2 The Newi-Review, Roiebur9, Or. Wed July 13, 1955
Hang
Blonde Divorcee
;ed In Britain
For Killing Lover
' By JIM KING
LONDON I Huth Ellis, beauti
ful blonde mother of two children,
was hanged today for the Easter
Sunday murder of the lover who
jilted her.
The 28-year-old divorcee, a for
mer model and night club hostess,
was the 14th woman to be hanged
in Britain this century and the
third since World War II. Her sea
tencimr revived a nationwide con
troversy over capital punishment
which conunuea unaoaiea uxiay.
A crowd of 1,000 persons some
weeping, others laughing stood in
the grimy north London street cut
side the ivy-covered, red-brick
Holloway Prison as hangman Al
bert Pierrepoint pulled the death
trap.
Its slam resounded through the
building, touching off hysterical
cries from the other inmates.
Reports from inside the prison
said the icy calm Mrs. Ellis had
maintained during her trial in
June and ever since finally broke
last night. Prison sources said she
sobbed herself to sleep, scream
ing, "I don't want to die." .
Samurai Sword
Murderer Must
Hang For Crime
TACOMA Wl Convicted late
Tuesday night of first degree
murder for the samurai sword
slaying of an aged motel operator
last March 21, Harvey John Col
lins has been ordered hanged for
the crime.
A Superior Court jury returned
the verdict and ordered the death
penalty shortly before 10 p.m., 29
Hours alter receiving tne case and
five hours after asking for addi
tional instructions.
Collins, a 29-year-old decorated
Marine veteran of World War II,
hacked Andrew Stolen, 74, to death
, and critically Injured Mrs. Stolen
' while robbing the elderly operators
of the motel near Tacoma.
Ho had pleaded innocent by
reason of insanity and contended
his actions were the result of
battle neurosis after action on
Iwo Jim a.
The verdict was received un
smilingly after Collins' jaunty en
try into the courtroom, marked by
cheerful greetings to relatives and
acquaintances seated there.
Collins' jaw muscles worked and
his gaze shifted across the court
room, to the judge and then to the
jury of eight women and four
men. He strode from (he room
after the verdict and had to be
slowed down by several police
men. Several persons sobbed quiet
ly as Collins left without a glance
at those he had greeted when he
arrived to hear the verdict.
Geddes Demands Public
Hearing On Nighrcrawler
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jor population, Industrial and eco
nomic areas of the state and that
the freight revenues derived by
the company from this area con
stitutes one of its major sources
of income."
He went on to say that "it would
appear under the law, the South
ern Pacific Co. should be obligated
to furnish reasonable passenger
service to the area as part of its
public service and that it should
be required to bring lis service up
to reasonable sianaaras oi puuuu
convenience."
He said it was Drobable that a
"considerable portion of the loss of
operating revenue is due to fail
ure of the company to proviae
reasonable service and proper
schedules rather than lack of in
terest on the part of residents of
the area to patronize the railway
passenger accommodations."
In a letter to lleltzcl Lowry sug
gested that the commissioner call
it on his own motion. But he said
that if lleltzcl does not wish to,
his letter could be regarded as a
complaint under Oregon law.
Heltzel said Monday that if a
formal complaint were filed, the
Public Utilities Commission would
try to determine whether it has a
right to order the railroad to con
tinue the service.
Lowry asked Sens. Gene Brown,
Grants Pass, and Paul Geddes,
Roscburg, to join him in the move
for a hearing.
Heavy Business
Slate Faces Board
A host of business will confront
District 4 school hoard members
when they meet Thursday at 7:45
p.m. at central junior High School.
They'll open construction bids
lor fiucrcst Elementary school
and the Joseph Lane Junior High
School addition, following the first
ucm or business which is the offi
cial swearing in of new board
member Dudley Walton.
The construction bids will be
opened In the conference room on
the second floor of the junior high
school at 8 p.m.
Other items of business Include
presentation of the annual finan
cial report prepared by School
Clerk V. J. Micelll and review
of bids submitted for supplies
needed by the district, according
to Acting Asst. Supt. Clifford Nor-ris.
Riddle School District1
To Cer Federal Funds
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger has
advised the Riddle School District
it has been awarded a. tentative
entitlement of $15,515.03 by the of
fice of education of the Dept. of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The district was certified for an
Immediate payment of $11,73;,
Ncuberger said. A treasury check
for that amount nas been sent to
the district.
The funds are distributed to
school districts under the program
to provide financial assistance for
schools In federally affected areas.
For Riddle, the crowding of
schools was Increased by the nic
kcl development there.
Yoncalla To Stop
Livestock From '
Running At Large
It's going to he tough on live
stock owners in Yoncalla from
now on.
