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1 Tb Statesman, Sclem. Oregon. Sunday; January 7.1SS1 - Dragnet Spreads for Murderer-Kidnaper ' Z BLYTHE, Califs Jan. t-iJP)A desperado feared to have killed tight persons, including an Illinois family of five, was sought tonight throughout southern California's sparsely-settled Imperial valley. He Was believed armed with four guns. One murder wai charged to him definitely by the FBI, and a sheriffs deputy he kidnaped today said he boasted of seven ethers. In all parts of the west, officers were alerted to hunt for William Edward Cook, short, curly-haired Missouri ex-convict The FBI identified him as 24 years old, five feet, four and one-half inches tall. Sheriff Robert Ware gave this list of Cook's suspected victims: Robert H. Dewey, '32, of Seattle, Wash., whose body was found at Ogilby, Calif., in the deputy's car shortly after the kidnaping. Carl Mosser, 33, his wife, Thel ma, 29, and their three children, Donald Dean, seven, Gary Carl, five, and Pamela Sue, three. Their blood-spattered car was found last Wednesday near Tulsa, Okla. The Oklahoma highway patrol report ed that Cook was definitely with the family at Winthrop, Ark., on Monday. Buried in Snow Two unidentified men, buried in a snowdrift in Oklahoma. Homer Waldrip, 27, Riverside county deputy sheriff, reported Cook.forced him at the point of a .38 automatic to drive into the des ert, 40 miles south of here. There, Waldrip said, he was trussed up by Cook, his own .38 automatic taken, and left on the highway. Farther south on the same road, officers later found the sheriffs car. Inside was Dewey's body, shot in the head. Dewey's blue Buitfk was missing. Parents of the Seat tle oil company employe, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Dewey of Spring Val ley, in San Diego county, said their son had a .22 caliber rifle and a .270 deer rifle in the car. Dewey had been visiting them over the holidays. Few Reads in Area The search concentrated m Im perial county, a vast area but with lew roads. Officers determined that Cook had not crossed into Arizona through the Yuma high way checking station, or into Mex ico at Calexico. Waldrip told officers in El Cen tro that when Cook left him, he said: "I've murdered seven other people and I would just as soon murder you." Waldrip said Cook did not iden fc tify the two men he said he buried in the snow, or the location in Oklahoma. Cook had been hunted throughout the day through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Waldrip escaped his bonds him- Court Delays Decision on Dock Picketing PORTLAND, Jan. 6 -(?)-An NLRB request for a court order to prohibit International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union picketing at Reedsport today was continued by Federal Judge Gus Solomon until Monday. An injunction already has been obtained by the NLRB in a San Francisco court, prohibiting both the Independent ILWAU and the AFL Sailors union of the Pacific from interfering with lumber ship ping at southern Oregon ports, in cluding Reedsport But the San Francisco injunc tion is expected to be ignored" by local longshoremen who contend their right to local autonomy does not make the order binding on them. The Reedsport dispute centers around the loadingof the SS C Trader. Longshoremen contend that SUP crewmen can load cargo for only one hatch. The SUP holds it should, under its contract, do the work ordered by the operator. SUP crewmen have refused to bring other ships into southern Oregon ports on the grounds that the ILWAU picketing makes It "dangerous." Matt Meehan, International rep resentative for the ILWAU, testi fied today that the affair Is a co i operative effort of the SUP and operators to take the work away from the longshoremen. James V. Constantine, NLRB I attorney, said the Injunction was sought to maintain the status quo ; pending a decision of which union j has jurisdiction. (mm s?iff fii &2 . CETTINC ITS BEARINGS An elrht-day-old gebra colt born In the Cincinnati. Ohio, Zoological Garden, stays close U its mother during Its first airing in the zoo reldL Tcdlulali DUlt t Bankliead Threatens Testimony in Case Spokane Car Thieves Taken At Mt. Angel self and was picked up by other officers as he walked along the , The suspicions of a Mt. Angel highway in the direction his car ; service station operator put two had been driven. Montana youths behind bars Sat- Possibility that Cook had es- , urday night charged with theft of caped road blocks set up on all j an automobile from Spokane, highways in Imperial county arose j The pair identified by state po late tonight, however, when a blue j lice as Albert Sesser Gonzales. 21. sedan without license plates was reported seen between Indio 95 miles west of here and Redlands, 60 mles east of Los Angeles. Can't Believe If SEATTLE, Jan. 6-P)-"I can't believe this is true." That was the exclamation of Mrs. Robert H. Dewey tonight when told her husband had been killed near Yuma, Ariz. "Bob must have put up some opposition or something. He had rifles with him in the car," the slender blonde wife said. The wife. Louise, 29, returned here recently from visiting her parents in Illinois. She said Dew ey left here last Wednesday and expected to return next week. The Deweys Lived here two and a half years, coming from Chi cago. They were married seven years ago. Wounded in War Dewey, a captain in the army reserve, served two years over seas during World War II. He was wounded in France. "1 think Bob was driving through the desert down there