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14 THE TERRE HAUTE STAR, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1961 Weger Confession To Starved Rock Murders Stands OTTAWA, 111., Jan. Chester Weger, who. now denies the Starved Rock murders, today lost his fight to get his confessions thrown out of court. Circuit Judge Leonard Hoffman denied defense motions to suppress the confessions. He said he had a "moral certaintly" that Weger knew what he was doing when he signed them.

WEGER, 21 years oN, is charged with the murders of three Chicago area women whose bodies were found in a cave in Starved Rock State Park last March 16. He goes on trial in 18 days for the murder of one of them. Weger, who was a dishwasher at the park's lodge, was arrested Nov. 17. After his preliminary hearings he claimed he did not kill the women and signed the confessions only because of threats.

WEGER, also indicted on charges of rape, robbery and assault as an outgrowth of interrogation about the murders, claimed LaSalle County authorities threatened to send him to the electric chair if he didn't sign the confessions. But Hoffman said he was satisfied the investigation was conducted by "officers of integrity." He added that he had spent "many sleepless nights" thinking about the case. WEGER'S lawyer, John McNamara, told the United Press International it will take "a good long time" to select a jury. He said he won't be satisfied with anything less than "fair and impartial people." McNamara said the defense will be one of the oldest in the annals of jurisprudence. "Our defense," McNamara said, "is he didn't do it." News of Valley Men in Service DON DOMERS 1234 Wabash SYLVANIA TELEVISION SCIENTIFIC WATCH REPAIR 1 to 7-DAY SERVICE Indians Rrclfltered Watchmaker All Work Gaaraaleed COX JEWELRY 114 NORTH 13TH C-7721 CASH FAST! CONVENIENT OFFICES: 17 SOUTH 4TH ST.

C-4304 7TH AND OHIO 3702 13TH AND MAPLE AVE. L-805S MEADOWS C-0741 Level COCKTAILS; and Cooking-i RIES FREE RECIPES Ait SPEEDY FREE DELIVERY 727 WABASH AVE. C-4545 Army Pvt. Gary A. Lawson, IB, son of George A.

Lawson, 308 South Temple Avenue, Indianapolis, recently received a White House certificate of service for performance cf duties with the President's staff at Fort Belvoir. Virginia. The certificate is awarded in the name of the President by the secretary of the Army as public evidence of deserved honor and distinction for at least one year of duty on the White House staff. Lawson is assigned as a security guard in the 521st Military Police Company, which is attached to the White House staff. The unit is stationed at Fort Belvoir.

He entered the Army in May, 1960, and received basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Lawson is a 1960 graduate of Glenn High School, Terre Haute. His mother. Mrs. Virginia M.

Lawson, lives on Route 2, Brazil. Army Pvt. Robert F. Walters, whose wife, Beverly, and parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles T. Walters, live on Route 1, West Terre Haute, recently was assigned to the Sixteenth Infantry in Germany. Walters, a rifleman in the infantry's Company in Baumholder, entered the Army in June, 1960, completed basic training at Fort Hood, and arrived overseas the following December. Army Pvt. Gary A.

Pearman. 18. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray E.

Pearman, 608 North Court Street, Sullivan, recently was graduated from the Eighty-second Airborne Division Jump School at Fort Bragg, N. C. He received his paratrooper wings after completing four weeks of intensive ground and aerial training which included five para- chute jumps. The Eighty-second, a Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) unit, maintains an immediate readiness force for airborne deployment to any area in the world. Pearman entered the Army last May and completed basic training at Fort Knox.

Ky. He is a 1960 graduate of Sullivan High School. Club to Hear About Travel in Russia Terre Haute Rotary Club will hear from one of its members, J. J. Maehling, director of secondary education for the Vigo County School Corporation, during its meeting at noon Tuesday in the Mayflower Room of the Terre Haute House.

During the Fall he toured in Russia with a group of educators I and is expected to relate findings from this most recent travel experience. The annual Rotary Ann dinner TELEVISION PROGRAMS CMANNIL II Kanfiroo Britte Video Love Lacy Horizons of 11 tor Tomorrow Mewi Vlewi Weather Stunt As the World Turns Pull Circle Part; Millionaire Is Yours Day Storm T-W-Edte of Ni(ht On Parade JUrly Show Business" KvcnlBs Picture Picture Edwards Claasics: "Vanity Fair" 61 Touch Zone to History Video Views of the News Weatner 1030 Huddle Guy Named Joe" CHANNEL INDIANAPOLIS Classroom Today Headlines Hawk Rouse Your Hunch Price Is Right or Consequences Could Be You News Afterneen News-Greatest Headlines Weatner Feature Patrol Hurray Loretta Vounl Theatre 240 Youns Or sfalone From rhese Roots Make Room for Daddy Here's Hollywood 4:00 Frances Farmer NBC News Weather-Greatest Headlines 6:30 Happy One Happy Family 8:00 American Heritage Michael Shayne News Weather-Si 10UO- -Paar Court Sign off WCIA CHANNEL 1 CHAMPAIGN Morning Time Tinker Time News Weather Kancaroo Bride Video Village Lucy Boriions Love of Ule tor Tomorrow Light AftcrBOen 12OO-CBS News Markets Farm Reporu Features the World Turns Circle Party Millionaire Yours -Brighter Day Storm of Night 4-00--Life of Riley Adventure Theater 5-nn--Popeye and Sheriff Sid 5-3O- -Cartoon Time Doug Edwards Craning 3 News Weather Sooits Closeup Classics: Vanity Fair of the Nelson family Zone to History Meet McGraw Third Report Theatre CslANlm. mDIANAPOI.il Mantel 10tS5-Daily Word Lunchtlme Theater 11 School Milady's Matinee Archaeology of Greece Theater Four Chatter The Popeye Show Little Rascals Wild BUI HlekoK mchl People's Cholea Dancer Is My Business M. P. Men West Point Union Pacific People's Choice Danger Is My Business P.

