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Ransom Probe
Witness Silent,
Paper Reports
& ST. LOUIS iff The Post-Dis-'
patch said Saturday night Joseph
Costello, operator of the Ace Cab
"Co. here, .refused to tell a federal
grand jury in Kansas City investi
- gating the Greenkase kidnaping
"'case where he was the night the
kidnapers were arrested in St.
-Louis.
Costello was called twice before
the grand jury in connection with
M inquiry into the missing $303,720
of the $600,000 ransom.
On each occasion, the newspaper
. said, he declined to account for his
Slckes Thought
ISeriously of
jjPresident Race
3 By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON' tin - Harold L.
Z Ickes thought there was "a very
real possibility"-j he could have
been nominated for the presidency
5 by the Republicans in 1936.
He believed, too, though he was
2 a member of Franklin. D. Roose
velt's Cabinet and was to continue
tin that post another nine years,
that he might have beaten Roose
Svelt had the GOP nominated him
Mh place of Alf M. Landon.
The private journal of the self
styled 'Old Curmudgeon." to be
published next Wednesday as in
stallment No. 1 of "The Secret
Diary of Harold L. Ickes." reveals
his poI'Ucal aspirations as well as
' a host of sulphurous opinions
about his fellow men.
Sought Nomination
Ickes reveals that he also flirted
without real hope with the
Idea the Democrats might nomi
nate him for President in 1940.
(James "A. Farley, former Dem
ocratic national chairman, says in
commenting on the book it is ri
diculous, to think Ickes ever had
a chance to be nominated by
either party.) 1
The 705-page Ickes book (Simon
and Schuster. $6) discloses that
the late secretary of the interior:
1. Regarded F. D. R. at times
as a cocksure egotist wno wouio.
"doublecross," to use Ickes' own
word, his staunchest supporters.
Kept Meddling -
2. Viewed with misgivings al
most all members of the Presi
dent's family, and thought Mrs.
Roosevelt in particular, kept med-
line in government activities
where she had no business.
(Mrs.: Roosevelt, asked for com-
ment on the book, said she would
not comment on anything Mrrf
Ickes wrote.)
3. Concentrated his fire on HenH
ry Morgenthau Jr., the Roosevelt
secretary of the treasury whose
4. Found the Works Progress
Harry Dexter White controversy.
"Childish." "vacillating" and
"stupid" are some of his words
for Morgenthau. (Morgenthau was
unavailable for comment on Ickes
remarks.) -
Arch-Rival Hopkins
4. Found he Works Progress
Administration fWPA". under his
arch-rival Harry L. Hopkins, was
full of "bumblings and graftings"
that it poured 'the taxpayers
-millions "down the Hopkins rat
hole." All in all. though be found much
good in the first ,1,000 days of the
New Deal. Ickes .would have given
the republicans ' priceless am
nunition if he'd turned his meti
culously kept diary, over to them
in 1938. . 1 - ' f
He didn't, though. He kept this
eyewitness record secret until the
dy of his death in 1952. The whole
thing, covering his entire service
with President Roosevelt and
Truman, runs to' six million words.
This first installrnenti published
with his widow's permission, cov
ers only his first four years with
Roosevelt. And in 1338 Ickes him
self, for all his presidential might-have-beens,
campaigned hard for
Roosevelt's reelection.
Janet Gayiior
Makes Debut
Ori Television
NEW YORK l (JP) Janet Gay
nor made her debut as a televi
sion actress Saturday night with
no fanfare though it has been 15
years since she quit a fabulous
movie career.
Still petite and j pretty, ; the
slightly-babyish voice almost un
changed. Miss Gaynor appeared
on CBS -Medallion Theater."
She played the leading role In
"Dear Cynthia, portraying a mid
dle-aged widow grief - stricken
after her husband's death in a
plane crash.
There was no mention on the
show of the fact that a once -
famous film star was making her
first dramatic appearance on tele-
vision. .
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. 'v't'r th nltftit f Hrt K. insist
ing the testimony might tend to
incriminate him. , , j
Costello said:
-It's an a pack of lies. I never
have told anybody what my testi
mony was before the grand jury
and I never wilL"
"Refused U Answer"
The newspaper 'said Costello, an
ex-convict, also refused on the
same ground to answer questions
concerning his whereabouts the
night before the arrest of Carl
Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie
Brown Heady, who wiH be execut
ed at the State Penitentiary in
Jefferson City Dec. IS for the kid-nap-slaying
of I year old Bobby
Greenleale of Kansas City.
