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TEMPERATURES 61; low, 34. 68; low, 45. Lost night's Noon MT. VERNON REGISTER-NEWS MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL TO ALL SPECIAL FAVORS TO NONE A NON-PARTISAN NEWSPAPER WEATHER INCREASING cloudiness tonight and Sunday with soma rain Sunday afternoon or evening. Somewhat warmer Sunday.

Low tonight around 40. High Sunday in the 60s. Low Sunday night 45. VOLUME XXXVI NO. 39.

MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955 25c PER WEEK BY CARRIER DEATH SENTENCE FOR COP-KILLER FATHER OF 2 MURDERED BOYS DIES Anton Schuessler Succumbs During Treat- menf for Depression Brought on by Chicago Outrage. DEATH DUE TO A BROKEN HEART CITY WORKERS IN ILLINOIS ASK FOR RAISE Want First Coll on Sales Tax for Substantial Hike. Had Closed Shop to Devote Ail His Time to Search for Murderers of 3 Boys. By Associated Presa CHICAGO. A despairing, heart-broken father, wliose two young and a companion were brutally murdered less than a month ago.

died Friday, The cause of Anton Schuessler's death was described by a physician as "apparently a heart attack." He suffered the attack, the doctor added, while being given a routine electrical shock treatment for a depressed state of mind. But police and friends of the 32-year-old father of the slain boys agreed that he died of a broken heart. Schuessler's wife, Eleanor. 37, prostrate at the news of her husband's death in a rest home in suburban Des sobbed: "Ifs all the killers' fault. They killed the boys and now they've killed Tony.

I had to live for and now I've got nothing." The Schuessler's only children. John, 13, and Anton 11, and their neighborhood chum. Robert Peterson, J4. were found brutally murdered on Oct. 18 at the Robinson Woods forest preserve.

Tine toys had disappeared from their Northwest side home on Sunday, Oct. 16 after leaving home to attend a loop movie. Closed His Shop Schuessler wont without sleep in the search for the boys. After the burial of his sons he closed his North Side tailor shop and said he would all his time in helping police search for the sadistic slayers. Thu.s far police have found no tangible clues in connection with the Police have ques- tioiied some 100,000 persons and have pursued every lead.

Rc- ward.s for the capture of the slayers total Schuessler. with Malcolm Peterson, 40, fatlicr of Robert, canvassed neighborhood taverns and bowling alleys and tramped through the underbrush where the IDOVS' bruised and naked bodies wore found for possible clues. Kofused To Rest Schuessler refused to give up the search despite orders by his physician to take a complete rest. Coroner Waller E. McCarron said his deputies h.nd lold him a week ago that the grief- stricken Schuessler was "just fading awa3'." He entered the private rest home Thursday.

The wife said his nerves ucrc "shot." Dr. Julius Steinfelrl. superintendent of the rest home, de- the treatment given a.s "a normfil routine pi'occdure." He four doctors worked three hours iJl an unsLicccssrul attempt to hitn. Perfect Circle Workers Reject CIO, 658 To 364 By Associflicd Press HAGERSTOW.N, Ind. About 40 strikei-s have asked for their jobs back at Peilocl Circle Corp.

plants in Flagerstown and Richmond, and a company said "a number of strikers" are expected to ask reinstatement The CIO United Workei-s By Associatsd Prist SPRINGFIELD, 111. A petition for higher wages for city employes was laid today on the doorstep of the Illinois Municipal League which opent; its 42nd annual convention here Sunday. The request was by C. S. Groeteke, an international representa.

live of the State, County and Municipal employes Union. "We supported the sales tax with a full knowledge that municipal employes are entitled to a very substantial wage raise first," Groetcke wrote, "tlie balance of the revenue, of course, to revert to the general fund of the city treasurer for whatever the city officials may choose to use it." Tlie- reference was to authority given by the 1955 Legislature to cities to raise the sales tax a half a per cent for municipal u.ses. More than 1,000 municipal officials will attend the conven tion, which slated discussions of city sales tax administration as well as of planning and zoning, traffic law enforcement and new legislation. BRAZIL HAS BLOODLESS REVOLUTION Army Ousts Luz as President, Installs Ramos; Traps Rival Navy Ships in Harbor. West Germany Starts Forming New Army Today By Associated Press BONN, new West German army was founded today.

