Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1959 — Page 2

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Former President Os General Motors Kills Dear Friend

FLINT. Mich. (UPD — Former General Motors president, Harlow H. Curtice, an iron-willed industrial titan, grieved like a small brave boy today over, the death of a “very dear friend" killed by a shot Curtice fired at a duck. Former GM Vice President Harry W. Anderson was struck by the charge from Curtice’s gun Wednesday when he stood up in & duck blind and stumbled just as Gu rtice pulled the trigger.The blast tare away the upper right portion of Anderson’s head. He lost consciousness immediately and died about an hour later while Curtice and other hunting companions carried him toward Help on the Canadian mainland. ! Curtice, Anderson, George Kennedy and Arthur Brown, a Detroit manufacturer's representative, had been hunting together at ah exclusive 7,000 acre preserve olvnOd by Kennedy's KelseyHayes Wheel C.o of Detroit, on Anne Island. The island is at the juncturp of the St. Clair River ahd Lake St. Clair which form tpe international boundary between Michigan and Ontario. It ttook the party about an hour to get from the duck blind to the hunting lodge by truck and boat, a distance of about four miles. Consoles Widow • When they arrived on the Canadian mainland with Anderson's body, Curtice talked to Canadian provincial police for about an Itout and then rushed to the American side of the internationsfi waters and drove to Anderspn’f home at Ann Arbor, Mich., itbout 90 miles away. ; “I; am deeply grieved,” Curtice said on arriving at the Anderson Home to console the widow of his friend. “Harry Anderson was my Very dear friend for many years,” IHe then went inside and talked lirfvately with Mrs. Anderson for Jbout 20 minutes before he left for his own home at Flint, anqtmr 50 mile trip. At home, fiiends shielded him from report's but promised he would meet With them today. eCurtice and his companions hpve hunted ducks on the opening day of"the Ontario season at t|je same preserve every year for eight years. They were just about tb quit for the day when the accident occurredWitnesses told the same story durtice himself related to Ontario Constable Owen Collins who questioned him about the accident. “He said he had taken aim on the lead duck in a flight and [killed the trigger just as Andersen stumbled in front of his gun,” dpllinssaid.

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To Hold Inquest r The lodge operator said Ander- ■ son may have become “excited” I at sight of the ducks overhead. i Collins said there appeared to ’ be no doubt that it was an accident, but that there probably > would be an inquest anyway. He ’ said the matter had been turned i over to Canadian Crown Atty. i S. A. K. Logan and that the quesi tion of an inquest would be discussed today. ■ A neighbor of the Andersons. , Dr. Albert C. Kerlikowske of the • University of Michigan Hospital, • broke the news to Anderson’s ! widow. I He said “she sensed something wrong as soon as I walked in" • and asked “Curley, is something wrong — has something happened • to Harry?” But he said she took the news well — “She is a sturdy woman, capable of standing on her own feet.” Anderson, whose body was sent to Ann Arbor where he lived since retirement in 1956. was GM vice president in charge of personnel He would have been 68 on Christmas Day. Curtice, nicknamed “Red,” retired Aug. 26, 1958, two weeks after his 65th birthday and after 44 years with GM. He became president of the world’s largest cori poration when Charles E. Wilson i left to become secretary of dei sense in 1952. Indianapolis Man Is Killed In Accident » 1 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Jacob 1 M. Martin, 82, Indianapolis, died [ at Community Hospital Wednesday about two hours after he was ! injured in a collision of three cars ’ and a gravel truck. His wife, Mabel, 72, was one of two persons injured. Harold Craig, 33. New ’ Castle, the truck driver, was unt hurt but faced reckless homicide charges, authorities said. J Four Persons Killed t In Two-Car Collision WARREN, Ohio (UPD — A two- ’ car collision, near this northeast- ■ ern Ohio community Wednesday • night killed four persons and injured three others. The State Highway Patrol identified the dead as Dick Bassett. 20. Warren, and his brother. Donald, 17. and Glenn Hall, 27, Burghill and George Arnio, 20, Gustavius. J _ _

