Where Tot Was Hanged Fifteen-year-old Robert Munday
(left) points to ceiling of basement home in Chicago, as he
re-enacted for police his version of the hanging of Tommy
Laux, 3, whose body was found stuffed in a barracks bag.
Robert told authorities that Tommy was hanged accidentally
while testing a noose for a boys' club initiation. With the boy
are State's Attorney John S. Boyle (center) and Assistant
State's Attorney Edward Breen. (AP Wirephoto)
FALLS ARE GREATEST HAZARD
Farm About as Dangerous
A Spot as There Is
By ROBERT E. GEIGER
Washington VP) A farm is just about the most dangerous place
a family can live and work.
Safety experts have known this for a long time, and President
Truman is trying to make farms
safer. He has proclaimed the
week of July 24 as national
farm safety week.
About 18,000 farm people are
killed each year in work and
home accidents and in automo
bile mishaps on farm roads.
Thousandi of others are injur
ed. Mr. Truman has set up a farm
safety committee. It is attempt
ing to eliminate 30,000,000
farm hazards that range from
mean bulls to unsafe tractors.
Meanwhile, the bureau of
labor statistics has reported
there continue to be more fatal
ities in agricultural activities
than in any other major indus
try. And the bureau of agricul
tural economics (BAE) has just
completed its first major survey
of farm accident costs. Its con
clusion: Non-fatal farm accidents
caused farm people to lose 17,
000,000 working days in 1948.
The cost for medical care, but
not including the lost time,, was
$36,000,000. These, remember,
are only the accidents that
didn't cause death.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE PATIENTS
New Surgical Technique to Cure
Certain Types Mental Disorders
Steilacoom, Wash. U.R) A new surgical technique for curing
certain types of mental disorders was described here by Dr.
Walter Freeman.
Dr. Freeman, a professor of neurology at George Washington
university in Washington, D. C, termed the new operation as
"transorbital lobotomy."
Transorbital lobotomy is
similar to prefrontal lobotomy.
Both are used as a method of
curing mental patients whose
outstanding symptoms are "emo
tional tension, worry, anxiety
and fear."
In a mass demonstration, Dr.
Freeman operated on eight'wo
men and one man here, averag
ing seven minutes per operation.
The patients included persons
who have attempted murder or
suicide.
The new technique differs
from prefrontal lobotomy in
, that the operation is done
through the eye socket. The
upper eyelid is lifted and a
" sharp instrument is inserted
about two inches. A nerve is
severed and the operation is
completed. Prefrontal lobotom
ies are done through the top of
the head.
The knife cuts a nerve that
connects imagination with emo
tions in the brain.
Twenty minutes after operat
ing on one patient, she was sit
ting up and talking with the
doctor.
Nebraska does not require its
state health director to be either
a licensed physician or trained in
public health.
The BAE found the most cost
ly kind of an accident is an auto
accident. The average cost for
medical care for these non-fatal
accidents is $64.
But falls cause more farm in
juries than any other accidents.
In the sample survey of 2,000
accidents, 487 involved falling
from such things as haystacks
and stepladders. The average
cost of each of these accidents
was $45 in medical care. Farm
ers lost an average of 24 days
from each accident.
Machines are the next great
est hazard. They caused 248 of
the 2,000 "simple" accidents and
they cost $61 an accident. Aver
age time lost was 20 days.
In third place among the haz
ards of farm life come farm ani
mals mostly mean ones. Kick
ing horses, charging bulls, bit
ing pigs and similar animals
with unpleasant "dispositions
caused injuries to 233 farmers.
These accidents cost on the
average $36 for medical care.
The farmers lost an average of
19 days from work.
Two Weeks Vacation
Bible School Opens
Zena A two weeks Bible
school is being sponsored by Ze
na Sunday school,' as announc
ed by the Superintendent, Jack
Quiring, last Sunday.
Rev. P. J. Becker, of the Am
erican Sunday School union,
will direct studies under teach
ers, Joan Collett and Geraldine
Palke, at Lincoln school house
from July 11 to July 22. Hours
will be 9 a. m. to 12 a. m.
Zena Sunday school donated
$10 toward the Youth Center
and plans to assist with a fund
later.
Birthday songs were sung for
Ruth Shepard Wright and Alice
Crawford Haldeman during the
regular services.
Announced was an outing for
Sunday school at the R. C. Shep
ard farm at Zena .on July 17.
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Bus Passenger
Ads Strangely
Sunderland, Eng., July 11 P)
Susan Ellison, pretty bus con
ductress, complained in court
today about the strange antics
of one of her passengers.