Former Police Lt Louis Shoul
ders, the Post-Dispatch said, dis
closed to the same grand jury that
Costello was his second tipster on
the activities of the free-spending
Hall The first tipster was John
Hager, Ace cab driver.
Tipster Unnamed
Costello said further that "Shoul
ders told me he did not name the
second tipster when he appeared
before the grand jury."
Shoulders and Patrolmen
Elmer Dolan arrested Hall at an
apartment-hotel here, shoulders
refused to comment on the re
ports. Costello was called as a witness
in a St. Louis police inquiry into
the case and- was questioned for
three hours.
The newspaper said Costello and
Shoulders have maintained a
friendship which started when they
were cab drivers here more than
23 years ago.
Probe Renewed
The police inquiry into the case
was renewed after Hall's confes
sion, read at his Kansas City trial,
said he had most of the ransom
money with him when he was ar
rested and that the two suitcases,
in which he had the money, were
not taken to a district police sta
tion with him.
Shoulders and Dolan have said
the suitcases were taken to the
station with HalL Top police offi
cials will go to the Penitentiary
Monday to question Hall about his
confession.
Shoulders submitted his resigna
tion, charging the police inquiry
into the case destroyed his use
fullness as an officer.
Hager s wife said Saturday night
her husband has left4 St. Louis to
seek a job elsewhere; She said
Hager decided it was impossible
for him to earn a living here be
cause of constant questioning by
investigators. He has been, ques
tioned in the search for the miss
ing money.
Party Boss
At Leningrad
Dismissed
MOSCOW un V. M. Adrianov,
formerly a member of the power
ful Presidium of the Communist
Party has been dismissed' as
party boss of the Leningrad re
gion. Tass announced Saturday
night
The official Soviet news agency
gave no reasons for the startling
shakeup in the Soviet Union's sec
ond most important city.
drianov was a member of the
25-man Presidium of the central
committee that was chosen at the
all-union party congress in Octo
ber, lii2, when Stalin was alive,
He also was elected to the 18
man Presidium of the party con
gress. He was not included in the
streamlined 16-man Presidium of
the party that was announced
March 7 when Georgi Malenkov
succeeded to the premiership and
carried out a wholesale shakeup
in the government and party of
fices. Rhee Urges
Asia to Fight
Red f Disease'
TAIPEH un South Korea's
President Saturday urged all
southeast Asian nations to get to
gether and fight the spread of
Communism "as you would chol
era, smallpox or any other con
tagious disease." s
Syngman Rbee's address to a
joint session of Nationalist law
makers bulwarked signs that South
Korea and Nationalist China might
summon such a collective security
conference.
Rhee, whose address evoked a
tremendous ovation, urged a meet
ing of groups in southeast Asia to
work out ways and means of start
ing a popular anti Communist
movement throughout the area.
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LONDON (A Prime Minister J
Church'"! riU be 79 ronCrv 3
seems quite convinced that the fin
es hour of his fabulous life still
ahad.
On entering his 80th year, Brit
ain's sturdy war-time leader has
set for ' himself what he believes
may be the greatest task of ail
to make the world's uneasy peace
secure. . '
There won't be much time, as
his birthday rolls around, even to
think about the ease that age de
serves. ; i
On Tuesday he will fly off to
Bermuda in something like an ad
venturesome mood to suggest to
United States and French leaders
courses of action which he hopes
will lead to easing international
tensions.
The Prime Minister's health, aft
er making due allowance for his
years, has been pronounced good.
His physician. Lord Moran, nods
his head approvingly and makes
the usual observation that Chur
chill should slow up a bit.
New Mellowness '
He has slowed up a bit. There
seems to be a new touch of mel
lowness in Churchill's nature. Late
ly he spoke to a delegation of visi
tors ruefully of "tasks that do not
diminish, and strength that does
not increase."
It was. one of his few public
allusions to the stroke of exhaus
tion, when he was doing his own
work and that of ailing Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, which ob
liged him to take a 10-week rest
last summer.
He seems to . get along a little
more amiably with his political
opponents.
Bond of Friendship
Many still live under the cloud
of his scorn, but bejias gone out
of his way lately to emphasize
the bond of personal friendship
with Clement Attlee, the Labor
Party leader and .former Prime
Minister. They admire each other
and, in the House of Commons,
lambast each other.