to revisit some of the places where he trained with the seventh arm ored division," Mrs. Dewey said. "He probably stopped to help this man Cook he'd always do that if he thought someone was in trouble on the highway. "And death is what he got for it." Black Eagle, Mont., and Robert Dale Moses, 19, Great Falls, Mont., were being held in the Marion county jail pending further in vestigation by state police and FBI. ? State Police Sergeant Avon Mayfield said the pair had admit ted stealing the 1950 Ford -they were driving from a Spokane street Wednesday morning. They also admitted burglarizing a ser vice station between Ellensburg and Seattle and taking a radio, cigarets and candy. It was an attempt to sell the radio at Mt. Angel that aroused suspicions and led to the arrest of the two youths. A license plate check with the Washington state patrol revealed that the licenses had been switched, on the car. The pair was arrested while they ate at a Mt. Angel cafe. Police did not disclose the name of the inform ant Bremerton fParades' to Garbage Dump 4 Boys Held For Attempt To Blast Train PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 6 -(JP)-William Murphy, agent in charge of the federal bureau of investiga tion in Phoenix, said today four teen-age boys had been arrested for placing dynamite under the rails of the Southern Pacific rail road line here. A broken stick of dynamite, with a partly burned fuse and a de tonator attached, was found by two railroad switchmen late last night. At the time sabotage was suspected. Murphy said leader of the gang is a 15-year-old boy and that each of the' other three is only 16 years of age. The FBI agent said the dyna mite had been placed under the rail about six weeks ago. Murphy said he could ascribe no motive for the dynamiting at tempt other than ''malicious mis chief." Names of the youths will not be released because of their extreme youth, he said. Coyotes Dump Linfield Again CALDWELL, dabo, Jan. 6-JF) -The College of t Idaho Coyotes won their second straight North west conference basketball victory over Linfield college tonight 64 to 51. Lloyd Neville, star Coyote guard, tallied 23 points to top all scorers. The Coyotes won last night 54 to 49. College of Idaho forged into an early lead and held an eight to 12 point margin throughout. Sixty-four fouls were called? 33 on the visitors. C OF I (64) Larsen (9) F Weist (6) F Baker (7) C Hawk (9) G Neville (23) G Halftime score C field 18. Substitutions: C. of I. Madsen 7, Kennevick 1, Draayer 1, Scott, Lane 1. Linfield Leonard 7, Lapp 9, Huggins 6, Atkinson 3, Schwi ewe, Asleben 1. (51) LINFIELD (4) Johnson Gassoway (10) McKee (4) Anderson (7) Rutschman of I. 26. Lin- 4 ml .h By Tens Williams NEW YORK, Jan. 6-OPV-Tallulah Bankhead, jiist about as furi ous as a woman can get, turned her wrath on a district attorney and anotner lawyer today. ? . I She said she got a prompt arxjldey from Frank S. Hocan. the district attorney. As for Lawyer Frederick G. Moritt, ahe said: "I'm suing turn." The actress was raging over al- ! legations made in court yesterday at the arrignment of her former secretary, Mrs. Evyleen Ramsey Cronin. Mrs. Cronin was indicted on 32 counts of grand larceny and forg ery for allegedly! raising Miss Bankhead's checks. She has plead ed innocent Miss Bankhead vehemently de nied statements by Moritt, who ap peared as Mrs. Cronin's lawyer. She called him "a Yankee fili bustering Bilbo and Rankin," and announced: "Hell rue the day he said it" Cites Expenses Moritt had said at the arraign ment that the actress's expense ac count included "marihuana cigar ets, cocaine, champagne, booze and sex." "As far as drink is concerned." Miss Bankhead said, "everyone knows my liquor bill is quite high enough. "God knows, I never have had to buy sex. And as for dope, even if I had been getting it which 1 most certainly wasn't do you think I'd have been paying for it by check?" Miss Bankhead said she had been "terribly hurt" at statements attributed to District Attorney Frank S. Hogan that she was a "sucker" because she. had failed to prosecute Mrs. Cronin. Issues Apolory She said that today an official in Hogan's office issued a state ment saying the district attorney had not meant to "single out Miss Bankhead for abuse." She quoted the official as say ing Hogan had been referring gen erally to architects and building contractors who had failed to tell the district attorney they were be ing swindled. What Hogan did say was that "people are being constantly vic timized in this town. The town is full of suckers. The town is full of chiselers, and persons who are victimized havent courage enough to come to the district attorney's office. Thats the trouble in get Record Prices Paid for Pine rr-MiH .- i " . -: v.. - t - , ; 1 - v- $ ''::, '" t ? . x-v'Vy-:'.!;?': ' y-- rr ' BEND, Jan. 6-0P-A record high price ol $51 a thousand was paid here yesterday- by Dant G. Russel, Redmond, .far 4,500,000 board feet of pine timber on Deschutes na tional forest The previous high was $46 a thousand paid for a pine stand in Arizona, industry spokesmen said. Three firms took part in the bidding which started at the ap praised value of 131.70. The previous highest price paid for Deschdtes area " timber was $40106 a thousand. 