Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1959 — Page 8

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Attention Focused On Diplomatic Immunity

EDITOR’S NOTE' The accident in which the am of Irish. Ambassador John J. Hearne Strack and killed a woman with his car has focused attention on the use of diplomatic immunity. The following article explains how this procedure works and how long the practice has been followed.) By THOMAS J. FOLEY United Press t.Jtemational WASHINGTON (UPD — In August, 1919, the assistant military attache to the American legation in Switzerland ran over and killed two persons with his car near the small Swiss town of Rolle. He was never prosecuted in the Swiss courts The reason: Diplomatic immunity. This is the immunity that was invoked by David P. Hearne, son of the Irish ambassador to the United States, whose car struck and killed a pedestrian on a Washington street Wednesday. Immunity from prosecution for diplomats, their families and employes is old and all-inclusive. It is part of the "law of nations" which is mentioned in the U S. Constitution. Just to pin it down some more, the first Congress passed a law in 1790 spelling it out clearly. Law Never Changed The law, which has never been changed, exempts them from any type of civil or criminal prosecutton in any court. Not only that, it says any person having anthing to do at all with the arrest of a diplomat can be fined and imprisoned for three ears. The law itself does n o t mention specifically the families of diplomats—although it does mention their servants. However, the courts always have interpreted the law to Include families. The reasons for immunity go

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j back centuries to the time when the envoys of one country often ' would be held as hostages until their kings paid a ransom or {surrendered on some point of dispute. Gradually, it became clear to most rulers that this was a losespecially the diplomats who often were understandably reluctant to take up their posts in unfriendly countries. Became Common Law So the principle of "you let my I ambassador alone and I'll let I yours alone” was developed as a i common "law of nations.” If a diplomat abuses the immunity by deliberately or consistently breaking the law. the host government can ask the envoy’s government to call him home or declare him persona non grata. In the case of the American military attache in Switzerland, the Swiss government urged the United States to waive the immunity so that he could be tried on a charge of homicide through recklessness. The officer, instead, was given a court martial by an American military tribunal and acquitted Immunity covers many different things other than being exempt from criminal and civil prosecution. Several courts have ruled, for instance, that diplomats and their families don't have to pay sales taxes. However, the State Department ruled in 1924 that diplomatic immunity didn’t give diplomats the right to hunt without licenses. Geneva Man Arrested In Traffic Charge Deon Neal Davis. Geneva, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of false registration after his auto overturned and was demolished near Union City. Davis was uninjured in the accident, which occurred on state road 28. about one mile west of Union City. Rooming House Owner Is Held For Murder GARY. Ind. (UPD — Thomas Shepard, 75, owner and operator of a rooming house, was held on a preliminary charge of murder today in the midnight shooting death of Willie Walker. 60, in what police said was an argument over money. If you have aunuAblng to sell ot rooms for rent, trv a Democra Want Ad — They bring results.

