The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 3

SECTION 1 THE COURIKK. JOURNAL, I. 0 I 1 1-L KY ATURDAY MO XING, JANUARY I ItidinJ Isius At Sundown Mourners of Slain Tarl)is Couple Will 4Sit Shiva' Conviction Of Paris GI Suit In Death. Of (lily Tipper U4-1S X. 23d, parents anil the said: Schloxshcrgs at I r- Iff h'W ri Police Ruffled for Clues; Reward Pledges Increase JJy ALAN LEVY The mourners of Sophia and Herman Tarbis will be "sitting shiva'' in the sad new year.

At sundown tonight the close relatives of New Year's Eve's bludgeoning victims will begin the ritual of bereaved Orthodox Jews. "Sitting shiva" involves seven days of mourning during which the survivors remain indoors and shoeless. They spend much of this time sitting on the floor or on a low bench or a wooden box. The husband and wife were found Wednesday noon with their heads crushed in their shoe store at 2231 Market. Yesterday some viembers 0 the saddened family were playing detective in an unrewarding day that saw these developments: 1.

Police Chief Carl Heustis reported: "We're baffled. We're going over every bit of evidence we have, retracing our steps all the way. So far we've had no luck. All we can do is keep working at it." 2. A man who said the murder weapon was hidden near 26th and the Portland Canal wall later retracted his statement.

Carl Patrick Crane, 31, of 422 N. 21st, then told police he had been drinking heavily for several days. A police search of the area failed to find the weapon. Crane was held in $1,000 bond for a Tolice Court hearing Monday on a disorderly conduct charge. It would have to be an insane person.

F.ven a drunk who was normal, but just drunk, wouldn't do anything like that." Malcolm's brother, Jack, a Chicago advertising man, spent part of yesterday tracking down and digging up obscure leads. "I'm trying to think of every little thing," he said. "We're looking up outstanding debts, trying to get every little scrap of information we can pick up. Even about the 1937 flood, when they owned a grocery on West Jefferson and they might have accused someone of looting." But the family reported that there were apparently "only one or two" unpaid accounts among the Tarbises' accounts. Abe Hoffman, at whose home the relatives mil "sit shiva," made this guess about the murder of his sister and brother-in-law: "I theorize that they didn't have much money in the store when someone tried to rob them.

Whoever it Was got violent when no money could be found." Harry Hoffman, another brother of Mrs. Tarbis, added: "My sister had a very good memory. I suspect that she recognized the robbers and they realized she knew, so they killed." Close relatives of Tarbis went to the home of a nephew, Dr. Raymond T.irbis, 2227 Wads-worth. They will "sit shiva" at the Hoffmaa home, however.

(Survivors of Tarbis include three brothers, Joe, Harry, and Morris Tarbis, and two sisters, Mrs. Effie Marks, Houston, and Mrs. Bertha Simon.) Between guessing and meditating, all took consolation from the funeral oration of Rabbi Solomon Roodman. "It is a scar on our civilization in 1958 that such a crime can be perpetrated," the rabbi said. "It is a challenge to the community to cover up the scar by continuing the Tarbises' approach to life and by solving this crime." Countr-Journal Photo MOURNING MURDER of Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Tarbis are, from left, the woman's sister, Mrs. Ben Schlossberg; her mother, Mrs. Jeanette Hoffman; a son, Malcolm Tarbis; Mrs. Tarbis' brother, Abe Hoffman; another son, Jack Tarbis, and brother, Harry Hoffman.

They are assembled at Abe Hoffman's home, 2247 Woodford Place. 3. Pledges for a reward fund passed the $1,000 mark, according to Ben Schlossberg, of Mrs. Tarbis moved temporarily to the home brother-in-law of the Tarbises. A telephone- of Mrs.

Tarbis' brother, Abe Hoffman, 2247 Wood-answering service donated its facilities for re- ford Place. cording fund pledges, which can be given at There, each gave his theory of how the brutal JUniper 3-3636. crime may have occurred. 4. More than 400 persons attended the fu- "1 have the most horrible feeling they must neral for the Tarbises at Herman Meyer Son have known who it was.

It's just like the feeling Funeral Home, 1338 Ellison. 1 had on New Year's that something was wrong," said Mrs. Tarbis' sister, Mrs. Ben Schlossberg, After the funeral, the Tarbises' two sons who started the search for the couple Wednesday Jack and Malcolm Tarbis and close relatives morning. But Mrs.

