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RUSHVILLE1? REPUBLICAN Vol. 175 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Friday, October 6, 1961 Ten Pages Seven Cents Youth Admits Sex Slaying 01 Girl, 7 Neighbor Hoy Drowns Child In Pond After Criminal Attack Near Her Home At Elmhurst, III. WHEATON, 111. teenage boy admitted Thursday night, police said, he enticed a 7-year- old neighbor girl into a weedy field, raped her and drowned her in a rainwater pond. Police said Steven Schloneger, 13, a tall seventh grader, told them: just did it for a thrill.

I heard you could get a thrill from The nude body of blonde, eyed Yvonne Elliott was found face down in the field near her home by her father, Edward, 27, Wednesday night. She had bicycled to a neighborhood store to get a package of cigarettes for her father. The boy was charged with delinquency and held in the Du Page County jail in Wheaton. William Bauer, Du Page County attorney. said Schloneger will be charged with murder at a court arraignment Monday.

Herbert Mertes, chief deputy sheriff, said Schloneger was arrested after Albertine Fisher, 29, told a deputy her son Steven, 7, related that he had seen ger and Yvonne Wednesday evening standing near a tree in the field where her body was later found. Merter said Schloneger lives with his stepfather and mother, Edward Pivonka, 42, and Helen June, 42, on the outskirts of nearby Elmhurst. Deputies found a pair of soiled overalls in the home which he admitted he had worn Wednesday, Mertes said. Mertes said Schloneger told this story: He was out playing when Yvonne rode by on her bicycle. He called to her and asked her to come into the field with him.

She followed him into the field where he took off her clothes and violated her. She began to cry and he took her blouse and wrapped it around her throat. He then stuffed a rag into her mouth and tied her hands behind her back with another rag. He pushed her into a shallow rainwater pond in the field and held her head in the water. Frightened, he ran home.

The teen-ager broke down and cried only once, Bauer said. That was when his stepfather and his mother confronted him in the office. Bauer quoted Mrs. Pivonka, who has been married three times and has two other children, as asking her son: it true, with me here to protect you, that you did Bauer said Schloneger replied. And the boy started to cry.

After an autopsy, Coroner Samuel K. Lewis said Yvonne had been sexually abused. He said Yvonne, the oldest of four children, had suffocated. Elderly Woman Perishes As Fire Sweeps Through Trailer On First Street Doctors Doped, Robbed In Tavern CHICAGO (AP) Nine persons have been arrested in a North Side nightspot where three con- ventioning doctors were allegedly drugged and robbed. The tavern, Swing City, was raided Wednesday night after one doctor told police he awoke cut and bruised on a railroad right-of- way after visiting the tavern Tuesday evening.

Another doctor said he awoke in the same tavern and was unable to find his friend. Both doctors said they were directed to the tavern by a taxicab driver and fell unconscious after accepting a drink the bartender offered the Police declined to identify the physicians, both attending a national convention in Chicago. In their raid Wednesday night, detectives found a third doctor unconscious under a booth in the rear of the tavern. Polcie declined to say how much money was taken from the men. Five women arrested in the raid were charged with being inmates of a house of ill fame and four men charged with keeping a disorderly house.

GUTTED TRAILER House trailer was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon and an elderly woman perished in the tragic blaze. Fire Chief Roy Stewart said that the blaze apparently started in the rear of the trailer and was believed caused by an electrical heating pad. Hoosier Singer McCormack Seen As Successor To Speaker Sam Rayburn, Gravely 111 Two Wives File Divorce Actions Two divorce complaints were filed yesterday in Rush Circuit Court. Linda Jane Cameron, R. R.

1, Rushville, is plaintiff in one of the actions, against George E. Cameron II, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. She seeks custody of their child. The complaint sets their marriage date as December 26, 1959, and the separation date as ie Kellum. R.

R. 1, Milroy, seeks a divorce from John whose address is listed as 4, Anderson. defendant is accused of cruel nhuman treatment jand ex- drinking. They were mar- lay 10, 1950, and the separa- )ccurred September 11, ac- ig to the complaint. Kellum requests possession house trailer and lot which i joint title.

3 Stabbed By Berserk Man On Bus SANTA ANA, Calif. 85-year-old man went berserk aboard a crowded San Diego- bound Greyhound bus today and stabbed three persons with a pocket knife before he was subdued by passengers. The victims, two sailors and a woman, were taken to Orange County Hospital for treatment along with the elderly man, who, officers said, would be held for psychiatric examination. Treated for stab wounds of the neck were Gwendolyn C. Copeland, 19, of Los Angeles; seaman Charles J.

Johnson, 18, attached to the USS Thomaston at San Diego, and seaman Lawrence Robert Serna, 21, Port Hueneme, Calif. Taken into custody by highway patrolmen was Thomas C. Buchanan of Mineral Bluff, Ga. Officers said he told them he was despondent over leaving his home. DALLAS, Tex.

