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8 (Sec I Statesman, Salem, Crew WecL, SeptT23, 1S53 Gangland Trip to Die f or Murder of Cri By BILL BECKER LOS ANGELES in Barbara Graham and her two gangster friends, John A. Santo and Emmett Perkins, were convicted Tuesday of the murder of an elderly crippled woman, and foredoomed to die in the San Quentin gas chamber. A jury found the trio guilty of first degree murder in the brutal slaying last March 9 of Mrs. Mabel If onahan, 62, in her Burbank home. There was no recommendation for mercy, and under California law the death penalty is manda tory. The court set Friday for sen tencing but a defense counsel mo tion for a new trial could delay Mrs. Graham, 30, Santo, 48. and Perkins. 45, were indicted by a grand jury and arrested last May after a two-month search. The state contended the Santo gang was after $100,000 believed hidden in Mrs. Monahan's home by her former son-in-law. Las Vegas gambler Luther Scherer. Third Woman Mrs. Graham will become the third woman to go to San Quen tin's death chamber unless there is a stay of Judge Clement D. Nye's sentence. "As long as they've found me guilty, I'd rather have the death penalty than life imprisonment," Mrs. Graham whispered to her at torney after the verdict was read. Tears filled her eyes as the ver dict was returned after 5 Vi hours of deliberation. No emotion was shown by Santo and Perkins, who also have been linked by officers to the Chester, Calif., slaying of grocer Guard Young and three small children last October. Tinted Blonde Mrs. Graham, a tinted titian blonde, and the two men were ar rested four months agokin a hide out in suburban Lynwood. Four times married and the mother of three children, Mrs. Graham at 30 has a record extend ing back to a reform school com mitment when she was 13. She has been arrested previously on charges of prostitution, perjury, narcotics possession and passing bad checks. Both Santo, reputed leader of a state-wide gang, and Perkins, are ex-convicts with felony records stretching back to 1924. Mrs. Graham was sentenced to one year for perjury in 1949. Pistol-Whipped John L. True, member of the gang who became the staters key witness, testified Mrs. Graham pis tol whipped the widow brutally. "Mrs. Graham had her by the hair," True told the jury. "Mrs. Mohahan was bleeding. I saw Bar bara strike her several times. Then Mrs. Monahan fainted and col- Zahedi Exiles Prisoners TEHRAN, Iran Gf) Premier Fa-' rollah Zahedi Monday exiled 150 prisoners, charged as Communist foes of his new regime, to the sunbaked wastes of western Iran. The prisoners began their grim journey before dawn in heavily guarded army trucks. Under emergency regulations, "persons who cause unrest and disturb the public security" are subject to exile without triaL Police estimated that nearly 3,000 Communists already have been rounded up. Authorities said another 100 accused Reds will start for the fortress Tues day. - Meanwhile, the newspaper Poste said the jailed ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh has signed a series of accusations made against him by army prose cutors. Jt said one charge re lated to his disobeying Shah Mohammed Reza Palevi's de cree ousting him. DL00D DATTEQY nun Down? Recharge yourself with GERITOL ...and fee Stronger Fasti Toar blood is like a "battery" (or jwor body. Wbca it is deficient ia iron, it ia like a rnadowa battery. You (eel "hatf-alive" and always tired. Doctors say it auy be due- to iron deficiency anemia . . . "tired blood. To "reeharre" your blood battery try Geritol. the hih potency blood-ooUdinf formula. Just S tables pooBi ot Geritol rWc you twice the iroa in a pound o( calses' liver. T times the iron ia a sound of spiaacn. Aad you set the new. miracle VHamia B12. too ! Geritol is racomrmrtded by doctors. Feel strosccT. yoancer nl If lack of iroa hi ntii, anliifliL rschanra yourself with Geritol aad end that weak, tired iscliac la r tablet form. At ail Pcrcival Jones By Donkin Bros. ' "Pop, is Mom reatly serious about getting a divorce just be cause you didn't buy her that refrigerator from the PROPANE GAS APPLIANCE CO.?" -Gas Appliances Are The Best 3367 Portland Rd. - Ph. 3-5098 pled Woman lapsed. . . I told Mrs. Graham not to hit her any more. I put my hand between her face and the gun." True said Mrs. Graham pulled a pillowcase . over Mrs. Monahan's head, Perkins tied the widow's hands behind her, and Santo tied a piece of cloth around her neck before she was shoved into a closet Several weeks before the arrest of the trio, Baxter Shorter, another member of the gang, disappeared after talking to police. Polish Court Sentences 3 Priests, Nun WARSAW, Poland UP) A Polish military court Tuesday sentenced The Most Rev. Czeslaw Kaczmar ek, Bishop of Kielce, and three oth er Roman Catholic priests to prison terms ranging up to 12 years on charges of spying for the Vatican and the United States. Sister Waleria Niklewska. a nun similarly accused by Poland's Com munist government, received a