital here Wednesday night raised the Indiana traffic death toll for last weekend at least to nine. Mrs. Richar was hurt Sunday in a twocar collision south of here on U.S. 31. The cars were driven by her Son, Henry Richar, and CargjLSmo lenski, 39, Kendallville.