Intimate associates say, howev
er, that the mellowness which
some detect can be deceiving and
that when occasion requires Chur
chill can be as scrappy as ever.
They explain that he has been in
so many fights, losing some aad
winning more, that he simply does
not think some of the new contro
versies are worth getting into.
Externally, he is the Winnie of
old.
Cigar Remains
The long cigar remains a per
sonal fixture, though he may chew
it more than he smokes it.
He still relishes a good meal.
He still likes to finish it with bran
dy. He still steals time for his hob
bies, his painting of lanscapes fit
ting in best with he preoccupa
tions of a Prime Minister.
He still likes a party. There will
be a few hours of relaxation Mon
day at his official home. No. 10
Downing Street. As is usual in the
Churchill household. Lady Chur
chill will, supervise the baking of
the birthday cake.
Patient's Veins
Transplanted
In Operation
LOS ANGELES OH A Mayo
Foundation surgeon Saturday de
scribed an operation in which
veins are transplanted from a pa
tient's forearm to arteries that
supply the heart muscles in order
to provide relief in heart ailments.
Dr. Henry Meyerding told of the
operation in addressing a meet
ing of the American Section of the
International College of Surgeons.
The surgeon, a past president
of the coljege, said the operation
was perfected after 11 years of
experimentation with animals. He
said it has now been performed
in at least six cases by surgeons
who have trained themselves es
pecially for it
"Heart disease due to arterio
sclerosis or coronary disorder ex
presses itself by reducing the
amount of blood the heart receives
so that finally it is unable to func
tion, said Dr. Meyerding. "When
the veins are transplanted into the
blocked arteries, the effect - is
miraculous.
"Tbe rush of new blood instant
ly changes the color of tbe dark,
disabled heart muscle to normal
red.
"In hardening of the arteries
this naturally improves the gen
eral circulation and brings relief.
In coronary disease it revives the
heart and enables it to carry on
its work."
There are no whale ships fly
ing the American flag today says
the National Geographic Society.
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Stalled Payments
Lead Newspaper
Boy to Start Fire
WASHINGTON W) Police re-
Saturd n near-old
newspaper,, carrier boy admitted
setting fire to aa apartment house
to get even with tenants who
8taed JV" Payments.
The fire last Saturday developed
into a two-alarm blaze in which
a 64 year old woman, her daughter
and a month old infant had to be
carried downa ladder by a lirs
man. Damage was estimated at
$3,000. ... W .;.
Colonel, Wife
Visit Confessed
Slayer's Wife
TOKYO OH A heartbroken U.
S." Array colonel and his wife Sat
urday, called on a sergeant's wife
and offered her comfort after her
husband confessed he strangled
the colonel's 9-year-old daughter.
CoL and Mrs. Jacquard H.
Rothschild urged "all help and aid
possible" for the wife and two
adopted daughters of - M. Sgt.
Maurice L. Schick, 29, of Canons
burg, Pa.
Sgt. Schick, wounded and decor
ated for an unblemished record in
World War n. is held for Army
courtmartial after signing a con
fession that a strange "uncontrol
lable urge' caused him to strangle
Susan Rothschild Nov. 21.
He is a former Sunday school
teacher and Boy Scout leader.
"My husband and I feel that
Sgt Schick' is a sick man," said
Mrs. Rothschild after the visit with
Mrs. Schick.
"We have no personal feeling of
bitterness or revenge about what
has transpired.
"Mrs. Schick is a wonderful per
son and the two little girls obvi
ously have been brought up in a
warm and loving atmosphere."
Later, an Army spokesman said
the Rothschilds are "anxious that
all help and aid possible be given
to Mrs. Schick and her daughters.
Mrs. Schick expressed first con
cern lest the tragedy prevent her
from taking the adopted girls,
Melody Lynn. 5, and Mary Ann,
2Vt, back to the United States,
French Honor
Gorn-on-Cob
Innovator
By MARC PURDUE
PARIS m When Lloyd H.
Cornwall, commander of the De
partment of France of tbe Ameri
can Legion, was made a knight of
the French Legion of Honor the
other night, his compatriots agreed
he deserved recognition for serv
ice in two wars and efforts to
better Franco-American relations.
But Cornwall holds a high place
in the esteem of Americans in
Paris for another reason. He in
troduced corn on the cob here.
