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a Twelve Logansport, Indiana, Pharos-Tribune Friday Evening, December 6, 1957. NATIVITY SCENE AT ROCHESTER COURT HOUSE RACKETS Witness Tells Of Violence Strike WASHINGTON (UP) -A former truck driver peeled off his shirt at a Senate rackets hearing Thursday to show where he was wounded in a roadside ambush in Tennessee after he refused to join a Teamster Union stril. The witness, Roy Byrd of Batavia, Ohio, a Cincinnati suburb, displayed red, welted scars on the right shoulder and evidence of gunshot wounds which left him partially disabled. He testified as the Senate Committee opened an invstigation into what it described as a pattern of violence stemming from Teamster organizing drives in the South. Another truck driver, A.

D. McKinney of York, S.C., rolled up his left shirt sleeve and showed the committee where his heavilytattood arm had been hit with a shotgun blast on a North Carolina highway in 1955. He said he now carries a gun in his truck. Chairman John L. McClellan charged in opening the hearings that law enforcement officials had failed to crack down on the "goon squad" activities in Tennessee and four neighboring states.

Byrd, 30, now manager of the Newman Pemberton Co. terminal in Cincinnati, had some trouble removing his coat and shirt because of stiffness in the arm and shoulder. McClellan asked him to exhibit his wounds so they could be photographed for the committee's files. Byrd testified that on the night of Aug. 8, 1956, as his truck was climbing a hill near LaFollette, assailants opened fire from an embankment.

He said 14 or 16 bullets hit the truck, one of them going completely through his right shoulder. relief driver was asleep and was not hurt. Byrd's employer, R. Pember- Emma Newcomb Dies, Former Peru Resident PERU, -Word has been of the death of Mrs. Emma Newcomb, 81, of Columbus, Ohio, widow of John C.

Newcomb. She died Thursday morning at the home of a daughter, She was the former Emma Murphy of the Denver community. She was a sister of Mrs. Ida Staller and a sister-in-law of Mrs. Otto Bunnell, both of Peru.

Funeral services will be held Saturday in Fairbourne, Ohio, ton, toid the committee that Teamster Local 621. in Knoxville, called a strike against his firm in 1956 while trying to organize long- drivers. Pemberton said there were about a dozen acts violence, including three shootings and two dynamitings during the five-month organizing drive. List 92 Killed In Rail Crash Say Disaster Is One Of Britain's Worst LONDON (UP)-Rescue crews hampered by fog for more than 24 hours Thursday night sought more bodies in the wreckage of one of Britain's worst train crashes. A new siege of smoke and fog clamped down over the disaster scene where a speeding passenger train piled into a crowded commuter train halted by smog on the Mid-Kent mainline in South London Wednesday night.

taken from the wreckage by Ninety-two bodies had been 1 25 hours after the wreck. Hospitals and police listed 187 injured, 110 seriously. Rescuers feared three to five more bodics still might lie in two coaches smashed almost flat under an overhead bridge which collapsed on the wreckag1 A third train, about to cross the bridge when it collapsed, halted with its front wheels teetering over the edge. An estimated 2,000 porsons, mostly commuters and Christmas shoppers, had been on the three trains. All the casualties were believed British except for one New Zealander.

is unlikely we shall ever know how many people were in that coach," 8 railway official said of the worst-hit car. "All we can do is check with a list of missing people." official death count was the highest. of any British train wreck since killed in 1952, when collision 112 north persons vi were a don. The highest recorded toll was 227, killed in a .915 crash. FALLS ON STAIRS Patricia Farrer, 10, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Farrer, 856 Sherman street, fell down a stairway at the Jefferson school about 4 p.m. Thursday, The ChaseMiller ambulance brought her to the Memorial hospital. She suftered an injured back the hospital reported, Read the Classified Ads This typical Nativity scene at house lawn at Rochester, The department, and was sponsored by Winamac High School Librarian Expires Of Heart Attack WINAMAC Miss Cecilia Grab. ner, 50, of North Market street, Winamac, died suddenly of a heart attack at 9 a.m.

Thursday at the North Judson high school where she was librarian, A lifelong resident of Winamac, she was born Aug. 5, 1907, the daughter of John and Mary Grabner. Survivors include her mother; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Davis, Miss Mary Grabner and Miss Agnes Grabner, all of Winamac: and a brother, Henry, also of Winamac. Services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m.

Monday at the St. Peters church with Father Alex Leiker in charge. Burial will be in the St. Vincent cemetery, Logansport. Friends may call at the Kennedy funeral home where will be recited at 8 p.m.

Sunday, Monticello Resident, Minnie Randall, Dies Mrs, Minnie Randall, 73, of East Monticello passed away at 4:45 Thursday morning at White ty Memorial hospital, She had been suffering from a severe heart condition. The deceased was born 1884, Ira in White county, the of and Jane (Nichols) Surviving are two sons, Floyd, of Fort Lauderdale, and Truman, of LaPorte: two, dren; and one brother, Monroe Watkins of Minnesota, The body is at the Smith and Aufenberg funeral home where final rites are pending. Christmas, depicting Joseph and display was built and redecorated the Rochester Chamber of ANTI-HOFFA Teamster Says Delegates Chosen By Lot WASHINGTON (UP) Joseph M. Herna, member of a New York Teamsters local, testified Thursday that he became a delegate to the union's 1957 convention when he picked a lucky number out of a box. Herna said he was one of eight delegates from Local 282 who were chosen by lot.