five year sentence that was immediate ly suspended. She was released. All had pleaded guilty. Bishop Kaczmarek set the key note Monday with a statement, a part of his public confession, that he had been fighting communism since the Russian revolution of 1918. The bishop drew a 12-year term. The court sentenced The Rev. Jan Dailewicz, former treasurer of the Kielce curia, to 10 years; The Rev. Josef Dabrowski, form er chaplain to the bishop, to 9 years; and The Rev. Wladyslav Widlak, a former 'official of the Kielce seminary, to 6 years. (The trial, widely publicized by the Warsaw Radio, followed the pat tern of many others behind the Iron Curtain in which churchmen have been condemned. The Vati can denounced the case from the start.) The maximum penalty in Poland for spying is death. In their final statements, the de fendants threw themselves on the mercy of the court. Their counsel asked for leniency on the ground they had pleaded guilty. ASIAN GAMES MANILA (INS) Eleven Asian countries are slated to compete in the second Asian games billed May 1 to 9 in Manila. These in clude Japan, Nationalist China, Hong Kong, Israel, Korea, Cey lon, the Philippines and Pakistan. EXTRA SPECIAL BARGAINS More pages thai ever packed with Anniversary special VALUES, price re ductions and huge selections of items not listed in other -k Many P ices Greatly Bell Ringer Specials Combination Offers Many New Fall and i Try thH easy ONE-STOP catalog way to shop. No red tape no forms to fill out no crowds to fight no tired feet, everything you wont is here aB Under one roof, and at prices that save you money all guaranteed to please you in every way. Easy Payments can be arranged. Try mis easy catalog way to shop the very next time you need anything. CATALOG SALES DEPARTMENT .. Salem -Obituaries AJUSITXOKO James Armstrong. In this city Sept. 17. Lata resident of Newport. Graye sida peiTlcea will b held Wednes day. Sept. S3, at 10:30 am. at New port. Under direction of the, W. T. kit don Company. , - coram " Leslie Ellen Conner. Sept. 20. at residence. Salem Route 3. . Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Con ner. Surviving are the parents, grand -parents. Mr. and Mrs.. Wayne E. Hampton. Portland, and Mrs. Lydia Alexander. Portland; great grandpar ents. T. . Hyde. Grants Pass. Ore-, and Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Fletcher, Camas. Wash. Services at the Virgil T. Golden Chapel Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 1:13 pjn. with the Rev. Lloyd T. Anderson officiating. Interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. . DUNKS - V David Dennis Dunn, Jin this city Sept. 21. 1853. at the agi of 73 years. Late resident ef 1090 Norway St. Sur vived by sister. Mary Jane Dunne. Dublin. Ireland. Announcement of services later by the W. T. Rlgdon Co. . EMMERTON Mrs. Amy Amelia Emmerton. at the family residence. 933 Tamarack St.. Sept. 21. Survived by son. Russell B. Emmerton. Salem; grandchildren, Mrs. . Mar j oris E. Kingsley, Miss Norma J. Emmerton and Miss Linda A. Emmerton. all of Salem. Shipment has been made to Ontario. Calif., by the Ckmgh-Barrick Co. for services. GALLAGHER Earl W. ' Gallagher. ' at the resi dence 710 Highland Ave.. Sept. 22 at the age of S3 years. Survived by widow. Mrs. Alvilda Gallagher. Sa lem: sons. Ray W. Gallagher. Salem, Kenneth A. Gallagher. Oswego. Ore.: also six grandchildren. Services Thursday. Sept. 24. at 1:30 pjn. in the Clough-Barrick Chapel. ntwiN Guy E. Irwin, at a local hospital. Sept. 19. Late resident of 745 S. Com mercial St. Survived by wife. Dda E. Irwin. Salem; two sisters, Mrs. Zoa Van Winkle, Washington, D. C. and Mrs. O. A. Jaeger. Vancouver. B. C: one brother. Frank Irwin. Oakley, Kan., and several nieces and neph ews. Services will be held Wednes day. Sept. 23. at 2:30 p.m. in the Virgil T. Golden Chapel with the Rev. Omar Barth officiating. Interment at Belcrset Memorial Park. SVDHETER Mrs. Bertha Sudmeyer. at a local hospital. Sept. 21, late resident of 4233 River Crest Dr. Survived by two daughters. Mrs. William Joyner and Mrs Leo H. Johnson, both of Salem; three sons. Herbert Reimer. Detroit. Mich.. Alfred Reimer and Frank Reimer, both of Indianapolis. Ind.; sister, Mrs. Ida West. Indianapolis. Ind.; brother, Albert Ban. Indianap olis. Ind.: 14 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. She was a mem ber of St. John's Lutheran Church, Salem. Services will be held in the Virgil T. Golden Chapel Wednesday Sept. 23 at 10 JO m. with the Rev. H. W. Gross officiating. Interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. TO MUX Baby Roy Tomlin. