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GOVERNMENT FORECAST Weather Rainy today, Thursday rainy and cooler LOGANSPORT PUBLIC LIBR LOGANSPORT PRESS Only Local Morning Paper Serving Cass, Carroll, Pulaski, Miami, Fulton, White Counties Good Morning VOL. 38; NO. 198 NBA TELEPHOTOS LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25,1959 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEICE TEN CENTS CAMDEN GIRL Janet Kuszmaul Is Victim; Girl With Her Is Hurt Court Closes All Day City Hall At Noon Offices of the Cass county court house will be closed all day Friday in observance of Good Friday, it was announced Tuesday by county auditor Raymond Beckley after he had conferred with A members of the board of county Attto Turns Over And Commissioners. The free day Cecil M. Laymon, 37, of 18 street, was found Hits Pole After Tire allow, employes to be with their i guilty in Cass circuit court Tuesday afternoon by Judge families and attend church ser- Norman Kiesling on a charge of embezzlement of city Laymon Found Guilty; Faces 2 To 21 Years Blows Out vices, he said.

Janet Sue Kuszmaul. The city building offices will DEATH CAR Janet Kuszmaul, 16, of route 1 Camden, was killed Tuesday afternoon when this car, which she was driving, blew a tire and crashed on state road 218, three miles east of Camden. A passenger in the car, Nancy Johnson, 17, Camden, was injured. The girls were en route to school at Camden when the crash occurred. (Press Photo Engraving) year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Kuszmaul, route 1, Camden, was killed at 12:50 p.m., Tuesday when the car which she was driving blew a tire and crashed on state road 218, three east of Camden. Miss Kuszmaul suffered a crushed chest and a brok-! neck, according to iroll county coroner Rich-; iard Bikenberry. A passenger in the 1954 model car, Nancy Kay Johnson, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Johnson, Camden, suffered possible chest injuries, minor lacera- close at noon Friday in observance of the pre-Easter day. City schools also will close at noon Friday and will be out the following week for Spring vacation, resuming Monday, April 6. Six Contests OnGOPiTlura, Last For Filin Cave Explorer Dies, Trapped In Tunnel CASTLETON, England CAP) Neil Moss, 20-year-old Oxford student who loved to explore caves, died Tuesday trapped perhaps forever in a corkscrew-shaped tunnel 1,000 feet move, and was unconscious most Child Upsets Hot Tea On Her Chest Sherrill Ross, 903 Spear, 13-! months-old 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George was burned Tuesday morning when she upset i tions about the.

face and bruises about the neck. She was listed Memorial hospital. Left Tire Fails of the time. Doctors Reach Him Two doctors wriggled to him down the "devil's hole" of Britain's deepest cave just before jpital and remained overnight there. Her.

condition was not thought to be serious. Rescuers said the risk of trying noon. to retrieve his body "may prove' After a while they came too great. They were considering their faces mud and slime-cov- bricking up the tunnel where Moss! ered. They-gravely told the people was trapped Sunday afternoon, who waited outside the cave that His fate recalled that of Floyd the youth was dead.

Collins, who was trapped in a i Moss was with a party of other Kentucky cave 34 years ago. Col-, who love to lins was alive at least eight he fell feet after he was trapped, but work-1 first down a crooked 40-foot shaft, ers were unable to reach his body At first his companions thought until three months later. they could pull him out. They tied Moss's life ebbed away just be- ropes to him. Four ropes snapped, fore noon as rescuers made a final The collegian weighed 170 and his' attempt in the black depths of the i shoulders were wedged-under a intelligence agent, whose Vice Rampant In Red Russia, Fugitive Says Says Soldier Shot At Mikoyan At Kremlin Gates YORK (AP) A former Derbyshire hillside to bring to safety.

Then hundreds of I The first-year student of philos-. joined the rescue attempt. job exposed him to the private of. the Soviet Union's top leaders within the walls of the ding sideways. Ice House Atop Slaughter House Falls; 5 Killed 15 Others Hurt In Oklahoma City Disaster Tuesday OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.

