Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1962 — Page 10

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Control Os The Soos For Future Peace Editor’s Note: This is the first of three editorials on various aspects of sea control-—economic, political and military. They are not intended to be the last word. It is hoped they will create some thought on a phase of world affairs that is sometimes overlooked in this part of the nation. It is im- - possible to entirely separate the three aspects, as they all overlap, but each will highlight one par- > ticular aspect more than the others. Part I - Economic Free access to the oceans of the world is a necessity for the United States of American economically. For many years, this nation could afford to think in terms of isolation as far as economy was concerned. We had an abundance of minerals and raw materials. Our expanding population and ever-changing needs plus an enlightened industrial development kept our market a ■ sellers market. In the past few years, this has all changed. We are dependent on the rest of the world for needed raw materials, many of our everyday items are shipped in from overseas, and the world market is becoming a more important part of our nation’s economy almost daily. Transportation of raw materials in and finished products out depend on the oceans and seas of the world. Without access to those world highways, our economy would suffer. It could suffer — fatally. In a broader sense, the nation or nations that control the seas in the next century may well control the economy of the world. It is becoming more evident that the greatest untapped source of food and minerals is "the oceans of the world. These oceans cover three-fourths of the world’s surface. Practically everything in the ocean, both animal and vegetable is edible. While the fishing industry has been at job for centuries reaping the harvest of the seas, there is still an almost unending supplying of food awaiting the nation that goes after it. With the constantly increasing, and exploding, population on the earth, food, which is already a problem in some parts of the world, might someday be a major concern in every nation. Pictures taken of the bottom of the ocfean at a depth of almost seven miles from the bathyscaph Trieste indicate nodules of raw materials which range across the entire spectrum of manganese, silver, uranium, iron and gold. All that remains now is for science to unlock this vast storehouse of minerial wealth. Russia today has a fleet of over 100 oceangraphic survey vessels working throughout the world. Hie communists realize the vast potential of the seas in the economic realm. Part of world economic Antral in the future will be on the side of . that nation or bloc that controls the seas. Editorial Writer Today John G. Heller

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The People’s Voice This column U for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. No articles will be published without signature of the author. O' — . —o Aeta of Kindness To the Editor: It hardly seems possible that in nine weeks I will have completed six years of ministering in Decatur. These past six years have been some of the greatest years of my life. I have had the priviledge of working with some wonderful people in the Decatur area. After one serves in an area this long, one realizes the weak and strong points of a community. Over the past week-end, I save had the privilege of seeing one of the strong points in evidence. It was my privilege to conduct the graveside services for Mr. Donald Shively, who took his own life in our city. It hardly seems possible that a man can die of that age and have no relatives present for the services. This was one of those cases where a man could have been buried without calling on the services of anyone in this community, outside of those who open and close the grave and the funeral director who prepared the body. But I am thankful that even a man like this was given proper respect by the officials of our city. I would like to pay special respect to Mr Jim Borders and Mr. Vic Strickler of our local police department, who took time off to come to the funeral and show this type of respect to a stranger. We overlook these acts of kindness and respect many times and only see those things that do not meet with our approval in this city. I felt that I should write to you, Mr. Heller, and let you know that as a minister of the Gospel, I have been deeply impressed with this gesture on the part of these men. One wonders just how many more might be depressed in our city and need the kindness that could be shown from all of us. It is easy to become wrapped up with our own desires and forget a man that might really need our help. Decatur will only be as strong as the people living here and I trust that each one of us will put forth a special effort to be better citizens in the days ahead. As an editor, I know that you are interested in good news as well as bad news and I felt that you would be interested in hearing about this incident of respect. Sincerely yours, Rev. Gerald I- Gerig Donkeys Feature Al Democrat Convention Highlights of the Democratic convention this year were two donkeys, “Jack” and “Jacqueline,” which were taken to every hotel room in the Cloypool hotel, as well as around the convention floor by two area men, Clarence Bobilya of near Monroeville, and Ed (Tiny) Gerber, of Union township . Bobilya, a delegate who tied in the election and won the right to represent his area on a toss of the coin, is well known in local Democratic politics, and made a name for himself over the state at the convention this year. Taken In Trailer The two men took the two donkeys to the convention by truck and trailer, and kept them at the state fair grounds, bringing them uptown Thursday night for the "caucuss-