(AP) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, suffering from extensive cancer, looks a little better today, his physicians said. They reported in a bulletin that Rayburn no longer was under sedation and was resting comfortably. Rayburn, 79, entered Baylor Hospital Monday after he failed to respond to treatment in his home town of Bonham, Tex. He left Washington Aug. 31 for his home saying he wanted to rest for what he called lumbago causing pains in the back.

Doctors said Thursday after extensive tests that the cancer has spread to such an extent that no further surgery was anticipated. Only visitors permitted are members of his family, a hospital spokesman said. tenure has been so long the ambitions of any potential rivals have cooled with age. So, it wxmld seem almost certain at this point that McCormack, a Bostonian, would follow the traditional upward path and ascend to the chair when Congress convenes Jan. 10 for the second half of its current session.

McCormack, 69, is already speaker pro tern by formal vote of the House. He was elected late last month when Rayburn was forced by illness to return to his home at Bonham, Tex. Rayburn is gravely ill with cancer and aides say his days may be sharply limited. No predictions of harmony and order would be valid beyond the Continued on Pape Three BPW Club Holds Killed In Crash Business Meet Wednesday Eve Things Going On In Rushville Tonight tha Poe O. E.

Masonic ie. ning Mass, St. lie Church, cess Theatre. Parachute Show At Airport Here An exhibition of parachute jumping will be held again Sunday at the Rushville Airport, Ramon Walker, manager, announced today. Jumping will start at 11 a.m., with Art Tribby of the Indianapolis Sky Divers Club in charge.

Local jumpers will include Fred Fey and Danny Hall. Fey will make his third local jump and Hall will try it for the first time. Jumps will include free falls, 30-second delays and others from 3,000 feet. A penny-a-pound airplane rides i will be offered during the after- noon. The public is invited to wit-j ness the parachute jumping exhi- bition.

WASHINGTON (AP) Sam long, unchallenged reign as speaker of the House of Representatives apparently has cleared the way for an orderly succession by Majority Leader John W. McCormack to seat of least temporarily. The grip of the strong-willed, but kindly Texan on the ship has been so strong no rival faction ever developed. And his Farm Outlook To Given Tuesday Township Trustees Vote Approval For Retarded Classes Approval of plans to start a county program for retarded pupils was granted this morning at a meeting of the township trustees, it was announced by Gerald Car- mcny, county superintendent. The trustees, by unanimous vote, authorized the action for the special classes starting next fall.

Classes will be formed for those 12 and under and another for those over 12 years of age. Superintendent Carmony said that one class will be held at the Jackson Township school and the other will be at another township school to be selected later. Basic plans for the program will be worked out in the coming months. Testing of the pupils will C. L.

Spuller, county agricultural agent, today called attention to the fact that Paul Mitchell, agricultural economist at Purdue University, will conduct the annual Rush County meeting Tuesday at! be held, with assistance from the 7:45 p.m. at the Assembly Room state department and also other of the Courthouse. county agencies. Featured will be a discussion of Rooms will be prepared and the effects of the reduction of feed transportation problems will be grain production on the price of w'orked out. Funds for the special feed grains and livestock.

education program will be includ- The meeting will be open to the ed in the township budgets public. pared next summer. was shown to members of the Rushville Business and Professional Club at their October business meeting lield Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Helen Morgan. With Dr Davis Ellis as narrator and Miss Avis Brown assisting with the pictures, the story of the activities and services offered by the eleven participating agencies of United Fund was told.

During the business meeting conducted by the president, Mrs. Pierce Riebsomer, members voted in favor of an Inter-Club Dinner during American Education Week next month. The budget for the 1961-62 year was presented and approved. It was decided to have each committee responsible for a gift for the Mental Health Association in their annual collection of Christmas gifts for the State Hospital at New Castle. An invitation was received from the New Castle Business and Professional Club to attend HOLLYWOOD Merrill Barbour, 34, a singer and former member of the Four Freshmen quartet, was killed Thursday night when his car crashed into a parked truck on the Hollywood Freeway.

Police said car struck the rear of a truck parked in a construction zone on an overpass, spun several times and crashed through a divider. Barbour was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barbour of Elizabethtown in Bartholomew County, Ind. He had lived most of his younger years in Indiana.

A brother, Ross Barbour, and a cousin, Bob Flanagan, are still members of the quartet. widow, Dolores, and a daughter, Donna Lynn, live in California. FF Workers For Walker Twp. Meet To Get Materials United Fund Set For Two-Day Drive Effort Porky, the United Fund pig, and about 500 volunteer workers are poised and ready to give the big two-day to the $40,000 of the 1961 United Fund drive. After weeks of planning and preparation, all township and division chairmen are making final preparations for the all-out effort in Rush County.