Standing under a 10-foot rep- plica of an Iron ancient symbol of German military Minister Theodor Blank handed callup papers to the first 101 volunteers for the 500,000 man force. They were the first of the men who will be enrolled in the next three years into 12 army divisions, a tactical air force. The Germans donned their new uniforms jusi over five years from the time the western allies decided to rearm West Germany to bolster the Atlantic Alliance against the threat of Russian aggression. The men taking part in today's ceremony were the initial installment of 6,000 volunteers authorized by parliament under temixir- ary legislation. When detailed legislation has been passed, 150,000 will be enlisted as a permanent cadre.

Thoy will be the leaders, instructors and technicians to handle the 350.000 conscripts due to be drafted in 1956, Lots of Officers The first volunteers included two lieutenant generals. 18 lieutenant colonels, 30 40 captains, 5 lieutenant.s and 6 sergeants. At the front stood Lt. Gen. Adolf Housinger and Lt.

Gen. Hans Speidel. Both held the rank of lieutenant general in Hitler's WehiTnacht. Pilot Bails Out At Supersonic Speed By Associated Presi LONDO.N The British Air Ministry says an RAF pilot is believed to bailed out of his crippled jot fighter at supersonic speed and Flying Officer Henry MoUand, 22. gave Diis account: He went into a dive at 40,000 feel tlie Sea off Felix- stdwc, With his speed at aboiil 700 m.p.h.—one Icnlh beyond the speed of was unable to pull out, so he bailed out with his ejectioD equipinent.

His parachute oix-ned at 10,000 tcet and he landed in the sea foiu- miles off the coast. A target-towing tug spotted MoUand and rescued him. At Ipswich hospital attendants said he had suffered fractures of the arm and pelvis and two black eyes. Ry Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. -All threat of opposition to Brazil's temporary president collapsed early today.

Carlos Coimbra Da Luz, ousted temporary chief executive took refuge Thursday night aboard the Brazilian cruiser Tamandare, ordered the vessel back into Rio De Janeiro harbor today and said it was his final official act. The air minister, Major Gen. Eduardo Gomes, who rushed to Sao Paula, Brazil's ranking industrial city, Friday to organize a last-stand resistance to the administration of the new temporary president, Nereu Ramos, ordered the air force to halt its opposition. Congress named 66 -ycar-old Ramos temporary president after a pre-dawn coup Friday led by Gen. Henrique Teixeira Lott had toppled Luz.

Ramos thus became Brazil's third chief executive jn four days. Thus Brazil returned to normality after a bloodless, 24-hour coup won by the army against the open but passive opposition of the navy and the air force. Forts Bottle Up Fleet There was no fighting. The only shots fired in anger came from the fortress at the mouth of Rio De Janeiro Harbor. It fired five or six rounds Friday morning to warn navy ships in the harbor not to make a break for the open sea.

Police lifted censorship after nearly 24 hours in which all news dispatches by cable and radio were censored. All business houses, except banks, reopened. Banks were ordered closed till Tuesday. A government statement said Luz will be permitted to land when the cruiser Tamandare returns to Rio De Janeiro, perhaps late today. It was reported some of Luz's associates who boarded the Tamandare with him would be arrested.

President Fllho Retires Luz, former president of the House of Deputies, had assumed the presidency under the constitution last Tuesday when President Loao Cafe Filho took an indefinite leave of to recover from a heart attack. Lott's move was made in an effort to thwart any pos.ssiblc attempts by military groups to keep Juscelino Kubilschek, elected president last month, from taking office in January. Lott resigned Thursday night as war minister when Luz failed to back him up in an effort to discipline an army colonel for an anti- Kubitschek speech. After his ouster Luz hurried aboard the cruiser Tamandare, which like most units of the fleet was in the Rio De Janeiro harlxir. The navy and air force threatened for a time to support him but later agreed to accept Ramos after the big shore guns at fashionable Copacabana boomed across the entrance to the harbor to bottle up the ships.

