Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1959 — Page 6

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Jewelry Thefts In England LONDON (UPD — Scotland Yard launched its biggest search today for the biggest jewel robbery in its history— the chain reaction theft of $700,000 in hard-to-trace small but valuable items. Investigators were ordered into airports, seaports and private airfields to try to block the flight

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of the gems and baubles taken from four jewelry shops in the heart of London this week end. The jewel thieves, believed to i be six men. either had a complete knowledge of the workings ,of the victimized companies or incredible luck. Each shop they robbed yielded the key to the next. Says It's Disaster Three of the shops were owned ' by the Goldsmiths and Silver- ( smiths Association, and the fourth was owned by a subsidiary com- j, pany which had left its keys ini

a company safe. "It's a disaster,” a spokesman for the association said Scotland Yard, which called the thieves' work "nice and clean,” said the loot included rings, necklaces, brooches, diamonds, sapphires, valuable silver plate and items left by customers for sale. Scotland Yard said the first burglary alone required “drastic measures." A padlock was broken open and a safe was blown up. Inside this safe were the keys to the next building to be robbed.

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Sure Footed Thieves The thieves were so sure footed that police at first found nothing amiss. A cop patroling his beat early Monday tried one of the doors of a looted building and found it still locked, nothing apparently wrong. According to the American Dietetic Association, the Roman emperor Nero ate leeks to clear his voice and the Greeks used to “purify” their criminals by making them chomp on garlic.

Norma Jean Wilson St. Francis Senior Norma Jean Wilson, rural route 6, Decatur, has begun the first semester studies at St. Francis College, Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wilson, who graduated from Pleasant Mills high school, is now a senior at St. Francis College and is majoring in elementary education. Trade to a good town — Decatur.

Tidelands Oil Issue Argued In High Court ■ WASHINGTON (UPD Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson told the Supreme Court today that the United States recognized a threeleague <10*& mile> seaward boundary for his state when it entered the union. The Texan headed a list of ofI ficals from five Gulf States ap- ' pearing in a second phase of ' arguments on the multi-million dollar tideland oil dispute. The general framework of the case was outlined Monday to the court by U. S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin and attorneys for both Texas and Louisiana. The issue is whether the states or the federal government will receive huge sums from oil companies which drill in the offshore area; The court took up the tidelands oil issue after acting on a big batch of cases in its first business session of the term. The ' justices agreed to rule later on whether it is fair to a union member if his dues under a union | shop contract are used for political activities he doesn’t apI prove. The court turned down four ' school segregation appeals, two from North Carolina and two from Virginia. Thus, it adhered to the “hands off” formula that has been followed since its his- ( toric school decisions in 1954 and 1955. In the field of subversion, the tribunal agreed to hear a second case challenging the constitutionality of the “membership clause" iin the Smith Anti-Communist Act. The law makes it a crime to be a member of any organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the government if the member is aware of this aim. Says Man's Death Vigilante Action CHELSEA, Vt. (UPD—The state today will attempt to prove its contention that the death of a cantankerous farmer was the outcome of “some sort of vigilante action.” Atty. Gen. Frederick M. Reed was expected to call as his first witness Dr. Leonard J Abdadessa, a dentist who examined the body of Newbury farmer Orville A. Gibson after it was recovered from the Connecticut River. On trial for his life was Robert O. Welch, 46, Newbury, a school janitor, who is accused of being the instrument of a community’s dislike for the mean-natured Gibson. Frank Carpenter, West Newbury, also charged with murder in the case, will be tried later. Reed, who has assumed personal direction of the prosecution in one of Vermont’s strangest murder cases, Monday laid the ground work to support his belief that Gibson’s death was a “community affair” with Carpenter and Welch serving as “vigilantes.” Superior Judge Matt J. Divoll Jr. and a jury of eight men and four women heard 71-year-old Walter B. Renfrew, one of Newbury’s most influential citizens, testify that he publicly suggested “a little tarring and feathering” for Gibson. The suggestion he said, was made after Gibson severely beat his frail hired hand, Eri Martin, 57, for spilling two large cans of milk. Renfrew, a former state senator and representative, said he “discussed” the Martin affair with several neighbors. Reed pressed for the substance of the discussion and Renfrew Shot back from the witness stand, “The substance might be that I recommended a little tarring and feathering.” He denied however that he had ever suggested this to the defendant, Welch. The defendant seemed totally unconcerned with the proceedings, toying with a pencil and scratch pad and several times turning to the spectators in the small courtroom to wink at one of his neighbors. JUNIOR LEADERS Continued trom page <> n * teaches young people how to make a decision. In high school Mom tells you when to be in; there are study hall periods for studying during school. But at college your spare- time is .your own — you can study—or you can flunk. It only takes a couple of dates on nights when you should have studied chemistry or history to convince a freshman of this. “In other words, college turns young people into men and women, preparing them for a job, and preparing them even more for making the decisions necessary. “Have a goal while you’re in high school—plan for a college education along some line — and you will be successful in life. H you just coast along, working here and there, you will end up a failure to yoursdf, your parents, your future wife and children,” he closed. I % In 1956, the excess of births over deaths in the U.S.. was 2,800,000.

