Czech Railroad Tragedy
May
Claim
Lives of 186
Light Failure Panics Church
Goers, 23 Die in Rush to Door
TOLUCA, Mexico W) A light
ing failure caused by a short cir
cuit sowed panic during a Christ
mas mass in a village church
early Friday and 23 persons were
killed in a rush for the doors.
Some 200 more were injured as
the crowd of 3,000 piled up around
the two doors of the church in
Temoaya, a mountain village 13
miles northwest of here.
The parish priest, the Rev. Mose
Cruz, attempted to quell the panic
but without success.
"Mass was just finished." he
said, "and the congregation was
leaving the church. Somebody I
Twins Make Merry
Christmas Merrier
It was a Merry, Merry Christmas for the John Merrvs earlv !
Christmas morn when mama Merry gave birth to two little, twin
Merrys at Salem General Hospital a boy and a giaL j
Tne pair, which brings the
Dtr
mum
mora
At a funeral service the pastor
may intone the words, "In the
midst of life we are in death."
Their truth, however, comes
home most sharply when one
picks up the paper and reads of
the unexpected death of another
who seemed in abundant, good
health. So it was with the passing
of Sen. Dean H. Walker of Inde
pendence; and the early sense of
shock was quickly succeeded
with a realization of the great
loss 'which Oregon has sustained
in the sudden death of this vet
eran leader of the Oregon Sen
ate. Walker was indeed the dean
of the Senate, the one longest
in service, from 1935 through
1953 sessions; and with one term
in the House (1933) before that
He was dean also as the anchor
for the Senate organization, a
key figure in every issue of im
portant state policy. His major
assignments dealt with such sub
jects as appropriations (he served
regularly as member or chairman
of the ways and means commit
tees), assessment and taxation,
education, agriculture. That Ore
gon has kept its financial house
in good order is due in very large
riesn-ee to Walker's oversight and
conservative management of state
finances. His service in this field
began on the House. ways and
means committee in 1933, the
one which pared expenditures to
the bone because of the meagre
state income during depression
years. He saw the budget grow
through the years, take on added
burdens: public welfare, basic
school fund support, building
programs, higher education ex
pansion. Yet in that period it
was possible to wipe out an old
deficit and provide adequate rev
enues for all functions within
the state's taxing structure.
Walker would not claim the
credit alone
(Continued on Editorial Page 4.)
Red Troops
Press Attack
In Thailand
BANGKOK UP TTie Thai gov
ernment Saturday proclaimed a
State of emergency in all nine
northern and northeastern states
after reports thet Vietminh troops
fcad attacked in force and with
? lanes. The reports said also
rench forces were retreating to
set up new defenses along the
fclekong River which separates
Thailand from Laos.
The new French defense lines
were reported about 50 kilometers
(31.5 miles) from Thakhek, a
Laos town on the Mekong opposite
the Thai province of Nongkhai.
The declaration of emergency
vas decided upon at a meeting
of the cabinet and high military
officers aV the residence of Pre
mier Phibun Songkram. The situ
ation in Laos was considered a
threat to the sovereignty of Thai
land. Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
"He's In bod shape. He's no
ety forgotfeM.wtto b is, bvt
stepped on a wire lying on the
floor. There was a blue flash and
the lights went out.
"Then when the lights came on
again, there was nobody in the
church but me and the victims.
I went around and administered
the last sacraments to them.
There was nothing else I could
do."
Most of the congregation were
country people from the surround
ing hills, many of them unaccus
tomed to .electric lights. The
crowd in the church was unusual
ly large because of the Christmas
midnight mass.
Merry total to a merry four, were
two among five Christmas babies
born in Salem's two hospitals Fri
day.
The new little Merrys were
named Carol Mary Merry, 6 ;
pounds, 6 ounces (born at 2:23
a.m.) and John Scott Merry, bare- i
ly over 5 pounds (born at 2:25
a.m.). Papa Merry, who was home
with his other Merrys Friday eve
ning, Mary Ellen Merry (4V4
years) and Jonette Merry (19
months), said he and his wife
Paula were expecting the twins.
Merry, a sheet metal worker for
the Reimann Sheet Metal Co., said
that "way back" on his wife's side
there was record of twins. Mother
and children were said to be do
ing "fine" at the hospital Friday
night The Merrys live at 3240
Fisher Rd.
