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Page A-2 THE HAMMOND TIMES Friday, February 26, 1960 People in the News Blarney Stone Untaxable' CORK, Ireland (UPI)--You can't put a tax on the Blarney Stone, and that's no blarney, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Thomas Neylon removed the stone from the realm of the tax collector after Mrs. Mary Penelope Hillyard, who owns the legendary stone, appealed an assessment of $672 on tolls she collects from those who wish to kiss the stone. The legend still prevails that all those who kiss the Blarney Stone will be rewarded with the gift of gab. More About for Alligators ATLANTA, Ga.

(UPI) --Roger Douglas J. Beanc. 24, a neighbor, told investigators he had shot a .30 caliber rifle bullet at a gopher, killing the animal. He was released Orr, 19, admitted at his questioning. Thursday that he had stolen a six-foot alligator from the city tj- HOUSTON, Tex.

(AP)--A pistol shot fired through an apartment too three times In recent months "The guy just had a mania for alligators," detective said. Divorces Mean Hubby LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Dolores Donlon got a divorce from TV producer Thursday after testifsing her husband tpurned her meals, kicked the table and TV set and threw plates on the floor. "My husband was preoccupied wall killed Walter R. Jones, 21, while he ate supper Thursday night. Police said a .22 caliber bullet struck the youth in the chest.

They released on his own recognizance a neighbor, Bobby Jackson, 23, who gave officers a written statement saying his pistol discharged while he was placing it back in its holster. Jackson said Finds 9 Girl LOS ANGELES (AP)--A bullet passed through a gopher, a wood fence, a house wall and a sofa before lodging in the back of a 4-year-old girl. Donna J. Sword was watching hit her bullet television when the Thursday. Surgeons removed the She is in fair condition.

draw." with his work 24 hours a had been practicing a "fast she said. "He was nervous and' high strung" Miss Donlon is 29, Orsatti 53 They had been married nine years fcggs Perfect Food ALBANY, NY. (AP)--Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller today described eggs as a "completely uncontaminated" food as he designated March "New York Egg Month." The governor, who seeks to require all state property-owners to build to protect them from radioactive fallout, said in his proclamation that "eggs are a perfect food, completely uncontam- mated since they come in their own, germ-proof containers More About Snowfall Diminishes as Region Digs Out Continued from Page 1 operation from 10 a m.

Thursday to early Friday. Streets in the Twin City were reported generally passable today but police reported many slick epots. All available equipment and men in the department from early Thursday until an early hour today. After a short rest they were back at it again This time the king size chore centered on hauling away piled snow from the Indiana Harbor business district WEST BOUND TRAFFIC on the Kingery Expressway in Lana- Ing was tied up for 30 minutes today when a truck jack-knifed on the Pennsylvania Railroad overpass. Lansing police assisted Illinois troopers from Blue Island District in moving the truck from the expressway.

Traffic was able to continue at 2.30 am. A Lansing equad remained until 7 ajn. assisting in the handling of traffic on the slippery pavement. Blind Woman Is Struck By Intruder Three blind persons were victimized Thursday in Hammond. Police said that Mrs Gus Gerkovich, 62, of Trailer 12, 5008 Calumet Hammond, was struck by a man who came to her trailer home and asked for her husband.

They said Mrs. Gerkovich, whose husband formerly ran the news stand in the Hammond Post Office, answered the door and allowed a man who gave his name as Johnson to enter, thinking he was looking for her husband. She told officers the man hit her in the face, knocking her to the floor, then fled. Hound Dog Missile Fired EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE. Fla.

(AP)--The Air Force has successfully fired another GAM77 Hound Dog missile A Hound Dog sped several hundred miles down the Atlantic test range Thursday night after it was launched from a B52 bomber over Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Air Force said the 51-foot missile impacted in a predetermined area The missile was the eighth to be launched in a series of tests conducted from Eglm EDNA FERRIS of 5024 Hamlin Hammond, told police at 12:52 m. that she and her brother, both blind, let a man in the house to look at a sleeping room. She said the man went Into the kitchen for a drink of water and then, left, saying he would return. She told police she then went into the kitchen to turn on a radio and found that it was missing Value of the radio was estimated at $39.

Sleepy Husband Divorced by Wife LOS ANGELES (AP) Her husband's fondness for sleep broke up their marriage in less than a month, a secretary testified Thursday. Ruth Osborn, 29, obtained a default divorce from George Osburn, 32, charging her husband "wouldn't talk to me or my mother and he would fall asleep." On the day of their separation last Dec. 4, she said. Osburn again fell asleep. Later, they quarreled, he packed his bags and left.