Tarbis' 76-year-old mother, Mrs. Jeanette Hoffman, was equally firm in her opinion: "It must have been a stranger must be. No doubt at all. No doubt. They didn't have enemies.

They didn't lend money. They only gave." Matcolm Tarbis, who lived with his murdered State Senator Freeman Reinstated as Highway Rape Upsel Washington, Jan. 3 IT The United States Court of Military Appeals Friday set aside the rape conviction of Airman Second Class James L. Ballard, Paris, on grounds that rulings by the court-martial law officer had the effect of aiding the prosecution. Judge George W.

Latimer, who spoke for the court, said the law officer repeatedly told the complaining witness that she need not answer questions of defense counsel if her answers would incriminate her. The questions sought to im peach the character of the witness identified only as a female member of the U. S. Air Force. "To warn and reward could only have been to induce her to exercise the privilege (against self-incrimination)," Latimore wrote.

Says Witness Protected The net result of the law officer's method of operation, Latimer said, "was that the complaining witness was so protected that she escaped having to answer questions touching on other sex offenses which had for their purpose a showing of her alleged unchaste character Latimer also said the law officer alerted three defense iritnesses of their privilege against self-incrimination and commented: "It seems axiomatic that the law officer was more concerned about the privileges of the witness than he was of the rights of the accused." On the court-martial conviction, Ballard was given a bad-conduct discharge and a one-year sentence. The appeals court, in setting this aside, said the Air Force may order a rehearing for Ballard. Louisvillian, Gilliland, Gets Highway Post Tht Couritr-Journal Frankfort Bureau Frankfort, Jan. 3. Jasper Gilliland, Louisville, was picked Friday by Highway Commissioner James W.

Martin to be assistant director of the depart- ment's Right-of-Way Division. Gilliland, 41, regarded as a specialist in real-estate values and appraisals, was formerly with the Federal Housing Administration's office in Louisville. Previously he was an em- Ben Reees of The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau discusses the work of the State Highway Department's Division of Right of Way in tomorrow's Passing Show, ployee of the State Revenue Dc-: partment. His starting salary will be $710 a month. Gilliland is scheduled to lead a training program for the Right-of-Way Division's appraisers to cope with the job of buying land for the State's $350,000,000 road-building program.

Carl H. Bradley, formerly of the Revenue Department staff, was picked by Martin last month to be director of the right-of-way unit. Mrs. Mary Iltiiiton Dies Special to Tht Couritr-Journal Bowling Green, Jan. 3.

Mrs. Mary M. Hunton, 95, died at 4:30 p.m. Friday at her home here. She was the mother of C.

C. and Gordon B. Hunton, both of Louisville. sBrother Employee that 1 am unaer no pressure jrom Man Killed, Second Hurt As Truck Rams Building Martin, Jan. 3 (AP) Abner Endicot, 62, Banner, was killed and a companion injured at 3 a.m.

Friday when their truck crashed into an old building on KY 80, a mile east of Allen in Floyd County. The impact knocked the mfr stre 8 V- structure, owned by Willard takcen oi Glasgow hospital Campbell and used for storage hhL ae hls nf fmi(r nnA father, Leslie Knight, Canmer; By Tht Atiocintd Prtw conference, issued a statement Friday night Frankfort, Jan. 3. Senator Wayne W. saying: Freeman's brother, Theron Freeman, was rein- flm gmtim fo Uan that brother stated as a highway employee Friday only a few shorty has not been dismissed from his job hours after his dismissal.

and further pleased to note in press dispatches The senator reported his brother's release iron trankjort Governor Chandler." Thursday and said it was politically motivated. Highway Commissioner James "My reason for believing that about to be brought to bear with services as a legislator stems from by the Governor to the not oppose him." Chandler said Freeman could sponding Friday, said the charge was "the opposite of the truth." He said Governor Chandler himself asked the reinstatement of Theron Freeman as soon as it was learned he was to be included in a general staff reduction. Ask 898,576 Patrolman Sues Firm 0er Traffic Injuries Circuit Court suits filed yesterday sought $98,576 damages for the death of a City garbage collector and $4,000 damages forj the injury of a County motorcycle patrolman. In one suit the administrator of the estate of Rufus Canna-more, rear of 418 S. Sixth, alleged that Cannamore's death April 20 resulted from a traffic accident January 12.