The City Council this week pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting cattle,
horses, mules, sheep, goats, swine
and other livestock from running
at large in the city limits, renorts
correspondent Mrs. Oeorge Ldes
The penalty for violation if con
victed will be not less than $10
and not more than $25 for the first
offense and not less than $25 and
more than $75 for subsequent offenses.
At the same meeting, the coun
cil discovered a fire deoartmcnf
fund it had forgotten about. At
the meeting were Harry Abbott
and Delbert Dickey, custodians of
the fund that had been forgotten
for some time. It is deposited in
the Drain branch of V. S. National.
The council voted to use the mon
ey to buy new hose.
The council also voted to secure
insurance on the police car and
fire trucks. Members also discuss
ed cleaning out the alley behind
the Bowman Garage, the Ed Kel
so home, the Methodist Church par
sonage and the John Wykowski
homes so the fire truck can get
through.
Drinking Trucker Kills Two, Wounds Two Other Persons
FLINT, Mich. Ifl A 30-year- couples were only enjoying them-
old truck driver wound up a tour
of ban by shooting and killing two
women and a man iuesday night
,n irritation over tneir laughing
and giggling."
Police said the truck driver,
"out for a good time'' after a de
livery trip, (Deliberately emptied a
pistol into a tavern Doom occu
Died bv two couples.
The tavern proprietress said the
Bible Quiz Winner
Decides On Moderation
NEW YORK W Mrs. Catherine
Kreitzer look a cue from the Bible
and last night declined to risk her
$32,000 TV quiz show winnings on
the chance of doubling her money.
Her knowledge of the Bible had
given the 54-year-old grandmother
from Camp Hill, Pa., answers to
questions that enabled her to ac
quire the $32,000 in three previous
appearances on the CBS show The
$64,000 Question.
She said that sue would heed
the biblical quotation "Let your
moderation be known to all men"
and would be satisfied with the
$32,000.
Trans-World Airlines
Training Plane Crashes
KANSAS CITY lfl A Trans-
World Airlines training plane and
a light single-engine plane collided
Tuesday killing two men aboard
the smaller craft. The airlines'
plane, which also had two men
aboard, landed safely.
Killed were Thomas D. Jones.
28, a flying service instructor, and
Samuel Hoyte Rempel Jr., 26, a
TWA student co-pilot.
Occupants of the other craft,
DC3, were H. D. Orr, Mission,
Kan., the pilot, and R. L. Horton,
Kansas City, the first officer. Nei
thcr was Injured. They said thev
did not see the other plane until
alter tne collision.
Unemployed Man
Admits Slaying
Mother, Child
JAMESTOWN. N.Y. (M An un
emoloved taxi driver has admitted
the rape slayings of his sister-in-
law and her 19-monin-oid aaugn
ter. oolice sav.
Joseoh Rcade. 26, who described
himself as a "damn maniac," wa
charged with two counts of first
degree murder. At his arraign
ment Wednesday he waived ex
amination and was ordered held
for grand wry action.
The stocky, sandv-haired Reade
signed a statement, police said
last night, admitting he strangled
and bent lo death Mrs. Beverly
Rcade, 26, and her daughter Cheryl
Lynn early yesterday. .'
"Inwardly I feel that I want to
be the best Christian in the world
and outwardly . I'm a damn
maniac," he told police. "I can't
control the outward part and I
don't know why.
Francis Reade. '24, the husband
and father, found the nude bodies
on a blood stained mattress in a
bedroom of his four-room apart
ment as he returned home from
work on the night shift at the
Jamestown Metal Specialties, Inc.
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Committee Turns
Down Highway
Financing Plan
WASHINGTON Wl The House
Public Works Committee Wednes
day turned down, 19-14, President
Eisenhower's plan to finance a
vast road building program with
bonds. ,
The President had proposed set
ting up a new government corpor
ation lo sell 30-ycar bonds.
The committee didn't reach
a vote on a substitute Democratic
plan to pay for the new roads
through immediate increases In
federal taxes on gasoline, trucks,
heavy tires and tubes and dicscl
fuel.
Some members said chances for
approving the tax increase plan
wore improved by the vote against
the bond financing proposal.
The vote against the bond plan
was almost solidly along party
line. Only one Republican, Rep.
Alger of Texas, voted to oppose
it. One Democratic member, was
absent hut the other 18 voted solid
ly against it.
The committee also approved the
first section of a 47 billion dollar
federal stale road building pro
gram over the next 13 years.
Delayed Swim Program
To Start Again Monday
The Red Cross swim program
which started June 20 and was
canceled because of poor weather
will he launched again Monday,
according to Douglas County Chap
ter Water Safety Chairman Leon
Mulkcv.