To the Editor:

THANKS ♦ THIS IS A TIME WHEN WORDS ARE INDEED/ •INADEQUATE TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE WONDERFUL SUPPORT GIVEN ME BY ADAMS COUNTY DEMOCRATS IN MY BID FOR RENOMINATION TO THE OFFICE OF JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURT. ESPECIALLY; I AM GRATEFUL TO THE DELEGATES FROM ADAMS COUNTY FOR THEIR VOTE IN THE CONVENTION. TO ALL WHO ASSISTED ME IN ANY MANNER EITHER IN THE COUNTY, OR AT MY‘RECEPTION ROOM AT THE CLAYPOOL, OR AT ADAMS COUNTY HEADQUARTERS, AND AT THE CONVENTION x HALL, I SINCERELY SAY “THANK YOU.” TO YOU I EVER BE INDEBTED, o'*''* * G. REMY BIERLY, Democratic Nominee Judge Appellate Court, Second Judicial District.

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r 1 I ■ I PICTURED IN THE PHOTOGRAPH is Ron Owens, drum major of the Adams Central high school band, holding the first place trophy which was won by the band under the direction of Darrell L. Gerig at the 6th annual Chain-O-Lakes parade held last Friday evening at Albion. Other winning bands were: Berne-French, secand, and Mentone, third. Among other bands participating were Albion, Wolf Lake, Harlan, Shipshewana Scott, Wawaka, and Huntertown.

The donkeys thoroughly enjoyed the trip nibbling at everything in sight, from paper bags to candy. Some of the merry delegates even fed them a couple of drinks, Bobilya reported. Gerber handled the tougher of the tw’O, Jack, who finally showed his true colors as a “Bayh” man by bolting from the convention hall when the brass band chartered by Boswell started up. a sight, Bobilya reported, to see the 30Q-pound, 6-foot, 4-inch Gerber dragged from the convention hall by the stubborn donkey. Photographed Often Both men were phbtopraghed dozens of times by correspondents covering the convention, and took, many candidates around the hall. The mayor of Connersville has chartered the group for his city’s centennial in August. Bobilya reported interviews with Gov. Matthew E. Welsh, Senator R. Vance Hartke, and numerous other party leaders, and even asked if the governor’s daughter would like to ride around the convention hall on one of the donkeys. The young lady, a junior at IU, declined because she was dressed in a party dress, and not prepared to ride a donkey bareback. The Monroeville man was quite enthusiastic about Birch Bayh and his candidacy for senator, predicting that he would easily carry the state. Human Cannonball Is Now A Farmer PERU. Ind. (UPD — William Wiedrich Wilno has been a farmer the last five years, but the 58-year-old German native still revels in the memories of the 30 years ,he lived as '“The Great Wilno, ttop Human Cannonball.” Nowadays he blends into the Miami County agricultural area just like any other dyed-in-the-wool Hoosier farmer. There's nothing about his appearance which gives a hint that he made 14,400 flights from the barrel of a cannon into a net 200 feet away, a total distance of about 550 miles. Battered and burned in a few accidents which marred his cir- j cus days, Wilno retired in 1957 to j the safety of the countryside in the area around Peru, known as the “Circus City” because circuses wintered here in their lush era. Wilno was born in Dresden in 1903. He learned watchmaking but