Other Christmas surprises for
Salem parents were a son at Sa
lem General to Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Feskens, 4680 Macleay Rd.,
and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Halfman, 4180 Macleay Rd., also
at Salem General. A boy was born
to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Coen,
3233 S. Liberty Rd., at Salem
Memorial Hospital.
Hospital officials said late Fri
day night that no other Christmas
children were expected and, for
the most part, "OB" (abbrevia
tion for obstetrics) floor was re
latively quiet
Perfume Gift
Blamed for
Wife's Suicide
MODESTO. Calif. OP Mrs.
Kathleen Vinyard was disappoint
ed Thursday night when she un
wrapped a Christmas present
a bottle of perfume from her hus
band. Joe. She flew into a rage.
Friday morning, Mrs. Vinyard,
38, died a short time after her
husband found her in their closed
garage, the auto engine running.
Police Capt. William Coulson
said she killed herself.
Mrs. Vinyard had complained,
Coulson said, that it was the
fourth straight year she had re
ceived perfume from her husband.
Blaze Strikes
Albany Home
j
Statesman Newt Service
ALBANY Fire Friday night
destroyed a small one-stonr house
just "north of here on David Ave
nue and placed its lone occupant,
George M. Jimmerfield, 58, in a
serious condition, at Albany Gen
eral Hospital.
An attending physician said the
man suffered third degree burns
about the face and body.
Neighbors called the Albany
fireman when the blaze was dis
covered at about 7:20 p.m. and
took about two hours to extin
guish. Cause of the fire was not
known. It was believed that Jim
merfield was overcome by smoke
and unable to get out of the burn
ing house.
PARIS TROUBLED
PARIS m Paris went through
Christmas .without airport facili
ties and mail sorters due to con
tinuing strikes for more pay.
Ermine Battling Suit too pZot'
But Agent, Not Army, Orders
SEOUL (Jt Actress Terry
Moore reported early Saturday j
she had been ordered out o Ko
rea, where she is touring with a
show for service men, but the an
nouncement of the order appeared
to be a little premature.
Miss Moore, who had been or
dered not to wear a Bikini bath
ing suit made of ermine in her
Korean shows, wore the much
discussed pieces in t Christmas
night show for men of the 10th
Army Corps. Early Saturday she
made the announcement she was
ordered home, leaving the Impres
sion that the decision , was the
Army's.
Later, however, Johnny Grant,
Los Angeles disc jockey who is
managing the troupe in Korea,
said tht so-called order was not
'Curtain' Shields
Size of Disaster
VIENNA, Austria tfl A Christ
mas railway disaster in Czecho
slovakia has killed perhaps as
many as 186 persons, according
to reports penetrating the Iron
Curtain Friday night. Signs point
ed to it being one of the world's
worst rail disasters.
The first official announcement
made by radio Prague said "many
persons were killed or injured"
when the Bratislava-Prague ex
press crashed into another pas
senger train near the Morovian
village of Jsakvice. '
Officials at Scene
High Czech officials sped to the
scene to conduct an investigation
but gave out no exact figures on
the death toll.
Police officers at Hustopice, who
said they were in charge of iden
tifying victims, told The Associa
ted Press in Vienna by phone that
"more than 100 persons" perished
in the crash.
A telephone operator at Brno
told The Associated Press by
phone that she overheard Czech
officials place the death count at
186. This would make it the third
worst rail disaster in history
600 Died in 1917
The French news agency rec-
ords the No. 1 disaster as a troop
train wreck in the Alps in 1917
when 600 were reported killed.
World War I censorship plugged
the news until the war's end, the
agency said. 4 .
The second worst rati disaster
occurred in another Iron Curtain
land Poland in 1949 when 200
persons were killed.
Railway officials at both Brno
and Prague refused to comment
on the extent of the death toll
but the extensive emergency
measures taken by Czech authori
ties indicated it was a major ca
tastrophe. Near Czech Border
Radio Prague announced that
Interior Minister Rudolf Barak
and Traffic Minister Antonin Pos
posi had left Prague for Sakvice
to investigate the wreck. The fact
that two top ministers went per
sonally to the scene was a further
indication of the seriousness of the
tragedy.
Sakvice is a small country town
about 12 miles north of the Austrian-Czech
border station of
Breclav Lundenburg ) .