Scientists Shoot At Million Mile Speeds

LANGLEY FIELD, Va. (UPD— Scientists are shooting for speeds , of more than a million miles an j hour in space and less than 100 , miles an hour close to the j ground. This roughly represents the extremes of research being pushed at its various scientific centers by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA). Between the extremes are research and development projects aimed at: —Perfecting collapsible space platforms and spaceships which automatically expand after being fired into orbits high above the earth. —Development of radio communications capable of spanning the interplanetary voids. Plan “Parking Orbits” —Boosting rockets into "parking orbits” from which lunar probes could be launched more successfully than from stationary sites on the ground. —Desighing jet aircraft capable of speeds greater than a mile a second to handle human transportation from point to point on the earth’s surface. This and a host of other research projects, including an array of spacecraft resembling everything from a flattened needle to a flexible kite, are being reported‘to some 2,100 guests this week at NASA’s 100 million dol- , lar Langley Research Center here. The hottest thing in space research is a new science called Veteran Indiana Newspaperman Dies NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPD — i Charles S. Neal, 87, publisher of ■ the Noblesville Daily Ledger, died ' in Riverview Hospital here Monday. Neal, a veteran of 67 years in newspaper work, was a native of Hamilton county. He was an active member of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association and a charter member of the Hoosier State Press Association. Neal began his newspaper career in 1892 with the Richmond Item. He later became city eidtor of the Richmond Palladium-Item and purchased the weekly Noblesville Enterprise in 1911. The En- ‘ terprise was consolidated with the : Ledger in 1914. He also had owned the Lebanon Reporter and the former Frankfort Evening News.

Neal was active in his profession until less than two weeks ago when he became ill with a kidney ailment. Services will be held Wednesday afternoon. Survivors include a son, Ralph 8., president of the Ledger Corp., I and two grandsons, James T. I Neal, managing editor of the Ledger and secretary of the Indiana Republican State Committee, and John R. Neal, business manager of the Ledger and mayor of Noblesville.

“ATTENTION FARMERS!” ~ Now is The Time To Get Rid of Those “PESKY” Rats and Mice. With Each 5 Lbs. of Co-op Rat and Mouse Bait Purchased At 3.98—0ne Pair of Golden Giant Gloves Will Be Given FREE During The Month of October Only. .-j ( • * • ADAMS COUNTY FARM BUREAU CO-OP Geneva—Berne—Monroe—Pleasant Mills—Williams

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1959

J— T . magnetoplasmadynamics or MPD for short. A plasma is a gas which has been made «o hot that its molecules break up into electrically charged positive and negative particlesCacj Supply Speed Such a gas is electrically conductive, and under the influence of electromagnetic forces its particles can be made to move literally at millions of miles an hour. Since the weight of gas involved is extremely small, such moitons don’t generate much thrust. If you want to lift a spaceship off the ground against the pull of gravity, use chemical or perhaps nuclear rockets. But once in frictionless space, where nothing weighs anything, fast-moving plasmas, obeying the laws of MPD, can supply speeds not otherwise obtainable. State Rests Murder Case At Newport NEWPORT, Ind. (UPD - The prosecution rested its first-degree murder case against Thomas H. Johnston, 35, Lafayette Monday in Vermillion Circuit Court. Johnston is being tried for the second time on charges of slaying Mrs. Vida Mae Foxworthy, 54. an Attica hotel maid. He was sentenced to die for the 1957 shooting but was granted a new trial because one • of the jurors was related to Mrs. I Foxworthy. Defense testimony will begin today. United Auto Workers Plan Dues Increase ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPD— A table of specific membership . dues increases was to be presents ed to the 3,000 delegates to the i United Auto Workers convention today to bolster the union’s strike fund. The UAW constitution commit--1 tee drafted the table after delef gates Monday approved by a 90 ’ per cent show-of-hands vote an in- ■ formal proposal to increase dues. 1 The dues hike will boost the strike f fund to 40 million dollars. The cottonwood is the official 1 state tree of Kansas, the American r buffalo its official state animal and > the sunflower its official state ■ flower. > Puget Sound in the state of Washington has Lsoo.miles of shel- ( tered shoreline and 2,000 square miles of inland bays, inlets, channels and canals. . .....

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