"He threw a sandwich at me,
whistled on a bird warbler and
then kicked me on the thigh,"
she said, and claimed she had a
bruise to prove it.
"About this bruise on the
young lady's thigh," said defend
and Henry Dinney, 47, "I
would very much like to see it."
"I'm sure you would," drily
commented Judge J. P. Wilson.
He sentenced Dinney to a
month in jail for assult and a
month for beig drunk and dis
orderly.
Two Boys Ignore
Warning; 1 Drowns
EveYett W) Jimmy McCann,
8, and Robert Stanteford 8 ran
away from home Friday night
to go swimming in a prohibited
area on Everett's bayside. Jim
my didn't come home.
His body was recovered this
weekend at Pigeon Creek Junc
tion after a long night search.
Terror-stricken when his com
panion stepped into a hole and
disappeared, Robert ran for
help. After he had traveled al
most two and a half miles across
the city, he stopped at a filling
station, too tired to go on, and
told his story to attendants.
Confused, the boy said his
friend had drowned in the Sno
homish river.
It took police- officers three
hours to quiet the boy sufficien
tly in order to get the location.
Coroner Ken Baker said a third
boy known only as Malcolm
had been present, but he had
also headed for home.
Jimmy was the son of Mrs,
J. D. Pettit.
More Farm Hands
Than Jobs Available
There are more farm hands
than jobs in Oregon agriculture
for the first time in eight years.
The state unemployment com
pensation commission said a
slump in lumbering and influx
of students into the job hunting
population of the state had
boosted unemployment to 42,-
000 early in July.
The total compared with 39,-
600 listed by the employment
office rolls the month previous
and 30,500 a year ago.
Paul Jackson Viall, Jr., who
has joined the staff of the
Telephone Answering Service,
newly established at 155 South
Liberty street. Mr. Viall, a
student at Vanderbilt univer
city, Nashville, Tennessee is
staying with Mr. and Mrs. J.
Gordon Thornton while in Sa
lem. r..z. trough July with a big grlnl
Heat do.in I hurl you half at much
whan youVl fading chippir in a
frtihly drycl.aned tuit or dressl W.
taka willed garments, citan and
prtll 'im, rtturn 'n inaptly,
jaunty, cool at a mountain pooll
Creates and pltals stand pol-you
look ntol d.ipil. the htall Coma
in lodoyl
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'Rarin' to Go "Miss Frosty Fresh," also known as Sue
Thorwall, is all set to serve fresh orange juice from this
mammoth 30-gallon plastic punch bowl to members of the
Institute of Food Technologists at their convention in San
Francisco. Although the orange juice in the punch bowl is
now a liquid, it was fresh frozen the citrus industry's newest
way of presenting the beverage. (AP Telephoto)
KEY TO UNTOLD WEALTH?
Veteran May Have Plan
To Beat Gambling Wheel
By LEO GUILD
(Author ol the "Wizard ot Odds")
How would you like to wake up some morning and find a
piece of paper that would assure
in lifp?. $
a
f aiuuuau giavuducu vet
eran of World War I, who has
been lying on his back in a bed
at Wadsworth General hospital
for two years, thinks he has that
piece of paper and as a matter
of fact, I think so, too! right
now!
Francis McGowan, that vet
eran, a former bank president,
ex-gambling house dealer, and
man of colorful character,, has
figured out a roulette system
which on a $200 investment
guarantees a steady $23 an hour
win on an American wheel!
Of 17,000 systems I've seen,
this one alone looks good.
Only two other systems in the
past few years were temporary
winners. One, based on the
principle that every wheel has
a fault, was played by two col
lege men who watched the
wheel long enough to find out
what number came up more
often than any other, and then
played that number.
And three math students won
on a system for a while it en
tailed watching the wheel for
100 spins, then on the next 100
spins playing the numbers that
come up least often
Neither of these systems had
any basis of fact or mathemati
cal truth, and won only because
of luck.
McGowan's system, on the
other hand, has been checked
bv me. a mathematics profes
sor and a group of motion pic
ture studio accountants, all of
whom have been unable to find
the flaw. It's an ingenious sys
tem of progression on a 2 to 1
payoff column, which forces
the house to give greater odds
than it should.
