Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1961 — Page 3

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By United Press International Easter services drew millions of American Christians to the nation’s churches and traditional shrines and reached countless others over coast-to-coast broadcasts. Generally clear and cold weather, marked here and there by weekend snow, greeted worshippers at sunrise services. An estimated 20,000 persons filled the Hollywood Bowl at dawn and 30,000 attended sunrise services in the nation’s capital. More than 6,000 persons braved a 4-inch snowfall and sub-freezing temperatures to attend early services at the Cathedral in the Pines at Rindge, N.H., where crews worked four hours during the night clearing roads and parking lots at the non - denominational memorial to America’s war dead. At Bar Harbor, Maine, sunrise services were held indoors when snow and sleet forced cancellation of services atop Mt. Cadillac. Easter celebrants used skiers’ chair lifts to reach services in 3 to 4 inches of snow on 4,393-foot Mt. Mansfield at Stowe, Vt. Young pacifists pleaded for disarmament in parades in New York during services in the city’s packed churches. More than 100 members of the Society of Friends assembled at sunrise in Times Square to pray for peace in the Quaker tradition. Sunrise services atop Bald Knob Mountain in Southern Illinois drew about 1,500 persons, including 19 families who camped overnight beneath a towering 111-foot cross. In Chicago, worshippers flocked to dawn services in the city’s new lakefront exposition hall and at Arlington Park race track. Temperatures hovered in the high 20s. Violence and greed also marked ' celebrations of the resurrection of ! Christ. Five gunmen held up 25 I persons and fled with $l5O from an Easter prayer meeting in Chicago. At Denver, a Roman Catholic priest shot and killed a burglar he found stealing the Easter collection. Convicted Slayer Sentenced To Lite OTTAWA. 111. (UPD — Chester Otto Weger, convicted bludgeon slayer, today was sentenced to i life imprisonment for the murder lof one of three matrons slain at ■Starved Rock State Park more I than a year ago. Even before the sentence was pronounced, Weger’s family, his mother, Juanita, his wife Jo Ann. and sister. Mary, clung together in the first row of the courtroom and began to sob. Judge Leonard Hoffman sentenced Weger after a brief legal battle in which defense attorney John McNamara contended that the jury had been "pressured into returning a guilty verdict." McNamara introduced an affidavit by juror Harold Herman which told of bailiffs exerting pressure on jurors. Prosecuting attorney Robert Richardson countered by introducing at least six affidavits from jurors saying that they had reached a verdict of their own free will. Hoffman said "In my judgment, this has been a fair trial. This should serve as a model for other murder investigations in the future." "I will not let a whimsical affidavit by a juror destroy the verdict of this jury," he said. Hoffman suggested the possibility that Herman, a lightning-rod

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Fort Wayne Pastor Dies In Air Crash HOUSTON, Miss. (UPD—A four day search for three Church of God ministers, one of them from Fort Wayne, ended Sunday when a 13-year-old youth found the wreckage of their plane in a

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field. The bodies of the Revs. Robert Mapes, Fort Wayne, the pilot; C. C. Curby, Troy, Mich., and M. B. Ellis, Royal Oak, Mich., were in the wreckage. The discovery was made by Douglas Gore as he played near his home about 18 miles south of here. A Civil Air Patrol official said the plane “went straight down”

and the three men apparently were killed outright. The plane left Meridian Miss., Thursday on a flight to Paragould, Ark. Control towers at Paragould and at Pine Bluff, Ark., heard a distress call that night from the plane saying it was in a thunderstorm, location unknown. Another call 10 minutes later was the last reported.

Eisenhowers Attend Easter Services PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPD — Former President Eisenhower and his wife. Mamie, attended Easter services Sunday at Palm Desert Community Church. The Eisenhowers arrived here Feb. • for an extended vacation at nearby Eldorado Country Club.

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