Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr President John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Bases: By Mail In Adams ancr'AdJoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six mor ths, $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 month-. $2.50. By Carrier. 80c cents tier week. Single copies, # cents. Tragic Deaths Like plastic bags, matches, bow-and-arrow sets, and other needless killers, midget cars have taken the life of a second Hoosier child this weekend. The son of the manager of the Deleware county children’s home suffered a fractured skull when his car struck one in front and rolled over, landing on its wheels. The boy died immediately at the Muncie “track.” He was 13 years old. A six-year-old boy was killed Aug. 6 on a Gas City track just 20 miles west of the scene of Sunday’s wreck. The tracks are private. The state law preventing children from driving on a highway does not apply to the private track. Surely parents have enough common sense now to avoid such mishaps in their own families. Keep your children away from such “amusements” — enough adults are killed to satisfy the sports racing fans. Let’s let the children grow up, and then decide if they want to race after they learn how to drive. • • * • • Rigid Enforcement A Geneva boy has had his driver’s license suspended for six months. His offense — speeding 74 miles an hour through the town of Geneva. Some people will feel that this is “too tough” a pen- / alty. But those who are thinking of the young men needlessly dead today who might be alive if they had realized that you cannot speed without losmg your license or your life, will realize that it is the only answer. The local courts, in other words, are letting it be known that no reckless, speeding driving will be tolerated in this county. There is no sense in killing needlessly. Local law enforcement officers will no doubt be greatly bolstered by the fact that they re no longer asked to risk their lives chasing foolish boys 60 miles an hour down city streets and stone roads for a dollar and cost fine. No boy has ever yet been hurt by walking. It may well save his life. It’s better for him to lose a little time today walking, and learn early that neither society nor nature will tolerate unreasonable conduct. The word is out. As far as Decatur is concerned — drive safely or walk. Enough loss of life is enough! Four out of five of our past weekends have been marfed with needless tragedies. Only we, as sane drivers, parents, and young people, can stop thq useless, brutal daughter.

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First Tornado Pummels Indiana PLYMOUTH, Ind. (UPD — A small tornado swooped without warning into the northwest edge of Plymouth Monday night, severely 'damaging a local canning factory and buffeting nearby residential areas. No one was injured, however. The twister hit the Weidner Pickle Factory, swirled around for about five minutes, lifted, and bounced into a vacant lot two miles away. It then hedge-hopped across north-central Indiana and was reported about 150 feet off the ground near New Paris in Elkhart County. Charels Weidner Sr., owner of the canning plant, estimated damage from $25,000 to $50,000. The tornado came on the heels of a light rain and roared into the factory, where some 125 persons were working, with no warning. Walter Huff, of near Bald Knob, Arkansas, one of the migrant workers in the plant, was working outside on a pickle grading machine at the Ume. "It was right on us when we saw it,” he said. "We just looked up and saw the funnel and didn’t hardly have time to run.” Sections of the roof, small boards, limbs, and concrete blocks were hurled nearly 200 feet by the wind. Huff said the roof raised up three or four times and the cement block walls began blowing away, along with portions of the roof. "Then,” he said, "the roof just settled down on stacked cases of pickles inside.” The cased pickles prevented it from falling on the men inside. The men working outside dove under parked trucks and railroad baxcars. But some simply stood where they were and watched the storm. Weidner said a crew of 100 men were working only 50 feet away from the north end of the plant, where the twister struck. They were thoroughly shaken up, but uninjured. He said they were just getting ready for the second shift, which hadn’t yet arrived, and were preparing to move the cases of pickles to a warehouse. If the pickles had been removed, Weidner said, the roof would have fallen in. "Hie only place it hit,” he said, “was right here. It just came all of a sudden.” At about the same time, the Indiana Weather Bureau reported funnel clouds in western St. Jo-

