Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1961 — Page 2

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Pair Arrested For Alleged Arson Plot GARY, Ind (UPI)—A Chicago school teacher and a Rhinelander, Wis., man who claimed to be a pilot for gangland’s Ralph (Bottles) Capone Were held today in Connection with an alleged arson plot. Frank A. Ziherle, 53, Chicago, was arrested at his home and was to appear in Chicago’s Criminal Court today, where he was to be asked to waive extradition. Ziherle has been a teacher for 20 years. He teaches elementary classes at the Cornell School. Held at the Gary city jail was Steven Shalbreck, 60, Rhinelander. Wis.,.an auto mechanic who claimed he also was an airplane pilot and has served as personal pilot for Capone, brother of the late gang czar, Al Capone. Still sought was Daniel Yaksich, 46, Gary, who was believed to be vacationing in Florida. Yaksich is a retired policeman. Bernard M. Sweeney, chief investigator for the Indiana fire marshal’s office, said Shalbreck has confessed the arson plot and implicated the other two. Ziherle declined to make a statement. He said his arrest stemmed from "some property I owned in Gary and rented to a fellow and it burned down.” Lake County (Ind.) warrants I

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charged the three with conspiring to oomrnit arson in an attempt to defraud insurance companies holding policies totalling $107,000 on a Gary building. Sweeney said several other persons, including a Wisconsin auto parts dealer, were still under investigation. Shalbreck claimed in his statement that Ziherle rented the building for $360 a month and leased it to Shalbreck for SSOO a month. The structure was filled with junk auto parts. Bills of sale were forged to indicate the parts were valuable. Insurance policies of $56,000 On the contents, $45,000 on the building and $6,000 on the lease were drawn. Shalbreck was arrested last Saturday when he returned to Gary to file an insurance claim for an Oct. 23 fire at the building. Fire Chief John Massa of Gary began the investigation of the fire when he found cardboard boxes saturated with diesel oil and interspersed with primer cord in the structure. A five-gallon can of fuel was found nearby. Massa said the fire did only $3,000 damage because firemen quickly brought it under control. “If they had had a succssful fire they would have gotten away with it," he said. Shalbreck said in his statement that he and his partners had discussed the possibility of similar deals in Wisconsin and Illinois.

U. S. Officials Score Demands From Russians WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S. officials accused Russia today of a ’’ludicrous” attempt to discredit West German Gen. Adolf Heusinger and thereby diminish the effectiveness of West Germany in the NATO alliance. The accusation was the immediate reaction of State Department officials to the Russian demand for extradition of Heusinger from Washington to Moscow as a war criminal. The view at the State Department was that the effort would fail because Heusinger, now chairman of the NATO Permanent Military Committee here in Washington, had been thoroughly Investigated and his appointment approved by all pact countries. Officials pointed out that the Russians frequently, on the eve of NATO council meetings such as that opening in Paris Wednesday, have tried to sow disunity among members of the alliance and discredit it in the eyes of the rest of the world. They acknowledged that this was the most spectacular Russian effort along this line so far. U.S. officials said the Russians apparently, in demanding that the United States hand over a West German national, were basing their request on some postwar agreement in the field for exchange of war criminals. It appeared clear, despite any technicalities, that the United States would insist the Russian request was out of order. The United States, officials said, is completely convinced that Heusinger is innocent of any war crimes. They listed two reasons: —He was cleared by the West German special Bundestag committee set up to investigate all high ranking officers. —All members of the NATO alliance, including those which suffered greatly under German occupation, approved Heusinger’s selection to his present post. Girl Badly Injured By Accidental Shot COATESVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — Lona Gaye Comer, 11, Coatesville, was shot and wounded seriously Monday night when a rifle held by her 6-year-old brother discharged accidentally in the living room of their home. She was taken to an Indianapolis hospital.

Rumlo Hat Already Carved Tlmm Market* ’ Soviet experts have atowe at >5% ~ duction increased. The stated Rus- 4 sian goal is to get at least at largo 77% P""* a share of the world market as tn m M the early 19305, when they claimed 14 per cent of the world trade. That —|®— -Efe would mean exports of about 79 million tons a year, more that double 1 what thefra selling, jg . Figures are percent of total domestic O needs imported from Russia. $ 32% 2 * s £ 20% fHHBHSHr-F I a aflaOMal I FUEL FOR POWER—Newschart show* tht Importance of oil exports to Russian plans for economic power. Though her share of the world trade is small—4.s per cent—Rugfia is already offering some oil at cut-rate prices, an attempt according to some to obtain an economic stranglehold on other nations. The loss is made up by selling oil at inflated prices to the satellites. The U.S.S.R. plans to boost its present 14,000 miles of pipelines to 70,000 mllet by 1975. Santa Says, KOHNE DRUG STORE ha s a wonderful )j selection of on your list! SHOP NOW Kohne Drug Store