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Tomlin in this city Sept. 21. Survived by parents: sister. Florine; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Roby. Ash ton. Md. Graveside services will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. with the Rev. George Swift officiating. Interment at Belcrest Memorial Park under the direction of the Howell Edwards Co. BLADES DUE PARIS (INS) The Hungarian daily newspaper, Esu Budapest recently noted that "in three months there will be razor blades on the market." The newspaper said local industries are trying to satisfy consumer demands. It de clared the Nagy government's new program permits manufac turing of articles lacking until now. catalogs. Reduced Save Extra! In Every Department. Save You Many Dollars. Winter Wanted Hems. 3-9191 or VTsH Osf Ceflei Seles I save saaaey College Youth Kills Pregnant Sweetheart UPPER' SANDUSKY, Ohio W A slender, 19-year-old college soph omore, who planned to be a min ister confessed Tuesday he stran gled and stabbed to death his preg nant sweetheart Roy Roger Schinagle Jr. el May field Heights, near Cleveland.-admitted the brutal slaying of pretty Cynthia Pfeil, 19, of White Plains, N. Y., Sheriff Dean McAllister said. Her mutilated body was found last Friday in a lonely woods near this Central Ohio town. Clad only in red slippers and a flannel night gown, the body 1 bore signs of a beating. The girl's face was pierced beyond recognition by more than 20 stab wounds. The dark-haired victim, who met Schinagle last year while both were freshmen at Ohio Wesleyan Univer sity at Delaware, was pregnant and had been criminally attacked, an autopsy revealed. Long Confess! oa Schinagle, who just turned 19. sobbed out a lengthy confession a few hours after he was arrested on the college I campus, some 40 miles south of Upper Sandusky. The girl's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pfeil of White Plains, said she left home. Aug. 24. They said they did not know whether she planned to visit a brother in Colum bus, Ohio, or re-enter Ohio Wes leyan. From New York City The parents heard from their daughter only once a letter post marked the next day from New York City. Schinagle, described by his high school teachers as a "nice boy," told Police Capt. Justin Cornelly of Marion the girl had come to his home to see him. Officers said Schinagle did not remember the exact date of her arrival in May field Heights. Schinagle said he then went to Delaware to enroll at college. A few days later. Miss Pfeil came to Delaware to be near him. On one occasion, she stayed overnight in a ""shack" on the school's ath letic field, the boy related. Sketchy Account Schinagle's account of the mur der and the incidents that pre ceded it was sketchy. He told Capt. Cornelly they ar gued last Thursday, after she told him another man had "annoyed" her. During the argument. . I 1 (J UWM mm f 4 .va-:--x---: : y..- ' ' .:: .::: i jLSJiaawiwiisiseSiiaisliKni iirn t r r -. f f n . nMsniima mmmtMmtai - ,r " I - ' "' , " N ' A V K , . - -' ' ' , ' 1 " - v i i ' , , '''.:, ' s t ' - - " f ' r - -.j.-....aii..j. f itinnmnmnnftuMiii n i imi mi n n i m km n it 1 1 1 1 1 nn i n n m n Tn i n i'i 1 1 YOU FAT LESS l!0W ! Our higher volume lets us operate at a lower profit per deal. You get the advantage of a far bigger allow ance for your present car. 9 YOU GET HACK F.'ORE LATER ! Popularity boosts future trade-in value. Even now, Mercury returns 4 more of the original price than any 1 other car in its class. 430 N. Commercial Miss Benson's ' Funeral Set For Friday Statesaaaa News Service SILVERTON Funeral services for Miss Elsie Benson, 61, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Chapel of the Ekman Funeral Home with the Rev. Frank: S. Harder, Salem, officiat ing. Interment will be jin Bethany Cemetery. Miss Benson died Sunday of a heart attack. She was born in Marion County Jan. 14, 1892, and had lived all her life in the Silver ton area. - Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Al bert Eggknan, Sllverton Route 2. Renovation of Apartment House Planned A complete $5,000 refurbishing of an apartment house at 274 N. Cottage St, was given an okeh Tuesday by the city engineer's office in an alteration permit issued to Jean M. Grabenhorst The alteration involves build ing a brick front, conversion from a two to a four-room apartment and off-street parking. Other' permits issued Tuesday went to the California Packing Company, wreck a warehouse, 285 S. 12th St, $50; Don Brown, alter store, 1540 Fairgrounds Rd., $200; O. F. Franklin, alter dwell ing, 2397 Center St, $200, and F. H. Mingle, alter dwelling, 2235 Broadway, $500. Schinagle related, the girl swung at him. After that, the youth said, he lost his head and strangled her, and put her in the back seat of his car and started driving. He said he could remember nothing after that. Asked why he beat his victim, Schinagle replied: "I beat her because she was dead." Wyandot County Coroner B. H. Hathaway said death was caused by strangulation. The youth, while in high school, was vice president of his senior class, captain of the high school baseball team two years and edited the class year book. His father is an electrical engineer. nn - III f I Hi ll II M II I'll Mnvn ' Lw., Rrs ev Drive to Aid i - - a Burned-Out Family Sta rts A move is underway in the Salem community to aid the Ber nard Elgin family who lost almost all