(Additional Details on New
Zea-
' land Crash on Page 2.)
40,000 Left
Homeless in
China Blaze
HON6 KONG UT) Fire that
started Christmas night in the
squatter area of Kowloon burned
itself out Saturday, leaving more
than 40,000 homeless, causing 2
deaths and more than 50 injuries.
Officials of the Hong Kong fire
brigade estimated that more than.
6.000 dwellings, some of them
little more than huts, had been
destroyed in the Sekkipmei dis
trict which has been congested
with war refugees. Both victims
were women war refugees.
The fire started about 9 p. m.
Christmas night and burned until
after dawn Saturday, despite ef
forts of the fire brigade and sev
eral score volunteer fighters.
It was the worst of a number
of 'fires which have swept the
squatter district since refugees
began thronging into the area
from Red China several years
ago.
Some Chinese newspapers esti
mated the number of homeless at
70,000, but officials put that figure
as far too high.
Firemen as usual were handi
capped with lack of water.
Mrs. Pierce Marks
80th Birthday Today
Mrs. Walter M. Pierce, wife of
the former governor of Oregon,
will celebrate her 80th birthday
today.
Mrs. Pierce, state librarian, un
til her retirement in 1929, lives
with her husband at 4561 Dallas
Rd. He is 92 years old.
Max. Mirt. Precip.
.43 JJ .M
.42 3S .00
.60 35 JH
. 38 27 00
Sales
Portland ,
San Francisco
Chicago
New York . 49 29 .00
FORECAST (from U. S. Weather
Bureau. McNary Field. Salem):
Mostly cloudy with early morning
and evening fog. High today near 44
and low tonight near 33. Temperature
at 13:01 a. m. was 37 degrees.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Slure SUrt f Weather Year Sept 1
This Year Last Year Normal
18.89 9.75 - U.92
an "order" but a "reauest" from
Hollywood Coordinating Commit
tee which arranges shows for
servicemen.- v
The request, .Grant said, appar
ently was based on "the miscon
ception . that Miss Moore per
formed a strip act, which of
course is not true."
Grant said "everything seems to
have been straightened out" and
I feel certain that Miss Moore
is going to continue the tour."
Miss Moore was one of the
members of the troupe, which did
a show at noon Saturday for offi
cers and men of the 10th Corps
artillery headquarters but she
did not wear the controversial fur
Bikini.
Miss Moore had been warned
that the ermine Bikini would sot
103RD YEAR,
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Shubert
Taken
By Death
NEW YORK Ml Lee Shubert,
president of the vast Shubert the
atrical enterprises, died Friday at
the age of 78.
He died just four days after en-
i tering Mount Sinai Hospital for
treatment of a circulatory dis
turbance. The hospital said death
was caused by "the complete fail
ure of the circulatory sfystem."
Lee Shubert was one of three
brothers whose far-flung theatrical
business at one time was estima
ted conservatively to be worth
$400,000,000.
One Survivor
The eldest Drotner, bam a. anu-1
bert. died manv vears aao. !
The youngest brother, the orrty i
survivor now oi me iamous irio
of showmen, is Jacob J. Shubert. '
generally known as "J. J." !
The careers of the brothers were
closely interwoven so much so
that the life story of Lie Shubert
was also largely the life story of
Sam and J. J.
The three left Syracuse. N. Y., j
as young men and invaded Broad-1
way. !
They became engaged in a vio
lent war with the old Klaw & Er
langer booking business, then
known as "the combination."
Brake Up Combine
Tk tMob utat a tifftiilf rtn A i
hut th thro Shnhprt brothers V
broke the combine and emerged
eventually as the most powerful
single group operating in the the
ater. As the Shubert brothers gradu
ally broke the hold of the combi
nation, they built many theaters
in New York familiar to theater
goers throughout the nation.
These houses included the Forty
Fourth Street, the Lyric, the Shu
bert, Broadhurst. Booth. Ply-,
mouth. Morosco, Bijou, Ritz, the
Forty-Ninth Street, Nora Bayes,
Forrest, Maxine Elliott and the
Al Jolson.
No Worries
Keep Man,
103, Young
PORTLAND Charles Mack
of nearby Troutdale says he lived
to be 103 because he's "dumb."