Paul Schmidt At Medical Meeting Paul Schmidt Paul Schmidt, Decatur high school graduate, recently attended a combined meeting of three national standing committees of the student American medical association, the committee on medical education, the comfnittee on graduate training, and the committee on current trends, held at Chicago. Schmidt, president of the Indiana University chapter of the national pre-med honorary. Alpha Epsilon Delta, was one of only two pre-meds from tfae entire nation invited to the meetings. The fraternity has 75 chapters through out the United States and Canada. The other five guests of the committees represented the main facets of medicine in the country today, each of who was national officer of the particular aspect of medicine which he represented. Besides giving the formal report on pre-medical education to the combined committees, Schmidt 1 and the other pre-med guest. Kenna Given, president of the West Virginia chapter of AED, both participated in the section on medical education, at which plans were formulated for a nationwide med--1 ical career week. This project is designed to help in the search for talented students who may be interested in studying medicine. Schmidt is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P. Schmidt, of Lincoln. Neb. Rev. Schmidt was pastor of the Zion Lutheran church in this city for 10 years, during which time Paul Schmidt attended Decatur schools. Schmidt was also recently awarded one of I. U.’s “Little 500" scholarships, which are given on the basis of scholastic achievement and the number of hours the student works each week in helping to finance his education. Three Men Arrested With Slot Machines INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Three men 'were arrested today when Indianapolis police intercepted a truck loaded with slot machines. Officers confiscated five machines of the “one-armed bandit” type and $1,063.95 in cash and arrested Patrick Collins, 23, Kokomo: Robert D. Carter, 32, Kempton. and Steve Acron, 47. Anderson, on charges of violating the state slot machine act. Police learned the machines were being transported in a pickup truck from Danville to Kokomo. Collins was quoted as saying he bought the machines for SIOO each a month ago and was taking them back to his home from a stag party at Danville. The machines were discovered by accident. Two I stopped the truck because they ; could not see a license plate on it. While one officer wrote out a ticket for the violation, the other lifted a canvas cover on the back of the truck and saw the slots.

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Roger Touhy Is Marked By Prison Years NOTE: Roger Touhy. beer baren of Cook County tn the days of Al Capone. has spent most of the past 25 years in prison for kidnaping and jailbreak. Now he is on the threshhold of freedom, paroled from Stateville Prison by the governor and awaiting the formalities of his release. •The following dispatch written by UPl’s Chicago crime reporter, is based on a two-hour interview that took place at the penitentiary. By ROBERT T. LOUGHMAN United Press International JOLIET, 111. (UPD — The last time that Roger Touhy and I sat at a table together was more than 25 years ago, the night we were in Judge Michael Feinberg’s courtroom in Chicago awaiting the verdict that was to send him to prison. Except for a brief period when he went “over the wall” from prison, and for brief appearances in court, Touhy has been behind bars ever since. He’s still soft-spoken. He still can wear the same size clothes that he wore when he came here. He still doesn't swear. But the years have marked this graying man, and as We sat in the almost church-like stillness of an assistant warden’s office, looking out at the bright November sunshine. Touhy told me why. Prison Time Slow “Five years in here,” he said, “they're like a hundred outside “When I walk out of here, I walk out to liberty.. when I get out, I want to crusade for what you might call a writ of innocence. There are at least 35 men in this prison who are behind bars because someone wants them there, not because they’re guilty. I’m going to write to every congressman and senator that my money will permit, to try to get a federal statute to give a prisoner the right of scientific methods to prove his innocence.” Then we began to recall the prohibition era career of Touhy. The kidnaping of John (Jake The Barber) Factor, a crime which Touhy still denies. He reached into the frayed pocket of his blue and white Striped prison uniform shirt, drew and lighted a cigaret. WaOts To Disappear “Pm going to disappear,” said, Touhy. “I have to go back to Cook County because the parole board said so, but as soon as I can go somewhere else. I’m going there and hide. “I’m not going to look for my, old friends. They’re mostly aIL dead. “But remember when the county (Cook) was mine and the city was Al Capone’s? “They keep saying I was an enemy of Capone. I never was. Bob. I had the county and he had the city. Why, I’d go to Florida and get on his yacht I’d go to the Midnight Frolics on 22nd St. and go in there while Al was there.” The Midnight Frolics is gone now. It was a wild like sort of cabaret, and got the front part of its name from the hour that it opened each night. It was a Capone hangout. Enters Beer Business “When you first knew me. Bob. I wasn't in the beer business. I was in the auto business," Touhy continued. “Nat Kolb was in the beer business, and he didn't like his partner. I bought him out for SIO,OOO. "Pretty soon, I could put my hands on 10,000 barrels of beer. ; I had a good brewery in Du Page I County, and a brewmaster with 10 years experience. I dealt in beer. I didn’t deal in whisky. I wasn’t a night spot guy. “When I got into trouble (he