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By HORTENSE MYERS United Pres* International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-One of the most exclusive toy shops in the state will be in operation Dec. ' 21 in the rotunda of the Indiana Statehouse. Gifts of clothing and toys for E several hundred children, from infants to 13 years of age, will be dispensed from around a huge Christmas tree to mothers who hold tickets entitling them to selections from the one-d«y shop. The ticket is a painful one to eUrn. It denotes that the holder has been checked and found to be so severely short on cash that she cannot buy toys for her own chil-i dren. * The money with which the toys and clothing for about 1,400 children were purchased was donated by Indiana state employes. The Salvation Army issued the tickets to the selected mothers after checking to be certain their claims of poverty were bonafide. Cites Christ’s Words Mrs. Anna Caln, family service director for the Salvation Army in Indianapolis, confirmed that Christ’s comment “Ye have the poor always with you” seems to run true today. “There are always some families, in good times or bad, who can’t buy anything for their children at Christmas,” she drplained. "The number seems to run about the same every year. Some are on welfare. The parent or parents may be out of work and neither welfare nor unemployment pay Is enough to cover more than the necessities.** “Sometimes it will be a mother trying to work and hold a family together with very little margin. Then there are cases in which the father is ill with cancer or tuberculosis or something like that." Mrs. Cain said that the tickets issued for admission to the Statehouse toy shop entitle the mothers to one garment for each of her children under 13—such as caps, gloves, dresses, shirts or pajamas —and one toy. Mostly balls and bats, footballs, basketballs and the like are provided for boys, and dolls for girls. , Sled Demand Wanea "But some girls don’t want dolls anymore,” Mrs. Cain added. “They would rather have a boy’s toy instead. “We used to provide sleds, but there doesn’t seem to be much demand for them any more.” In addition to the articles in the

toy shop the Salvation Army al»p dispenses t|je gifts Q.f many weary corners. The Indianapolis unit of the ’Army expects to buy about 500 to 550 Christmas dinners for needy families with the coins they collect. End ADV Far Tues. PMs, Dee. 12 New Campaign For Burns Ditch Port GARY, Ind. (UPD—A new organization favoring a Lake Michigan port at Burns Ditch launched a campaign today to attract members from all over Indiana. « The Indiana Public Fort Association, formed at a Gary meeting Monday, hoped to expand its membership to include persons from communities far distant from the Porter County area proposed as the site for the port. James Fitzgerald, president of the Portage Chamber of Commerce, was elected temporary chairman; Mayor Francis Fedder, Michigan City, vice chairman; Wayne Hall, manager of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce, secretary-treasurer. In addition, a 16-member steering committee was chdsen, including State Sen. Earl Landgrebe of Valparaiso, Mayors Joseph Canfield of Mishawaka, Ray Meyers of Rochester, Don Wills of Valparaiso, Roy Eichstaedt of Knox, and the town board president of Portage. — “The association has authorized the steering committee to act as it sees fit and at such times as it sees fit to promulgate the purpose of the organization and counteract all moves in Washington or else- i where to delay or threaten construction of the port,” Fitzgerald said. Delegates were present from Gary, South Bend, LaPorte, Crown Point, Griffith, Chesterton, Hobart and East Gary. The association was formed to combat opposition from nature lovers and conservationists, Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, and a group from the Gary-Hammond-East Chicago area which favors a tri-city port in Lake County instead of one at Burns Ditch. Danny Drake Is Hurt In Accident Today Danny Drake, 18, route 3, Decatur, suffered possible back injuries shortly before 1 p.m. today, when a mechanical difficulty on his car caused the vehicle to smash into an I & M pole near the entrance to the Krick-Tyndall tile mill. Drake, an employe of the KrickTyndall company, was traveling west on Elm street and attempted to turn into the plant driveway. His brakes locked, he explained, and his auto skidded into the pole. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital where X-rays were to be taken this afternoon. The youth complained of pains in his back. Damage to the car was high, patrolman Donald Liechty, who investigated, stated.

