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PAGE TWO THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEB. 21. 1946 Negro Sentenced To Die In Chair; Confession Read Gallup, N. M Feb. 21 HH Louis Young, 44-year-old negro convict, today was sentenced to die in the electric chair April 23 for the knife-slaying in Santa Fe last November of Pretty Mrs. Eloise Kennedy. At the end of one of the short est murder trials in New. Mexico court history, a 12-man Jury early today ended two hours of delibera tion with announcement that Young was guilty of first degree murder. He was charged with killing Mrs. Kennedy, a former Denver socialite, with thrusts of a kutcher. knife in the bathroom of her fashionable apartment. . Young burst into a negro spirit ual as he was led from the court room after hearing his ; death sentence. Officers restrained sob bing Leon G. Kennedy, Jr., Santa Fe bank employe and husband of the slain young mother, as he lunged toward the retreating fig ure. No Clemency Suggested The Jury made no recommenda tion for clemency. Judge Wil liam A. Barker, who ordered the trial held here rather than at Santa Fe, set the execution date after asking Young if he would care to make a statement. The negro rose to his feet and said:"MI am here to suffer a' pen alty. -I am not guilty. You will find in the bible that all vengeance belongs to God." Young, a trusty prisoner at New Mexico state penitentiary, then complained that he had been de nied an opportunity to .defend Himself, but thanked the court appointed defense attorneys, Fletcher Catron and Frank An drews, for their efforts. - Arguments Heard Final arguments in the speedy trial were heard last night. Dis trict attorney David W. Carmody, the prosecutor, rested his case at noon yesterday. The defense pre sented- its case at the opening of the, afternopn session and rested at 3 p.m. ' Over objections of the defense, the state entered as evidence a confession to the crime, allegedly sighed by Young. i According to the . confession, read, aloud to the packed court room, Young, who knew Mrs. Ken nedy from having worked for her JII WIC 3l lltTl 111LU UlCt bathroom of the apartment thel afternoon of Nov. 19 and "asked! her for a date." ' "She said she was going to tell' on.me. 1 got scared and stabbed her' the written statement said. "I slashed and stabbed as quick as I could." . The death weappn was a thln-bladed butcher knife. -Confession Quoted Young said he was in the build ing housing the Kennedy apart ment by assignment of New Mexi co state police chief Frank Young, who resigned shortly after th Lost Skier Found Alive in Yosemite n HID 1 T- , I ., I fft.fjriuiw William Jacobs, 26, college student of Boston, Mass., missing 11 days in sub-zero weather and seven-foot snows of Badger Pass, Yosemite Na tional Park, is rescued by Assistant Chief Ranger Homer Robinson OafW and District Park Ranger Duane Jacobs. The skier, who was lost from his party during snow storm, kept alive by eating tree moss and wearing blankets he found in an emergency cache. slaying. Young often did house work for the police chief's daugh ter, who also occupied an apart ment in the building. TUe confession, taken by Santa Fe authorities several days after the crime, then quoted Young as saying he heard someone walking outside the apartment house and fled in fear. The Infant daughter of the Kennedy's slumbered undisturbed in its crib in the bedroom adjacent to the bath while Mrs. Kennedy was slain. Her husband discover ed her body on .returning from work later in the afternoon. . 13 Motorists Given Citations Bend police today reported the issuance of 13 citations for park ing violations on downtown, streets.' Ball was posted by each of the following! Marjorie Carpenter, 1422 New port avenue; Ralph Maddox, Car roll Acres; James Bowles, 1928 Awbrey road; O. G. Jacobson, 1025 West Fifth street; Martin Lusk, 946 Delaware avenue; E. S. Tar rell, 112 Oregon avenue; Arthur Robldeaux, 1030 Newport avenue; Donald Pederson, 354 East Green wood avenue; Dorothy Johnson,. 1614 West Fourth street; F. E. Chambers, Bank of Bend; H. W. Yutner, Madras (was given a warning) ; Jim Hyatt, 1174 Colum bia ..street fetid R. L. Deitrlck, Route 2, box 18. Mrs. Muriel Hensley, 521 East Olney, was cited for not having a driver's license. A new Russlon helicopter of metal construction has two motors and airscrews placed on either side of the fuselage and joined to It by a metal frame. Mail Order Love jCoss Real Cash, Lon.ely Man Avers I Puyallup, Wash., Feb. 21 IP) Love came high forvPaul S. ,Schwald of Puyallup. , In fact, he said today, it cost him more than $1,000 to find out that his mall-order sweetheart al ready was married. . It all started when Schwald an swered a Lonely-Hearts club no tice in a detective magazine and began - corresponding with a woman In Port Huron, Mich., who called herself Geraldine E. Dennison. The post . office box romance hit the peak when the woman ac cepted an engagement ring, along with more than $1,000 dollars pf Schwald's money, ostensibly to Join him at Puyallup, he charged. schwald s love chilled, he said, when days passed without an an swer from the woman. Finally, he turned his troubles over to postal inspectors in Seattle. Yesterday he was notified that a woman Identified as, Mrs. Beu lah Geraldine Brill had been ar raigned at Detroit on charges of using the malls to defraud Schwald. The disillusioned Puyallup lover said he hoped to get his $1,000 dollars back or at least the stamps he says he sent the woman to answer his letters. CITY CHARGE :FACED Astor Jarvis, 87, of Bend, was arrested late last night by Bend I officers on a charge of being in toxicated on Bond street, and was duo to appear in municipal court this evening, Buil was set at $15. ... ; ' Voictof ff Q Kl TV 1343 Central Oregon m D Kilocycle! Affiliated With Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System TONIGHTS PROGRAM ' 5f00 New ', . 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Truman Trying To Avert Strike Washington, Feb. 21 iipi Presi dent Truman today intervened personally in an attempt to avert the threatened nationwide rail road strike by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, both independents. He scheduled a noon conference with BRT president A. F. Whitney and BLE president Alvanley John ston, presumably to urge them to utilize fully the peaceful proced ures of the railway mediation act to settle their wage and rules dis pute with the major carriers. CemDletineVPoll The 300,000 members of the two unions '.are completing a poll favoring a strike to enforce de mands for $250 a day pay increase and important rules changes. Under the railway procedure, the next step would be to set a strike date and Jor Mr. Truman to ap point an emergency board. Ap pointment of the board would force delay of the strike for 30 days. Eighteen other major railroad unions and 131 railroads have agreed to submit the union de mands for 42.50 a day pay in crease to arbitration. The unions withdrew their demands for rule changes at this time. . Whitney na jonnston refused to join this arbitration. Couple Is Married By Long Distance Seattle, Feb. 21 HP) Take it from Mr. and-Mrs. B. B. Wilson, their daughter had a lovely wed. ding yesterday, even though she was in Frankfurt, Germany, and the bridegroom was in Kellog Ida. .- The Wilsons took part In the ceremony a four.way long-distance telephone .marriage. The bride was WAC sergeant Lois Arlene Wilson, 23-year-oia former University of Washington student and the bridegroom, Reid Chapman, a former army staff sergeant. Mrs. Wilson says her daughter, stationed in Frankfurt, expected to be released from service soon, and will be re-married in New York City when she returns from overseas. 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