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16 Papes TodayPages 1 to 8THE WEATHERClearing, cold tonight andday.Frl-VOLUME LXVIII. NO. lbSEYMOUR. INDIANA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 19. 1950PRICE FIVE CENTSdmits Being With “ Rer^ Ui Seymour sSlain Man at Scene Finances MadeArrest MadeAt Middletown•5WednesdaySlate Police Quest ionGeorge E. Bowers 21.Crothersville, atPost This AfternoonBULLETINState police at the Seymour poet this afternoon said GeorgeE. Bowers admitted slaying Lawrence Kovert, Crothersville taxi driver, but that his motive was not robbery, but revenge. State police said he told them he hated Kovert because he had been carrying tales to his (Bowers) wife in Crothersville.SS6.933.67 BalanceIn General Fund atStart of Year 1950—Disbursements HigherThe city of Seymour began the year of 1950—the third year ofthe present city administration— with a balance of $56,933.67 in the general fund, Clerk-Treasurer Ralph J. Lucas reported today.The balance this year is about $36,000 more than the $20,907.32 which was in the general fund at the start of 1949. Mr. Lucas said the larger balance this year was due to an increase in the 1949 civil city level. The levy was hiked, he said, for that purpose and due to the larger working balance this year, the 1950 tax rate was lowered.LAWRENCE KOVERTGiving officers a statement written by himself in long hand in which he admitted being with Lawrence Kovert, 31 - year - old Crothersville taxi driver, on the night Kovert was slain, George E. Bowers, 21, of Crothersville. was being questioned further this afternoon at the Seymour state police post.In hts preliminary statement. Bowers, returned here about noon from Middletown, O., where he was arrested Wednesday night by officers from the Seymour pos, did not admit actually killing Kovert, stating that he could not remember clearly what happened between the time he rode with Kovert in his cab to the vicinity of the Grahams Creek bridge east of Crothersville, until after he was in Scottsburg later Tuesday night. He said he later hitch-hiked to Middletown, ()., where he was arrested while asleep at the home of a woman he said^ts his wife.Farm Bureau HasDistrict Meet inLoral Prt and llohhvClub Winn First Plan*III Scrapbook ContestBowers was taken into custodyby Detective Sgt. Robert L. Ben* Turn to page 7, column 1Jackson township’s Pet and Hobby Club, under the direction of Mrs Albert Nicrman, of this city, won tirM place in the district scrapbook contest for the second consecutive year, it was announced at an all day meeting of the Tenth District of the Indiana Farm Bureau Wednesday at the Scott Theater, Scottsburg, for county chairmen, township chairmen, and other farm bureau of-ticers of the 12 counties comprising the districtJudging was based on published material on the activities of the various clubs, with Jackson township’s organization awarded apoint rating of 9611\ as compared with the 84-point rating given Hioley countv. which was awardedTotal general fund receipts for the year 1949 were $187,693.39 and total disbursements were $130,759 72.Total receipts included the balance on hand from 1948, $133,-820 95 received from corporation taxes, $27,739.21 from state gasoline taxes, $1,133.34 from state excise taxes, $300 from city licenses, $1,-749 97 for permits to cut city pavements, $1,321.00 from mayor docket fees in city court, $177.10 for miscellaneous receipts and a $544.40 refund from the stateboard of health.Mr. Lucas said the reported receipts, and also the balance m the general fund, would have been Turn to page 6. column 7Program Of FarmInterest PlannedA special entertainment program which will include the showing of two color motion pictures has been arranged by the Friendly Sales and Service Corp., local Minneapolis-Moline farm implement dealer.The program is scheduled for Saturday, January 21, in the Friendly Sales and Service sales-Truman CommentsI/Byrnes/Vaughan and BombTwo Sentenced to DieFor WaitrenH* Slaving• ■.. . . . .Replies Spraylt;NEA TelephototAerial view looking south shows rampaging Ohio River on the left and Mississippi in the right background where the two rivers join near Cairo, 111. (arrow*. In the foreground, rising flood waters have swamped the lowlands, causing families to flee for their lives. Railroad, left, curves into Cairo.IIOfficers Named Tonight Seen asBy Presbyterians Oddest of YearNew Robbery FlueEvaporates TodayReports lleartl atAnnual Meeting ofCongregation lfertElection of officers