He said about 400 of the local's 7,500 members attended the meeting and that 200 sought to bcome convention delegates in the drawing. The witness testified in Federal Court on behalf o2 13 rank-andfile Teamsters seeking to bar James R. Hoffa from taking over as Teamsters president. They charge that a majority of the delegates to the Miami Beach, convention were chosen improperly. Theodore G.

Daley, secretarytreasurer of Teamster Local 145 of Yonkers, N.Y., repeated under cross-examination his charge that Hoffa stage-managed the convention which elected him president. Daley said Hoffa used nals from his seat on the platform. Under questioning by Teamster attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Daley insisted that the wagging occasions it happened became "on SO disbusting." many, Herna agreed with Dalcy that men were in the aisles running Meet Your ladependent Merchant JIM is following in the footsteps of many prominent Americans who got their first business experience on a newspaper routePresident Eisenhower, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Earl Warren, William Douglas, Herbert Hoover, Judge Landis, Joe DiMaggio and thousands of others. Busy Boys Are Better Boys If yon think your son or some other youngster might profit by similar Newspaperboy experience, why not suggest that be come in and talk to us. PHA JIM Is Earning JIM Is Developing 4.

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Wednesday after a heart at-. lack. He had resided with his daughter, Mrs. Edna Ray, route 3, for the past six years. Born in Pulaski county in 1873, he was the son of George and Matilda Hickey.

He was first married to Zetta McClain who died in 1938. Later he married Mrs. Bertha Ollman who died in 1948. Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. Faye AVilhelm, Denver, two brothers, George of! Sebring, and Lester, Great! Falls, two sisters, Mrs.

Duisy Wilson, Great Falls, and Mrs. Eva Copp, Kokomo: five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren, Services will be held at the Ellers funeral home in Kokomo at 2 p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Ca: roll Bickley, Galveston, ing. Burial will be in the Crown Point cemetery.

Friends may call al the chape! after noon Friday. QUIZ BURGLAR SUSPECT BRAZIL (UP)-An alleged glar was arrested in Colorado with a clipping about a search a Brazil boy who vanished four months ago and never was church in Delphi at 2:30 p.m, CST. Burial will be in the Zion cemetery near Flora, JUMPS TRACKS PERU-Two Nickel Plate railroad cars jumped the tracks at the Nickel Plate and Wabash crossing at Tippecanoe about 4:15 a.m. Thursday, Police reported that the cars and tracks were not damaged. A Wabash crane put the two back on the tracks and the ing was clear by 7 a.m.

INDIANA ALCOHOLIC AGE 901 ILLINOIS INDIANAPOLIS. LEGAL NOTICE OF PLATIO Mary by Commerce. in the stable and the Three Wise the art class of Rochester high school, (Pharos up and down and "telling men when to gel up and when to sit down." He said he did not know, however, whether hand signals had been used to direct the voling in Hoffa's lavor. Herna, a union member for 18 months, testified that his local's decision to select delegates by picking numbers out of a box was made after members voted unanimously to send local President John 0'Rourke and SecretaryLreasurer Anthony Duffy to the convention. George Vianco, Delphi, Succumbs At Age 65 George Vianco, 65, of Delphi, died Tuesday in a Lafayette hospital where he had been a patient since Nov.

28. A native of Delphi, he was married in 1912 to Dollie Heidrick of Monticello, Surviving with the widow are a daughter, Mrs. Robert Trobaugh of Lafayette; four sons, Paul, Thomas, and Charles, all of Delphi, and George Jr. with the Army in Hawaii; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Crone of Lafayette.

The body is at the Eikenberry funeral home at Delphi where friends may call. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 9 a.m, at the St. Joseph Catholic church at Delphi. Burial will be in the St. Joseph cemetery.

Mrs. Lorel Heimbach Taken By Death A former Delphi and Idaville resident, Mrs. Lorel Lue Heimbach, 74, died at 7 p.m, Tuesday in Columbia City where she had been living since 1940. Born near Flora, she was married in 1907 to Levi Blickenstaff who died in 1937. Her second marriage was to Elmer Heimbach in 1942.

Surviving with the husband are Men in atiendance is on the court, was put up by the city street Tribune Photo Engraving.) staff, Fort Wayne; a stepson, Ernest Heimbach, New York City; a brother, Charles Tidrick, Logansport, and a sister, Mrs. William Gustin of Lagro. Services will be held first at the DeMolay and Son funeral home in Columbia City Friday at 10 a.m. DST, and at the Trinity Melhodist Notice Is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of CASS On County, the Indiana, Jay P. at the N.

Court C'our: House, 1: tor town) of Logansport. brain Indian: 19: Investination of the named agplication of following person. requesting the israe to the hereinafter appileam. out. of the 501 holic Beverage P'ermit of be class hereinafter dexixnatel and pt maid time and place, ceive information concerning the fitness of applicant.

and the propriety of issuing the permit applied for LO such applicant Al the premises named: James Baker Willam meyer (Restaurant) TRANSFER Beer, Liquor Wine Retailer's permit from Charles W'. Brasier, 428 E. Market St. Logansport, Indiann SAID INVESTIGATION WILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. AND PARTICIPATION 35 INDIANA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION By E.

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