27-INCH EARS Mary Deanne Carter shows the 27 -Inch ears ef Sir Edward, champion English Lop of Ed. Seheeberl to be shown at Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona. ting at the petty graft racket." Miss Bankhead said today she had instructed her lawyer eight months ago to take up the Mrs. Cronin affair with the authorities. "Since thne," she said, "I'e been down to the district attorney's of fice four times, pushing the case. And I've been pushing my lawyer, calling him almost every day." After the arraignment yester day, Mrs. Cronin was released on $1,000 bail. No date was set for her triaL announced Saturday. The men are Dr. Bernard D. Brown and Dr. Kenneth L. Prince. A total of46 candidates took the examinations in November. Tavpmfire: Blaj Cigaret Butts .Smouldering cigar, butts were i blamed for an early morning blaze ! at Thompson's tavern, 718 N. Com- : mercial st,-today. Firemen were called to the tav- : era at 12:18 ajn. today after a pas serby noticed flames behind thai counter in the tiny inn. Shelves at-; the rear of the tavern were scorch- : ed but damage was believed to be : Bght,;-liremen said. 1 Alex Thompson, proprietor of' the tavern, said he had closed tip about a half-hour before the alarm ; sounded. He reported he had swept ; up and put the refuse in a card board box under the 'shelf. Ap-: parently ' a burning cigaret was among the refuse. HOLLY Says i r 2 Salem Men Pass Optometry Exams Two Salem men were among the 26 candidates who passed the state optometry examinations in Port land. Dr. E. E. Boring, Salem, sec retary of the board of examiners. Boy am I happy what males me happy is the fact that we had practically no "exchange" business after Christmas. This indicates people are perfectly happy with the gifts they receive from "Holly Jackson (that's me) Jewelry Store." It makes me very proud to know my years of sincere effort to conduct an honest, straight for ward, business is being appreciated more and more each year. In this new year of 1951 you can again feel assured that you can buy from me with the certainty that the item will be the best to be had at the price and that I will sell nothing to jeopardise the well established name of . . . I I X I i I x "Holly" JACKSON Jewelers alem. Ore. 1 cMamasastsKsl 225 N. liberty St Salem Man Faces Charge KLAMATH FALLS. Jan. A charge of carrying a concealed weapon was placed against Ralph j Henry Campbell, jr., 22, 605 Breys ! ave., Salem, after his arrest in nearby Chemult. Campbell approached a state police officer and said he wanted to give himself up. He handed over the gun. Police at Salem said they had no charges against Campbell. Albany Man Hurt in Wreck David R. White, 29, Albany in- i suranceman who was seriously injured in an auto accident Fri day, remained in 'poor condition at Salem Memorial hospital Sat urday night. White, who suffered multiple fractures and cuts, was only oc cupant of a car which crashed into a underpass abutment north of Albany on the old Pacific highway Friday morning. Tremors Felt In Panama PANAMA, Jan. 6-fVA series of quakes hit sections of Panama and Venezuela last night and early today. Minor property damage, bat no . casualties, were reported. Four shocks building up to the strongest here In seven years shook loose plaster in the canal zone. Damage in the interior was great er. ' Dispatches said the quakes sent populations fleeing in panic into the night in Penonome, Los ' Santos, and Santa F, southwest of Jthia city. ; Dispatches reported a light quake last night in the Andean mountain town of Humocaro Alto, in western Venezuela. BREMERTON. Jan. 6 -(P)- Aj steady procession of private auto mobiles wheeled out to Bremer ton's rural dump ground today, laden with bulging cans and car tons of garbage accumulated dur ing a week-long strike of the city's collection crew. Householders who let refuse pile up all week in hopes of a strike settlement started disposal opera tions on their own after the city council fired the 20-man garbage crews. The council ordered the dump kept open Sunday, and. invited citizens to disregard the ordinance banning uncovered vehicles from crossing the city watershed en route. " The council hired four new em ployes and set them to operating a refuse burner within the city limits, where business establish ments hauled boxes and cartons. A spokesman for the discharged employes, all under civil service and members of the Teamsters union, announced they would ap peal their dismissals to the civil service commission. The men walked off the job in a wage dis- I pute. Absent-Minded Driver Leaves Wife Behind CUSSETA, Ga., Jan. MP-Ser-vice station man J. W. Wright said he never saw a fellow leave in such a hurry. It happened yesterday, Wright said, when a motorist stopped for gas. Tit? fellow thought his wife was asleep in the back seat. But she wasn't asleep, or even in the seat He thought back to his last stop, at Perry, Fla., 200 miles south. A telephone call confirmed his fears. He headed back fast. JEEPS POPULAR JAKARTA, Indonesla-tfV Ameracan Jeeps and motor trucks are popular with the Indonesians. An official communique recently disclosed that 9,919 vehicles had been imported by 12 local com panies. Of the total, more than 2, 000 were jeeps and 3,000 trucks. Enroll in a Night School and Increase Your Earning Ability 1 Brush up on certain suhjecrs or complete a diploma course at night school. Youll be more valuable in your present job or will be able to obtain better one Night school classes art held Mon day! and Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. IMMSSMMBflHd 7o Are Approved for Veterans Training Enroll any Monday for day or night classes and ! start in anytime in our business training courses. Meiritt Davis School of Commerce! 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