Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1959 — Page 2

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Need Os Additional State Parks Cited INDIANAPOLIS (UPU-Gover-nor Handley said today' he has or- [ dered a report for the 1961 Legilature on how Indiana needs Jto, expand its state park and forest | facilities to "keep ahead, pf the I population increase " Hahdley said in a prepared news release that the ■, state’s «

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"steadily growing population will continue to call for an orderly and progressive expansion of state park and state forest facilities in all parts of Hoosierland.” Tly governor said when industries consider Indiana as locations, they are attracted by the fact “any Hoosier resident is only a few iniles away from, a state park or recreation area." “We are constantly expanding* and modernizing our state highway system as to mate these parks more and more accessible

to all Indiana citizens,” Handley said. "Now we should determine what are our park needs in the ,immediate future, and set up a more or less 'flexible priority schedule for expansion.” Handley’s order for a report was made to the Indiana Conservation Department. He reviewed the progress of the state toward establishment of a iChain O’Lakes State Park in i Noble County, saying that 69 per cent of the 2,097 acres for the I park has been acquired at a cost

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of 1240.000 from voluntary contributions from . Noble, Allen and Whitley Counties. Handley said that the state has now acquired 87 more acres for $20,000 from a 1959 legislative appropriation, and will need “probably" an additional appropriation from the 1961 Legislature. “■noiy use of the pjlrk is assured by what the fine citizens' of the area have done, and by the 1959 appropriation,” Handley said. The park will be Indiana’s 20th and its fifth largest. Slate May Conclude Tax Trial This Week TERRE HAUTE, Ind. <UPI>— Government lawyers said today, they hops to rest their case sometime this week in the .biggest excise tax trial in the nation’s history. Eight men—all alleged members of a gambling syndicate—are accused of evading $325,000 in taxes on more than three million dollars in gambling income during 10 weeks in the fall of 1957. The government has charged the men ran their multi-million dollar gambling-by-phone service from the second floor of a Terre Haute restaurant before federal agents raided the establishment. So far, dozens of bettors subpeonaed by the government have testified they bet hundreds of thousands of dollars with the syndicate—and almost always lost. The witnesses were usually wealthy, respected members of their communities and included Oklahoma oil men, Midwestern manufacturers, a New York society doctor. West Coast executives, 1 Southern lawyers, even comedian ■Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers. Most of them testified they 1 called a Terre Haute number to ! place a bet —usually on football games. Many named one or another of the defendants as their contact. In Saturday's abbreviated session. Frank Scob/ Chicago beer .distributor, said he wagered between $40,000 and $50,000 on college football games. I C.C. Parker of Spartanburg, S.C., said he placed ‘“six or eight bets” of SIOO to SSOO each; Sol Lippman, a Hartford. Conn., businessman told of betting from SIOO to S2OO, and Joseph Vinocur, a Cleveland ice cream maker, testified he bet $5,000 to $7,000. 19-Year-Old Admits Missouri Slayings . QUAKER, Mo. *UPI) — A 19-year-old boy out for “a big time" with another 14-year-old boy has admitted he shot and killed a middle-aged grocer and beat to death a 17-year-old girl. Washington County Sheriff Thomas B. Allen said the boys, Johnny Ross Crump, 19, and his companion, John E. Davis, 14, both of Huzzah, Mo., were being held without charge in the county jail at Potosi, Mo. Allen said the boys told him they “wanted to have a big time” Saturday night so they went to a tavern near their homes and drank six bottles of beer. They then drove to the tiny community of Quaker where they entered the grocery of George Leonard Barr, 57, and ordered a sandwich. Allen said Crump told him he shot Barr in the back of the head with a 12-gauge shotgun as he was preparing the food. They went to Barr’s home near the grocery, police said, and demanded the keys to the grocer’s car from his wife, Vallie. 52. Crump told Allen he shot Mrs. Barr twice when she made a dash for the car. Although shot twice, she managed to stager outside. The youth then attacked Barr’s dauhter, Ella Joe, 16, and a houseuest, Bonnie Lou Ship, 17, of Belrade, Mo., with the shotun. Allen said Crump beat them over the head so severely the gun was damaged. Miss Ship was killed by the vicious assault. Ella Joe, severely beaten, and her mother were in critical condition at a Terre, Mo., hospital. The boys ran from the house and tried without success to start Barr’s car without the keys. Crump and Davis then fled on foot but were caught within minutes. The residents of the tiny village of 38 persons are members of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. East Chicago Man To Head Young Democrats INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Robert Patrick, 31. of East Chicago, was the new president of the Indiana Young Democrats today. His opponent, incumbent Duge Butler Jr., Indianapolis, withdrew' from the contest Saturday at the organization’s biennial state convention. Other new officers were J. Patrick Endsley. Lawrence, national committeeman; Helen Corey, TVrre Haute, national committeewoman; Mrs. Betty Sheek, Franklin, vice pfesident; Clarence Gregory. Muncie, secretary, and Mrs. Joan Dorsey, Evansville, treasurer.