Alleges Back Injuries The administrator sued William P. Mayo. 324 N. 35th, alleging that Mayo's car struck Cannamore as he stepped from a garbage truck in the 300 block of South Fourth. In the other suit, County Motorcycle Patrolman Harvey Fife, 5354 Dixie Highway, sued Ready Mix Concrete Company and Edward L.

McDonald, 1613 Orchard. Fife alleged a Ready Mix truck driven by McDonald struck him at the entrance to St. Lawrence's School on Rockford Lane September 9. Fife's attorney, A. R.

Hellmann, said he suffered back injuries. Ex-L. N. Man Dies Sptcial lo Tht Couritr-Journal Madisonville, Jan. 3.

Asa L. Hill, 66, a retired Louisville Nashville Railroad conductor, formerly of Madisonville, died at his home in Evans-ville Thursday night. He retired three years ago after 41 years of service. SATURDAY 11 A.M. TO 8 P.M.

ALL THE YOU CAN EAT Italian Spaghetti and MeatbHIt Alto Ravioli MIXED DRINKS PACKAGED WHISKEY CORSO 1200 W. Market JU WHAT DOES SUPER AM AH I ST COUGH SYRUP DO thai no $rdinary syrup tan do? Ordinary Synrpt Wert Only In Tour Throat Svptr Anahiit Syrwp Werki Throughout Ytwr Sytttm SUPER ANAHIST SYRUP rtlitvtt riiroot tick It oil nighl long brtaki up chtit-cold congtilion fast kttp (ought horn coming bock. 98 Availablt at vour ntighborhood Drua Store. A member ot tho Louisviilt Rttail Druggist Inc. Trust Co.

Titles Insurance Co. JUniptr 5-5112 PROBLEM HERE I CHMKEH I 65' 4-9621 1 Ordinary Suptr Anahiit irmp Cwgli Syrup M. I'M. unfriendly toward his Adminis- An order directing the reinstatement went tration since Freeman's wife and brother worked W. Martin, re not be listed as Chandler's news friendly in 1958.

Freeman said, pressure was respect to my recent statements effect that I could Last November for the State. "I have never for the sake of Friday. Freeman, with the Administration been listed as out Thursday, Martin said over an embankment. The truck was demolished. Carl Stanley, 30, also of Ban-ner, was critically injured.

Endicott is survived by his wife, Four-Year-Old Killed iwo persons atea in Ken- tucky traffic accidents Thurs- day the first fatalities of the New Year in the state. Four-year-old Harold Phillips, Belcher, was struck and killed in Pike County, miles south of Elkhorn City on KY 80. Chandler called a news conference to Martin's statement, saying: been against the Governor opposing him," Freeman said a record of opposition against in the 1956 Legislature, had one senator who might be un- "Shorty (Theron) has earned the job on his own. The fact that Wayne Freeman is his brother has not been held against him." and, leon Knight, Munfordville, and Ken neth, Albert, and Leslie Knight, all of Louisville, and three sisters, Mrs, Irene Hodge and Mrs. Leona Poole, both of Louisville, and Mrs.

Ruth Wells, Pleasure Ridge Park. 1 Stress Hurt by Car Ram 111 ins: Drive-In Dies Sptcial to Th Couritr-Journal Ashland, Jan. 3. A 24-year-old waitress, who was injured December 20 when an taurant. Howard Knight, 23 Canmer, automobile crashed through the Hart County, was killed when .,.,.4 his car left KY 1483 near Can- the dnve-in restaurant mcr.

where she worked, died Thurs- The three deaths this year day ni6ht. compare with 10 killed in the State police said Mrs. Verna first three days of 1957. June Kirk Stevens, Flatwoods, In the Hart County accident, was pinned between two count-the car containing Knight anders in the Apache Drive-In on Hub Rock. Hart County, left the U.

S. 23 in West Russell when highway and overturned in a the car smashed into the res- Legislator Will Seek NichersoihCase Revieiv Paris, Jan. 3 (AP) State Senator-elect Cassius M. Clay said Friday that he will introduce in the Legislature convening next week a joint resolution urging the restoration of Col. John C.

Nickerson to duty in the missiles program. The Paris Democrat said his resolution will ask the Presi- rr 'haec nriviiPffo ranlr Ha then wac Legislator Pension Plan Is Studied Bill May Be Offered To General Assembly By ANNE PARDUE Tht Couritr-Journal Frankfort Bureau Frankfort, Jan. 3. A retirement plan for members of the General Assembly is being studied by the Legislative Research Commission. The commission Friday directed its staff to determine if a feasible plan could be devised to include legislators in the State retirement program, said Orba F.