Former Child Star Deplores Practice By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPD—The conflicts and small tragedies of child actors are clearly mirrored in Robert Blake who is undergoing psychotherapy to straighten out his tangled life. Blake, who never attained stardom, was acting steadily at the age of 5 By the time he was 14 Bob had worked in hundreds of movies, including 35 co-starring roles as Little Beaver in the “Red Ryder” series and some 50 “Our Gang” comedies. He’s 26 now. back in the acting business, but admittedly in need of a skull mechanic. “I was like most child performers,” he said bitterly. “I acted only because I was told to, and you can hardly consider what I did acting. Left Home At 14 “I didn't like it. It was no kind of a life. 1 had nothing going for me at school or at the studios — or at home. So when I was 14 I packed up and left home.” From pampered child actor Bob drifted from job to job, mostly manual labor with construction outfits. At one point he hied off, to New York to work as a box boy in a grocery store. Then Bob put in a two-year hitch in the Army — in Alaska yet — where he switched from the infantry to special services. After his stretch in the service, Bob discovered there was no money coming to him from his childhood earnings. It had all been spent. Calls Law "Baloney” “All that stuff about the socalled ‘Jackie Coogan law’ protecting earnings of kid stars is just baloney," he said. “My money — and there was plenty of it—just disappeared. It went to support the family. “Someday I’ll write a story about the Hollywood children—the Scotty Becketts, Alfalfa Switzers and Spanky McFarlands. Forcing a kid to become a performer is one of the worst things that can happen to a child It’s turning them into adults while they’re still youngsters. > “Even now when I see a kid working or a set it depresses me.” "I was never a child star,” he concluded. “I was a child worker. And it’s something I would never do to any children I may have.” Venture For Victory Program At Monroe® > The “Venture for Victory” slide presentation will be given at the Monroe Methodist church Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. This program has featured a team of American college basketball players traveling to foreign countries and combining basketball playing and proclaiming the gospel. Roger Jenkinson will conduct the program. He is a student at Taylor University and was a member of last summer’s team that traveled in the Orient. The public is invited to attend. Motorist Is Cited Following Accident An Ohio motorist received a citation for improper passing involv-, ing an accident at Mercer and Rugg streets this morning at 9 o’clock. Alonzo R. Presko. 32. of Mendon, 0., sustained 1150 to his car when the vehicle struck the car driven by Roy W. Chilcote, 55, 376 Stevenson street. Decatur. Presko will appear in justice of the peace court Nov. 21. The accident was investigated by the city police.

GOP CHAIRMAN Continued from page one the search for his army comas chairman. Handley has carefully installed state pyrollers on the committee nd is in a position to force them to accept the man of his choice. Only a handful ofi committee members are against letting the Governor take charge. They are led by Alvin Cast. Kentland, Second District chairman. Capehart Is Irate Both Sen. Homer E. Capehart and Congressman Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, have denounced the Governor's iron rule, contending that an outsider not beholden . to Handley should be named chairman to promote harmony in the factional-ridden Indiana GOP. Congressman William Bray, Martinsville, State Sen. Roy Conrad, Monticello, and other anti-State-house chieftains have taken a similar position. Capehart, incidentally, is the i foremost Hoosier Republican who favors New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller for the GOP presidential nomination. Conrad also is for Rockefeller. HaUeck has said that he would be glad to run for Vice-President with Either Nixon or Rockefeller. Nixon will be walking a tight rope in Indianapolis tonight. Beaman, a former dairy owner in Princeton, has served as a state senator, as director of the State Department of Commerce and Industry and Public Relations and as State Commissioner of Revenue before moving to the Governor's office as an aide.

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3.4 Inches Os Snow Recorded In City City weather observer Louis Landrum listed the snowfall in Decatur at about 3.4 inches from last night to 7 a.m. today. Landrum melts the snow and measures it that way to get a more accurate reading. He said that the formula to change a reading of rain into snow is simple, by multiplying by ten. His reading was actually .34 inches, but multiplied by 10, it gives the snowfall in inches. The snowfall, he added, however, was mixed slightly with rain, but the snow did not turn to rain until later last night. Seek Admission Os Newsmen To China WASHINGTON (UPD — The State Department has quietly taken a step which it hopes may induce the Chinese Communists to let some American newsmen into Red China, it was learned today. It is removing from the passports of 31 newsmen wording described by the Communists as /’insulting.” The idea is to see whether this will pave the way to Peiping for any of the correspondents now holding passports validated for entry into Red China. Since August, 1957, the department has placed in the passports a stamped declaration that "the restrictions contained in this passport insofar as they relate to travel to or in those portions of China under Communist control are suspended until (date).” The date currently in the passports is May 22, 1960. The Chinese Communists have declared on several occasions that the reference to “portions of China under Communist control” is “insulting.” 1116 State Department decided to see whether this was a major reason why only one of the 31 correspondents holding validated passports has been admitted to Red China. The one was John Strohm, an agricultural writer who visited Red China in 1958