(AP) With a rumbling, vibrating crash, a massive ice house atop a big meat packing plant plunged 1298 feet after the tire blew, the seven stories Tuesday, killing five trooper -'The at Camden high were on their lunch hour. They had been driven to the Kuszmaul home, just west ui. cu, auu. mti 0.3 a JOIUIJILJ more dead were buried in the of Deer Creek, to pick up the debris Kuszmaul car and were on their Rescue workers, masked against way' back to school when the the choking ammonia fumes. crash occurred.

Planned Tnp Here According to reports they had to go to Logansport after funds but was declared not guilty of a second charge of grand larceny. Judge Kiesling asked Laymon if he had anything to say before sentence was pronounced and upon receiving a firm the local jurist then sentenced the former employe of the city utilities office to a term of 2 to 21 years in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, disfranchised him for a period of two years and fined him $100 and costs of from using funds which he had deposited in six savings institutions in Logansport, Peru and Kokomo. No further action was taken in that matter since city Atty. Tom Hirschauer is out of the city. Don Umbarger Files For Council Race In Second A sixth Republican contest for the city primary election developed Tuesday when Donald R.

Um- serious condition last night at barger, 518 Hanna, an employe of the Muehlhausen Spring com- entered the race for nom- The Kuszmaul auto was en ination as city councilman from route west on road 218, when the the second ward, left rear tire blew and the car Umbarger, wr. went out of control. State Trooperi party, worker for several years, Tom Pitstick said the car left is married and the father of two the road on the south side, His declaration of can- Umbarger, who has been a Ididacy was filed Tuesday with The car apparently began roll- i county clerk, Elizabeth Bieker. ing as it left the road, crashed i The entry by Umbarger creates into a utility pole and JJ a fence, coming to a rest in a corn field. In all, the car traveled men and unleashing a cloud of searing ammonia gas.

At least 15 other men were injured, and there was a possibility freed several who were trapped in the Wilson Co. building. Dead were Paul D. Ferrell, 25, the action. The affidavit which Laymon was found guilty' specified that he had embezzled $940.91 in city funds on April 14, 1958 and converted them to his own use.

Clianfte in Other Cases The defendant, through his attorney Joseph Noel, of Kokomo, immediately filed a petition for a change of venue from Cass county on the four affidavits still pending against Laymon. In quick order, two of the cases were sent to Howard circuit court at Kokomo, one to Carroll circuit court at Delphi, and one lo White circuit court at Monticeilo. Laymon's counsel also filed a motion of intention to appeal the case and Laymon was admitted to appeal bond, which was set at 59,000. This was provided and he was permitted lo go free until the appeal is heard in court. The defense has a 30-day period in which to file a motion for a new trial in the case.

Laymon already is under an additional contest since Bernard William Bender, 1124 Magnolia, had previously filed for the GOP nomination for the council- manic post from the second ward. Only two more days are left i tne calling for $2,000 bond. This for candidates to enter the pri-1 makes his total bond $17,000, $8,000 bond on the four affidavits still pending against him, each of Grass Fires Keep Firemen On Tlie Go Tuesday Barn In Eastend Ruined By Blaze Started From Grass (Picture on page 9) A rash of grass fires continued to keep firemen busy Tuesday, but relief in the form of rain was in sight for this evening. The weather bureau predicted rain and cooler temperatures for today. Grass fires called fire fighlers out seven times Tuesday.

In all, they have been called 12 times this week on grass fires. The first grass fire to damage mary election race. There are six Before Judge Kiesling an- a building broke out at 1:30 p.m. ophy, politics and economics had! entering the hillside said Tuesday "the at- been trapped in the tortuous tun-; they had to walk miles and mosphere of vice was contagious" nel then for 46 hours. His broad'then slither hundreds of feet on on a levels.

Ronnie Porter, 30; Santos S. Mi-' sch o1 to ick decorations for randa, 61; Harmon Simmons, 27; i the scho rom The car was declared a total loss. Also investigating were Sher- shoulders were imprisoned by jut- their stomach's to the top of the ing rocks. He was 'unable to crevice where the youth was held. Senate Doesn't Want Office Rents Public WASHINGTON (AP) What! House members pay for home office rent will no longer be made public, it was ruled Tuesday.

At the same time, a group of sena- tfcrs couldn't decide whether Senate payrolls should be opened to public inspection, as House payrolls now are. atellite To This One To 'Be Fired 25,000 Mi. Up DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) A radiation-probing satellite soon will be fired 25,000 a new top space agency strategist said Tuesday night. Dr.