Volunteers in Rushville will get under way with a 7 a.m. kick-off breakfast at the Durbin Hotel on Monday. Various township units are meeting in the homes of chairmen to get final instructions prior to the house to house solicitation next week. United Fund president, Harold Dick, asks the entire community to cooperate with PORKY solicitors by having gifts and pledges ready on Monday and Tuesday. Business and industries can do great service to the 11 participating agencies supported by United Fund by cooperating with their employes in The United Fund workers in Walker Township met Thursday at their annual Civic Night Monday, I the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Max October 23. This will be held in the Branam with captains and so- Great Hall of the Christian Church, licitors being present to receive 2000 Bundy, at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Ar- their cards and materials.

Mr. lliur S. Postle, professor of Litera- I Branam presided at the meeting, ture at the Earlham I.U. Center in Workers were requested to cover Richmond, will be the speaker, their assignments on October 9 and Reservations should be made by 10, and make reports to Mr. Bran October 18 with Mrs.

Riebsomer. am. The goal for the township is The Indianapolis Business and Professional Club have Slldes Presented at the extended an invitation to surround- meetinS on each participating clubs to hear the National Fed- in drive The slides were eration President, Katherine Ped- explained by Bob Waggener and en, on Thursday, October 19. 7:45 Miss Avis Brown. After a discus- p.m.

at the Indiana World War Me- sion on the various agencies, re- morial. Reservations are not freshments were served, necessary for this meeting. The Publications Committee was Citation Given To in charge of this meeting with Mrs. Morgan as chairman. Others on Youthful Motorist the committee were Mrs.

Chester Police early today cited a Rush- Schroeder, Mrs. Gerald Krise, Miss ville youth for reckless driving aft- Ellen Worsham and Mrs. Nelle er he allegedly steered his car onto the sidewalk at high speed in the 200 block of North Perkins Street. Arrested was Robert Lee Temple, 22, 219 East Ninth. The police report said he drove his car on the sidewalk in front of the Standard Food Market at 1:25 a.m.

He will appear in Justice of the Peace Court. Havens. payroll deduction or some other means of periodical payment of pledges. This concentrated fund raising effort is a result of a long expressed desire of Rushville business men and residents to have a hard-hitting successful fund raising campaign. The two-day push- for-PORKY gives donors and solicitors alike the chance to complete the job quickly and get back to reg- ular pursuits.

Every public spirited citizen of the community can help do his part in the speedy completion of the drive by making himself available to his solicitor neighbor when he calls. He can further expedite a successful drive by giving immediate serious consideration to increasing the total amount of his personal gift to the fair share individual gift and pledges suggested by PORKY. Division chairmen for each sec- Continued on Page Two 2 More Killed In Indiana Traffic By The Associated Press A Fort Wayne man died this morning after his car rammed into a truck and burst into flames. It was 25th traffic death for October. Dan Williams, 37, died in Parkview Hospital at Fort Wayne about an hour after the accident on the U.S.

30 bypass northeast of the city. Authorities said Williams, who lived near the crash scene, made a left turn in front of an oncoming semi trailer driven by Harold Forkey, 31, Slippery Rock, Pa. The Williams auto burst into flames after the collision. Forkey. who was not injured, pulled the motorist from the flaming car.

Mrs. Blanche Burrough, 83, Delphi, was injured fatally by a car as she crossed a street in State To Close Fish Hatcheries, 3 Game Farms INDIANAPOLIS (AP) State Conservation Director Donald E. Foltz announced today that two of the three game farms and several fish hatcheries will be closed at the end of the current season. Foltz said Wells County game farm near Bluffton and the Mus- catuck game farm in Jennings County will be discontinued, with only the Jasper Pulaski game farm kept in operation. It will be used mainly to produce pheasants for put-and-take hunting on state owned hunting areas.

In this type of hunting, the area is stocked with game just before the season opens. He said at least two and possibly three of the six warm water state fish hatcheries also will be shut down, but that the department has not decided which ones. Indiana has been spending about a half million dollars a year on artificial propagation of fish and game, Foltz said. He explained much of this can be saved by cutting back the program and using the money to improve wildlife habitat and buy more property for public hunting and fishing. Foltz said the game farms to be closed will be used as state recreation areas.

The only jobs eliminated by the shutdowns will be those of part- time or seasonal workers, he said, adding he did not have a figure. Foltz announced also at a morning news conference that five conservation officers whose jobs were eliminated in a reorganization have appealed their dismissals to circuit courts in their home counties. The department, he said, will stand fast on the dismissals and will appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court if the lower courts order the jobs restored. He succeeds Lt. William Jeffrey of Indianapolis, who resigned.

