Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1959 — Page 8

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Conspirators Trial Goes To Jury Today

NEW YORK (UPI) — The federal government’s most massive effort to break the rackets syndicate since the days of Al Capone goes to the jury today in the trial of 20 accused conspirators at the notorious Apalchin, N.Y., meeting of 1957 U.S. District Judge Irving Kaufman was to instruct the eight men and four women juors before they receive the case. Prose cutot Milton Wessel wound up his case Wednesday night with the charge that the defendants were so bound in silence that “grown men cry’’ rather than reveal what happened at the Apalachin home of the late Joseph Barbara two years ago. Most of the defendants have criminal records ranging from narcotics and illegal gamoling to white slavery and suspicion of murder. It is widely believed that Apalachin was a meeting of the “board of directors" of the

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rackets to discuss national problems. Charged With Conspiracy But the federal government charged them only with conspiracy to obstruct justice by lying .about what did occur. The offense (carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment. | “We have not, cannot and do | not prove what was going on at [the Apalachin meeting,” Wessel said. “The conspiracy was successful. “People may ask, ‘what kind of conspiracies car.', be beaten by the federal government, by the FBI?” j “It is the kind that binds these people together so tightly in sii lence that grown men cry. They are bound by bands so strong to lie that it will take a verdict of guilty to break those bands.” All the defendants are of Italian descent and there have been 'suggestions that most were members of the Mafia, the Sicilian terrorist society whose code is Silnce to the death. Summoned Help The meeting occurred only a few weeks after racket, kingpin Albert Anastasia was shot to death in a New York barber’s chair. State Police Sgt. Edgar Croswell was the man who spotted the gathering of about 60 men driving gleaming limousines at the hilltop home near the tiny village. ' After he summoned reinforcc- > ments and set up road blocks, 1 Barbara's “guests' 1 took off by foot through the fields and woods Most of them previously told a Ip his own defense. 1 Not a single defendant testified 'grand jury and investigating officers they “just happened” to drop in on old friend, Barbara, because they had heard he was ill. Eagles Lodge Plans Christmas Parties The Eagles, who recently voted I down a proposal to buy a new hall, will hold three Christmas holiday ' parties within the next week, W. I R. Morris announced today. j Saturday the fraternal order will I hold an open house at the lodge hall in the Boch building with dancing from 9:30 to 12:30. It will be open to the public. A feather party will be held at 8 p.m. the following Tuesday in , the hall, for all who wish to attend. | Wednesday, the annual Christmas h party for the Children ofmembers will be held at 8 p.m. Trade in a gooa tow a— Decatur.

Parke County Youth Wins Second Honors LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — A ten-aged farm youth from Parke County Wednesday night won honors for the second time this month when he Contour Five-Acre Corn champion. Larry Clodfelter, 15, was declared the winner of the juniefr division of the 1959 Indiana FiveAcre Corn Growing contest little more than a week earlier, Purdue University farm experts said it was the first time the contour winner also had the top yield in the state either in the junior or senior divisions of the corn growing contest. Larry’s winning yield was 217 bushels per acre. Melvin Clodfelter, Larry’s older brother and a junior at Purdue, took runner-up honors with a yield of 191 bushels per acre. Melvin won the contour contest two years straight in 1955 and 1956.

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Tied for third at 184 bushels were Frank E. Blacker, Remney, the 1958 winner, and Lorraine Bosstick, of Clay County. Oyjer top growers Included Vance. Clodfelter, father of Larry and Melvin, 176 bushels; Theoren Chapman, Parke County ,165; Robert A. Miller, Knox County, 162; Lewis Withrow, Tippecanoe, 155; Dan Minnick, Warren, 151, and Dick Macy, Tippecanoe, 149. Larry’s winning yield came from a 14-acre field which has a slope of more than two per cent, one of the two requirements for the contest. The field was plowed on the contour and the corn planted and cultivated on the contour, in line with the other requirement. The top yield came from hybrid seed, Indiana Certified 851 and AES 808, mixed for a longer pollenizing season. It was drilled in 38-inch rows with grains six inches apart, making a population of about 22,000 plants an acre. The field has been heavily manured and bulk fertilizer at the rate of 40 pounds nitrogen, ,80 pounds phosphate and 120 pounds

potash an acre was plowed down. Row fertilizer was applied at the rate of 225 pounds of 6-24-24 an acre. The corn was cultivated once and \sprayed with 2 4-D to control weeds. The corn was side dressed in June with 125 pounds of liquid nitrogen an acre. Public Loitering Charge Filed Here Charles Sohlemmer, 24, of route 5, will appear in city court to answer a charge of public loitering filed by sheriff Merle Affolder. Affolder said that Schlemmer was arrested in the Family Inn parking lot, about two miles from Decatur on U. S. 27 on county road 8% at 2:30 o’clock this morning, A waitress at the Inn told the sheriff that Schlemmer took some cheese from the refrigerator after using the phone in the back room. Sheriff Affolder found a loaded .22 calibre revolver on the front seat of the car, which he confiscated. Schlemmer apparently has no license for the gun.

! Ball State Gymnasts Open Card Saturday The Ball State gymnasts will open its regular season at Indiana I University Saturday against a tough Otto Ryser-coached team. The Cardinals, coached by Clair Jennett, will miss two of last season’s top scorers. Dale Lechlitner, a 1959 graduate, and Charlie Fritz, Muncie Central junior, who has a slipped disc in his back. William Rowden, of Monroe, will be one of the 10 boys making the trip to Bloomington Saturday. Doe Sighted Sunday In Kirkland Township A doe weighing between 250 and 300 pounds was sighted Sunday on the Glen Griffiths farm in Kirkland township, west of Decatur, it was learned today. ! Mrs. Girffiths was on her way to : feed the chickens about 5 p.m. Sunday when she noticed the deer among the cattle and ponies by the chicken coop. She called her

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i it has not been sighted again. One of the children, Daniel, left some j hay for the deer, which' approach- ! ed it when>the boy returned to the ! group, and ate the hay.