Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1963 — Page 6

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"Babbling Burglar" Is

Ambushed, Wounded

CHICAGO (UPD— Five former members of the scandal - ridden Summerdale police district were called in for lie tests today in connection with the ambush shooting of “babbling burglar” Richard Morrison. Police said all five of the men cleared the test. They were Sol and Alex Karras. Alan Clement, Al Brim and Frank Faraci. Homicide Cmdr. Frank Flannagan said three other former Summerdale policemen, considered “secondary suspects,” would be brought in for questioning. All eight were convicted of helping the pint-sized Morrison loot stores and businesses. Morrison was wounded in the arm by a shotgun blast outside the Cook County criminal court building Wednesday. The lie tests were conducted as Chicago’s police, who had hoped they were “clean,” searched the underworld and their own ranks for Morrison's assailants. Roswell T. Spencer, chief investigator for the state’s attorney’s office and last year’s Democratic candidate for sheriff, laid it on the line when he said: “It’s logical to assume there is a connection between the shooting and the scandal incident that Morrison broke ” That was when the dapper, youthful squealer reported illegal activities of eight policemen and turned the Chicago police department upside down. “There are a lot of people who would like to see me dead,” Morrison saidMade Underworld Enemies Veteran investigators with orders to "bring the culprit to justice” said Morrison had made enemies in the underworld, where “squealing” is frowned upon. And they said there were probably expolicemen—their careers blighted by his stories of burglars-in-blue—-who would rather see Morrison dead than alive.

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Police guarded Morrison’s room in Cook County hospital where he underwent surgery on his arm. Morrison was gunned from a slow moving car late Wednesday as he and another informer, Jerry Bossuyt, walked away from the steps of the criminal courts building. The shooting came less than two weeks before Chicago’s mayoralty election and only three weeks after Aiderman Benjamin F. Lewis, powerful West Side Negro politician, was handcuffed and killed in a gangstyle ‘‘Chinese execution.” Bossuyt said he and Morrison, 26, had just returned from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where they had been celebrating Morrison's acquittal in a burglary trial earlier this month. A West Palm Beach jury acquitted Morrison of trying to crack a drugstore safe. Hears Shot Bossuyt said he and Morrison, who had testified in an insurance burglary trial here, were walking west on 26th Street to Morrison’s car when he heard a shot. “I ducked into a squat,” he said. “Then I heard another shot and Dick yelled, ‘Help, Help me! I’ve been shot.’ ” Bossuyt said he was sure the gunmen were aiming at Morrison and not at him. Morrison credited Bossuyt with saving his life by shoving him quickly to the side as the ambush car neared the curb. He said the first blast struck him and “four or five others” missed. Bossuyt, who was taken into protective custody, said he couldn't remember pushing Morrison. “It happened so fast,” Bossuyt said. “I just ducked and ran.” Tears Into Arm The blast tore into Morrison’s arm and left shoulder. The rest hit a utility pole. Morrison touched off the scandal that rocked the Chicago police department and Mayor Rich-

Ambulance Driver Killed In Accident By United Press International An ambulance driver was killed Wednesday in a wreck at the scene of an earlier accident, raising Indiana’s 1963 traffic death toll to at least 201 compared with 199 a year ago. Bobby G. Dill, 31, Rushville, a radio operator at the Rushville Police Department and a parttime ambulance driver for a Rushville mortuary, died of injuries suffered when the ambulance he was driving skidded into two trucks and a sheriff’s car. The accident occurred on Indiana 44 near Manilla. Dill was driving io the scene of a two-car collision to pick up the injured and take them to Rush Memorial Hospital at Rushville. Authorities said he apparently reached the scene before he realized it and was braking to a stop when he lost control on a wet road surface. The ambulance hit a big truck driven by George B. Mason, 31, Newark, Ohio, a pickup truck and a patrol car parked along the road. George W. Foust, 49, R.R. 2, Knightstown, his wife Frances, 48, Manilla, and her 4-year-old daughter Kathy were hurt in the first and Mrs. Frances Timms, 28, wreck, Mrs. Foust seriously. ard J. Daley's administration in January, 1960Arrested on burglary charges, he told investigators that eight policemen helped him “case” prospective burglary sites, stood by in squad cars while he looted stores and businesses, and then helped him cart away loot ranging from cigarette lighters and television sets to outboard motors. Secret squads of police arrested the policemen on Jan. 14, 1962, and rounded up four carloads of loot. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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FDA Denies Charges By Physician Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied charges that its non-medical officials have ben allowing potentially dangerous drugs to reach the market. The FDA said that Dr. John O. Nestor, one of its own doctors, had never informed the agency of his complaints before he made the charge Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Nestor refused to cofnmet on the FDA denial. He said “I stand on the record” of the hearings before the Senate government operations subcommittee. “We categorically deny that laymen have been making medical decisions,” the FDA said. Three over-the-counter drugs that Nestor cited as unproven and possibly unsafe have been “off the market for a long time,” the FDA said. The agency’s statement said further that corrective action has been taken in cases cited by Nestor, who works in the medical office of the FDA’s division of new drugsNestor told the subcommittee that procedures to withdraw certain drugs “should have been pressed more swiftly and needless delays should not have been tolerated.” He said the drug menadione was allowed on the market despite “the lack of proof of safety and the known potential for toxicity.” He charged that the FDA’s Bureau of Medicine was overruled either by an administration official or a group of officials in the menadione case. He said that to his knowledge, the drug is still being marketed. Our advertisers are for youi HOME TOWN — DECATUR. Patronize them.