Another resignation announced by Foltz was that of Martin R. Duies Jr. of East Gary, who left his job as Lake County enforcement officer to join the Lake County department. The department has decided against establishing zones on Lakes Freeman and Shafer to separate speedboats and water skiiers from fishermen, Foltz said. Woman Finds $8,000 In Shopping Sack MEMPHIS, Tenn.

Helen Kirschner checked her purchases after leaving a department store she was astounded to find $8,000 in the sack instead of two tiny batteries she had bought. Store officials were apologetic and grateful when she returned the bundle of cash just as they were locking up Tuesday night. A sales clerk had given Mrs. Kirschner the wrong containing the receipts for the day. Mrs.

Effie Moody, Semi-Invalid, Is Trapped Inside Home, And Heat Drives Away Rescuers. HUSBAND, 85, AWAY FROM TRAILER AT TIME Fire swept a trailer home at the southwest edge of Rushville yesterday afternoon, claiming the life of Mrs. Effie Moody, 82. Mrs Moody, a semi-invalid, was unable to escape from the burning aluminum trailer. Her death was caused by burns and suffocation.

City firemen were called to the scene at the Hauk Trailer Court at 2:55 p.m. by a telephoned alarm. Two nearby residents, Mrs. Lucille Levi, who first noted the fire, and Mrs. Pearl Hudelson, attempted to save Mrs.

Moody from the flaming trailer. Mrs. Levi threw a rug over her head and opened the trailer door. She was met by a hot blast of flames and smoke The women could hear Mrs. Moody inside the trailer as she pleaded, please help The two ladies told Mrs.

Moody to get down on the floor and crawl towards the door but she was unable to reach it. The fire started in the back of the trailer and investigating officers and firemen theorized that it may have been caused by a heating pad, which was turned on high, and was apparently placed on a bed. Mrs. husband, Oscar, 85, was outside of the trailer when the fire broke out and was unable to assist the investigators in ascertaining the of the fire. Present at the scene were Sheriff Robert L.

May, city police, State Trooper James Kleiman and Dr. Stephen Smith of Knightstown, acting coroner. It was the first fatality this year in the county caused by fire. A year ago fires claimed four lives in the city and county. Mrs.

Moody was born in Jefferson County on October 20, 1878, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Le- fouours Payne. She and Mr. Moody were married December 26, 1899. Mr. and Mrs.

Moody formerly lived in Atlanta, before moving here about two years ago and she was a member of the St. George Episcopal Church in Kansas City. In addition to the husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Nutter of Rushville and Mrs. George White of New York City; a half-brother, Clyde Eldridge of Kansas City, 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A son, Dr. H. P. Moody of Chicago, died in 1952. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Gooding Funeral Home in Atlanta, with burial in Mt. Tabor Cemetery there. The body was removed today to Atlanta from the Todd Funeral Home where it was taken following the fire. There were no calling hours at the local funeral home. Girl Fatally Hurt In Fall From Bike INDIANAPOLIS Noble, 11, died in General Hospital early today, five hours after she fell off her bicycle and hit her head on a sidewalk near her east side home.

Russians Not Building Air Raid Shelters, Mrs. Khrushchev Says FAIR and WARMER Fair and a little warmer tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 48-54. High Saturday 77-84. Sunset today 6:17 p.m.

Sunrise Saturday 6:44 a.m. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Delphi Thursday night. She died 18 a.m. today 53 in St. Elizabeth Hospital at 1 todav 72 Lafayette.

The driver, Michael W. Clawson, 17, Delphi, told police he did not see Mrs. Burroughs in time to avoid her. 1 p.m. today Thursday, October 5 1961 Highest 71 76 83 71 Lowest 47 52 66 50 Precipitation 0 .06 .90 .23 MOSCOW (AP) Nikita Khrushchev told a group of Western today that the Soviet Union was making no effort to build air raid shelters.

is no defense in a nuclear said Nina Khrushchev, the wife of the premier. we are not building any bomb shelters. We are not getting Mrs. Khrushchev made her remarks after spending an hour exchanging pleasantries and debating disarmament with the marchers, who arrived here Tuesday. The debate took place at of where Mrs.

aides served tea, chocolate and apples. Most of the marchers did their best to convince Mrs. Khrushchev that, if the world refuses to disarm, one country should set a good example by discarding all its armaments. Mrs. Khrushchev declined to agree.

do not want to be the only ones who throw our bombs into the she said. She added that in the past 40 years, the Soviet Union has had many unfortunate experiences with war and does not want to be in a position where it could be trampled upon again. Thirty-one persons from the United States and Western Europe participated in the march, which began in December of last year in San Francisco. Among those having tea with Mrs. Khrushchev were: Bea Herrick of Chicago, Millie Gilbertsen of New York, Jules Rabin of New York, and Regina Fischer of New York, mother of U.S.

chess champion Bobby Fischer..