Apparently only one ship, the Tamandare, escaped and later was reported to be off Santos, big coffee port in Sao Paula state 200 miles southwest of the capital. ILLI.VOI.S TEMI'ERATIRES Rock ford 53 33 Moline 53 36 Peoria 56 39 Rantoul 62 41 Quincv 63 .37 Springfield 62 ,39 Vandalia 66 38 Scott Air Base 70 44 900 4-H YOUNGSTERS TAKEJDVER KING CITY Boys And Girls From 4-H Clubs Throughout The County See Free Movie And Participate In Parade With Colorful Banners This Morning, Honors Program At High School Begins At 10:00 A. M. Jefferson County Has Three Key-Club Winners In 4-H Jeffi County ha.s three winners in 1955. John of Dix, Dolores of Ina, and Elizabeth Ann Union, on strike acainst Pei'iect Trxico, are the three Ciivlc since July was rejected i winners of high award.

This Thursday by the nng pxccllency in firm's employes in and lor the Labor Relations Board projects and at the main plant herrand the leadership. John Warren is a sophomore at two Richmond plants. elcc-; lion tally shou'cd workers in of keeping the union, com- pared to 658 opposed. I Dean Detweiler, manager of employe comnninication.s. said that two strikers were put back to work Friday and that others will be given work as fast as production pennits.

Detweiler said no strikers have been fired "as of now," but he added that the company uill not lay off any who been woi-k- Ing di'fing the strike in order to put strikers back to work Centralia Jiinioi- College and has been in -l-H club for nine He is the son of and Mrs. Jim Tom Warren of Dix. He attended I.eadrrshlp Camp this past summer and last year he had the state winning demonstration in Soil and Water Conservation. Elizabeth Ann Parker has been in 4-H club work for eight is a senior at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. She is a member I of tlie Texico Top Notchers and has excelled in Home Improvement Projects in 4-H.

She was a recent winner of a Chicago trip for her work in five-year room improvement project. Deloi-es Clayton has been in 4-M club work for nine sears and is a Junior at Souiliei-n lilli- nois in Art education. She has been the leader of the Spring Garden 4-H club for tlirre years and has been outstanding in lier project work as well as in her leadership. has been a counselor at 4-H camp and was a delegate at 4-H camp this past year. These winners will all receive a special gold key from the City Service Company as well as a certificate.

The key-club win- n'l's are considered of Plii Beta Kappa in 4-1-1 club work. It is tile fellowship of high honors aifl'. leadership in 4-H club work. Over 900 Jefferson county youngsters streamed into Mt. Vernon this morning to receive honors earned over a busy year of activity in 4-H Club work.

The boys taking part in nintli annual 4-H Achievement Day. The all-day events got under way at o'clock this morning when the 4-H'ers and their leaders registered in the court house basement. As they registered they were handed 4-H tags, which served as free tickets to a full length movie at the Granada Theatre at 10 o'clock. Parade Around Sfiuarc At 11:145 this morning they left the show and paraded around the public square, carrying big, colorful banners identifying the various 4-H clubs thi'oughout the county. Watching the parade go by from a vantage point at the northwest corner of the court house lawn were City Manager Harlow Richardson and Mayor O.

R. Buford, They were serving as judges in a "Banner Contest" feature of the parade, with the King City Retailers to award special prizes for the parade competition. The 4-H'ei's then paraded down Broadway to the Armory for a free feast, furnished by the retailers, of hot dogs, soda pop and ice cream. Mt. Vernon merchants, assisted by a large group of 4-H leaders, took over the huge task of serving the hundreds of hungry boys and girl.i.

Honors Program Begins The climaxing highlights of the day of annua Honors scheduled to begin at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon in the liigh school auditorium. After group singing and a pledge of allegiance to the flag, the 4-H youngsters will receive awards they have won during the year. The following awards are to be presented: AGRICULTURE Achievement Blue Award Group: John Warren, Bernard Ray Moore. Beautification of Homo Grounds Blue Awai-d Group: Mary Jane Wilson, Wilma Tinsley, Joyce Elliot, Rosetta Hoffman. Boys' Agricultural International Co.

Blue Award Group: Curtis Grothoff, Bernard Ray Mooi-e. Dairy Blue Award Group: Curtis Grothoff. Award Group: John Warren, Richard Scott, Bernar(J Ray Moore, John Kiefer. Entomology Blue Award Group: Earl Dean Plighsmith, Larry Morgan. Field Ci'ops Blue Award Group: John Warren, Bernard Ray Moore, Alfred Brookman, John Kiefer.