Narcotics Ring Is Broken Up Saturday ST. LOUIS (UPD — Three St. Louis men, said to be members of a narcotics ring which’was broken up last week, were sought by federal narcotics agents today. Renato C. Casterella, agent in charge of the St, Louis. office' of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, did not disclose the names of the men but said information would be sought against them charging illegal sale of narcotics. The arrest of H members of the ring were announced Saturday. Perrin Stewart, said to be one of the biggest suppliers of heroin in the country, was among those taken into custody. All were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for conspiracy to sell and distribute narcotics illegally. But the indictment was suppressed until the arrests could be made. Stewart and his daughter, Mrs. Barbara Taylor, and Josephine Modley were arrested in Chicago. Those arrested here were Stewart's brother, Sylvester, Clifford Valentine, Elque" Davie, Lou and Irvin %ent, brothers. Harold King, ' William P. Whitehead and Arthur ' Lee Cunningham. Stewart and Valentine were described by Casterella as wholesale distributors of narcotics. Casterella said agents made ' purchases from all the defendants . since the investigation began in December. He noted some of the St. Louis distributors were selling ■ as much as two ounces of heroin [ a week at $350 to $375 per ounce. Each ounce can be cut into about . 1,000 capsules selling for $2.50 each, he said. Perrin Stewart was said to be leader of a ring which obtained heroin from abroad and distrib- , uted it in a number of midwestern cities, including Springfield, . 111. Four Drownings Are Reported In State United Press International Weekend drownings claimed at 'least four lives in Indiana. | Jack Carter, 24. Grandview, I drowned in the Ohio River west l of Troy Sunday night while' he was wading with four companions. Carter stepped into a hole. His body was recovered three hours later. The body of Timmy Ed Cline, 6. New Castle, was found in Indian Kentuck Creek east of Madison five hours after he was reported missing. Timmy, who was spending the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Cline, at a Brooksburg motel, was last seen walking away from the creek by a group of children. The young- • ster’s body was pulled from the creek about 200 yards downstream from where the children were swimming. The body of Howard Tex Warthen, 40, Lafayette, was pulled from the Wabash River just south of Lafayette Sunday afternoon nearly 24 hours after he was reported missing. Warthen last was seen in his motorboat Saturday afternoon. Lawrence F. Smith, 25, Indianapolis, drowned late Saturday while swimming in a gravel pit near Whiteland. Police said he was on an outing with five companions when he tried to swim across the pit and back. Peasants Celebrate Cuban Revolution HAVANA (UPD — Thousands of peasants carrying machetes poured into Havana today for the start of a week - long celebration of the Cuban revolution and a new pledge of allegiance to its hero, Fidel Castro. The Cuban government, purged of a president Castro charged had blocked the forward march of the revolution, was expected to start working with new speed to carve up large farms for the peasants and prosecute objectors. The new president, Dr. Osvaldo Dorticos Torrada, drafted the texts of many revolutionary laws and decrees and he was expected to sign any that had been left by ousted President Manuel Urrutia Lleo. Urrutia and Castro both were out of town Sunday. After Castro forced Urrutia’s resignation in a four-hour telecast by charging him with near treason, Urrutia rushed to his brother-in-law’s house at Bauta. 20 miles east of Hacana. The army put an armed guard about the house. Castro himself went into seclusion and could not be located. Earlier this month, when political tension began to develop in Cuba. Castro called for a demonstration of 500,000 peasants, with their razor-sharp machetes, in Havana next Sunday. That will be the sixth anniversary of his abortive attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago. It took him five and a half years after that defeat to oust Dictator Fulgencio Batista. About 7,000 peasants from Oriente Province, Castro's old campaign headquarters, set up tents at Camp Liberty Sunday.