"When you're dumb," he ex
plains, "you've got nothing to wor
ry about so you keep on living.
It's worry that takes a man
down."
Mack, vigorous and alert, cele
brated his 103rd birthday Wednes
day. Among his other advice on
how to live long is don't over
drink or overeat.
Mack, a former tavern operator,
says he hasn't had a drink in a
long time.
"I used to tell a big glass of
whisky for 10 cents," he says.
"Think I'd pay 50 cent for a
glass now?"
Morning Fog
On Forecast
Weather outlook for Salem and
vicinity today didn't look too
warm at midnight when the U.S.
Weather Bureau predicted a high
of 44 and a low of 33 degrees for
Saturday.
Highest temperature in Salem
for Christmas day was 43 degrees
which dropped to a 37 low before
the day ended. Today was slated
by weathermen to be mostly
cloudy with early morning and
evening fog.
Weather must have been worse
in the Medford area, though, be
cause United Air Lines had to
cancel its regular flight 155 when
Medford was "socked in." This
flight originates in Portland, go
ing to Medford in the evening,
remaining overnight and return
ing the next morning.
for Cold Korea,
Actress Home
be allowed after a Hollywood pub
licity picture and announcement
that she intended to strip down
to it for the Korean service men
had brought a storm of protests
from church groups in the United
states.; .; :;.
The actress said she had worn
the suit Christmas night after it
had been approved by LL GenJ
cruse Clark, commanding officer
or the 10th Corps.
However, an aide to the gen
eral said Saturday General Clarke
bad not seen the suit before the
show and had neither approved
not disapproved it. t .
The tth Army denied it or any
of its lower commands had is
sued the order for Miss Moore to
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is continuing her sixth grade studies with the assistance of Mrs. A. B. Swigart, (above right) one
of two teachers at the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital east of Salem. (Story on page 2.)
Discovery to Take Lethal Kick From Atomic
Materials Said Basis for Ike's Pool Offers
PAS Paris-Presse, one I
of the leading afternoon newspa-
pers of Paris, said Friday Presi- inently.
dent Eisenhower's proposal for a ! Paris-Presse said President Ei
U.N. atomic pool had been made ; senhower was prepared to turn
possible by an amazing new dis- j over the secret of the discovery
covery that atomic materials can to Russia, and that this would ef
be "denatured" to remove their fectively remove Russian fears
destructiveness. j that atomic material it might con-
The paper did not give either i tribute to the world "nuclear
the source of its, story nor details ;
French Fidit
To Turn Back
Attack by Reds
SAIGON, Indochina t French
troops fought all Christmas Day
a powerful new Communist-led
Vietminh drive aimed at reach
ing the Thailand frontier and cut
ting Indochina in two.
A French army spokesman said
elements of two Vietminh divisions
had been identified as taking part
in the new drive toward Thak
hek, on the Mekong River fron
tier between Thailand and Laos,
one of the three French-protected
Indochinese states.
The French population of Thak
hek was asked by officials to ava
cuate to Savannaket, 200 miles to
the south.
The spokesman said the invad
ing units, which apparently start
ed their drive in North Annam,
were about 60 miles from Thak
hek. The drive was being pushed
at the narrowest part of Indochi
na, which at this point is only
about 100 miles across with Thak
hek as the farthest point in' the
interior.
Thakhek is approximately 240
miles south of Hanoi and domi
nates the Meking Valley to the
south. It is just across the river
from the Thailand town of Lak
hon. Toddler Falls
To-Death in
Yule Tragedy
WARREN. Pa. (l " Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Mervine awoke ear
ly Friday to take their only son
to see his Christmas presents, but
instead found him dead on a land
ing at the foot of the stairway.
Coroner Ed Lowrey said the
boy, James. 2, apparently fell down
seven steps during the night. He
died of a broken neck.
Lowery said the parents told
him the child was too young
to fully appreciate Christmas
and 4hey doubted if he was search
ing for Yule presents. They were
unable to explain his being out of
bed.
Babson Report
Next Thursday
.. The Oregon Statesman will
publish Roger W. Babson's
Business and Financial Out
look for 1954 next Thursday.
It will contain outstanding
forecasts covering such impor
tant topics as: General busi
ness, commodity prices, taxes,
tiade, labor, inflation, farm
outlook, stock market, real
estate, politics. -' ' .