their possessions in a fire which destroyed their home on the Silveron road, one mile east of Middle Grove School Monday afternoon. The seven-room home burned to the ground and nothing was saved from the house, according to the Marion County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Lost in the fire were 353 quarts of fruit which the family had canned this summer and the purse of Mrs. Elgin which con tained about $15, she said. Employes of the Salem Water Department, where . Elgin works, Tuesday contributed $55 to help the family, according to II. A Siefarth, department service manager. The Women's Association of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints is planning an aid program for the Elgin family to day and Thursday. The church, located at 17th and Chemeketa Streets, will be open to receive contributions of clothing, food or money, Mrs. George W. Speed, Women's Association president, said. Mrs. Elgin Is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs..L. A. Peter son, 435 S. 15th St, and Elgin, his five children and one grand child are staying at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Joe Apiado, Brooks Route 1. Defective wiring in the attic was given as the possible cause of the fire by the Four Corners Fire Department which answered the alarm. The Elgin family car ried no insurance. DTP (2 (XI Daa't SalW AJaatW sUaat No ssattrr bow aur rsmHisa rom k tried for Hebiaf enema, psoriasis. Infec tions, athlete's foot oe whatever yoor akin trouble star be earthine from hea4 to foot WONDER SALTS aae Woaeer Medicates Soap Get WOMW BaULTB VOHDSS atKDICATTO SOAP Traty woaderTal Try theaa. Jar se Take. Sold in Salem by Capital. Fred Mey er. Owl. 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Police Chief Robert Brown has a deff er ent I approach to keep motorists within, the 25-mile-a n-hour speed limit on Lexington Street U.S. 60. J. .... v The chief stops can . and gives drivers five minutes to cool off before sending them on their way. Only one of 38 stopped recently was given a citation and then only after be protested he wasnt going over 60. Notice of Pnblic: Hearing j On Hew Salem Zone Code j NOTICE HEREBY IS GIVEN to all , persons particularly interested, and to the general public, that a hearing "vrUl be held before the Common Council of the dry of Salem, Oregon, at the city hall, on the 28th day bi September, 1953, at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, on the final report of the Salem Plan ning and Zoning Commission filed with ' the city recorder September 2, IS 53, recommending and containing a new and comprehensive planning and zoning code for the dry cf Salem. ! The report recommends the division of the city into vari ous districts or zones for the purpose of segregating and restricting the locations of industries, the different kinds of businesses, trades, or callings, the location of apartment houses, dwellings, and other buildings, and. defines the boundaries of the various districts. The report regulates and restricts the use which may be made of property, the type, height, size, and bulk of buildings, and the use to which they may be put in the various districts. The code requires front yards, side yards, and rear yards in connection with most businesses and all dwellings; requires that buildings set back from the street line in the, case of most arterial streets and in all cases in residential areas; requires that offstreet parking space be provided for automobiles in connection with most uses and locations; requires offstreet loading space in con nection with most businesses; prescribes minimum lot areas for buildings; provides for vision clearance at street corners; provides procedure for adjustments, variances, and zone changes; prescribes regulations for subdivisions and requires platting of premises which are to be subdivided; and, gener alyy provides a complete planning and zoning code for the dty. . At the .time of the hearing, and at any time prior thereto, a copy of the report and the accompanying map may be examined at the office of the dty recorder, dty hall, in Salem, Oregon; and that report shall be considered a part of this notice to the same extent as if herein fully set forth. - ! This report affects all property within the city of Salem, the use that may be made thereof, and the type, size, height, and bulk of buildings that may be erected. If enaced into; ordinance, it will replace the existing planning and zoning code of the dty. ; By Order of the Common Council September 14, 1953. ; BEST TIME EVER TO BUY A MU&0 - MATIC : h - ! I; h New: City Manager j At Oregon City . v OREGON CITY VP) Robert Clute was sworn in Monday as the new city manager here. He replaces Robert ' Finlayson, who became city manager at Eugene. Clute came here from South Dakota. He took his oath of of fice at a specific meeting of the Oregon City commission, The population of Italy is about 47 million. ALFRED MUNDT City Recorder S 23. 24, 25. , ' ' ' ' f3 - 4IM Salem, Oregon UOli