5,000 Greet President in Buenos Aires Continued from Page 1 many of you personally, to enjoy the granduer of your well-famed capital, to visit several other of your beautiful cities, and at least from the air, to obtain a panoramic perspective of your vast and noble country. "MUCHIAS GRACIAS, amigos" The pattern of Eisenhower's first hours were differed from that in the three other countries on his South American itinerary. A helicopter ride to downtown Buenos Aires was ararnged instead of the airport-to-town parades set up in Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Montevideo. One reason that the Buenos Aires airport is more than an hour by car from the downtown dis- Another possible reason is security, since the route would have carried the U.S. President through an area where followers of ex-President Juan D.

Peron might be inclined to demonstrate. A parade through downtown Buenos Aires arranged for later in the day. Eisenhower waa dressed In black, including a black hat, which he took off as he approached the Argentine president. He. was obviously in mourning over the plane crash in Rio de Janeiro.

The moment that Eisenhower stepped out of the nose door of Boeing 707, the crowd, watching from an observation platform partially circles the field in front of the Administration Build- ng, started yelling and clapping. Eisenhower looked In their direction and grinned broadly. A 21- gun salute across the broad runway. MOST Argentinianu were less enthusiastic over the President's visit than the carnival-minded Brazilians, who were hosts on the first stage of Eisenhower's 10-day Latin-American tour aimed at bolstering the US. position In key countries Four bomb explosiont rocked downtown Buenos Aires shortly after midnight, creating a last- minute tenseness in the atmosphere of the capital.

One of the bombs damaged the exchange building only four blocks from the government headquarters. Police believed the bombs were set off by diehard followers of ex- dictator, Juan. Peron, who never misses a a to -embarrass President Arturo Frondttl'i government. Pamphlets protesting Elsenhow- er's visit some reading "Ike scattered in the city by three email leftist organizations. POLICE took extreme precautions, however, to prevent any out- a of incidents during the stay.

Eisenhower's route also bypassed industrial sections known as Peronist rtrong- holds. Leaden of almost all sectors of Argentine society expressed pleasure at Eisenhower's visit am support for his good-neighbor gesture. Even Peronistas and Communists issued statements welcoming the President "with the courtesy owed to a foreign chief state" The Communists promisee to behave politely "if Eisenhower comes with the Camp David spirit." Small Argentine and US. flags fluttered from lamp posts, bu there were no elaborate poster displays to herald the visitor. The few special signs were dwarfec by neighboring "apartment fo rent" notices.

Air Ministry Blames U.S. Plane in Crash (Related Story, Photo on Page B-l) RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)--The Air Ministry said today a big J.S. Navy plane probably was to blame for the collision over Sugar Loaf Mountain which killed at least 61--and possibly 67-persons here Thursday. Van Rie Tiffs With Prosecution About 40 of the dead were Americans. The three aurvivors, Lt.

ijg) George P. Fitzgibbons, of Worcester, Sonarman 2-C Frederick E. Wilson, of Dallas, and Ordnance Man 1-C Hal R. Holenza of Norfolk, were hospitalized with minor PRESIDENT Eisenhower a Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek went to the hospital on their return here from Sao Paulo Thursday night to express their sympathy to the survivors. A ministry spokesman said the Navy DC-6 which collided with a Brazilian DC-3 over the cloud- shrouded peak apparently had strayed from its assigned course.

The U.S. Embassy declined comment The crash here was one of two air tragedies reported in the past 24 hours. In Ireland, an Italian airliner taking off from Shannon Airport ran into a cemetery wall, killing at leaat 25 of the 52 sons aboard. The DC-6 was bringing Navy landsmen and other Americans here from Buenos Aires when it collided with the Brazilian airliner, inbound from Vitoria. The were believed to be members of the UJS.

naval party sent to Argentina as a result of the recent submarine scare there. For Independence--U. S. Bonds A BRAZILIAN' woman who aaw the crash said the undercarriage of the Brazilian plane hit the top of the Navy plane. The DC3 plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, east of Sugarloaf, and the DC-6 spun in to a beach on the Guanabara Bay side of the mountain.

All of the 26 persons aboard the Brazilian airliner died. The number of dead aboard the Navy plane was a matter of dispute, the U.S. Embassy saying there were 44 persons in the plane and Navy officials here and in Washington saying it carried only 38. In Washington, relatives of the Navy bandsmen killed in the crash said several of them had premonitions of disaster ahead before they left for Latin America. Heartbroken wives and saddened friends said they had a "funny there would be a "bad accident 1 on the trip.