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duplicates A. M. 6: A. Programmatic Music lO.OO Music and party will be Feb. 10 in the Cotillion Room of the Hotel Deming.

it has been announced. Jimmie Adami's Orchestra will play for dancing following the dinner. Lawrence THEATER PROGRAMS INDIANA Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Peter Usti- nov star in "the Sundowns." Star," featuring Elvis Presley. Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores Del Rio and John Mclntire. plus two thrilling horror shows in observance of Friday the Killer Shrews" and "The Giant Gila Monster." TERRE HAUTE DRIVE-IN Ingred Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes star in "Anastasia" and "Soldier of Fortune" starring Clark Gable and Susan Hayward.

plus "Young and Wild" COMPANY makes the best hot chocolate! No mixing, no pour Meadow Gold Chocolate Milk into a pan and heat! This naturally nourishing drink makes the smoothest hot chocolate in the easiest! Look for it now at your store or order from your Meadow Gold milkman. CHOCOLATE MILK 4203 WABASH PHONE C-6858 Continued From Paw 4 big "welfare" spending are active and aggressive in their behalf. The spectacular attack on Representative William Colmer of Mississippi. Democrat, who has been threatened with a "purge" loss of his committee post because he supported independent presidential electors, has not been approved by most of the members of the House. Indeed.

Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who is to be chairman of the House committee on labor, bolted the Democrat Ticket in 1956 and voted for President Eisenhower's re-election. Again and again, members have said they should not be punished on the floor of the House of Representatives for trying to reflect the views of their constituents. i But when it comes to the size of the committees, this is a matter over which the House has jurisdiction, and it is. in a sense, i impersonal. The House can enlarge a committee and "pack" it with members favorable to the desires of the majority.

That's what is now being proposed in the House of Representatives in order to override the chairman nf the rules committee. Howard W. Smith, of Virginia. Mr. Smith is one of the ablest members of Congress, and the only objection that his opponents have to him is that he does not go along with radical proposals.

It is ironical to find "liberals," who so often pride themselves on their interest in free speech, trying to punish a member who holds views opposite to theirs. By "packing" the committees of the House with a majority who favor the point of view desired by a particular bloc, the objective in cutting the power of the committee chairman is, to a certain extent, achieved. But it is still unexplained why those who believe they have a majority in the House of Representatives appear to disregard their to petition for a vote and override the rulings of the chairman of the committee. The device of "packing the court" is not a new one in Washington, and it looks as if the pressure groups may be able this time to persuade a House majority to "pack" the House rules committee so as to permit certain legislation to mow more quickly through that body. But, in the long run, the precedent will rise to plague the so-called "liberals," because the majority may not always be as friendly to some of the causes now being espoused, and what is done one year becomes an example for a majority to follow in another year.

"Packing" committees is not a creditable performance, but evidently in this at least the pressure groups are to have their way. 1861. New York Herald Tribune. Inc. Cousins Arrested NORTH VERNON, Jan.

(fi Ripley County cousins, Paul Palmer, 20 yean old, Versailles, and Melvin Palmer, 17, Holton, are being questioned in the attempted derailment of three freight trains last week. Police said the two were traced through descriptions of their car given by Baltimore Ohio Railroad engineers. I A rH'SBEEMPUOMIMOMEAN') WOW THE ADUMNIN6 ITHOOfiHTIPVOirPLEKIP WILL RESULTS yOU OWE HIM AMP HIM OFF, AND WE'LL ALLFORGCT ABOUT I A A A A A I SAME OLD WELL.IP tV IfeMT OLD STOPLISWT- HIM Off AMP ABOUT HOWI MANY FENCE POSTS YOUR BROTHER 3A.K6- VMBN HE: SKIPPED SHERIFF nb THE- STAV OUT or FAMILY BAXTER THE DEBT DOOeWR we'vs LS THAT SOC.AUZ6P IS LOUSY WHAT HAVE WE LSARMBP OF ANV WHV OO THBV SAV TUB IS SUCH 6000 TKAININS FOR A VOUMft AAAM? IVtNCAtt X3UC HAT ON INSLLl MIT (OUTCOME SUM: WASH BACK Hirry-HAijoeoi we COULD tt A I THAT BtldMt TO FIMC 813 HELP I OUT HOW Hft fOLVIP CRITICAL TO UNO'. HT5NOT IP NOVAK4 eOTTEKI AWffr 1 WITH THAT ENSNC, TRACK HIM DOWN AND GST AND ARE PARIS BOUND, ON owe Of THER TOU6HE5T ASSIGNMENTS HANP VOUOVER SOMETXINfi ALL THE SECRET OF THE IN LITTLE I KNOW SAW HIM PUTT. FKOM IT INTO" 7MBKE THE VIBRATIONS ARESUDIN6HIM DOWM AND TO R4STEM SAFETY BELT, ATTACMCPTOTHCt SUPER- CONTOUR.

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