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1 a 1 WANT AD PHONE No 2 4011' Vol No 123 The Journal Established 1839 Asks Russia aces 1 rench Crisis BWpJPW Stirs Violence WALTER ARDAPPLE Plane INS UP 3 Killed Services As Train Hits Car Kickoff See IKE Page 7 Average Age: 743 See STARKWEATHER Page 7 How Much Is Love Worth? THE WEATHER it Air Safety Plan Gets 425 Ar Cardinal Worse ROME (AP) Samuel Cardi nal Stritch took a turn for the worse Saturday and was placed in an oxygen tent suffering from heart damage Prayers for the dying were recited for him Ardapple Dies on Rented! landlord reported at 6 6 calls in response Our Special Day Rate Offers You A Continued Rate But Can Be Cancelled At Any Time Ask Us About It! laymaker To Run LOGANSPORT (AP) Jack A Haymaker Logansport banker announced riday he will seek the Democratic nomination for state treasurer at the state convention June 24 Haymaker is a brother of Ira Haymaker of ranklin former Democratic state chairman and now Democratic member of the state Public Service commission ight Looms On Bill To Aid Red Countries WASHINGTON (INS) A Sen ate fight looms over a provision in a $37 billion foreign aid au thorization bill which permits the to grant assistance to Jron Curtain countries The Senate foreign relations committee approved the measure riday after making a $230 mil lion cut A principal feature in the bill is an amendment by Sen John Kennedy (D Mass) whose pro posal would allow the President to extend economic assistance to all Soviet bloc countries except Russia Red China and North Ko rea if he found it was in the interest Merge NEW YORK (UPI) The Unit ed Press Associations and Inter national News Service joined forces Saturday around the world 1 in the creation of a single hews agency named Press In This is the first dispatch of the new service which will embrace the largest number of newspaper and radio clients ever served si multaneously by an independent ly operated news and picture agency rank Bartholomew president of United Press International stated: consolidation of the two services will assure a stronger competitive news and pictorial news report to newspapers radio and television stations throughout the entire civilized world 1 combining of the two services will guarantee broader and more efficient news and pic 1 torial reporting on a world wide basis was an important 1 factor in the creation of the great new news network Costs of cover 1 ing the world news fronts have nsen steaaiiy witn rapicuy im proving means of transmitting both news and pictures by leased wires and electronic LAAYETTE and vicinity: Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers tonight Partly cloudy and turning cooler Sunday Low tonight low high tomorrow 65 Indiana: air and warmer to day partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers to night Sunday partly cloudy and turning cooler High today in the low 70s low tonight in the tow 50s high Sunday 65 Conditions as recorded at Pur due airport: Temperature at 8 a riday 44 at 8 a Sat urday 54 High for period from 6 a riday to midnight 64 low for period from 6 pm ri day to 6 a Saturday 46 No precipitation Sun sets tonight at 8:05 rises tomorrow at 5:23 This to this ad that leaves at least 8S famlUee hunt in different housing CALL 2 4011 To List Your House Or Apartment PARIS The rench crisis flared into open violence on the home front for the first time riday night with bomb attacks on Gaullist and leftwingi MINISTER PAYS DEBT COLUMBUS (INS) The was $10 richer Satur day because of an Indiana minister who squared a which he said he cre ated when a boy State Treasurer Roger Tracy deceived the money and a letter riday from the unidentified minister former ly a resident of Ohio The let ter read: am at a loss to know where to write so I am writ ing to you about a matter that occurred when I was a boy The enclosed money order is for some gasoline I stole from some highway equipment when I was in my Eisenhower saia that tor me Western side experts might be contributed by Britain and rance and possibly other countries as well as the United States He said they should be scientists qualified by knowledge how to detect nuclear tests" This left the way open for Rus sia to bring in experts from such countries as Poland and Czecho slovakia if it chose to do so The only condition Eisenhower suggested was that the man should be chosen for scientific and not political reasons ANNOUNCES NAME Within minutes after the White House made public letter the State department announced the names of three prominent scientists it said will with experts chosen by the Soviet if Russia agrees The three are: Dr Ernest Lawrence direc tor of the University of Cali fornia Radiation laboratory and a Nobel Prize winner Dr James Brown isk execu tive vice president erf Bell Tele phone laboratories and a mem ber of the science ad visory committee Dr Robert Bacher who was a member of the Atomic Energy commission in 1946 49 and now is a member of the Sci ence advisory committee and physics professor at California In stitute of Technology MAY ASK JAP It was learned also that the government is considering asking participation of a Japanese scientist on the Western side be cause of the experience of the Japanese in nuclear tests detec tion work Eisenhower did not name the scientists in his letter to the Russian premier also Eisenhower wrote Khrushchev