CLAIMS TO BK ALLOWED Bl ADAMS COVNTY BOARD OF COMMIS. lOA'EBS ob November 16, 1»M». Surveyor’* Office Ditch Imp. Fnad Lawrence Smith $ 262.00 Austin Merriman 12?,25 Elmer Rich 1021™ Alfred Hirschy ,2.80 Carl Burkhart City Election Expenoea Royal Mcßee Corporation ... 14.00 Howard Company ..I 16.0 S Miller-Bryant-Pierce 22.60 Francis Bents Canvasing .... 10.00 Samuel G. Bent* do . lo 00 Mrs. Edith Beer do election 187.50 Annabelle Heller JO .00 Betty Jane Singleton do 10.00 Cal E. Peterson do 187.50 Richard D. Lewton do 24.96 Pioneer Restaurant meals .. . 10.10 Carolyn Lehman Arranging & typing Voters lists 178,00 Ruth Merriman do do 16000 Fees for Deputy Reg off! 48.00 Precinct 1A J 09.00 Precinct IB 12 ?'2? Precinct 1C 109.00 Precinct ID 19??? Precinct 2A 19?9° Precinct 2B > }09.00 Precinct 2C !????, Precinct 3A — JO9-00 Precinct 3B J 29.00, Precinct 3C } 29.00 Decatur-Root J 29 00 Berne A !?? 22 Berne B ....... ; 122'22 Highway Department Lawrence Noll 210.48 Burl Fuhrman 189.65 Mary Jane Runyon 125.00 Raytnbnd Kolter }54.50 Harvey Mankey ]4* 60 Chris Meshberger Jl?i2 beWayne Beer 3?9 22 Harold Burger 1 ?2 7 22 Wendell Abbott _.... -.... 150 00 Robert Fuhrman JOB.OO C. C. Abbott JSO 00 Roger Steiner - —— J 64.50 I»on Harvey J 56.00 Edward Faurote JoO-OO Homer Rauch ITj.JO Clifford Death 50 Paul Longsworth ‘48.50 Chris Zurcher 1J8.60 Eli Hirschy - }85.00 Archie Hedlngton 108 00 Joel Augsburger 54.00 Bridge Robert Fuhrman 52.65 Certified before me this 12th day of November, 1959. I Edward F. Jaberg, Auditor Adams County. Indiana Nbv. 13, 20

’additional appropriations BY COUNTY COUNCIL Notice of special meeting la hereby given the taxpayers of Adams County Indiana, that the County Council of said County will meet ,at Its usual meeting place in the Court House In the City of Decatur, Indiana, at the hour of 9:00 A.M. c.s.t. on the 23rd day of November. 1959, to consider the following additional appropriations which the Board of Commissioners consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergencies existing at this time which were not included in the current budget: COUNTY REVENUE County Clerk Item No 200 Open Exp. 3 250.00 do do Item No 102-C Emergency Hire 200.00 do do Item No *Ol Properties 210.00 do do Reduce Item No 201-E 60.00 County Auditor Item No 200 Open Exp.... 300.00 County Treasurer tlem 102-C Clerical Hire 100.00 Circuit Court Item No 200 Oper. Exp 200 00 do do Item No 602-B Law Books 300.00 County Commissioners Item No 414 Ex. Irene Byron 1,200.00 do do Item No 415 T.B. Test 530.00 do do Item No. 413-D Prem. Exp 150.00 County Farm Item No SOO Properties 500.00 do do Reduce Item No 10* Wages 5000 County Jail op ex Item 200 600.00 Taxpayers may appear at this meeting and shall have the right to be heard on the necessity of such emergency appropriations. Any emergency appropriations finally determined upon will be automatically referred to the Rtate Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will, hold a further hearing thereon within fifteen days at the County Auditor's office.- At such hearing ] taxpayers desirlpg to object to such emergency appropriations or reductions may be heard, and interested taxpayers may Inquire of the County Auditor when such hearing will be held. EDWARD F. JABERG, Auditor of Adame County 11/12, 12