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CHAPTER 23 SYLVIA HADLEY took a deep breath. “It was like this, Donald,” she told me. "Dean Crockett told me that he wanted to arrange a theft on the night of his party. He said that he wanted to have the second of the two jade Buddhas disappear.” "Why?" I asked. "He wanted an excuse to hire detectives.” "Why?" “That’s something I don't know.” “Suppose you tell me just what Dean Crockett told you.” "He told me thaf he was very anxious to have it appear that some thief had stolen the second of the carved jade Buddhas from his collection. One of the jade Buddhas had been stolen about three weeks ago. He said he was going to hire a detective to protect his study. He had also put an X-ray arrangement in the elevator." “Simply to keep people from stealing things?" 1 asked. She said, "I gathered that had been put in for another purpose.” “What?” "So that people entering the apartment could be X-rayed to see if they were carrying any weapons. As soon as a person entered the elevator, the X-ray machine was turned on and a fluoroscope picked up the image. There was some kind of an arrangement by which the Image on the fluoroscope was projected on a screen above. A person entering the elevator going either up or down could be studied all the way by someone watching in a little hidden compartment back of the elevator shaft” "You’re sure of this?* “Oh, yes," she said, and laughed. “You’ve watched people go up and down tn the elevator?" "Yea I’ve worked, for Mr. Crockett. I’ve sat there on guard when he expected someone to call on him who might have a weapon. He’d have people monitor the persons using the elevator and sometimes 1 did that monitoring for him." "You got to know him quite weU?”' “Real well.” “So then he told you he wanted this jade Buddha stolen?” “Yes.” “And he wanted that stolen so be could have an excuse to keep a detective on the job guarding the plf ce?" “Yes, that was part of IL” "What was the rest of it?" “1 don’t know. That’s what sort of worries me." “And just what were you supposed to do?”— — “Well, he was going to hire this iwoman partner of yours. You see,

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seph County, just north of Plymouth. It was the first damaging tornado reported in Indiana so far this year. o — 20 Years Ago Today . o —-—o Aug. 18, 1939 — Officals of the Krick-Tyndall Tile Co. have announced construction work will be startl'd in September on rebuilding the plant which das destroyed by fire in April, 1938. U.S. highway 224 on Monroe street through Decatur has been reopened after completion of resurfacing work. A full week of special recreation 'events has been planned by the WPA recreation department the week Aug. 20 at Worthman field. The Sunday evening union service will be held at the First Evangelical church, with the Rev. Morris Coers, of Bluffton, as the guest speaker. Fred V. Mills has returned from his native town of Mt. Vernon, 0., where he attended the annual Mills reunion.

it had to be a woman because 1 1 he wanted her to be able to < search women guests if it be- : came necessary.” “Then why did he want you to steal the jade Buddha?" “1 think, Donald, he was laying a foundation ‘>r something that was scheduled to happen the day after the party. 1 think that’s why he wanted to be certain that something was missing. “Anyway, he told me what to do. 1 was to wait until the coast was clear, then I was to smash the glass in the glass case which contained the jade Buddha. 1 was to wrap it in cotton and put it in the back of the camera Lionel Palmer used for the group shots —the one with the wide-angle lens. Mr. Crockett told me that that camera would be used only once during the evening. After that, he said Lionel wouldn't use it and it would be perfectly safe to put the jade Buddha tn. "You see, the X-ray was air ways turned off when Lione' Palmer went up and down because once they didn’t do it and every picture Lionel took was all fogged. The X-ray simply ruined the film.” “All right," I said. “Dean Crockett told you to take the jade Buddha and put it in the camera. Then what?" “Well, of course, Lionel would carry it out and then 1 was to drop in and see Lionel the next day and . , . well, Lionel had taken some publicity pictures of me and 1 was to come in for more pictures. « “Mr. Crockett said he would see that Lionel would be in the darkroom developing and printing pictures all day, making enlargements for publicity purposes. He said if 1 hung around a bit, 1 wouldn’t have any difficulty getting to the shelf where the cameras where kept and taking the carved jade Buddha out, And then no one would ever know how it got out of his place." “So what?” "So you . . . little smart you, came along and figured out where the jade Buddha was and went and took it out of the back of Lionel’s camera, and then you put somebody watching Lionel’s studio so that when I showed up to try and get the Buddha out of the camera, you were able to put the finger on me.” "And you knew that?" "1 figured it out after a while.” "And why are you telling me all this now?” "Because I’m frightened.” “Why?" "Because Lione! is not going to back me up. . . . I’ll be accused .of stealing the jade Buddha. Before 1 realized the whole situation, I talked too much to Lionel, and he knows that I’m the one who put the jade Buddha

Mosser in Texas Jerry L. Mosser, Geneva, left last week for Lackland Air force base at San Antonio, Texas, for basic training for Airforce preparatory school at Baingridge naval training station, near Havre De Grace, Md. One of the 100 boys chosen throughout the United States to take this course, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ardon Mosser, and was valedictorian of the 1959 graduating class at Geneva high school. Ratliff Enlists Homer Leroy Ratliff, Jr., 17, is among seven area youths who have enlisted in the U. S. Navy. Enlisted for minority years, he will be sent to the Great Lakes, 111., Naval training station for recruit training. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Ratliff, Sr. Murchland to San Diego Larry Glenn Murchland, 17, Monroeville, has enlisted in the U. S. Navy for minority years. The son of Mrs. Glenna Murchland, he went to San Diego, Calif, for recruit training.