the ex perts should be asked to make an initial progress report within 30 days after convening and to aim at a final report within 60 days oi as soon thereafter as This meant that the if CHICAGO (AP) An plea to a woman dominated jury that may wonder if any love is worth helped win the case riday for his client a Chicago physician A Circuit court panel deliberated less than a hour and awarded the $490000 to Dr Lester Odell 47 Odell had sued Dr Emerson' McVey 46 a life long friend and best man at his wed ding for alienation of his affections HIGHEST EVER Court observers called the award by the panel of seven women and four men the highest ever returned by an Illinois jury in such a case may not think a love is worth $490000 but it genuinely was to the doctor This other man (McVey) was his best friend and betrayed attorney Sol riedman said ask you members of the jury to serve Today's Chuckle Husband (Roaring with rage): told you to put that paper on the Paperhanger: Husband: HAMMOND (AP) Three per sons were killed and another in jured critically early Saturday when their car was struck by a New York Central passenger train near the Lake Michigan shore line inside Hammond Killed were Clarence Perry and Willie Annette Bowie both of Chi cago and a 'woman not immedi ately identified The driver George Banks 57 Chicago was hurled clear by the impact and taken to St Margaret hospital in critical condition Louis Hartman 64 Elkhart engineer of the eastbound 18 car train said he saw the car drive onto the Calumet avenue crossing and that the crossing signal blink er and bell were working The four track crossing has no barrier gates Hartman told police he blew his whistle and was unable to stop the train until it had smashed into the car and gone 1500 feet down the tracks Dr Morris said neither he nor anyone else is quite sure why this is so but he guessed that a life time of habitual exercise might be one answer He said there is no eviaence that the farmer is under any less stress than the city man or that he eats less both suspect in the incidence of heart attacks men returned a verdict of guilty of first degree tpqrder Clement Gaughan attorney who battled vainly to prove a plea of insanity at the scowling objection of his ostensibly uncon cerned client said presume Charlie got what he TRIED OR MURDER Starkweather was tried for the murder of Robert Jensen 17 of Bennet Neb He was accused of killing 11 persons last January The jury deliberated six hours and 19 minutes before returning the verdict which prosecutor El mer Scheele called and The county attorney added: took a courageous jury such as this to meet its responsibil ities as good citizens and' to ful fill its obligations to Under Nebraska a jury is empowered to sentence a de fendant to death after it has found him guilty of first degree mur PLAY IN UNHAPPY Latest piay uy Agatha Christie had an unhap py ending ifi London The final curtain accidentally came down almost a minute too soon at the first night performance of Critics panned the play but what they know fhzitr nannr nab uiaii uiujr all (AP Wirephoto) THIS GIRL'S A SMART ONE ANNAPOLIS Md (AP) Diane Zang learned something from the book' which she reviewed for a ninth grade English class thought the book was very wrote 14 year old Diane I learned not to get married until I am old enough and know what I am I WASHINGTON (INS) The first step in a new government air safety program was taken Satur day when the military services be gan curtailing jet operations in civilian airlanes agreement was announced riday by Lt Gen El wood (Pete) Quesada (ret) the special assistant for aviation and chairman of the Air Coordinating committee The new move is one of a series designed to reduce the risk of air collisions between commercial and military aircraft such as the crash last Tuesday in which 12 persons were killed near Bruns wick Md Other actions under considera tion include the establishment of reseiyed altitude blocks on key federal aerial super highways for cross coun try flights Under orders sent out Saturday which affect a num of military planes jets fly ing under 20000 feet would be sub ject to Civil Aeronautics adminis tration control Takeoffs and landings for flights above 20000 feet can be made by visual rules if the weather per mits Quesada described the new reg ulation as first in a series of steps which it is believed can be taken as interim He said the committee will meet again Wednesday to take up other measures AL CIO Merger Completed INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indi long awaited merger of the AL CIO became a reality Satur day when the two groups met in a formal merger convention here Dallas Sells of Anderson president of the CIO was elected president of the merged group Jacob Robers of Indianap olis was elected AL vice presi dent and George Caldwell of In dianapolis was named CIO vice president Grover Osborne of Terre Haute an AL member was elected secretary treasurer By agreement the CIO nomi nated the president both named a vice president and the AL nominated the secretary treasur er merger ended months of dispute between the two unions on joining forces on the state level and came only after direct and continued pres sure from national AL CIO head quarters CIO board members are Ray mond Berndt South Bend James Robb Indianapolis Leonard Hut son ort Wayne Shamblen Hammond Robert