We are calling this feature
to your attention because we
believe that every one of our
readers will find it of inestim
able value. '
POUNDID 1651
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday. December 26, 1953
Handicap to Studies
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of the reported discovery in the i
article which it displayed prom
bank" would ever be used against
the Soviet Union.
(In Washington, a spokesman
for the Atomic Energy Commis
sion said he had no comment on
the report.)
The newspaper said American
scientists had made the discovery
and had perfected means for
"emasculating" plutonium and
other nuclear material which goes
into an atomic bomb.
Fissionable material thus "de
natured" could never again be
used for military purposes, the
article said, but would be unim
paired for peaceful civilian pur
poses. The paper said the process was
too complicated to explain in lay
men's language, but takes the leth
al kick out of nuclear material.
It added that President Eisen
hower was convinced the system
Young College
Editors Start
Russia Tour
NEW YORK Of A second
group of seven young college edi
tors left Friday for a three-week
tour of the Soviet union.
Richard E. Ward of New Ro-
chelle, N.Y., managing editor of
the University of Chicago "Ma
roon," said his companions hope
to visit areas not included 'in the
first group's tour last summer.
He mentionad the Crimea and
the Caucasus in southern Rus
sia. "We will try." Ward said as
spokesman for the group, "to tell
the young people we meet about
life in this country and hope to
be able to exchange informa
tion on the different modes of liv
ing." The tourists include:
David Barney, Portland. Ore.,
editor of "Reed Quest," Reed Col
lege, Portland.
DAMAGE IN BLAZE
BOMBAY, India (J) Eight peo
ple were injured and damage es
timated at more than half a mil
lion dollars was caused by a fire
which started in the timber mar
ket at Poona Friday night and
spread over 20 acres of the heart
of the city.
Chain of Events Keeps Valley Police Force
Busy on Otherwise Quiet Christmas Holiday
A chain of events was touched'
off through the Salem area in an
otherwise quiet late Christmas
night and included escape of six
boys from Mac Laren School at
Woodburn; burglary of a Salem
home and theft of an auto. .
The boys' escape was apparently)
unrelated to the other events.
Salem police received word at
10:50 p.m. that the boys had gotten
away about an hour previous. At
11 p.m. city police got a call that
the home of Page Stevens, 610 D.
SL had been entered and a 38
caliber revolver, holster and wrist
watch taken. Entrance was forced
through a window.
At 11:13. p.m. city police received
word that a 1951 model car owned
by Joseph W. Dougherty, Aums
j . f 1 u .
was struck with TB last June and ;
would work before he proposed be
fore the U.N. General' Assembly
on Dec. 9 that the United States,
Russia and other nations with the .
secret of the atomic bomb turn
some of heir material into a peace
ful pool.
Paris-Presse said the new dis
covery opened up new horizons
for human progress which stag
gered the imagination.
Wavell's Son
Ambushed
By Mau Maus
NAIROBI. Kenya un Maj
Earl Wavell, 37. son of the late
Field Marshal Earl Wavell. was
killed by Mau Mau terrorists
Thursday night.
He was leading a Black Watch
patrol investigating the beheading
of an African loyal to the British
when his patrol was ambushed by
the Mau Mau, a secret organiza
tion whose members have sworn
to drive the white man out of
Kenya, Wavell fell early in the
encounter.
An African policeman was killed
and two police officers were
wounded. The Mau Mau casual
ties were five dead and four cap
tured. The late Field Marshal Earl
Wavell commanded the ' British
North African campaign during
the first part of World War II
and later commanded British
forces fighting the Japanese in
Burma. He died in 1930.
Section Hand Dies
Of Bullet Wounds
KLAMATH FALLS LP A Mex
ican railroad worker, Unzueta
Cruz, died here Christmas morn
ing from wounds suffered when
shot early Thursday.
Police have few clues to the
identity of who shot him. He and
another man came out of a tavern.
Someone fired a pistol and Cruz
fell, unconscious. The gunman
sped away in a car.
Today's Statesman
General News 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Society News 3
Editorials, Features. 4
Sports News 6, 7
Comics 7
Radio-TV 8
Classifieds . 8, 9
Church, Valley News 10
ville, had been stolen from the'
1500 block of South 12th Street
while Dougherty was going for an
other load of Christmas packages.