Service Station Owner Is Slain CLINTON, Ind. (UPD—A Clinton filling station owner was found shot to death today beside his car, apparent victim of an assailant who killed him as he headed homeward after closing the station for the night. Authorities identified the dead man as Forest Dugger, 63, who operated a Hoosier Pete station. They said he had been shot in the chest and left lying beside his car parked at the station. Police at first were inclined to rule out robbery as a motive because Dugger’s billfold was in his pocket with money apparently untouched. But they said later they are proceeding on the assumption the crime was committed in an attempted robbery. The station had been locked and officers said everything inside was in order, with no evidence of forced entry. Patrolman Perry Baysinger called the slaying “baffling” and said Dugger may have prevented a planned robbery by struggling with his assailant. Dugger had operated the station for years. He habitually closed around 11:30 p.m. and went home promptly. When he failed to arrive home around midnight, his wife telephoned police and asked them to check on him. When officers found the body, they believed at first he had suffered a fatal illness. Then they found a bullet wound apparently made by a shot from a small caliber revolver. An autopsy was scheduled for today. Youth Comp Buildings Destroyed By Fire HENRYVILLE, Ind. (UPD — Fire destroyed a mess hall and office building at the Henryville Youth Camp today. The camp is located in Clark County State Forest and is occupied by honor students from the Indiana Boys School. Authorities said the blaze broke out shortly before 3 a.m. and both structures burned to the ground. Cause of the blaze was not determined immediately. Attend Two-Doy Seminor At Dayton Mir and Mrs. Richard Evans, owners of the Evans Grovery, 366 Winchester St., and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Burgett, attended a two-day seminar in Dayton Tuesday and Wednesday. The seminar was sponsored by tie National Cash Register Co. Ira M. Hayes, director of sales and system division of National Cash Register, spoke to the group in attendance on both days on various selling techniques, etc. If you have something to «eH or trade — use the Democrat Went ads — they get BIG results. f ■ ' ' ' a. -W V- ® w B 111 . Jr - v -J ■ dSf ■ •*. ' ' 4 r « -.M& wl St a - “A PRETTY GIRL . Mary Tyler Moore, dissatisfied with her chorus girl lot, climbed the show business ladder of success to the starring role of Laurie on television’s Dick Van Dyke Show. Endowed with beauty of face - and figure, Mary has become • first-rate comedienne.

p —— —r 1 l, hHb BA- i MASS BEFORE CONFERENCE—President Kennedy is shown before the Cathedral of San Jose, where he attended mass in honor of the feast of St Joseph, for whom Costa Rica’s capital is named. At his right. Costa Rica President Francisco Orlich. At left, Archbishop Carlos Humberto Rodrigues Quiroz. •

Winona Lake Killer Planned To Escape WARSAW, Ind- (UPD-Sheriff Sam Holbrook said today he has confiscated a smuggled letter in which Mark A. Wilson, 18, held in the slaying of a Winona Lake widow, confided to a friend he planned to break jail and elope with his 16-year-old sweetheart. Holbrook said the letter was smuggled Sunday out of Kosciusko County Jail where Wilson has been held on a murder charge since his arrest last month broke a three-week mystery in the stabbing death of Mrs. Louise Bolinger, 56. Mrs. Bolinger’s bludgeoned body with a knife sticking out of her back was found in the garage of her attractive brick home two blocks from Billy Sunday Tabernacle in the religious summer resort town. Wilson later admitted under questioning that he killed her because she refused him money to finance elopement with a high school sweetheart. Holbrook said the letter was recovered Tuesday. He said it contained a detailed plan on how to escape from the jail with two or three other prisoners joining him. The letter asked the friend to whom it was addressed to smuggle saw blades in a box of cookies. The escape was planned for March 20 or 21. The friend was supposed to inform the girl so she would be ready, and donate his car for the flight. A hideout was planned at a Pike Lake camp. Wilson also denied in the letter that he was Mrs. Bolinger’s killer. “I hope you’ll be able to do this,” the letter told the friend, “because if you can’t I’ll be sent off for one hell of a long time.” Holbrook said the letter was smuggled out by a high school student serving wekends in jail on a public intoxication charge. Half Million Dollars Burned Up In Truck BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD —An armored truck which a guard said contained a half million dollars caught fire and burned on a highway near here Wednesday. Authorities said they were unable to determine immediately the cause of the fire. Mennonite Society To Present Elijah Officers of the Mennonite choral society at Berne have announced that Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah,” will be presented in this year’s spring concert. Rehearsals will open next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., and all singers in the area interested in participating are invited. Weekly rehearsals will be held. The concert will be conducted by Dr. Freeman Burkhalter. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