Slight Damage Done In Accident Saturday City police reported an accident involving an out-of-state car and a parked car Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the northeast corner of Monroe and First streets. Damage to the parked car was estimated ‘as slight. Homer H Fackler, 74, of Beavertown, Mich., stopped at the stop sign while travelling south on First street. The car rolled backwards a few feet, scatching the front bumper on the parked car, which was< owned by Zintsmaster Motors. Nine Traffic Deaths Recorded In State United Press International At least nine persons were killed in weekend traffic in Indiana. including our in accidents which may have been due partly to road surfaces wet from drought-cracking rains. Three persons were killed Saturday in a three-car smashup near Michigan Ctiy on a wet concrete highway, and a Michigan woman was killed Sunday when a car skidded sideways on a raindrenched highway near Auburn. One of the victims was a motorcycle operator, Leslie Wayne Morrison, 24. Mulberry. He died Sunday night in a Lafayette hospital from injuries sustained hours earlier on Ind. 38 in Mulberry when his cycle was struck by a car driven by Edward Maxwell, 21, Kokomo. Paul Morrison, 12, riding on the cycle, was injured. Ethel M. Chastain, 43, Wayne, Mich., was killed late Sunday afternoon when a car driven by her husband. Ogal F. Chastain, 43, skidded sideways on slippery Ind. 427 south of Auburn and was hit simultaneously by two cars coming from opposite directions. The injured included Henry W. Ahlersmeyer, 58, Fort Wayne, and his wife, Bessie, and Melissa Baughman, 4, Waterloo. Maynard O. Baughman, 37. Waterloo, driver of the third car, was unhurt. A half hour earlier, Stephen Meyer, 17, Decatur, was killed when the right rear tire blew out on a car on Ind, 101 in Allen County. Donald L. Gase, 22. Decatur, the driver, and Jack R. Meyer, 17, Decatur, were injured. State Police said the car was speeding. It skidded along the pavement and shoulder and knocked down 80 feet of fence. Wendell Lee Gates, 19, Warsaw, was killed arlier Sunday when his car hit a bridge abutment along Ind. 10 south of Plymouth and overturned in a small creek. Edward Coker, 38, Hoagland, was killed early Sunday when he tried to make a left turn in front of a semi-trailer truck and collided with the big vehicle on U.S. 27 south of Fort Wayne. Homer Justice, 47, Charlestown, was killed Saturday afternoon on Ind. 62 south of Charlestown when his car went out of control while passing other cars, veered across the road, hit a utility pole, knocked down two fences and struck a concrete abutment. His wife and daughter were injured. Donald Jankowski, 21, Michigan City, died at Doctor’s Hospital, Michigan City, Saturday night of injuries received in a three-car crash on wet pavement which killed twd"‘ other Michigan City young men. John R. Boyan, 21, and his cousin, Ronald Milick, 21, were killed in a second car. The car driven by Boyan hit the Jankowski car south of Michigan City on U.S. 421, bounced into a third I car and hit a tree, tearing the vehicle in two. Four other persons were hurt. Consider Haymaker For Commission INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana Public Service Commission member Ira L. Haymaker, Franklin, confirmed today that he has been nominated for a Democratic vacancy on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Haymaker, former Democratic state chairman, said his name was among several sent to Preseident Eisenhower for consideration. David A. Macklin Attorney KSTATK NO. 5413 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF CHARLES F. KNODEL in the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County , Vacation Term, 1959 In the matter of the Estate of Charles F. KaodeL deceased. Notice is hereby given that Eugene E. Knodel as Administrator of the above named estate, has presented and filed his final account in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of Haiti Adams Circuit Court on the « of August, 1959, at which time all persons Interested in said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be, why said account should not be approved. And the heirs of said decedent and all others interested are also required to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. Eugene E. Knodel Personal Representative f Hubert It. McCienahnn " Judge Pro Tern JU NOTICE° OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 5455 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that Raleigh A. Richards was on the 11 day of July, 1959, appointed: Administrator of the estate of Amanda E. 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Otto Hoverman Dies At Van Wert Sunday Otto Hoverman, 71, route two, Ohio City, O„ died about 11:30 o’clock Sunday morning in the Van Wert county hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been seriously ill for a month. Born May 6, 1888. in Willshire township, the son of Philip H. and Caroline Emerich, he lived in Van Wert county all his life. He worked with his father in a sawmill and tile mill business, and afterwards, was a farmer, associated also with soil conservation work. He was a retired employe of the Continental Can company, Van Wert. Surviving in addition to his wife, Bessie, whom he married November 5, 1910, are two sons, Doyt R. Hoverman, Van Wert, 0., Lawrence E. Hoverman, route five, Van Wert, O.; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Odaffer, route two, Rockford, O.: one brother, Edward Hoverman, route one, Ohio City, O.; one sister, Mrs. Roe Stetler, Van Wert, and ten grandchildren. A brother, Charles, preceded him in death. Friends may call at the Cowan and Son funeral home in Van Wert after 7 p. m. today. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. at the Liberty Chapel United Brethren in Christ church. Liberty township. Van Wert county, the Aev. F. F. Kochensparger, Wren, officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery, Ohio City, Ohio.

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Richard Speakman On Visit To France Richard Speakman, route five, left Fort Wayne Saturday for Paris, France, where he met his son. the Rev. Harry Speakman, to begin a month’s tour of Europe. Speakman left by air for New York, where he took a jet airliner to France, meeting his son about 11 p.m. Speakman will return home August 21. After the tour, Rev. Speakman and his wife and two children will leave for the Belgian Congo, August 27 and 28, where he will be a missionary for the Methodist Missionary Board. Rev. Speakman, a graduate of Pleasant Mills high school, has been a minister in Tennessee, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. He studied at Asbury college and Seminary in Louisville, Ky., Scarritt college, in Nashville, Tenn., and completed studies in Europe in June, k

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