TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1949
PAGE SIX
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
Brother Starves,
Emaciated Sisters
Are Questioned
Paola, Kan., March 29 HPi Two
nfiod sisters, emaciated from hun
ger .were held in the Miama coun
ty jail today as officials revealed
a case of death in a house of
plenty.
Sheriff Kenneth Cook said he
found the sisters, Mattie and Man
dy Stachling, helpless in their
beds when he smashed the door of
their cluttered home late yester
day. In the next bedroom was the
body, of their brother, Albert. Cor
oner William Brown said Albert
died about two weeks ago, appar
ently from hunger.
Food Plentiful
There was plenty of food in the
house, the sheriff said, but the
sisters were too weak to reach it.
They refused to eat when taken
Jnto custody, and would give no
reason for their actions. Mattie
was 63-years-old, Mandy 65, and
Albert 70, officials said.
Officials discovered the bizarre
situation through a letter written
Roy Wilson, local undertaker. The
crudely written letter, received
March 17, asked Wilson to come
to the home. "Albert is dead," it
said. When Wilson went to the old
Stachling home, two miles south
west of here, the sisters met him
at the door.
"No," the undertaker said they
told him, "Albert isn't dead any
more, and we don't want a doc
tor."
Returns to Town
Wilson returned to: town. But
the matter preyed on his mind,
and yesterday the undertaker In
sisted Sheriff Cook investigate.
Cook, Undersheriff Fred Ivy,
Jr., and Dr. Brown, the coroner,
went to the home. They were ap
prehensive over the greeting they
would receive, for the Jstacmlngs
had warned neighbors that tres
passers would be shot.
No one answered the sheriff's
knock, Cook and his deputies had
to break down three doors to gain
entry. They found the house clut
tered with antiques. Junk, old pa-
pers, tin cans and refuse piled
halfway to the ceiling. Narrow
corridors led through the confu
sion. The party found Mattie and
Mandy locked in one bedroom.
Too weak to move, they mumbled
"Albert ... no more."
Across the hall in another room,
the sheriff's party found Albert'.
The sisters were boarded at the
jail last night, because they had
no other place to go. The sheriff
said another sister, Mrs. Bertha
Whltehorn, was a prominent law
yer in Pasco, Wash.
POLIO VICTIM MOTHER"
Los Angeles, March 29 (U'l It
cost barber Willard Dare a cus
tomer and $1 to hear news that
his wife, confined in an iron
lung four months, had given
birth to a healthy daughter.
Dare was shaving a customer
when he heard the news.
"I guess I was excited," he
said. "I grabbed the man's hat
and coat, gave him a dollar and
told him to have the job finished
down the street."
His wife, Virginia, a polio vic
tim, was taken out ol the lung
for the birth.
Sporf Parade
By Oscar Fraley
(Unili I'renM SitorU Writer)
New York, March 29 fil'iThere
was undeniable proof today that
it doesn't pay to-be daffy with
the Dodgers any more as Henry
Robert Behrman, last legitimate
member of Brooklyn's old order,
passed over the bridge to the
hated lew xork oiants.
With him went Brooklyn's last
claim to happy idiocy. It was
strict notice that the slapstick
shenanigans which made the
Dodgers a universal favorite.
alienating fans from hometown
teams in every other city, would
be tolerated no longer. It also
made Brooklyn just another Ball
club.
Sale of the skinny guy they
call Hank was a requiem to the
fun-loving masses drawn to tne
Dodgers by their eternal daffi
ness. For here was the last link
to such lovable Bums as the inim
itable Babe Behrman and the de
lirious days of Uncle Wilbert Rob
inson. The Dodgers needed Behrman
as a relief pitcher. But they need
ed him even more as a problem
child who upheld the rib-tickling
reputation which a generation of
characters had woven into a leg
end. Remember the days of the bla
tant Babe and three men on one
base? And the riotous afternoon
when Uncle Robbie, trying to
break ' a hitting slump, drew
straws to decide the batting or
der and the pitcher hit in the
cleanup spot? Well, Hank should
have been there then.
The Long Island nature boy Is
a throwback to that delightful
era of colossal wackiness. On top
of that, he can pitch, even though
some critics contend that he goes
unperturbed against great hitters
because he can't remember names
and even Stan Musial and Johnny
Mize look like just any other
batter.
Hank's troubles are manifold.
Some center on his lack of in
clination to be conventional in
the matter of training rules and
bedtime hours. He also rates as
one of the few minor leaguers
who refused to report to the ma
jors, although circumstances dic
tated his action.
That happened when he was at
Montreal last year. The Dodgers
called him up and Hank replied
politely in the negative. Then,
when he changed him mind, the
Dodgers changed theirs. They at
tributed it to "legal complica
tions." Hank, it seems, was right
the first time.
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PATROLMAN DESIGNS
Resignation from the city po
lice force of Francis Couch, pa
trolman here for the past month,
was announced from the city of
fice today. The resignation will
be effective on April 1, and fol
lowing a month's vacation Couch
plans to enter his former field of
work. He is a machinist, and was
in the employ of the Bend Iron
Works before entering police
service.
H. A. Caslday, police chief, said
the vacancy would be filled by
Max Weaver, a Trailways driver
Ul Jjrcaem. vveavei ta a veician
of the recent war.
'Bonus Player'
Rules Changed
Cincinnati, O., March 29 'IP'
Thfee changes in the rules re
garding "bonus players" were
made today by the office of base
ball Commissioner A. B. Chandler
in an effort to cut down on the
number of new players in that
special category.
The most Important switch
raised the ceilings on bonuses
that can be paid wilhout the
player being classified as a "bo
nus player."
The new standard will be $6,000
celling in triple A and double A
leagues, $4,500 in class A, and $3,
000 in classes B, C and D. Until
now the ceilings have been $6,000
in the major leagues, $4,000 in
triple A, $3,000 in a double A, $2,
500 in class A, $1,500 in class B,
$1,200 in class C, and $800 in class
D.
A second change In the rules
makes the bonus ceilings apply
to the whole contract, instead of
being paid over In yearly install
ments. A third change allows a
bonus player who is drafted pr
awarded on waivers to be option
ed out by his new team for one
year.
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The picket line was slated to
continue at the Pine Tavern as
negotiations to have It removed
were closed last week following
failure of the proprietor, Miss
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