It will be held through July 22,
Mulkey continued, in an attempt
to pass the beginning and inter
mediate swimmers who started
originally. An additional beginner's
class will be held July 18 through
25. Another beginners' class will
start Aug. 1.
Mulkey said a final class for
make up work would be scheduled
not later than Aug. 15. Red Cross
volunleer workers will he calling
parents of youngsjers scheduled lo
start Monday, the chairman added.
There was one dark cloud in his
report. Because of pool capacity.
limited number of Instructors and
poor weather. Mulkev said, regret-
fullv, mat the Kcd Cross would he
unable lo accept any more regis
trations from swimmers this year.
Myrtle Creek
Seeks Settlement
Of Right Of Way
The Myrtle Creek City Council's
street committee Tuesday night
was authorized to make an immed
iate settlement with L. R. Wine
trout to secure a right-of-way on
Riverside Drive.
The council was Informed the
matter must be settled next week
because the county is scheduled
to start construction on River
side Drive next week. .
The property was formerly own
ed by P. R. Weaver and a settle
ment could not be reached between
him and the city. Weaver then sold
the corner property to Winetrout
and two other men, who intend
to construct a new garage, re
port correspondent Ruth M. Ev
ans. Meanwhile, Douglas County has
offered to raise and pave the road
in the city limits and construct a
steel bridge across Myrtle Creek
if the city will secure a right-of-way
to allow log trucks to turn
off Highway 99.
Members of the street commit
tee are: "Bud" Groom, chairman,
Ken Winston and Homer Abbott.
The next meeting of the council
u scheduled Aug. z.
selves and had not been offensive
The victims included a man and
his wife and a second woman. The
second man was badly wounded
but was expected to recover. All
four, strangers to their assailant,
were shot in the head.
Kenneth Kunzer, 30, of Detroit, i College student,
Was BCItCU ,IJ IM HULK BI1UI t
time later near Pontiac, 25 miles
from the scene. Police said he
readily admitted the shootings and
could give no explanation except
the irritation other patrons caused
him. They said he had been drink
ing but was not drunk.
Said Farah, 26, of Flint, and
his wife Jeanmne died minutes
later. Farah belonged to a promi
nent Flint family that operates a
grocery chain.
Mrs. Margaret S. Cross, 37, a
divorcee, died two hours later in
a Flint hospital.
James Dollars, 26, who was with
Mrs. Cross, was reported in a criti
cal condition. He is a Flint Junior
Children's Home Inmate
Admits Attacking Child
FREMONT, Neb. W Police said
a 13-year-old inmate of a- children's
home admitted carrying 4-year-old
Susan Cline into a wooded park,
wrestling with her, ripping her
clothes and choking her. She suf
fered a broken leg in the scuffle.
She was-in satisfactory condition
at a hospital today.
Held for action under Juvenile
laws was Harry Avery.
Bean Scales Testing,
Licensing Scheduled
Bean scales will be tested and
licensed July 20 in Roseburg.
The Oregon State Dept. of Agri
culture has requested all bean
growers in the area to bring their
field scales to the Paulus Bros.
Packing Co. receiving station. The
station is located at the Pierce
Auto Freight warehouse.
W. W. Maltby, district fieldman
for the state department, will con
duct the testing and license bean
scales. State law requires that all
scales over which pickers' jiay is
determined must be tested and li
censed, Maltby said.
CREWMAN MISSING
PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad to-
One body was recovered among
21 crewmen missing from the
freighter Geologist following a col
lision Wednesday with the freight
er Sun Princess, a - carrier of
bauxite ore for aluminum.
The dead seaman was identified
s from Barbados. The rest of the
missing included 15 West Indians
and five Europeans from a crew
of 42.
LAST RITES HELD
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (PI The
sorrowing parents of Donna Sue
Davis attended last rites for their
2 - year - old daughter, Wednesday.
FBI and Sioux City officers, mean
while, continued intensive sifting of
clues in their search for the wan
ton kidnap - killer of the curly
haired child.
Mill And Pine
Streets Will Be
Made One-Way
In a move to relieve traffic con
gestion on South Stephens Street
City Manager George Farrell said
Tuesday afternoon that Mill and
Pine streets between Mosher and
South- streets will be made one
way as soon as possible.
Preparations are being made
now to place one-way signs along
both streets, and Farrell said it's
likely the changes will be made
early next week.
Mill Street will be reserved for
northbound traffic and' Pine for
southbound.
The city manager said it's ex
pected that the move will make
access and egress to 'and from
j West Roseburg easier in that traf
fic win have a direct snot from
South . Street to Oak on Mill and
vice versa on Pine.
At the same time, he announced
that two-hour parking will be en
forced on South Stephens Street
from the vicinity of Woodward
Street south in all unmetered
zones.