Garden Blue Award Group: Marvin Dare, Evelyn Brookman, Roland Green, Wallie Higgins. Leadership: John Warren, Richard Scott. Meat Animal Bine Award Winners: Bernard Ray Moore, Jarrell Harrell. Poultry Blue Award Group; Marshall Highsmilh, Gary McAdoo, Richard Scott, Mary Jane Wilson. Recreaticn-Rural Arts Blue Award Group; John Warren, Bill Randall.

Certificates to clubs with blue award rating: Trcnio Weenie, Long Prairie Ramblcr.s. Safely Blue Awai-d Gr-oup; Shiioh Pals, Tecnie Weenie, Marlow Cardinals. Delegates to State 4-H Junior Leadership Conference; Alfred Brookman. Curtis Grothoff, Jarrell Harrell. 1st alternate, Carlyn Duncan, 2nd alternate.

C. E. I. Trip Winner; Carlyn Duncan, county winner; Thomas McPherson, 1st alternate. Winners of Rook.

"I Dare Based on Athletics, AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE; FIVE OCCUPANTS DIE Driver Goes Off Pavement, Pulls Into Path of Ap- prooching Auto. By Aiioclaild Pratt VALPARAISO, Ind. A factory worker taking his two sons home from the barber shop lost control of his automobile Friday night and smashed into a station wagon, killing all five occupants of the two vehicles. The dead were identified as Mendel Bryarly, 40-year-old ploye of the Continental Diamond Fiber Co. here; his two sons, James, 12, and Jerry, 10; Frank D.

Bloeman, construction worker, and Evelyn Bruhn, about 35, a nurses' aide at Porter Memorial Hospital. Deputy Sheriff Ewalt Jahnz said a witness told him that Bryarly's car, eastbound, went off the pavement and then lurehed back into the westbound lane, where it was struck broadsides by Bloeman's station wagon. WHITE HOUSE ARRIVAL Comedians In Trouble Over TV Skit Plan Prpslilcnt Elsenhower waves from iin open window of Ills aiitoinobllo ns It ptiHses tlirouKli the White House gate Fridiiy an the Clilef Exeeiitlvo arrived buck home from Denver where he hiis been hospltallied since a Sept. 24 heart attack. Mrs.

Klsenhowcr can bo scon beside the President. (AP Wlrepholo) DISCOVER FIVE OIL POOLS AND SIX EXTENSIONS Hamilton County Gets Two Extensions; Devonian Boom On In Bond. By AsJocitUd Preit HOLLYWOOD Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis chalked up a new first have been thi'catened with legal action on a satire thev haven't even done on the air yet. The two comics confirmed a re- jyjrt that a skit satirizing television's "late, late late movies" had brought them throats already although the skit will not be performed until Sunday night. The two will be on NBC-TV's Variety Hour (7 CST).

Jerry reported that they take special precautions on the mimeographing of their scripts so that some sort of secrecy can be kept but the word gets out anyway. The skit features Dean as a movie Jockey who comes in with the commercial during the show old movies. Jerry plays the part of Tab Yaniaguchi, a Japanese movie star who makes a personal appearance on the program during the showing of his latest hit "Egg Roll Is a Many Splendored Thing." "Twentieth Century Fox got wind of this so now the movie title has been changed to "Egg Roll Is a Many Splendored Dish," said Jerry. The change was made after a Fox lawyer wrote that the original title lampooned a current Fox movie, "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing." The skit burlesques various long-winded commercials on such items as garbage disposals, vacuum cleaners and coffee. Without exception, groups representing various of those industries have asked, in legal Oiieries, the comics' intent with regard to those products.

The two are already in legal difficulty with rival CBS over a recent burlesciue of "The Question." City May Act On New White Way On November 21 A new while-way street light- sy-stom for Mt. Vernon which has been studied for months by tiie city council may be up for final Leadership and Character; Frank at the council meeting of Kovom- Stewart. Jean Ann Befil, Jirnmy i her 21. Shields, Robin Smith. council, meeting with Uli- Illinois i'e Award (Best Project): Frank Stewart.

Illinois Brown Swiss Breeders Award (Best Brown Swiss Project): Tommy Barr. Illinois Jersey Rreerinrs Award fBest Jersey Proiectj: Jarrell Harrell. Holstein-Friesian Breeders Association: Jean Ann Beal. Donnio Beal, Johnny Fiirby, Wanda Lappin. Gordon Schullos, Marcel Miller.