Homer J. Stewart, planning and evaluation director for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the satellite, weighing several hundred pounds, Scouts To Present afety Program To Be Held In Berry Bowl Next Tuesday Some 500 Boy and Cub Scouts and Explorers will participate in the "Safety in Action" program next evening in Berry Bowl, it was announced Tuesday by Dick Posner, director of the Three Rivers Council's L'Angille district. The program, to start at 7 p.m., will include presentation of awards to units which participated in a postal first aid contest. Questionnaires were sent out to the various packs and troops and winners will be selected on the basis of the answers. Petr S.

Deriabin, 38-year-old one-time member of the Ofchrana, or Kremlin palace guard, described the Kremlin as a hotbed of intrigue, debauchery and ruthlessness. The former who fled to the United States in also reported that one soldier in 1942 attempted to kill Anastas I. Mikoy- an, i a Soviet deputy premier. Deriabin cited it as' an incident reflecting the- suspicion and. uncertainty of life in the Kremlin.

Writing in Life magazine, Deriabin painted this picture of. life in the Killed His WiCe "Private lives inside the Kremlin were not pretty. Josef Stalin unquestionably set the alllime low in 1932 when he murdered his wife in a fit of rage because she had! question his decisions. His lieutenant, Lavrenti Beria, 'went on to establish a fantastic record of moral depravity. Cash awards will'be presented! "After Beria's death the names to the three winners for the best 20 cal girls were found in his health, or safety slogans.

Any registered Cub, Boy Scout or Explorer is eligible to enter. Bicycle safety will be discussed and Reuben McDowell. Officials said they were fairly certain two of three men listed as missing were buried in the wreckage. They identified these as Claude Wilkinson and James Me Inlosh. A third man unaccounted for is Von O'Neil.

1,000 Work There The plant employs 1,100, but it was not known how many were in the building. No one knows what caused the collapse, said plant manager 0. W. Gafney, But what sounded like an explo- apparently was the breaking of. ammonia lines as the ice house and the ice-manufacturing equipment it held tumbled.

Because there was a momentary pause as the heavy section smashed into each, flo'or, workers had. some warning. Jesse Gibson was in a cutting room near the cave-in. He said then a noise like.a bomb." There was no panic as the workers through fume-filled halls to'exits, private files. He had no compunction about the women he debauched.

Among others, the wives Bab Sandra Lee 15 Baby Women Were Going To See Dies At Riley Hospital would be hauled aloft by a four- by Trooper 7 of the Baptist Tem- stage rocket using a Thor IRBM' Water rescue methods will booster. be shown by Ship 509, sponsored Stewart, addressing the Ameri-! by the Moose lodge, can Rocket Society's flight-testing Trooper 24, sponsored by the conference, declined to name a Royal Center Lions club, will predate for the launching. But he sent farm and home safety. The indicated that it may come before the end of this year. Earlier, Sear Adm.

John T. Hayward, assistant chief of naval Logansport fire department will present a program on fire prevention and Fire arm saiety will be shown by Troop 15, sponsored by operations for research and de-ithe Onward grange. velopment, outlined, an ambitious The program is for all Cubs, Navy military space campaign that could include orbiting 50- pound communications and navigational satellites within a year. Hayward said the Navy is developing the satellite payload and may use some other service's launching vehicle "piggyback" style to do the job. Dr.

Stewart said a radiation satellite with an orbit stretching from 25,000 miles to as close as 150 miles to earth would gather vital data on two doughnut-shaped radiation belts above the earth Scouts, Explorers and their families, Posner said. Pennsy Would Close Station At Betheven of several. state security officers were, obliged to spend the 1 night with him under the pain of their husbands' arrest. "But Beria's worst vice was his fondness for schoolgirls. He kid- naped one Moscow 11-year-old and held her captive in his" house for three Out For Revenge Deriabin said the soldier who opened fire on Mikoyan's car as it edged out of the Kremlin gates had been denied leave to visit his ill mother in h.er village and had deserted his regiment "to avenge himselt on the bosses in the Kremlin." State security guards shot him down, Deriabin said, and the inci- INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The dent was quickly hushed'up.

which threaten travel. manned space State Public Service Commission was asked by the Pennsylvania Railroad Tuesday for permission to close the line's freight station at Betheven near Marion. The railroad also wanted authority to remove a. small spur line at the station, contending other stations in the area can handle the business. He said the guards had hesitated for a split second before cutting down the would-be- assassin, and added: "Living in an atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, tney had been afraid to fear the soldier might have been sent by one Kremlin leader to assassinate another." months old daughter of Curtis D.

and Norma J. Rhodes Weiand, of 1000 W. Market, died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at Riley hospital, Indianapolis. The baby had been taken there Monday from St.