joined a circus when he failed to find a job at his trade. He performed in flying trapeze acts until 1928 when he perfected a cannonball show of his own and premiered with a circus tour of Europe. A booking agent signed him for a 17-week performance in the United States, and from then on he was a major attraction all around the country. When he retired, Wilno parked the cannon to gather dust on his 90-acre farm. Two years ago he sold it to Louis Munoz, now with the Clyde Beatty - Cole Brothers Circus. Before the sale, however, Wilno’s son, Harvey, 21, a trapeze artist in his own right, took one last trip from cannon barrel to net for sentimental reasons. Wilno is a key figure in Peru’s annual Festival Circus and twice weekly he spends a night in the high school gymnasiifin coaching youngsters in the art of trapeze and aerial work. Wilno had some narrow escapes as the human cannonball. Once, due to a pressure loss in the mechanism propelling him from barrel to net, he fell short of his goal and wound up with a dislocated _shoulder and strained muscles. _ Another tifne, Wilno was burned seriously by a powder explosion during a shot. Wilno explained that powder is not a necessary ingredient to a cannon shot, but it provides atmosphere for the spectators. “Without a loud boom and flames, the act is nothing,” he said. “People expect it.” | Modern Etiquette I ‘' By Roberta Lee I Q. is it proper to say “Yes?” instead of “Hello,” when answering the telephone? A. Although “Hello” is the more widely accepted manner of answering the telephone, there’s nothing wrong with saying “Yes?” The most important thing is a pleasant, friendly voice. Q. Is it permissible to tip one’s soup plate in order to obtain the last spoonful? A. Yes, it is. permissible, but generally the tipping of one’s soup plate is not so desirable as being content with the soup you are able to extract by "flat spooning.” Q. I know it is not a “must” but if a girl wishes to give her fiance an engagement gift, what should it be?

A. Usually some pieces of jewelry cuff links, key chain, tie clasp, cigaret case, or lighter.

Last Os Great Confidence Men In Washington Jail

EDITOR’S NOTE: Time was when countless confidence men roamed the land, their “take” from gullible suckers largely limited only by their own persuavieness and ingenuity. But the FBI, the postal inspector and the SEC investigator, aided by modern laws and police methods, proved the undoing of most of them. One of the last is Patrick H. Lennon, the subject of the following dispatch. By JOHN G. WARNER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Patrick H. Lennon was many things to many people, most ol whom never laid eyes on him. To Dr. Helen Reid, 61, a university administrator, he was the personable Harry Hicks Hornblower, professor emeritus of geology. To an industrialist,in Rochester, N.Y., he was good old Harry Hoffman, a boy who could spot a sharp angle. To untold others, he’s a man who worked hard on a deal to make them money, but it never did come through. To U.S. postal inspectors, he’s Packy Lennon, a one-eyed wizard they call the last of the great confidence men. Packy, 61, is passing time now in a Washington jail, awaiting trial for the latest of his schemes that began 30 years ago. Long ago, before the 1929 market crash, Patrick Lennon was the boy wonder of Wall Street, perhaps the youngest man ever to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He was much admired. He had pulled himself up from the Bowery, where he peddled newspapers to Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, to become a financial whiz who lived in the best hotels and raced his own horses at the Belmont Track. Gets in Trouble When the market crashed, Lennon got in trouble. A newspaper ran a seri&s of exposes on some of the “boiler-room” stock salesmen whose sharp practices had left their customers flat. Lennon was one of them. He joined some renegade stock salesmen who peddled their stock over the telephone, and became so adept at charming money out of investors without ever seeing them that his friends called him “Packy,” because of the way he could “pack in the moochers.” But Packy soon felt there were more fertile fields than selling stock, and started selling his own personality. He got caught time and again, and served years in prison. But his successes were fantastic. One of the reasons he took to working over the telephone was that he had to have his left eye removed. The surgeon who removed it charged Packy $1,900 for the operation. Packy promptly swindled him out of about $5,000. Packy lived high. He didn’t just make a big strike and live on it until the money ran out. ge kept many irons in the fire, and it enabled him to live high in midtown New York, London and Havana. But he apparently never