Cornwall has not yet received
his official citation for the Legion
of Honor. But be gathered from
the presentation speech by Andre
Mutter, French minister of war
veterans, that the sweet corn was
among the reasons he received the
distinction. -Only
Few Interested
Back in the 1920s, when Corn
wall brought his first crops to the
city, only a few restaurants were
interested. Like most Europeans,
the French thought corn (maize,
they call it) was only for livestock.
One restaurant catering to
American tourists tried it on the
menu. This was "Sam's," near the
opera.
Crowds of amused French used
to gather on the -sidewalk to gaze
through the window at the specta
cle of Americans happily chomp
ing away at corn -on tbe cob.
Market Expands
Slowly over the years, the mar
ket expanded. Cornwall now sells
6,000 to 1,000 ears a day during
the season which, though Midwest
eraers may not believe it, is in
September.
Cornwall's home until 1914 was
In Gardiner, Ore. He moved down
to California and enlisted in a vol
unteer ambulance corps to serve
in France before the United States
entered World War 1.
When the war ended, he worked
with a missionary group in rural
areas, married a French girl and
decided to remain in France.
Five Considered
For Gator Bowl
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. UV-Five
teams were being considered Sat
urday for the New Year's Day
football game here In the Gator
BowL
Bowl Association President
James McGregor said the teams
are Auburn, Alabama. Kentucky,
Texas Tech and Mississippi.
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Third Victim
V
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Franklin O. (Bod) ' Parker; IS,
became tbe third victim as a
resnlt of aa auto accident Wed
nesday night. He died early
Saturday morning.
Second WU
Student Dies
After Wreck
Franklin O. (Bud) Parker, 19,
Willamette University sophomore
who was critically injured in an
auto crash Wednesday, died at a
McMinnville hospital early Satur
day morning..
Services for the young man will
be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the
Presbyterian Church at Newport
The death marks the third as a
result of the two-car crash near
Grand Ronde which claimed the
lives of 19-year-old Irving Monroe
Nicholas, Willamette freshman,
also of Newport, and seven-months-old
Gay Carol Aldropp,
Langlois, who were in the other
car. Mr. and Mrs. Aldropp were
not seriously injured.
Still hospitalized Saturday in
Portland hospitals were Carol
Litchfield, 19. and Jo Ann Curry,
18, both of Newport They were
first taken in critical condition
to hospitals in Dallas and Mc
Minnville. They were believed
slightly improved Saturday. Nich
olas and the- two girls were pas
sengers in Parker's car.
Parker was born May 27, 1934,
in Grand Junction, Colo., and
moved with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Franklin Parker, to Newport
when he was a year old. His fa
ther is the Lincoln County Cor
oner. While at Newport High
School, from which he graduated
in 1951, young Parker was' stu
dent body president He was a
member of the Methodist Church
and DeMolay at Newport. A soph
omore at Willamette, he was- a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
Survivors include the parents
and a sister, Janice Parker.
Puerto Rico
Doesn't Want
Independence
WASHINGTON W Puerto
Rico can have independence any
time it likes so far as President
Eisenhower is concerned, but the
word Saturday from the Carib
bean island bastion is "We don't
like."
The President's pledge was de
livered through Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr.. U. S. delegate to. the
United Nations. He said Eisen
hower would support Puerto Rico's
full independence whenever its
legislature asks.
Gov. Luis Munoi Marin prompt
ly replied: "The position of the
majority of our people and also
mine is in favor of continued
association with the union, within
a dynamic growth of this com
monwealth." .
Under a new constitution
Puerto Rico is a "free common
wealth'' with the United States in
charge of its defense and foreign
affairs.
Complete Independence would
cost it millions of dollars in tar
iffs on its main product, sugar.
Other economic' benefits from
Washington might also go by. the
board.
Evaporation from the surface
of the Dead Sea is estimated at
from to 17 feet annually.
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Board Delays
Valley Milk
PriceBoost
(Story also on page one)
PORTLANu Wi lae .State
Board of Agriculture Saturday
suspended a controversial order
which increased the price of milk
in tie fortlana area.
Fred H. Cockell, chairman of
the boaru, announced the decision
aiter polling board members by
telephone.
iiov. faul Patterson earlier in
the day had asked the board to
suspend the order which was ap
proved at an unannounced meet
ing last luesday.
Cockell also reported that
"everyone will get a chance to
talk" at the next board meeting
Dec. 15.