The implications of this sys
tem are vast, because this math
ematical technique could, if
successful, be used in most gam
bling games. It could either,
in its extremity, end gambling
because certainly the house isn't
going to operate losing games,
or cause some radical changes
Condensed Statement of Condition
of
WILLAMETTE VALLEY
BANK
Salem, Oregon
At of June 30, 1949
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts $ 798,381.64
U. S. Government Securities 411,820.70
Other Securities 165,633.17
Cash, Cash Items and Balances '
with Other Banks 298,556.64
Other Assets 35,970.79
Total Assets $1,710,362.94
LIABILITIES
Demand Deposits $1 ,033, 1 1 6.-44
Time Deposits 582,768.81
Other Liabilities 10,435.79
Total Liabilities $1,626,321.04
Capital Accounts 84,041.90
Total Liabilities and Capital $1,710,362.94
Comparative Figures on Total Depositi
June 30, 1948 $ 888,054.63
June 30, 1949 $1,615,885.25
WILLAMETTE VALLEY
BANK
SJnvlnir.
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you of all the money you want
ln nouse rules to eliminate tne
advantages of this type of bet
ting. Though we failed to read any
where lately of a casino owner
applying for county relief be
cause of a winning system, this
one looks like the answer to
McGowan's future, and right
now he's a man without a dime.
I'm taking McGowan right
from the hospital to the Flam
ingo hotel in Las Vegas, to prove
or disaprove his theory. The
hotel, in the interest of scien
tific advancement (and publici
ty; is giving the old timer a
luxurious free suite, as much ex
cellent food as he can eat, and
eight hours a day play on the
roulette wheel.
I figure that a week's play,
wnicn win De two complete cv
cles of his system, will tell the
story. The vet is sure that this
system will in a month make
him enough money to go to Reno
and then to Europe, where the
wheels take only 3 instead of
the 5-plus- here. He's certain
that the riches of the world are
his.
Even though I've never seen
a system that has actually work
ed without luck, and am still a
bit skeptical, I'd put the odds in
his favor, because I've tried this
tneory on a home roulette wheel
long enough to make it look
possible, although not long
enougn to make it look certain
Some years ago, when Ein
stein first came to this country,
he was deluged with questions
from devotees of gambling sys
tems.
He gave this answer to all of
them:"In the Thirteenth Cen
tury, a monk named Roulette
devised a game which was
named after him, and which
gave the owner of a wheel a
5 519 advantage. This is a
perfect mathematical formula.
With a limit on the game, it is
impossible for any system to
overcome that percentage."
So this now looms as a battle
between McGowan and Einstein!
Only two people in the world
Telescope's Possibilities
Overwhelm the Imagination
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon
Hither Education System
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education System
It seems quite probable that nothing in the history of astronomi
cal science has ever caught and continuously held the public
interest as has the planning, construction and operation of the
huge 200-inch reflecting telescope.
A grade teacher writes that
her pupils never tire of hearing
of this great instrument.
Familiar history now is the
beginning in 1928 of the plans
for a gigantic telescope; Dr.
George E. Hale's persuasion of a
Rockefeller board to provide
$6,000,000 for the project; the
pouring of molten glass in 1934;
the cross-country trip of the 20
ton glass disk in 1935 to Pasa
dena; the grinding, the delay
of work during the war and its
resumption afterwards; the jour
ney of the completed mirror and
its arrival on Mt. Palomar No
vember 19, 1947; and finally the
grand opening ceremonies at the
observatory June 3, 1948.
Although the great Hale tele
scope has been put into limited
operation and some photographs
taken, it is not yet completed.
Complicated tests have
vealed that in some places the
surface of the big mirror does
not have exactly the proper
know McGowan's system from
start to finish he and I al
though I anticipate that after
a couple of days play the sharks
will be watching McGowan's
every move to figure what he's
doing. But they'll have a tough
time of it.
I'll report further from Las
Vegas on whether McGowan's
dream is just a dream or a rich
reality!
(Copyright 1949)
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curvature for the finest reflec
tion of light to a focus. It has
been decided that a little more
glass must be ground from the
outer 18 inches of the face of
the mirror, but it will not be
necessary to send the disk back
to the optical shop in Pasadena
The needed grinding machin
ery will be moved to Palomar
Mt., the mirror removed from
the tube and the work done
there. At no spot will more
than a thickness of 20 millionths
of an inch of glass be removed,
and over most of the strip less
than this. Perhaps six months
time will be required.
The first publication of the
photographs taken with the new
telescope appeared in Collier's
magazine of May 7. These were
principally of regions previous
ly worked on by the 100-inch
Mt. Wilson telescope. The new
pictures show great improve
ments over those taken with
smaller instruments, and usual
ly required far less exposure
time.
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universe and perceiving mighty
star systems a billion light-years
away; twice the distance ever
covered before with optical in
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space 186,300 miles in one sec
ond. The distance it goes in a
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