Delegates to Wildlife Conservation Camp: David Groer. Jarrell Ifarrell. Illinois Farm Electrical Council Contest; Rill Randall. State Project Honoi' Ann Beal. Alfred Brookman, Evelvn Brookman, Gary Brown, Marshall Cross.

Terry Huel Cross, Jerry W. Davis, Gloria Jean Duncan, Mary Lee Duncan, Ronald Eller, Nancy Sue Flanagan, Roland Green, Curtis Eugene Grothoff. Jarrell Hai-- rell, Wally Higgins, Bernard (Continued on Page Five) nois Power Cn, officials this week, tentatively color corrected mercury vapor street lights in thp area and incandcscrnt strcpl lighting extending from tlie fringes rif the business areas to the city limits on all four principal thoroughfares. A total of 121 mei'ciiry vapor lights are expected to be placed in the white-way system, as follows; Main street, from 7th to Hroadway. from 7th to 15th.

Tenth, from North to Casey. Ninth, from North to Casey. from Harrison to Jordan, Jorrian, from 9th to 11th, Harrison, from to 9th. The new incandescent system, with 84 lights, would extend to the city limits on Main street, Broadway, Tenth and Salem Road. The white-way mercury vapor would cost the city an ad- jditionaJ per month and the incandescent system 1590.20 per month.

URBANA, oil pools and one gas pool were discovered in Illinois in October, according to John C. Frye, chief of the State Geological Survey division of the Deparfment of Registration and TSdudBtlon, They are Redmon North fgasi in Edgar county, Ru.ssellvillo West in Lawrence county, luka West in Marion county, Wakefield South in Richland county, Kincaid South in Christian county and Murdock in Douglas county. The di.scovery well of the Murdock pool is the first commercial oil well drilled in Douglas county. Drilling and production continued at a high rate during October. A total of ,378 wells were completed during the month.

Dr. Frye pointed out that 10 ago, in 1945, drilling in Illinois dropped to the lowest point since development in the Illinois basin got well under way in 19.38. In October of 1945 only 1.30 wells wore completed, or approximately one-third as many as in the last two years, and the trend is still upward. Production showed a slight dix)p in October. Daily average pi-oduction was 2.32,000 barrels, or an estimated 7,180,000 barrels for the month.

This is over a million barrels more than during Octolier of and over a million and a half iiarreis more than in Octolx'r 10 yeai-s ago. Six extensions wore discovered during October, one to each of the following pools: Cooks Mills East in Coles county, Herald Q)nsolidaterl in Hamilton county, Eldorado Consolidated a Mitchellsvillo in Saline Ellery East in Edwards county and bale Consolidated in Hamilton county. Now pays for the month were the McClosky limestone in the Louden pool, the Degonia sandstone in the MitchelLs- villo pool, and the Jlcnaull limestone in the Eldorado West pool. One of the most interesting oil field dovplopments at present is in Bond county. In September Devonian sandstonr well was completed on the north edge of he Sorento pool with an initial priduction of .36 .5 barrels per day.

During October four more De- mnian sandstone wells were completed with initial prodiiction of .324 720, 724 and 900 barrels per more wells are drilling and permits have been for half a dozen more. Legion Presents American Flag To Catholic School An impressive Veterans Day dedication ceremony was held at ,3 p. rn. yesterday at St. Mary's parochial school.

The occasion was the presentation of a new flag by the Mt. Vernon American Legion to the school. Present at the ceiemonies were the American Legion firing squafi and color- guard. Legion members, St. Mary's Br-ownie and Girl Scouts, P.oy Scouts and the children of St.

Mar-y's school. Robert Wolters. quHrtermaster of Scout Troop 110, and an eighth grade student at the school, led the students In singing the national anthem and thanked the Legion for the presentation of the flag on behalf of Father Burke and the teachers and students of Mary's. Father Burke made a brief address to the students on the meanina ajid aiKnificance of the flag. EISENHOWER FLIES HOME FROM DENVER By Asioclnted Prest WA.SIIINOTON President Elsenhower will open hiislne office eurl.v next week in downtown Gettyshurff, about four nillcN from IIIK home.