Plan Protests'- ,
Mrs. Frank Taylor, state chair-,
m. .. of L. .itiiuaieu mlu coni
mittee, - and State Rep. Maurine
Neuberger, both ot Portland,
said they would protest the price
increase at the meeting.
In a statement explaining the
price order, William S. Weidei,
milk marketing administrator, said
the increase was "necessary to
carry out tbe provisions of the
Oregon milk marketing act" He
saiu there had been "numerous
public bearings and extensive in
vestigations" preceding the an
nouncement of the price increase.
Uruer Limited
The' statement continued: "Ac
tually the one cent increase in
price was onjv effective in Port
land and three adjacent counties,
Clackamas, Washington and Co
lumbia, as retail prices in Marion,
Yamhill and Polk counties had
been one-half cent higher than
Portland since June while Hood
River and Wasco consumers have
had the 23-cent minimum price
tags on their milk before the new
schedule, which affects all of the
nine counties, was issued."
Weidei said the increase would
have provided milk at "fairly com
parable price" to other Pacific
Coast markets.
Pric-.i ;jui,ured
"At Seattle, for instance, pro
ducers are being paid S4-90 a hun
dred pounds for milk containing
3.5 per cent butterfat Milk of that
butterfat content retails at 20.5
cents a quart. In Portland, , pro
ducers are paid $3,923 a hundred
pounds of 3.5 per cent milk. If
Seattle paid the same price to
producers as Portland does and if
Seattle distributors would sell milk
containing 3.8 per cent butterfat,
which is the standard in Portland,
with the same operating margin
that they now have, Seattle's re
tail price would apparently be
23.22 cents."
Hogan Honored
LONDON un Ben Hogan,
king of golfers. Saturday was
named king of 1953 sportsmen by
the international magazine, World
Sport.
Tomatoes once were believed
to be poisonous.
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'Sir Walter"
Freed After
Sanity Probe
KINGSTON, Jamaica (iP) - The
Jamaican who like Sir Walter Ra
leigh spread his coat before the
Queen of England so she could
cross a puddle dry shod was freed
by police Saturday after doctors
called him sane.
Warren Kidd was arrested at
Port Royal as Queen Elizabeth II
was about to embark for Panama.
Doffing his cream-colored coat,
which bore in its lapel an emblem
inscribed with the words "God
Save the Queen," the 35-year-old
Jamaican spread it in front of the
Queen and bade her walk on it
Surprised, the Queen stopped,
sidestepped the coat and went on
with a smile. Kidd was hauled off
to jaiL
He told reporters after his. re
lease, "No . madman , or coward
could have done what I did. It
took a brave man to show such
courage."
He said be had planned to visit
England to perform his Sir Wal
ter Raleigh act and was saving
his money for the trip when it
was announced the Queen would
visit Jamaica.
Actress Tumbles,
Br leaks Right Leg
HOLLYWOOD LB Actress Su
san Ball fell in her kitchen Sat
urday and fractured her right leg
the same leg which has been
under treatment since an earlier
fall several months ago, her studio
announced.
Miss Ball. 20, was taken to
Temple Hospital.
Lord Cornwallis surrendered to
Washington at Yorktown in 1781.
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Youth Hurt in
Peak Climb
MT. SHASTA. Calif, un A
Swiss member of a climbing party
headed by Jon' Lindbergh, son of
aviator Charles Lindbergh, fell SCO
feet down a sheer cliff while skiing
on snow-topped ML Shasta Satur
day and was injured critically, the
U, S. Forest Service reported,
A three-man Forest Service par
ty headed up the 14,000 foot peak
in remote' northern California in
an attempt to bring medical aid.
Werner Hopf, a student at Stan
ford University, was carried down
to the 10,500 foot level on a make
shift toboggan.
The party was forced to stop
when Hopf stopped breathing mo
mentarily. An igloo was built to
keep him warm while the party
awaited help. . .
Lindbergh. 17 students from
Stanford and two other friends
were on a three, day skiing and
climbing outing in this area.
Nobel Prize
Said Tribute
To U.S. People
NEW YORK (A Gen. George
C. Marshall said Saturday the No
bel peace prize awarded him this
year was a tribute to "the whole
American people as represented
by their Congress."
Sailing for Europe aboard the
Italian liner Andrea Doria to re
ceive the award in Oslo, Marshall
said the success of the European
recovery program, also known as
the Marshall Plan, was due to the
bi-partisan policies of the late Sen.
Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich).
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