Security Crackdown Made By Air Force WASHINGTON <UPD —The Air Force, in a security crackdown, has warned industry against sending any kind of technical data to Iron Curtain countries without government approval. Air Force contractors have been told it is “prejudicial to national security” for them to answer inquiries rom "Eastern bloc” representatives or private persons without first getting clearance. In reply to a newsman's questions, the Air Force said today contractors "occasionally” had sent unclassified or non-secret data to the proscribed areas in the form of sales bulletins and sales promotion manuals. The Air Force warning was sounded in a letter dated Nov. 6 and sent to the Air Materiel Command, Air Research and Development Command, Air Force procurement districts, Air Force representatives in industrial plants, and Air Force contractors. The letter said Eastern bloc countries have been writing to Air Force contractors asking for information or brochures. Contractors were told thaV USgy should send any such inquirSrf|to the Air Force intelligence flSfrs foreign liaison branch to determine whether answers could be given. If contractors want t» answer the inquiries, the material must be cleared first with the Air Force. Indianapolis Vicar General Is Dead INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—The Rt. Rev. Raymond R. Noll, 78, vicar general of the Indianapolis Archdiocese of the Roman church, died Thursday in a hospital here. Msgr. Noll was sepond ranking prelate in the archdiocese. He was rector emeritus of Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral here. Sen. Humphrey Urges Farm Program Change HURON, S. D. (UPD—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (O-Minn.) < Thursday night called for a ' sweeping revision of the government farm program. “Present national farm policies are bankrupt,” Humphrey told the South Dakota Farmers Union. He said the American farmer today receives only 38 cents of each food dollar, compared to 32 cents in the “dark days of the great depression.” Wild horses roamed America at least 15,000 years ago, the National Geographic Society says, but for some reason unknown to man they eventually became extinct. The Spanish conquistadors re-intro-duced the horse to the continent.

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Faces Preliminary Charge Os Murder MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (UPD— James Eugene Rapp, 29, Martinsville, faced a preliminary firstdegree murder charge Thursday in the shotgun death of Mrs. Mary Jane Johnson, 20. Mrs. Johnson was shot late Wednesday night. Rapp told police the shooting was Connie Nicholas Seeks More Time INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Mrs. Connie Nicholas is scheduled to ask the Indiana Supreme Court late today for 120 more days in which to perfect her appeal from a prison sentence for the slaying of her wealthy married lover. Attorney George T- Popcheff said the request for more time was to be made even though the high court has not yet acted upon another petition which is essential to the continuation of the appeal from a manslaughter conviction for the death of Forrest Teel. 1716 state’s highest court on Oct. 20 heard oral pleas from Popcheff and Marvin A. Poore asking that it direct Marion Criminal Judge Thomas J. Faulconer to name a pauper attorney for the 46-year-old divorcee. The court, with Chief Justice Harold Achor presiding, took under consideration a petition for a writ of permanent mandate.; Since then, Achor suffered a possible heart attack and is hospitalized in Anderson. No action has been taken on the mandate request, but Popcheff said he and Poore felt they must proceed with the expectation the mandate will be made permanent. The present deadline set by the high court for getting the appeal from the conviction of April 16, 1958, perfected is Nov. 21. Popcheff noted that he would not be showing “due diligence" if he did not file the request by this week. The two attorneys, who said they took the appeal case without any assurance they would be paid, maintained that Mrs. Nicholas was being denied her constitutional rights to an appeal by the action of Faulconer in rejecting her re- ' quest for taxpayer aid. i In replying to the Indiana Supreme Court on the matter of the pauper petition, Faulconer had said that the flood-gate would be

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