Sullivan Indi anapolis Henry Price Indianap olis Walter Sobieraski South Bend and Mae Mann Indianap olis members are: John Sou cie Evansville Earl Whitehurst ort Wayne George i a Gary William Wyss Indian apolis and Wayne Kepler ort Wayne tion to setting up road blocks about the city Advance warning of the 1 escape tendencies came during the course of trial One of witnesses had been Shellville Bur gess a guard at the Brushey Mountain penitentiary who told of three flights made by the two men HOUNDS OUND THEM Bloodhounds located Smithey and Marshall the first two times Burgess testified but failed to find them the third time Smithey six feet two inches tall with Elvis Presley type side burns was wearing a check shirt and blue jeans when he squeezed out the federal detention cell Marshall who favored a hair cut was' more fashionably dressed to the irritation of Jus court appointed lawyer and one of his partners The attorney Jo seph Dye had loaned Marshall his shirt and another member of the same law firm Wayne Pon ader contributed a biege sport jacket in order that their client would for the trial Both items were missing along with the prisoners Marries Cousin LONDON (AP) American rock roil singer Jerry Lee Lewis found himself a new wife before he got around to divorc ing the old one The 22 year old recording star who jigs stomps and musses his long blond hair when he sings disclosed riday he is married to a 13 year old cousin the former Myra1 Brown of Memphis Walter Ardapple 62 of North Seventh president of dapple Storage and Moving com pany died at 3 pm riday in a privately chartered airplane re turning him to the city from the Mayo clinic at Rochester Minn Mr Ardapple who had been a at the clinic since May 10 died just before the plane landed at Halsmer airport He was accompanied on the trip by his wife and a nurse He had been in ill health for the past several months and had been a patient at the Rochester clinic on previous occasions i He was past president of the Indiana Warehouse association and was prominent in city and state circles He was a mem ber of the irst Christian church Masonic lodge No 123 Indianapo lis Shrine Murat Temple Elks lodge No 143 American Legion Post 11 40 and 8 Voiture No 364 and a veteran of World war I having served in the Signal Corps in Europe and with die army of occupation He was a native of this city and married Dorothy Irvin in 1919 Surviving with the widow are a son Warren secretary and treasurer of the Ardapple Storage Moving company a daugh ter Mrs Robert Kelly of Hins dale Ill and two sisters Mrs Painter of West Lafayette and Mrs enton of Elm hurst Ill To Dr O'Dell: $490000! notice to the world that the commandment Shalt not Covet Thy is a commandment to be Dr McVey now an obstetrician residing in Reno Nev entered no defense in the case He did not appear in court riday Odell testified McVey frequently visited him and his wife Elaine 30 and sometimes took her to plush night spots DAUGHTER BORN riedman said a daughter was bom to Mrs Odell April 5 and that a blood test showed Odell was not the father 5 McVey was divorced from his wife in 1956 wife has filed a divorce suit chaining cruelty and desertion Odell in a cross bill charges her with adultery and names McVey as correspondent To Co operate In Suspension WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower pro posed to Premier Khrushchev Saturday that the United States and Russia name scientific experts to meet at Geneva within three weeks to discuss ways of policing a nuclear test suspension 1L7 STARKWEATHER IN WORRIED LOOK Charles Stark face reflects worry and concern shortly after he was ordered to 8ie in the electric chair for first degree murder The picture was taken as the young killer sat in an auto in Lin coln Neb awaiting return to the penitentiary Most pictures of Starkweather have reflected cheer or bland unconcern (AP Wirephoto) headquarters loulouse The pre midnight blasts shat tered the quiet of the manufac turing center less than four hours after embattled Premier Pierre Pflimlin launched a last ditch battle to persuade the fourth re public to save itself 1 ASKS REORMS In a nationwide radio TV speech he called for reforms and warned: fraction of the nation can not impose its will on the rest of the Pflimlin took to the airwaves after rebellious generals and civil ian supporters of Gen Charles De Gaulle in Algeria urged renchmen to defy the Paris gov ernment by forming their own safety The dissidents demanded that De Gaulle take over as head of a strongman regime Gaullist headquarters in Tou louse 370 miles south of Paris bore the brunt of the bombing at tacks BLASTS DOOR The first bomb blasted the door of the local branch of the tional Association of renchmen of North Africa and Overseas" Within minutes a second explo sive device was tossed into the headquarters of the rench Youth damaging some furniture Ten minutes later an explosion splintered the door of the Cryp to Communist council of The last of the four bombs hidden in a garbage can went off in front of the office of the Union of War Service i It damaged the door and shattered nearby windows 1 There were no casualties in the attacks 1 Without mentioning De Gaulle and the groundswell to sweep him into power Pflimlin declared the threat to rance is so grave that the nation has only a matter of days to save itself He urged changes in the constitution