Traylor, executive assistant to Lieutenant Governor Harry Lee Waterfield. Waterfield is commission chairman. If so, a bill may be drawn for possible introduction during the 1958 session, which convenes Tuesday. The commission did not work out details. But Traylor said conversation among the members seemed to indicate a legislator should have eight years of legislative service before he could qualify for State retirement.

Earl Chandler Dies; Was G.O.P. Leader Sptcial lo Tht Couritr-Journal Paintsville, Jan. 3. The funeral of V. Earl "Red" Chandler, 48, Johnson County Republican leader, will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday at Old Hood United Baptist Church, with burial at Davisville, Lawrence County. Chandler, of Van Lear, died unexpectedly Wednesday at a Lexington hospital. Formerly a Johnson County schoolteacher, he was manager of Dependable Supply Company and a member of the Republican State Central Committee. Policeman 29 Years Dies Sptcial lo Tht Couritr-Journal Ashland, Jan. 3.

William H. "Bill" Duke, 82, an Ashland policeman for 29 years, died Thursday after suffering a stroke Wednesday at his home, his home. He retired from the Police Department in January, 1951. est on the bonds and funds for their retirement. When income from the road is insufficient to meet bond needs, the Highway Department must pay for maintenance, repair and operation of the transferred to the Panama Canal Zone, removed from all missile work.

Clay said "recent developments raise a serious question as to whether the people have been given the information to which they are entitled regarding the reasons for our lack of progress in the missiles field." Mrs. Oscar Jones Dies Sptcial lo Tht Couritr-Journal Owensboro, Jan. 3. Mrs. Oscar Kelly Jones, 4514 W.

Market, Louisville, died Wednesday in Jewish Hospital there. She was the stepmother of Mrs. Wilbert Travis, Louisville. Bowling Green Ex-Teacher Dies Sptcial lo Tht Couritr-Journal Bowling Green, Jan. 3.

Miss Belle Potter, 65, a teacher in the public-school system here for 39 years, until she retired in June, died Friday after an illness of several months. ravine between 5:30 and 6 p.m. Knight was killed instantly. A Magnolia funeral director said Rock, who was badly shaken up, found his way out of the ravine and stumbled into a Can- Lovcrii Named City Manager At Covington Covinglon, Jan. 3 UV Glenn Lovern, City Manager at Sidney, Ohio, will take over as City Manager of Covington, probably within the next 30 days.

Covington City commissioners Thursday night electee1 Lovern to the post to succeed Oscar Hesch, who is to become City Manager at Newport. Lovern formerly was Mayor of Owensboro and City manager at Paducah. He was also welfare-relief director for Kentucky. He has a son and a daughter in the University of Kentucky and he said that was one of the reasons he wanted to return to this state. He will receive $12,000 a year.

James W. Johnson Dies Special 10 Tht Couritr-Journal Owensboro, Jan. 3. James W. Johnson, 77, retired farmer of Sebree Route 1, died TITLES HSIRED AID SALES CLOSED Save Yourself Trouble and Money! Why Worry? 508 W.

Jefferson Franklin Title Ktnlucky't Oldest The senator, upon hearing of Sulphur Man Dies Special to The Couritr-Journal New Castle, Jan. 3. Sid D. Cox, 51, Sulphur, a farmer, died Thursday night in Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville. He was the father of Mrs.

Shirley Reynold and the brother of Mrs. Paul Capito and Miss Pauline Cox, all of Louisville. pleasant reason. She got food poisoning in Memphis in No vember and had to be sent back to Minneapolis to recuperate. Patty's father is head of the meat department of a wholesale meat concern there.

Hopes To Enter TV Woik Her interest in the polio cam- paign grew out of two severe epidemics in her home city, one in 1 Q.lfi QTlH A tint V. At in 109 when several of her relatives and friends were stricken. When she is finished with col- icgC) she hopes to g0 into rafjio or television work or speech therapy. During her high-school career, she played the lead in several plays and sang in va- rjcty snows anfj in the church choir. She also worked for two Min- neapolis television stations WCCO and WCN as mistress of ceremonies for a child's talent show.

Former Cleveland Indians pitching star Bob Feller also will be on the program at the Turnpike Income Last Month $17,000 Above December, '56 From Wiro Dispatches ab0Ut $505,000 less than the Frankfort, Jan, 3. The Couritr-Journal Prwto SAY, BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? That's what Miss Patty Hicks, 18, is seeking for the March of Dimes. The Minneapolis girl is national chairman of Teens Against Polio. With her is William K. Ewing, Jefferson County campaign director for March of Dimes.