Joseph's hospital. Her mother, en route to Indianapolis with Mrs. 'Ray Russow to see the baby Monday was injured in a truck-car crash at the north edge of Indianapolis. However, Mrs. Weiand has now been dismissed from General hospital there.

Mrs. Russow 416 Bartlett, is.reported still serious. Mrs. 'Russow sustained a fractured right leg, six fractured ribs, lacerations on the. forehead and possible internal injuries.

The little girl was born here Dec. 5, 1957. She is survived by her parents; a brother, Robert two sisters, Sharon Sue and Judith.Kay; grandmother, Mrs. Marjorie Wilson, Burnetlsville; grandfather, Harold Rhodes, Indianapolis. Friends may call at the Fisher funeral after 7 p.m.

this evening, Rjtes are pending. iff John Roth, Deputy Byron Goyer, and Trooper Dale Douglass. It was Carroll county's fourth traffic fatality of the year. Born at Flora Bom June 21, 1942 at Flora, she was the daughter of Ralph and Doris Meek Kuszmaul. A junior at the Camden high school she was a member oE the Deer Creek Presbyterian church and the Camden Sunshine society.

Survivors are the parents; a sis-' ter, Mrs. Karmen Sheagley, Cutler, route a brother, Pfc. Ronald L. Kuszmaul, of the Marine Corps Base, Las Vegas; the maternal grandfather, Ross E. Meek, Flora, route paternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs; J. T. Kuszmaul, Camden, route 1. The body is at the Gentry funeral home, Camden. Rites are pending.

Rochester Stays On Standard Time ROCHESTER City council members, meeting last night, decided that the city of Rochester will not go to fast time Easter Sunday, as voted Friday at a special session. A motion was made by Elmer Gordon and seconded by Floyd Kindig that the city, conform with the general switchover in the state on April 26. This was passed 4 to 1: Also on the agenda was discussion of the salary, of the city judge. The council had previously set this at proposed increase will be considered at its next meeting April 28th. contests on the Republican slate nounced his finding, he overruled a defense motion for a finding for the defendant, which had been entered at the conclusion of the trial on March 6.

He also overruled the defendant's motion on the embezzlement charge but sustained a similar motion on the second count of grand larceny. Checks Cinched Case Judge Kiesling specifically recalled testimony of several people who cashed checks with Laymon at the light office and of others who also cashed checks but not with the defendant. Yet, checks of both were deposited in Laymon's name at a Kokomo bank, according to evidence introduced during the trial. This left no doubt in the court's mind that the defendant was guilty, Judge Kiesling ruled. The trial began on March 2 and came to an abrupt end on March 6 when the defense rested without calling a single witness.

Judge Kiesling had studied evidence in the matter since that time and his decision was given when Laymon was brought into court at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The defendant also filed a motion in Cass circuit court for a change of the civil action by the city of Logansport'which has sought to restrain Laymon and two on the Democratic side. There are candidates for all offices on both sides except for city judge on the Republican slate. Other GOP contests are for clerk-treasurer involving Elmer Thomas, Chester Zartman and Jouis-Schmidt; for councilman of 'irst ward, Harry Binder and Robert Logan; councilman of fourth ward, Mervin Emler and E.

Roand Hutton; councilman of fifth ward, John C. Cotner and Harold Hopper; for councilman-at-large, Alfred L. Boatman, Myron J. rliatt, and Elmer A. Craig.

Democratic contests are for mayor, where incumbent Ralph T. Sberts is opposed by Otto H. Neumann and Mrs. Marjorie Wray, and for councilman-at-large with F. Brenner, Bernard Chesterson, George Klinck and Alvin Summers being entered.