Lutheran Laymen To Hold Fall Seminar Rev. C. Thomas Spits, Jr. “Communism and the Christian Mission’’ will be the topic which the Rev. C. Thomas Spitz, Jr., director of foreign operations for the t Lutheran hour, will discuss at the fall seminar sponsored by the De- ; catur zone of the Lutheran lay--1 men’s league Sunday evening at 8 o’clock at St. Peter’s Lutheran I church at Fuelling. The public is i invited to attend. In his Lutheran hour position. Rev. Spitz directs the activities of 1 this gospel broadcast in all areas ' outside of the U.S.A. He has recently made personal survey tours of Central and South America. He is also chairman of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod’s board of missions in North and South America. Rev. Spitz is well acquainted , with the church’s mission program i throughout the world and has faced the problem of Communism and ; its effect on world missions in ■ many areas. The Lutheran laymen’s league, a 1 109,000 member organization, is ’ dedicated to a broad program of Christian service. Its seminar pro- ’ gram is designed as a town-meet- ; ing type of assembly at which the ' speaker brings information on a , topic of church interest, followed by an audience participation dis- : cussion. f The speaker is a graduate of St. Paul's College, Concordia, Mis- [ souri, and of Concordia Theologi- ■ cal Seminary at St. Louis. He serv- • ed as a summer guest speaker on the Lutheran Hour in 1955 and : 1959. The Lutheran Hour continues I, to expand and is now broadcast in 1 58 languages in 69 countries and ' territories. Lewis Smith Heads L County Shrine Club Lewis Lutz Smith, Decatur attorney, was elected president of | the Adams county shrine club Wednesday night, succeeding RobI ert Mills, at the regular election ! dinner meeting. ' George Thomas, auctioneer and ; securities, was reelected secretary and Al Brushwiller, Decatur tailor, , was reelected treasurer. r meant the Factor kidnaping) I had $500,000 in property and money but now I’m lucky to have $35,000 to put together. “I’ve got a little patent on a sporting article. I’m going to start a little business. I’ve had two kids in the university, one went to Florida and one to Stetson They're in the construction business. My furniture’s in Florida in storage and I'd like to go back there, somewhere where I could get lost.” He looked out the window again. There were tears in his eyes.

Driver Is Arrested Following Accident The sheriffs police arrested Harold F. Harmon 43. of route 5, Decatur, for failure to signal a turn involving an accident. Harmon will appear in justice of the peace court at 4:30 p.m. today. The accident occurred at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday on U. S. 224 about six miles earft of Decatur involving two westbound cars. The car driven by Edsel W. Brown, 43, of Van Wert, 0., struck the Harmon car as it was attempting a turn into a driveway. Brown told police that be was attempting to pass the Harmon car when it turned in front of his machine. Damages to the Harmon vehicle were 3125 and SIOO to the Brown car. Warning Given On Defective Heaters ELKHART, Ind. (UPI) — The manufacturers of a small gas heater blamed for the deaths of five Michigan deer hunters since Saturday said today they sent thousands of letters last month warning that the heaters were defective. A spokesman for Thurm Engineering Corp., Elkhart, said an engineering firm, R.W. Stafford, Chicago, had run tests on all their heater models and discovered that one model was not providing complete combustion. The Chicago firm “suggested modifications in the firebox which were very simple to make,” the spokesman said. “Moving the fire box up just a fraction made complete combustion.” The spokesman said the firm on Oct. 10 notified by telegram 82 manufacturers of mobile homes which used that model heater and some distributors not to use that model until a modification was made. He said several thousand letters were sent out in an effort to run down each heater. “Several thousand descriptions of the modifications were sent out in October shortly after the 10th,” the spokesman said. In Michigan, State police stepped up a drive against sale of the Elkhart heaters. In addition to the deer hunters, three women were overcome and killed by fumes from one of the heaters in September. Capt. Clenroy Walker, chief of the fire marshal division of the Michigan state police, said the heaters used bottled gas and were • illegal under Michigan’s liquified gas regulations I Tbll collectors on the Mackinac Bridge, entry-way into one of the state’s favorite deer hunting areas also were warning hunters not to use them. Pancake And Sausage Supper Is Planned The Pleasant Mills Lions club will sponsor a pancake and sausage supper Friday, Dec. 11, from 5 until 7 p.m., at the Pleasant Mills school, Norman Young, president of the club, said today. Ray Ehrsam has been named general chairman for the event, and Richard Mailand will head the ticket committee. Any Lions club member will have tickets. The dinner will precede the Pleasant Mills-Adams Central basketball game.

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President Os Wilson Co. States Views CHICAGO (UPD—The president of Wilson and Co., Wednesday told the United Packinghouse Workers of America not to "labor under the illusion that Wilson is willing to buy peace at any price.” James D. Cooney, in remarks to Ralph Helstein. president of the UPWA, said Wilson has a responsibility to represent stockholders who have invested money in the company. The company also has a responsibility to employes and communities in which Wilson plants are located, he said. Cooney added the company will not accept "economic or wasteful’ practices that “would impair the future welfare of Wilson workers and ultimately jeopardize the economic stability of the communities in which they operate.” The Wilson president also said an open debate on the strike issues would serve no useful purpose. Cooney made the remark in answer to Helstein’s proposal Wednesday for the federal government to appoint a fact-finding board in an effort to end the three-wee? walkout at Wilson. Cedar Closets A cedar closet or chest is kept fragrant and mothproof if the inside is sanded lightly once a year. Sandings reonpens the pores, releasing the natural oil in the wood, which repels moths. •

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