that would protect cabinets from a di visive National assembly that has overthrown more than two gov ernments a year for 12 years MAY HOLD KEY ormer Premier Antoine Pinay may be holding the key to the fate of the fourth republic He conferred with De Gaulle at his Co lombey Les Deux Eglise home Thursday and then met riday with President Rene Coty Pinay remained silent on the talks despite a promise that a communique would be issued by his independents on the Coty meeting De Gaulle was understood to have turned down a bid from Pin ay to assume the role of peace maker between Paris and the Al gerian dissidents Pflimlin told the nation that want passionately to avoid a ruoture between rance and Al He said fraternization be tween Moslems ana Europeans in the North Africa region spire us with great of bringing into existence "a new rench Charge John Smith 24 818 'erry driver of one of the two cars mvoivea in crash on North River road in Which Bernard Eas ier 20 Purdue universitytudent was killed early riday is slated to appear in West Lafayette city court next Saturday a charge of speeding After the crash Smith who was alone in his car was treated at St Elizabeth hospital and re leased LISTED Listed in condition at St Elizabeth hospital Saturday morning are Jon Petrie 19 a Purdue sophomore and Donald Murphy 19 a Purdue junior both passengers in the Kasper car at the time of the crash The two cars which police said they believe to have been racing crashed one after the other off North River road near Cather wood drive just inside the city limits Police quoted Petrie and Mur phy as stating the two cars were traveling at speeas miles an hour on North River road The last fatal accident in West Lafayette occurred Dec 11 1956 when 6 year old Duncan Scott was killed when he dashed between two parked cars in front of his home at 514 Evergreen and was struck by a car That fatality was the first since Oscar Bayman 76 State Sol home was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole on North River road April 6 1955 at approximately the same spot Kasper was killed riday police said Head for arm If You Care for Longer Life RESNO Calif (INS) If you want a healthy long life unworried by the possiblity of being cut short bv an early heart attack head back to the farm Statis ics show you have a better chance there than the city I Dr Wilford Morris as sistant professor of agricultural economics at Purdue university disclosed the figures riday be fore the annual meeting of the California Heart association in resno They were these: Hie average age at death of non farming heart attack victims is 67 the average age of farmer heart attack vic tims is 743 more than seven years older than their city cousins WHERE TO LOOK Amusements Mag Classified 15 17 Comics Crossword 19 Deaths 4 Editorials Columns 6 rankfort 8 Markets 18 Radio TV 1 7 Sports 12 13 West Lafayette Purdue 914 1 Page 5 irst 'Moon Radios Silent WASHINGTON (AP) Both radio transmitters are now silent on the Explorer I the first earth satellite The Naval Research laboratory said riday tracing stations no longer were receiving signals from second transmit ter apparently because of battery exhaustion The other transmitter which operated on highers power stopped sending earlier Explorer I which went into or bit on Jan 31 is expected to re main aloft for one to five years Two other satellites the Explorer III and the Vanguard also are cir cling the earth 4 1 1 magazine is full of articlea for all the I I i 01 kx nEPTS PHONE No 24M1 GREATEST NEWSPAPER LAAYETTE WEST LAAYETTE IND SATURDAY EVENING MAY 24 19b IKE SENDS NEW A TEST NOTE irst To Do It Big Hunt Is On for Two Who led ederal Cell INDIANAPOLIS (INS) ederal city and state police hunted Saturday for two prisoners who accom plished the heretofore undone feat of escaping from the Indianapolis federal building detention cell But for William Marshall 24 of Knoxville Tenn and' Enoch Carl Smithey Jr 27 of Neptune Tenn escape is noth ing new Their crime careers al ready included three previous flights from the Brushey Moun tain penitentiary Petros Tenn HACKSAW BLADES The escapees used hacksaw Hades to saw a padlock from a wire mesh screen and to cut through a heavy steel bar to re move the screen' They then sawed through another inch thick bar and crawled out a foot wide opening which led to a roof Visitors who had talked with the Tennesseeans through bars riday morning were possible sus pects as the suppliers of hack saw blades The searching officers combed the huge' federal building now undergoing remodeling in addi 66 CALLS! Property owners are re porting Increased In rental the past few weeks With the comlnr of beautiful spring weath er comes the urge to And an apartment or house 4 more suitable for the fam ily WEST LAAYETTE owner leav ing Roomy 3 bedrooom house unfinished upstairs full hase ment with garage Ph 0 0000 'Conect and Proper Starkweather Gets Chair for Murder LINCOLN 'Neb (INS) A Nebraska jury has convicted and sentenced Charles Starkweather 19 year old mass killer who correctly predicted his fate The sullen slayer made his prophecy during his 18 day trial that ended in Lincoln riday when a jury of eight women and four a 01 Delivered by Carrier SBc per wee The Courier Established 1831 single copy at newsstands Ta HER ENDING py ending ifi London The final 1 almost a minute too soon at the Speeding wfc'V 1 V'" 5' 4 7.