Announcing this today, the White House said the Pi'csidcnt at tlio White House for the weekend after seven weeks in a Denver hospital --probably will use the Gettj'sburg office for the first time on Tuesday morning. On Monday morning the chief executive and Mrs. Eisenhower will drive from Washington to their Gettysburg farm, whore the president will convalesce further for about six weeks. The President's office in Gettysburg will bo in the post office. He will take over the first floor quarters of the postmaster.

By Aisoclnttd Prist WASHINGTON President Eisenhower took things easy today, his first full day at the Executive Mansion since rottu'n- ing from seven weeks in a Denver hospital. No appointments were listed for- the convalescing President, except another' date with the doctors for- a Plans are for the and Mrs. i-jsonhowor to go to their Gettysburg farm Monday. Eisen- BOMBER HITS U.S. WARSHIP; Magazine Doesn't Explode; 200 Men Saved by By Aiioolatad Prtit SAN DIEGO, Calif, Sailors by death said today miracles saved them when a inakc-boliovc attack by a Navy bomber turned into a real and deadly crash aboard the destroyer Hoixwoll Friday.

The Skyi-flidor bomber struck the U. S. w(u-shlp's Bupersti-uc- turo and exploded in a sheet of flame a few feet from an ammunition magazine. Five men were on the bomber and two at their work in the destroyer's office. Five othei's of the I-iopewell crew of 2fK.I were burned.

But the ammunition didn't explode, "I don't know why it didn't," said Cmdr, Mark Gantar, the skipper, Gantar also credited Ihc courage of his cr-ew and the ciews of ONLY 1 HOUR, 15 MINUTES Five Day Trial of Trigger-Happy Richard Carpenter Comes to Quick End. CARPENTER TRIED TO PROVE INSANITY Rolled on Courtroom Floor, Refused to Eat or Shave; Fights Guards After Verdict. bovver IS expected to there Yarnal and Inger- until ar-ound the first of the with his working gi-adually towar-d a full -nie other destiovers helped schedule of activities. apiicai-ed to be feeling fine late Fr ns ho returned to Washington and a rousing civic "I am happy," the smiling Pr-esidcnt told airport grectci-s, "that the doctors have given me at least a parole if not a pardon, and I expect to be back at my aci'uslomed ditties, they sa.v I must case my wa.y into thorn ancf not my way into them." That "parole if not a pardon" expression in Eisenhower's lirief off-the-cuff i -cmarks touched off more speculation about the President's plans. Quito jwssibly it mi no more than what the Chief Executive's doctor-s have been that they won't know for some weeks whether his recovery frem liis 2'1 heart attack will he coinpli-te.

And so. if health is a niajnr factor- in l-jsr-nhower-'s thinking alxrut whcth to seek a sf'coiul term, it docsn I si -em lik'-ly he will bo in a position to his intcntion.s until his iihysic- ians decide whflhr'r the has advanc-ed to a full No -'iitlguc On Trip The thrr-o doctors who panicd on the flight from Denver n-portr-d he siiffi-rcd no fatigue from the ti'ip. The by Mr-s. Ei.scnho\\cr fi'oin Denver-, r-adiated as the couple stcppfd fj-oin their airplane to be 'tf'fl by a host of wclcomers liradi'd by Vice Eiscnhov. cr's movenn'rits ap- pc'ar-f'd a bit slower a.s he left the liut Ins complexion had Its ij.si;il ruddiness his w.is Waves To rowils Riding in a ic-lopped lirTiousine lo tlie White lloime, he tune and aL to the cheering tlioiisands who lined his route to ui'li-onie liini lionie He spent l-'ridjiy niKht with hi.s family incliKiing the thr'ce grandchildren, who wer-p to greet him at the executive mansion.

The White House gleamed with lights both downstairs and up and on the porticos last evening, the way Mrs. Eisenhower likes it. went to Di -nver fight blazing gasoline fr-om the bomber sprayed over the ship and i-unning in streams into the ammunition magazine and engine room. Injunction Suit On House Building To Be Heard Here An in.iunction suit by the City of Vernon against Vir-gil T. liailey is scheduled for trial in circuit court here on November The suit, filed this moi-ning, seeks to Bailey fr-om continuing construction of two lioiises in Columbia Heights, The i-ity contends the houses are not set far enough from the street.