Local authorities called state
police headquarters and descrip
tion of the stolen autojwas on the
state radio at 11:20 p.m.
No 'sooner had the description
gone on the air than the state's
Albany car radioed back that he
was driving right behind the ve
hicle. He stopped it and placed
its occupants in the Albany jail.
The men in the car were iden
tified by Albany police as Harold
Ellis Crowe, 21, Grand Island,
Neb.; Lee Joseph Barth, 27, and
Jack Richard Homann, 22, Port
land. . Barth gave no home ad
dress. Albany authorities : said
the three admitted a burglary in
No. 271
Traffic Claims
228 in First
Thirty Hours
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic accident deaths on the
nation's highways threatened to
set a record for the Christmas
holiday season as the toll mount
ed steadily Friday night.
At least 272 persons had died
in all types of holiday accidents
during the first 30 hours of the
holiday period, which began at 6
p m. (local time) Thursday and
will end at midnight Sunday. Of
the total, 228 were killed in traf
fic accidents, 23 in fires, and 21
in accidents of other type.
The record holiday traffic death
toll was 556, during last year's
four-day Christmas period.
"Unless motorists put on the
brakes, it's going to be the most
tragic Christmas in history for traf
fic accidents," Ned Dearborn,
president' of the National Safety
Council, said Friday night as the
toll climbed.
The council had predicted 510
would die in traffic accidents dur-
V nouaay Penoo.
The figures told little of the Doiz-
nant human tragedy. At Versailles,
! Ohio, a Christmas auto accident
j left two children orphans. A moth-
er and her four youngsters died
in their flaming home near Flat
Rock, Mich. Three young boys
were victims of another fire at'
Gloucester, Mass. j
At Packwood, Wash., the task !
of recovering bodies of two. broth- j
ers,- drowned when their car i
plunged into a lake, fell to a third
brother who operated a car wreck-
er service.
An unusually heavy flow of
Christmas traffic made the holi
day hazard greater than that of
the usual weekend.
Carter Harrison,
5 Times Chicago
Mayor Succumbs
CHICAGO Ul Carter H. Harri-
rAn fin. t m n wm ....... 1
died Friday. He was 93.
Harrison, who served as col
lector of internal revenue for the
Chicago district from 1933 to 1944,
died in his Chicago apartment.
A Democrat, he bore the same
name as his father, also mayor
for five terms.
The younger Harrison was first
elected to the chief city post in
1897 and retired after serving four
consecutive two 'year terms. He
returned to the office of the mayor
for a four year term in 1911.
Auto Mishaps
Take Liveof
3 in Oregon "
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Holiday traffic accidents in Ore
gon had claimed three lives late
Friday night.
Mrs. Virgil Harrington, about 40,
Benton City, Wash., was killed
about 20 miles north of Ontario,
near the Idaho border.
A car driven by her husband
swerved out of control on an icy
stretch of Highway 30 and crashed
at 12:30 a.m. The husband and
their daughter, Karen, 8, were not
injured but suffered shock.'
Near Oakridge, southeast of
Eugene on Highway 58, an auto
mobile flipped over and plunged
into Salt Greek, killing. Herbert C.
Nelson, 33, San Francisco.
His companion, Georgia Harris,
33, also of San Francisco, crawled
from the car, flagged down a mo
torist, and was treated here for
non-serious shock.
Laura Joseph Douglas, 53, of
North Hollywood. Calif., was killed
outright Friday night when her
automooue ran oil a highway 35
miles south of Roseburg.
She was alone in the car. Au
thorities said the woman was en
route from North Hollywood to a
new home in Sutherlin, Ore., when
the accident occurred.
Salem and a .38 caliber revolver
and a wrist watch were found in
their possession.
While all this drama was un
folding, state police received a
call from a Gervais resident who
said three boys had come to her
home and asked for needle and
thread to repair their clothing.
While the residents were getting
the items they called police, but
the boys ran away before authori
ties arrived.
The six vouths who escaped
from the Wbodburn school are
I Guy Wilbur. LaRue, 17: 1 Wilbur
rnomas uoweu, is; rnomas tart
Ash, 16; Thomas Edward Lee,
in; cnanes i nomas nacvagno,
18, and Wayne Carland Elliot, 18.
None were believed to be dangerous.
PRICE 5c
leave Korea.
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