featured theannual congregational meeting ofthe First Presbyterian ChurchWednesday night in the church social rooms.Annual reports of the various organizations of the church wdhreceived at the meeting, whichfollowed a pitch-in supper. Dr.John L. Prentice, church pastor,was moderator and W R Cooper is clerk of the session and congregation.Reelected elders of the churchwere Scott Doup, Harry H McDonald, J R. Thompson and W R Cooper. Charles O. Roeger was newly elected as an elder.Deacons reelected were E F. Scherer. Charles James. Phi!The weather began to act like winter here Wednesday with mercury readings plunging to the lowest mark in nearly two weeks. Forecasters said tonight’s low’ temperatures will probably be the coldest of the year.W ed n esd a v rea d i n gs r a n ged from 20 to 40 degrees, Mrs. Ruth Everhart, official weather observer here, reported. A low temperature near 10 degrees is expectedtonight.A light mist which fell lateWednesday afternoon after the mercury dropped froze on automobile windshields. Later it was reported to have frozen on bridge floors south of Austin. State police from the Seymour post received reports of three accidents on the overhead bridge on U. S.Road 31 between Austin andScottsburg within a few hours Wednesday night and some of them involved more than two vehicles. Slippery pavement was“(lonfeHMMr* MnnbcrOf Gang Revealed toBe Fix-Mental PatientBoston. Jan 19—i/P)—Another clue in Tuesdays $ 1,500,000 express company robbery evaporated today.New Jersey polic? discounted the story of informant Thomas J. Hannifan, 28.The man, who originally gave his name as Jackie Horngan, said he drove the holdup car and asked for arrest by the* Boston police. He was revealed by Newark questioners to be a former statehospital patient and mental hospital orderlyHannifan had been drinking and apparently hadn’t been m Boston in months, a Newark polic* spokesman said. He had been questioned on his statement that funds seizedFranklin, Tenn., Jan. 19—4/P\— An elderly rooming house operator and her son were sentenced to death today for the cut-throat slaying of Mrs. Mary Margaret Opinsky Dean, 25 year-old itinerant Indianapolis waitress here last December 12.A Williamson county jury imposed the penalty upon Mrs. Betty Burge, 57, and her son, Sherman. 35, after an hour deliberation. j They were immediately re- | moved to the state penitentiary at Nashville. A date for their elec- » trocution was deferred pending action on an appeal which was tiled after the sentencing.The Burges were arrested following the finding of Mrs. Dean’s body, the throat slashed from ear to ear, in a school yard. (Bobby Woodard, 22, who was charged with being an accessor i to the slaying, was acquitted. I During the trial, at which he turned state’s evidence, Woodard jtestified the Indianapolis woman was slain after she threatened to implicate the Burges in a two-year old killing for which anothqg| Franklin resident is serving a lifof sentence. jNews Field atQ.-A. SessionDenham Acted on OwnIn Appeal to CourtVaughan to Remain—Byrnes In Free AgentV atican Post IsThorny QuestionResignation of TaylorPuts Truman on SpotIn Naming Sueeeaaor1Washington, Jan. 19—4/P\—The sudden resignation of Myron Taylor as special I’. S. ambassador to the Vatican posed this thorny question today for President Tru-j man: Should he name a successorAssociated Press dispatches reported that President Truman, In a Washington news conference this morning:U i Said that Robert Denham acted on his own in seeking a court order to stop the short work week and on - again - off - again strikes in coal mining.lt;2 Left wide open the possibility that he will order production of a hydrogen superbomb.(3) Declared he will keep Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan on the job as his Army aide despite a senator’s demand that he be flred or taken out of uniform.Said a decision on whether to name a new ambassador to the Vatican is under study.lt;5 Said James F. Byrnes If a free agent to do as he damn pleases’’ about running for office.Asked at the news conference whether the NLRB counsel acted with his blessing. Mr. Truman said that Denham worked for the National Labor Relations Board and that it was not his business to bless or unbless him.Mr. Truman added that Denham had consulted the White House before proceeding. Denham said Wednesday that he had kept the White House informed.The President told the reporters that he still feels there is as
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