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fleeced anyone but domestic marks. Never Forgeta His biggest score was in 1951. Packy never forgot a name. Reading a newspaper one day, he came across the name of an industrial ‘magnate in Rochester that rang a bell. Back in the 19205, Packy had sold some stock to the industrialist in a semi-legitimate speculative venture. The firm involved,a wireless telegraphy outfit, fell flat and the industrialist lost over $100,009. H Save Packy an idea. He got a friend to go to the industrialist with a copy of a will purporting to be that of an old inventor who had worked for the wireless company. It was a fake, of course. In the will, the inventor said he had spent many happy years with the firm and felt bad about it having gone brefce. So, it said, he was going to will some patents to the three largest investors. One of these, of course, was the industrialist. The second was Harry Hoffman. There didn’t have to be a third. Packy Phones While the industrialist was mulling over the will, Packy phoned, identified himself as Harry Hoffman, and said he had been checking on the patents that had been willed to them. Lo and Behold, Hoffman reported, the movie industry had been infringing on these patents all these years. He figured they could force Hollywood to settle for millions of dollars. But, he said, all the little investors who had kept their stock would get excited when they heard about it and demand a share. So what they had better do, Hoffman suggested, was go around quietly and buy up allthe remaining stock. That seemed, to the industrialist, to be a pretty sharp idea’. He put up some money and Hoffman ventured into the hinterlands to find the stockholders, lie found more stockholders than he knew what to do with, and every so often he had to ask the'industrialist to pony up some more' cash to rake in more shares. More and More The months went by, Hoffman kept flushing stockholders and calling for more money, and finally the industrialist found that he was out $423,000. Musing over the odd fact that he had never actually seen Hoffman, he called authorities. Packy spent a few years in jail for that one. But while he was behind bars, investigators turned up four or five more pigeons who had donated money to another scheme, involving oil leases. They hadn’t heard from Packy in a long time, but they weren’t worried. Lennon’s fertile imagination would not allow him to skin a sucker in a simple way. His schemes were all as elaborate as the one that bilked the Rochester industrialist, but most of them involved oil leases. His last scheme involved posing as three different persons. He somehow happened to find out that the 61-year-old Dr. Reid, of George Washington Univessity,

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was interested in a particular religious charity. Poses as Prof Packy called the noted educator and told her he was Mr. Hornblower, professor emeritus at Kentucky University. He didn’t teach classes, he added, and therefore couldn’t be reached through the university. (Actually, Packy had no more than a New Yoik public school education.) But it turned out that he, too, was interested in that religious charity, and had hit upon away to further it. He and some other donors had come across some oil leases in New Mexico that could be had for a song. They planned to buy the leases and turn them into a tidy $1 million profit for the charity. Dr. Reid thought that was dandy and wanted to get in on it, too. Prof. Hornblower was very grateful. But he told her that the other donors wished to remain anonymous and make the big donation a surprise, so Dr. Reid should keep it a secret. “Agent” Collects Time went by, and more and more leases had to be bought to round out the holding. Every so often, Prof. Hornblower would send around his agent, Charles Chalk, to pick up Dr. Reid’s cash. Dr. Reid was unimpressed by Chalk, a rather seedy looking, droopy-eyed fellow, and she told the professor about it over the telephone. The professor must have had a good laugh at that, because not only was Packy the professor, he was Charles Chalk, too. He also was Judge Joseph Murphy of New York, to whom Dr. Reid occasionally sent checks. Dr. Reid was very anxious to meet the professor, and often they made appointments to see each other, but for one reason or another the professor always had to beg off. By the time she was in to the tune of $36,000 Dr. Reid called in the authorities. They figured immediately that Packy was their boy, and arrested him promptly. Can’t Raise Bond , He’s in jail now, because his money’s a little low and he can’t meet the SIO,OOO bond. He’s not getting any younger, either, and his high-living, hard-drinking life shows harshly on his face. If Packy goes back to federal prison for this one, it may be his last job. But maybe it won’t be too bad, because Packy’s got a lot of friends in stir. In one federal prison where he resided for a time he became so popular that the inmates had him organize the Christmas shows every year. It went over so big that after he was paroled he came back three consecutive years to put on the Christmas pageant for the boys he left behind. Postal inspectors, reminiscing about the time Packy flimflammed a man on a deal to tear up an abaondoned railway line and sell the steel, sounded like they might miss him.

“He’s a wonderful fellow to sit over a bar with,” they said. “He’s got a world of stories.”