Mill and Pine streets will be
come throughways, with stop signs
posted on all lateral streets.
The one-way street signs former
ly in use downtown in the grid
system will be utilized on both
streets, Farrell said.
Plywood Union
Schedules Vote
On M&M Offer
PORTLAND I AFL Plywood
Workers at M and M Wood Work
ing Co.'s five plants in Oregon and
California are to vote Thursday on
a company plan aimed at getting
the strike-bound plants back in
operation.
The comoanv announced that
it had offered to extend the present
contract for 30 days while negoti
ations on a new agreement arc
resumed.
M and M offfcials announced
earlier they wanted to make three
changes in the present contract
elimination of the compulsory
arbitration clause, inclusion of all
side agreements in the contract,
and clarification of the, vacation
clause.
The union, contending this would
eliminate previously won gains,
refused to sign and workers walked
off the job when the contract
expired at midnight June 30 at
plants in Portland, Albany, Lyons
and Idanha in Oregon and at
Eureka, Calif. The union wants the
present contract renewed without
change. ,
Wages were not at issue in the
dispute.
Business Agent Smith
Denies Dealer Claims
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NON-SUPPORT CHARGED
Sylvester L. Richardson. 30. Idle-
yld Rt. Box 119-B-20, Tuesday was
arrested by Roseburg police on a
warrant from San Rafael. Calif.,
where he is wanted on a charge of
non-support. He is accused of fail
ure to provide for his five children
since October HI53. Bail has been
set at $1,500. He is being held in
the county jail for California po-July 12 or 19 "should come in
lice. i men
164 Children Receive
Salk Polio Inoculations
A total of 164 youngsters receiv
ed Salk polio vaccine inoculations
Tuesday at the Douglas County
Health Office in Hosbeurg.
For 159 of the children it was
the second shot, For five it was
the initial inoculation, according
to county health officer Dr. E. J.
Wainscott.
The health officer reminded par
ents today that Tuesday, July 19,
is the final session for administer
ing second shots. He stressed that
boys and girls who didn t come
OLCC Turns Down Two
Taverns' Applications
Two taverns which recently ap
plied with the Oregon Liquor Con
trol Commission for liquor-by-the-
drink licenses in Roseburg have
been turned down, according to
Police Chief Stan Olson.
They are the Windmill Tavern,
1645 Harvard Ave., and the Idle
Hour Tavern, 568 N. Jackson St.
Both rejection had been recom
mended to the OLCC bv the Rose
burg City Council under its policy
of maintaining a maximum of
nine liquor-by-the-drink establish
ments in the city.
meeting far enough ahead so I
can arrange for free time to be
there, I will be there." He con
tinued that he had other territories
to serve and consequently had to
apportion his time.
The latest move by retail deal
ers came Tuesday when Al Hen
ninger, chairman of the local em
ployers committee announced the
employers will submit a "final
wage proposal" to the union
"sometime this week."
No details of the new offer were
reported, but Carlson said the pro
posal would provide the highest
weekly wage scale paid in the
state for meat cutters. He said
the annual wage for journeyman
would exceed $5,000. The previous
offer bv employers was $96 for a
request are for a 40-hour week
48-hour week. The union's major
and fringe benefits.
Smith said the present Roseburg
scale is just under $1.90 per hour,
while the Portland scale is almost
$2.19..
Carlson also said he was confi
dent membership of the local un
ion would approve the new pro
posal "if they are given the oppor
tunity to vote." Smith said they
would be given the opportunity,
"but I can't just come over at
the drop of a hot potato."
In a parting statement, Smith
said: "It has never been our intent
to strike the independent merchant."
Fredrickson Completes
30 Years At News-Review
(Continued from Page One)
Wolf Creek Logger
Hit By Rolling Log
Herman (Dutch) Stewart, 43,
Wolf Creek, was reported "okay"
at Josephine General Hospital in
Grants Pass Wednesday, following
a logging accident near Azalea.
Stewart was reportedly struck
by a rolling log on a Robert Dol
lar Logging operation at Pow
ell Creek about 8 a.m., according
to News-Review correspondent
Mrs. G. B. Fox. Hospital person
nel said he suffered an injured pel-
as the major job of distributing
a 1926 New Year special edition
of 80 pages. But one of the tough
est tests was in the late Twenties
when a mass quarantine was call
ed among the city's youth because
of a spread of infantile paralysis.
This left the paper without news- .
boys, and the adults of the plant
had to deliver them.
Despite his long service with the
paper, one of his proudest accom
plishments is a 24-year stint as a
volunteer member of the Rose
burg Fire Dept. He says proud
ly: "Next year I get my 25-year
retirement pin."
Fredrickson lives at 133 Blake
Iv St. with his wife and 14-year-
old son.
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