Valuable Tools Are Stolen From Autos A Uniondale carpenter had S4OO in tools stolen from his pickup truck Saturday night while the truck was parked near his home. The Wells county man reported two power saws, eight-inch and six-inch size, two electric drills, one-half and one-quarter inch sizes, and a —portable ~ electric —sander were among the things stolen. Also, S2OO worth of hand tools were stolen from a car belonging to Robert Fuller, of Chester township, Wells county, in Bluffton Saturday night.

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Israeli Court Cites Reasons Cam I ammialiah roi UNiviviion JERUSALEM, Israel (UPD—An ble for gassing of Jews and so bent on his murderous task that he oftep blocked the rescue of individual victims: The three-judge court ticked off detailed reasons for its conviction of the former Nazi Gestapo colonel Monday for crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and a war crime. The 55-year-old Eichmann resumed his stiff-backed pose inside the courtroom’s bullet-proof glass cage, listening intently to the reading of his crimes. Judge Benjamin Halevi concentrated first on the extermination of Jews in Poland and Russia. He said Eichmann’s testimony contradicted all facts which showed that he deported Jews to certain death, going even beyond the orders of Adolf Hitler in carrying out the “final solution” to the Jewish problem. Halevi said Eichmann issued orders that nothing was to interfere with the extermination policy. Eichmann stared unblinking as the judge ruled he was responsible for the gassing of Jews and as the judge cited cases of Italian Jewish women he had ordered sent to the Riga concentration camp. The court said Eichmann was so conscientious in his task that often he intervened to prevent individual Jews from being rescued. The judges ruled that Eichmann personally supervised the activities of the Einsatzgruppen extermination squads in occupied Russia. I Archbold Funeral Services Wednesday Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Elzey funeral home in Ossian for Thomas Archbold, 85, who died Sunday night at the home of a daughter. Burial will be in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Carl Mosser of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Frederick Lehman of Berne; three sons, Maxwell of Fort Wayne, Robert of near Uniondale, and Howard of near Os. sian; a brother, Harry of Waynedale, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Indianapolis Man Indicted By Jury PERU, Ind. (UPD — A Miami county grand jury late Monday indicted Jay Richard Miller, 30, Indianapolis, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Miller, formerly of Peru, was indicted in the death Nov. 26 of Floyd P. Meynard, 27, New Waverly, in connection with a tavern brawl. Meynard’s death was attributed by authorities to a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a blow on the head. I Volunteer Firemen Select Officers The Decatur volunteer fire department held its election of officers for 1962 last Wednesday, fire chief Cedric Fisher revealed today. George Rentz was elected first assistant, and Theodore Baker was selected second assistant. I Eugene Beam was elected secretary, and Jack Rayer was named to the assistant secretary position. Herb Banning was named treasurer. New York Stock /Exchange Prices MIDDAY PRICES A. T. & T., 139%; Central Soya 30%; DuPont, 240; Ford, 114%; General Electric, 78%; General; Motors, 57%; Gulf Oil. 42%; Standard Oil Ind., 53%; Standard Oil N. J., 51%; U. S. Steel, 81%.

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Newspaper Strike Ends At Milwaukee MILWAUKEE (UPD — Peace reigned today at the employeowned Milwaukee Journal following acceptance of a new contract by Mailers’ Local 23 which ended a 26-day strike. The walkout forced the newspaper to publish as few as eight pages during the peak Christmas advertising season. Details of the contract settlement, which also involved the Milwaukee Sentinel, were to be made known later. The Journal and Sentinel negotiate jointly with the Mailers’ Union. Only the Journal was struck, however. Federal mediator Joseph Piconke moved in to help resolve the dispute with a tentative agreement drawn up late Sunday following a six-hour long session. Robert Ameln, St. Louis, international representative of the Affiliated Typographers Union, said that the vote on the new contract was “overwhelmingly” in favor of ratification. Pickets were withdrawn Mon-

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day after making a two-hour “token appearance.” The 57 Journal mailers set up the picket lines Nov. 15. The Journal continued to publish throughout the strike, resorting to a photo-engraving process when almost all of the 240 members of the typographers union refused to cross the picket line. When a substantial number of pressmen stayed out because of reinforced picket lines last week, the newspaper had to cut down the size of the publication. Under terms of the agreement, the Journal company will call the striking mailers back to work as needed. The Journal contended the dis- 1 put was over mailers’ demands for jurisdiction over jobs on the newspaper’s loading platform and take over of additional inserting of supplemental sections into the Sunday newspaper. The union said it was more concerned over wages and fringe benefits. Both sides did agree that a key issue was the mailers’ request for a “status quo” clause in their contract to prevent the Journal from incorporating automation equipment or new work rules until such matters were settled by arbitration.