City officials went to Ronton this mor-nirig seeking a tetnpo- I 'Hry iii.iunelion from i i-c i B. W. Eovaldi to restrain Bailey from continuing with the const rucl ion. No iniirn(-tion was issued by that his Wham of Centralia, talked hy telepiione to Eovaldi this morning and told him that wfjik on the two houses was slofiped last Wednesday and assured him that no fui-thor work would be done until the injiiiK-tion suit is heard. City officials said they agreed no injunction be issued, upon a.ssurances that no fiirtiier wrtr -k will be done until tlie injunction suit is lieai'd- delared today that when he halted work on the houses Wednesday he assured city officials he woukl not start until the case is settled.

He said lie was not at the hoar-ing in Benton this morning because a notice fr-om the city to him stated the hour, but not the day, of tlio hearing, VICTI.M DIES and-i By Assoeiat9d Prtsi HIROSHIMA, Japan A 40- year-old woman, who was slightly less than a mile from the center of the Hiroshima atom blast, died Friday. Kj-odo News bl for an extended said she was "the loth play vacation, and it i.s thei-e I Hiroshima citizen to succumb to that he suffered his heart atomic disease this year." By Aiioelated Priiii CHICAGO The bizarre five- day trial of cop-killer Richard Carpenter ended Friday night with a quick verdict condemnmg him to death the electric chair. In an hoin- and 15 minutes of deliberation, a jury of eight men and four women found the 26- yoar-old gunman guilty of murdering dectective WiUinm J. Murphy as the officer tried to arrest him for robbery Aug. 15.

After klllirfg Murphy, 34, the trigger-hnppy Carpenter shot and wounded anothci" policeman and held a terrorized family captive for 23 hours during one of Chicago's biggest manhunts. Ho also is charged with murdering a radio disc jockey last year. He pleaded innocent last month to murdering Richard H. Dix, 24, who was shot to death May 10, 1954, while attempting to defend his woman companion from a gunman who forced his way Into automobile. Carpenter, who marked hia trial by staging a hunger strike, singing, rolling on the courtroom floor and fighting his guards', heard the verdict quietly and without emotion.

But he returned to his old-type behavior while he was being led from the courtroom. Despite leg- irons and handcuffs, he kicked and scuffled with bailiffs until they ovoi-powered him and took him away to his cell. The gunman refused to talk with newsmen after the trail. Widow "Justified" Murphy's widow said she felt "Justif ed" over the verdict. Carpenter's two court-appointed defense attorneys immediately entered a motion for a new trial.

Heai-ing on the motion was set for Nov. 22. The defense never denied that Carpenter killed Murphy. Instead, it sought to have the liusky dark-haired defendant set free or committed to a mental institution on the gr-ound that he was a psychopath and not responsible for his actions at the time of the slaying. Courtroom Scenes "An Act" The prosecution contended that Carpenter's courtroom behavior was an act to convince the jury he was insane.

A state psychiatrist had examined the killer and found him to bo but sane in tho sense of kiiowing the difference of right from wr-ong. Murphy, .34, was shot to death on a subway plalfoi-m just south of Chicago's loop. He had been seeking Carpenter for robbery. Two nights later Clarence Kerr an off-duty rookie policeman attending a movie with his wife, spotted Carpenter in a neighborhood theater on tho northwest side. When Kerr, 26, tried to make a pinch, Car-penter shot him and escaped.

Ker-r r-ecovered and 'testified at tho trial. After- dashing from the theater Carpenter barged into the nearby apai-lmont of Leonard Powell, a truck driver. The gunman held Powell, his wife and their two children hostage for 2'A hours, Then tho Powells tricked Carpenter into letting them go outside to visit their neighbors who, they said, would be suspicious otherwise. Once hi.s family was safely outside, Powell wont to a telephone and called police. Eight Pupils In Trainable Class Acting Superintendent Qiarles Rohlfiiiii reported to the grade school hoard Thur-sday night tlmt Di.strict 80's new class for trainable rncntallv handicapped child- r-en has an enrollment of eight.

The eight pupils are taught by Mrs, Mabel Taylor. The class at Edison school is being conducted as a part of the regular school program and the school district is paying all expenses with no outside help. Tiic boai-d Thursday night re- tfirmed its policy of limiting the to children residing in the school district. The district has no connection with any fund drives to aid the handicapped and will not receive funds from. it was emphasized.

In other action the board ajv proved monthly bills, including salaries, ajpounting to $55 ,244.34 and hired E. Berry as a janitor..

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