Five victims of the crash were still alive when craft plucked them from the waters of the bay, but two died later In Miguel Qouto Hospital. The three who survived received emergency treatment at but were moved later to the Navy's Cobra Island hospital. Sergio de Sousa, a boatman who rescued four of the survivors said the only one able to speak kept saying, "I'm going to die, and I want to live. RESUCE workers said the crash scene was a gruesome sight. "There were shouts for help and pieces of bodies and wreckage all over the bay," one Brazilian said.

"We pulled everything we could out of the bay everything was covered with blood." Eisenhower canceled two parties scheduled late Thursday--including the embassy reception at which the slain bandsmen were have played--but dined privately with U.S. Ambassador John M. Cabot, Kubitschek and other Brazilian leaders as planned. The survivors were still in Couto hospital when the president visited them. The three Americans, all under sedation, smiled at sight of the U.S.

President. "WE WANT to express our sorrow at this tragic thing, and to express gratitude that you men survived," Eisenhower said. Similar remarks by Kubitschek were translated by Lt. Col. Vernon Walters, Eisnhower's interpreter.

Before leaving the ward, the two presidents a at five other patients unconnected with the crash. "Good-bye and thank you, Halenza called out as Eisenhower left He was the only one of the three who spoke during the presidents' visit. Eisenhower and Kubitschek also Issued a joint statement on the collision. "Both presidents express their deepest distress at this unfortunate accident," it said. 'They extend their official and personal sympathy to the families of passengers and crewmen lost in the accident." FOR FRIGID EARS COLUMBUS, Ohio CAP)--B47 jet bomber crews from the 515th Bomb Squadron at Lockbourne Air Force Base here have a reason for adopting the Basque beret as headgear It can be pulled down over the ears in cold weather.

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Van Rie is accused of killing Chicago divorcee Lynn Kauffman, 23, after a love affair on the Singa- Xre-to-New York Duteh tramp steamer Utrecht. THE verbal outburst came while Asst Dist. Atty. John F. McAu- iffe was questioning Van Rie about Van Rie's radio message to the ast a concerning Miss Kauffman's Disappearance Van Rie icily accused McAuliffe of "talking nonsense." McAuliffe heatedly replied, "I'm talking nonsense and you sir, are the one who says the New York police forced you to make a false statement." The exchange came while McAuliffe and Van Rie were going over a radio message logged in Van Rie's book.

This message was to the Coast Guard and told of Miss Kauffman's disappearance. VAN RLE read his message as saying "last known aboard" McAuliffe asked Van Rie if he hadn't made a correction from "last unknown aboard." At this point Van Rie accused the prosecutor of talking nonsense. The Prosecutor challenged Van Rie three times with the shouted question: "You knew they'd never find Lynn Kauffman aboard the Utrecht, didn't you?" Each time Van Rie answered, "No sir, I knew nothing about it" Van Rie denied he wrote a Coast Guard message announcing the disappearance of the divorcee, on Sept. 18, the night she was slam as the freighter left Boston harbor on a voyage from the Orient, HER SEMI-nude body was found the next day on Spectacle Island" in Boston harbor. The trtate con- Leg Broken, Goes Out; Hospitalized Pablo Soto, 37, of 3593 Block Ave, East Chicago, with his broken right leg in a cast from a recent fall, was back in St.

Catherine Hospital today with the same leg re-injured. Soto was on his way to a grocery store in the snowstorm Thursday when he slipped and fell in the snow. Mrs. Nellie Robinson, 71, of 3420 Fir East Chicago, was going out the back door of her home Thursday night, when the wind slammed the storm door on her She received head, leg and chest injuries and was taken to St. Catherine Hospital.

Joe Rifa, 3802 Butternut East Chicago, told police that, while the wind was whipping the snow about Thursday night, a snowball crashed through a front window of his home. Value of the broken window was estimated at $6. tends Van Rie beat her and toued her over the Side. The message sent at 12:10 am. said the Kauffman woman waa last known aboard pan.

Van Rie said he wrote the routine beginning of the message and that Capt. AJbert J. De Bruijn "gave me the message completely." Royal Baby 111 TOYKO (AP) new royal baby has contracted a slight case of baby jaundice, but the doctors say that's normal for Japanese children. The imperial household fecued a report today on the son of Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko. It said the baby's "temperature, breathing and pulse are steady, and he drinks milk very well." Regarding the jaundice, spokesman said, "doctors say those Japanese babies not contracting 1 guch jaundice are abnormal." The Conscious Use of the Subconscious Mind This is-reprinted by request.

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