Thursday is the deadline for candidates to file declarations. The primary election is scheduled on Tuesday, May 5. Bus With 29 Goe Over Argentine Cliff MAR DEL PLATA, Arsentina bus loaded with 29 passengers plunged off a 35-foot cliff into the ocean near here Tuesday, killing 5 and injuring- 20 others. Safety Campaign Again This Spring The police traffic division' will hold the vehicle safety check again this May, Sgt Joe Wallace said -yesterday. Orders have been placed with the state safety bureau for 38,000 stickers.

Last year, 36,899 vehicles were inspected here and 34,893 were found all right. The total put the city at the top of the national list on a per capita basis, and a plaque was presented the city by the safety bureau. Sunrise Service Plans Are Made The Reverend M. L. Robinson will give the sermon at the union Easter Sunrise worship service, to be.

held at 6 a.m., Sunday, March 29, in. the Berry Bowl. The annual event is sponsored by the Cass County Ministerial Association. Joe'Huffman will direct the combined" choir. The program will open with the organ prelude, Easter Melody with Variations, "0 Filii et Fil- with Miss Nancy Van Allen as organist.

This will be followed by the Herald by the high school brass sextet. are: Joe Scagnoli, first trumpet; -John Wells, second trumpet; Lowell Pinney, French horn; Gary Helvie, trombone; Roger Lehnus, baritone; Don Buck, bass. After processional by the sextet the opening hymn will be ''Jesus. Christ. Is.

Risen Today." The Reverend Raymond Echols, pastor of the Broadway Methodist church, will give the call to worship. The Reverend Irving Phillips, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian church, will give tlpe, invocation and the Reverend J. E. Campbell, pastor of Third Street EUB, will give the.responsive reading. Following the anthem, "God So Loved the the Scripture lesson will be given by the Reverend W.

H. Neeriemer, pastor of the Ninth street Christian church. The Reverend G. C. Morgan, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene will give the Easter prayer, followed with prayer response by the choir, "Seven-fold Amen." The hymn "The Day of Resurrection" will be followed by The Offertory, "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" from "The by Handel.

The offertory prayer will be by the Reverend Henry Pilgrim, pastor of the West Broadway Presbyterian church. The anthem, "Hallelujah Chorus" will precede the sermon by the Reverend M. L. After the closing hymn, benediction will be pronounced by the Reverend Harry Hashberger, pastor of the Market street Methodist church. This will be followed by th rhoCe swTSDdalA meandn by the Choral Amen and the organ postlude, "Easter March." Tuesday, when flames burned out a barn at the rear of the Harold Clark residence, 2129 High St.

Mrs. Clark had been burning trash in a container near the barn and the fire spread onto dry grass it was reported. She tried" to extinguish the flames with a bucket of water, but when the flames spread to the barn, she notified the fire department and removed a car parked in the structure. Considerable damage was done to the interior and roof of the building. Started at 8:40 a.m.

The first grass fire of the day was at 8:40 a.m., at the Roy Michael residence, 324 Miner. Then, at 1:30 p.m., firemen were called to the Clark home and to Clifton and Jackson, where quite a bit of grass burned. At 2:05 p.m., firemen were called to extinguish a grass fire on the Howard Fiedler farm, two miles south of Logansport on state road 29. At 5:10 p.m., a grass fire called fire fighters to the junction of U. S.

24 and U. S. 35, west of the city. Five minutes later a grass fire broke out on the Joe Savini farm, a mile and a half north of the city on state road 25. At p.m., a grass fire went out of control on the John Schaffer, farm, two miles east on U.

S. 24. A hot generator on a 1958 model car driven by Arthur Snyder was taken care of at.the central fire station at 2:10 p.m. The ninth fire call of the day was a hot oil stove "at 316 East Market. The building is presently vacant.

Fire chief Dick Eisert warned persons burning grass and trash to be sure the fire can be controlled before starting it $1 ,000 In Prizes To Be Awarded At 1959 Home Show Prizes, valued at approximately $1,000, will be given away during the annual Home Show, it was announced Tuesday following a meeting of participating merchants. The Home Show will be held April 3, 4 and.5 at the National Guard Armory. Bob Discher, Randolph Lanning and Ed Closson were named at the meeting to secure the prizes. The prizes will be displayed at the National Bank of Logansport. Mel Riley, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the annual event, said some floor space is still left for merchants wishing to.