Hot Tom and Jerry and Egg Nog! This is the time of year to enjoy tliee favorite drinks. Come to our house ami order cither of them. The "tab" is only sixty cents each. Hth and Breckinridge Sis. EXCELLENT FOOD FINE LIQUORS dent to review the court-martial sentence meted out to Nicker son last year.

Nickerson, a native of Paris, was accused of revealing certain missile information contrary to orders from the Defense Department. The court-martial ordered him to forfeit $1,500 in pay and be V. S. and German Firms Will Join In Atom Project Ntw York Timti Ntwt Strvict Bonn, Jan. 3.

North American Aviation, and one of West Germany's biggest steel companies have agreed to join forces in the construction of atomic-power reactors in the federal republic. The Demag Company of Duis- 'burg and North American's atomics-international division will organize early this year a joint subsidiary to be known as Interatom, a spokesman of the Ruhr industrial firm announced. The purpose of the project is to merge the California company's 12 years of experience in nuclear development with De-mag's extensive production and marketing facilities. Demag is an integrated steel company that has specialized in heavy mining and construction equipment. Man Struck on Head December 19 Dies Lexington, Jan.

3 LP William George Nevitt, 75, who was struck on the head at his automobile-supply firm December 19, died Friday night at a hospital. Cause of the death of Nevitt, who also had a heart condition, was not listed officially pending an autopsy Saturday. Nelson Ray Davis, 21, was charged with malicious striking ajid wounding after Nevitt was injured. Davis is in the County Jail. Thornton Man Dies Whitesburg, Jan.

3 Lfr Word was received here Friday of the death of a former magis- i trifn MMliom 1 01 in 1 iiaic, iiiiiiciiii uiaii ui, 111 a Norton, hospital." Blair lived at Thornton, Ky. George Slioekley Dies iptclal lo Tht Couritr-Journal Scottsvillc, Jan. 3. George Shocklcy, 47, a painter, of Scottsville and Bowling Green, died Friday in Allen County i i U. S.

Head of 'Teens Against Polio Will Address Youths Here Today PARKING NO 0000; 9 "llW iff- Louisville. Elizabethtown toll road produced $119,101 in gross receipts during December, the State Highway Department an nounced tentatively Friday. This was nearly $17,000 more than the amount collected in December, 1956, a highway spokesman said. It was nearly $15,000 above the November total. He added that collections from users of the 40-mile turnpike during 1957 amounted to During the five months the superhighway operated in 1956, gross receipts totaled $489,104.

The gross revenues are nearly $9,000 more than annual interest requirements on bonds sold to finance construction of the road. However, collections still are COAL LARGE EGG 10.75 PACIFIC COAL COMPANY, I ME 4-3666 C. D. CLASS, Jri, Owtef frJ If to work for contributions to the March of Dimes and to urge their fellows to take the Salk polio vaccine shots. Appointed by O'Connor Patty was appointed national teen chairman last October by Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis.

Since then she has traveled 15,000 to 20,000 miles nn1 4 young people. she was graduated last June from high school and has post- hcr coll work or a do the io job she to cntcr Northwestern University in September to study sppech and dramatics, kast ycar sne was (ne s(a(e (pen chairman for Minnesota in the March of Dimes campaign. An only child, Patty said here yesterday, "My parents miss me and I miss them." She will be traveling alone until the end of the month. Once during her campaign she got to go home, but not for a Hob Feller Also To Talk A poised and pretty young girl came to Louisville yesterday to urge her fellow teen-agers to work against a common enemy, infantile paralysis. Miss Patty Hicks, 18, Minneap- olis, will speak to an expected 110 teen-agers from seven Ken- tucky counties at a meeting at mi In tomorrow i Passing Show, Joe Creason writes about fund- raising roadblocks for polio, vscd 30 Kentucky counties, especially Domes? mid Fayette.

12:30 p.m. today at the Shcra- ton-Seclbach Hotel. The hazcl-eycd blondish girl is national chairman of Teens Against Polio, which has some 500,000 members. She said Kentucky was a "proving ground" three years ago for the teen-agers' efforts Satisfy those healthy appetites with wholesome Honey-Krust bread. Oven-fresh daily at your grocer's.

HONEY MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!.