ARE YOU MISINFORMED Concerning new expense account laws? ~ The businessman does not have to discuss business, transact business, conduct business affairs, carry on negotiations, or make a sale before, during, or after a meal in a restaurant to get a deduction for a business meal. r Neither is there a $25 limit on business entertaining, though a receipt is required if the tab exceeds this amount; records of business entertainment must be kept, but these need include only the date, name of guest, name of restaurant and amount spent; it is not necessary to record the business purpose of a meal, because good will is sufficient to justify this deduction. Another public service of THE FAIRWAY

SPECIAL (Continued from Page One) lar session might be waiting to see what the Republican-controlled House does to the budget. President Pro Tern D Russell Bontrager, R-Elkhart, also noted that in keeping with the GOP plan to give priority to reapportionment, the tax program would travel behind the budget. “We are not going to be boobytrapped in a position in which we would not have a quorum to pass a reapportionment bill,” Bontrager declared. “Those who want the federal courts to reapportion Indiana might go home as soon as the budget and the tax program are completed.” GOP Supports Tax The 22-rrifember Republican State Committee, which met Wednesday noon, veered away from the no-tax stand of its chairman, H. Dale Brown, and plunked for “an education tax” of $l6O to S2OO million. The committee was polled after getting a report from Lt. Gov. Ristine, House Speaker Richard Guthrie, and others, on the budget and tax problems. Brown said the committee felt it was up to the legislature to determine what plan should be enacted to bring in the “education tax” but he found “no sentiment for a net income tax and no sentiment for a franchise tax.” Ristine in a speech Wednesday noon had said “some adjustment of gross income taxation is most likely to be approved.” Ristine’s proposl that a 12-member conference committee be named to solve the state’s budget and tax problems, once they reach the conference stage, brought “no comment” from Governor Welsh and criticism from Sen. Marshall Kizer, Democratic floor leader. Thinks 12 Too Many Kizer claimed “12 members aren’t workable. The leadership tried and couldn’t do it I think four people is enough.” His reference was to three days of conferences earlier in this special session among Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses. However, the apparent accept ance by the Senate of the $1 434 billion budget represented a greater committal than had been achieved at first The $340 million in that budget for education would mean reduced property taxes in 536 of the state’s 750 school corporations, according to statisticians. A report prepared by the Indiana Budget Department with the aid of the State Department of Public Instruction and other state agencies showed the impact on each individual school corporation of a budget calling for $215 million, one appropriating $245 million and one providing $340 million for schools. _ Property Tax Hike The detailed report showed that 214 corporations still can expect a hike in property taxes even with a $340 million appropriation, but the others could expect a reduction. In the case of the no-new-tax plan, which had called for only $215 million, all corporations would experience a hike in property taxes, some as high as $6

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or moreBut with a $340 million school allocation, no hike in property tax is anticipated higher than the $1.50 per SIOO assessed valuation in Greenfield Twp. Orange County. In the majority of the corporations it would mean a decrease. For this same township, the $214 school allocation was estimated to mean a $7.24 tax rate hike. The progress on reapportionment was slow. Bontrager who is chairman of the Senate Legislative Apportionment Committee, said the group reviewed three more plans Wednesday night, bringing to 20 the number it has considered. He said so far none seems as acceptable to the entire committee as the one vetoed by Governor Welsh. A special seven-member House committee continued work on a reapportionment plan for the lower chamber but ran into stumbling blocks in two areas affecting the seats now held by veteran representatives James Allen, RSalem, and Glen Slenker, RMonticello. Bridegroom Os Day Killed By Propellor COLUMBUS, Ind. (UPD — Airman 2-C. Ralph L. Denny, 21, Columbus, was killed by a plane propeller at Goose Bay, Labrador, Tuesday night only a day after he was married in Little Rock, Ark. Denny, the son of the Charles Dennys of Columbus, was married to Shirley Ann Kuykendall, 18, Little Rock, Monday afternoon and left shortly afterward on a Strategic Air Command mission as a jet engine mechanic.

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