In his camera, and the one who came to get it. Os course, when it was gone 1 accused Lionel of having found it and concealed it somewhere, and ... 1 guess I’ve led with my chin.” "And?" I asked. “And now," she said, “with Dean Crockett gone, there’s no one to back up my story and . . . I could be in a horrible fix unless you decide to help me out." "Perhaps," 1 said, "It hasn’t occurred to you that 1 am working on the case . . . and for a client." “Os course it has. You’re working for Phyllis Crockett And I can help you protect her.” “And how are you going to help me protect her?" "Because," she said, “I could forget about Phyllis going into the washroom and closing the door and then hearing the window open, and . . . well, 1 got curious and 1 turned around and looked out of the window over my shoulder." “Now," 1 said, *T presume that you want to tell me that you were able to see the washroom window by looking over your shoulder." “No, 1 couldn’t see the washroom window. 1 was standing on the modeling platform and that’s near the bank of frosted-glass windows. Some of those windows swivel tn and out. 1 looked over my shoulder and 1 could see out of the window through the little crack that was open, and — Donald, is It a crime to suppress evidence?" •‘Yes.*’ “And if I told you I saw something significant and we kept it from the police it would be a crime ?". -■■;■ “But we wouldn’t keep It from the police." “Not even if I told you I saw the tip of a blowgun out of the washroom window —saw It moving up and down like someone was taking aim?" “Don't be silly,” I said. “I’m not being silly, Donald. Tm trying to be helpful.” “Why?” “Because I want you to help me." "Just what did you want me to do, Sylvia?" “To get Phyllis to remember that Dean Crockett told her in strict confidence that the theft of the little jade Idol was to be a put-up job and that he had arranged for me to do it and that 1 was acting under his orders." "Suppose she doesn’t remember ?" "Then that will be just too bad for her!” Sylvia thinks she Is putting ' Mrs Crockett on the spot as the story reaches a climax here , tomorrow.

Rain Falls Lightly In Adams County Rain clouds still hovered over the area after inch-plus rains over the weekend, and left scattered rainfall Monday night—from a few sprinkle's in Decatur to .9 inch in French township. Many area residents woke up this morning to find sidewalks wet from showers that fell about midnight last night. The showers seemed to cut an almost diagonal swath across the county from southwest to northeast, for these townships reported no measurable rain for the twenty-four hours ending this morning about 8 o’clock: Preble at Arthur Koeneman’s; St. Mary’s, Richard Speakman; Washington, Louis Landrum; and Kirkland, Peter J. Spangler, in the northwest; and Jefferson, Harley J. Reef, in the southeast. Rain recordings this morning stood at .2 inch, in Union township, Erwin Fuelling reports; .2 in southwestern Kirkland, Dan Fiechter; .9, French, Harold Moser; .1, Monroe, Ben Mazelin; .2, Blue Creek, Austin Merriman; .1, Hartford, Ivan Huser; and .1, Wabash, Jack Hurst. Weather forecasters continue to turn out carbon copies of the outlook: cloudy, with scattered thun-

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Bps, .., A jU ' i HIGH-STEPPING thoroughbreds and formally attired rider, will take over the Indiana State Fair Coliseum September 6 through 11 for the Fair’s $55,000 Horse Show. More than 750 horses have been entered in the six-day event. Jan Garber’s orchestra will provide a mwdeal background and Addie Darling, Purdue’s famous “Golden Girl,” will entertain between show classes with baton twirling routines. The State Fair runs September 2 through 10 this year. — —-' •' ’

dershowers this evening, and lit-1 tie change in temperature. Temperatures were expected to climb into the mid 80’s. Surrounding areas such as Jay county reported less rain. Near Portland, where there is need for more rain, .46 inch fell the past weekend. Near Minster, 0., south of Celina, no rain was recorded. Berne reported 1.36 inches of rain for the two-day period. The county’s main rivers, the Wabash and St. Mary’s, were only

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slightly affected by the weekend rains. The St. Mary’s at Decatur rose from a .80 Saturday morning to .84 Sunday; to 1.56 Monday morning, weather observer Louis Landrum reported.

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