Country Boy Steals Savings
Of Father To Play City Slicker
West Bend, Wis., Dec. 5 (U.R) A 16-year-old former country
boy has been charged with delinquency on his admission that he
stole $2,600 of his father's savings and spent it lavishly to play
city slicker.
The boy, whom Police Chief Arthur Juech declined to identify,
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Backfires
Philadelphia, Dec. S UP)
Walter Bowe was struggling
to push his 1938 model auto
out of an intersection in south
Philadelphia when a courte
ous stranger stepped up and
offered to help.
The two pushed together a
while, trying to start the car.
Then the stranger suggested
that he, as the lighter man,
might get in and work the
starter while Bowe continued
to push.
Bowe pushed, and pushed,
and pushed. The stranger
ground away on the ' starter.
At last, the motor turned over.
The courteous stranger Just
kept his seat, and drove off
with Bowe's car.
Boy Gets Reunion
As Birthday Present
Wichita, Kans., Dec. 5 (U.R
Freckle-faced Robert Davenport
reached the end of a six-months
search for his father Saturday
in time for the celebration of
his 18th birthday.
The sandy-haired boy was
united with his father here
after a 2000 mile, six-month
trek from Montana. And he
received a message through
police channels from his moth
er in Harlem, Mo., whom he
had long since given up for
dead.
The reunion was in the home
of R. D. Lambert, a Wichita
contractor and former Scoutmas
ter who had helped Robert find
his father, 43-year-old George
Davenport of Shidler, Okla.
It was a tearful and happy
meeting for the boy, who was
awakened by his father early
Saturday after an all-night
vigil in Lambert's home.
Robert was still too dazed
from the rapid events of recent
weeks to decide what to plan
for the future. He tentatively
elected to adhere to his father's
plea to "come to Shidler and
live with me."
Hot Water Removes
Ice From Reefers
North Platte, Neb., Dec 5
A new method of using hot
water to remove ice from refrig
erator cars, long a costly and
laborious operation in the trans
portation industry, was an
nounced here today by officials
of the Pacific Fruit Express.
O. I. Larsen, assistant general
manager of Pacific Fruit Ex
press, which is Jointly owned by
Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific railroads, said that the use
of 190 degree water cuts to
one - third the time needed to
clear a car of bunker and body
ice by the manual method.
The system, which can accom
modate 40 cars, will be used at
North Platte to clean empty
westbound "reefers" moving
over Union Pacific from Omaha
and Kansas City of their ice.
Cleaned cars will be used to
transport fruits and vegetables
under ventilation or heat during
the winter from western points
to the east.
Mr. Larsen said PFE has been
experimenting with hot water
clean ng since 1943.
Mrs. Vivian Foy Dies
Encino, Calif., Dec. 5 VP)
Death has taken Mrs. Vivian
Foy, 53, wife of Film Producer
Bryan Foy. She died last night
after a long illness. In addition
to her widower, Mrs. Foy leaves
a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jane
Landstrom, and two granddaughters.
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' took the money from his father's
bank account through a ruse and
squandered it on expensive gifts
for friends, fine clothes, and
trips to Milwaukee.
Juech said the boy's school
mates knew him as a veritable
fashion plate.. But his parents
thought he was going to school
in the ordinary clothing they
provided for him.
The boy confessed that he
would leave home each morn
ing and go to a hotel room he
had engaged secretly. There, he
would change into expensive
gabardine shirts and tailored
suits before goine to school.
On his way home, he would
stop at the hotel room and
change back to his regular slack
and-sweater outfits.
Juech said the boy financed
his spree by calling his fath
er's bank and posing as his
father. He told them to have
the money ready "for my son to
pick up.
The boy was well known at
the bank and employes asked no
questions when he appeared for
the funds.
Juech said the boy's parents
showed little interest in their
loss and that he personally had
signed the delinquency com
plaint against the youth so that
he could be given a psychiatric
examination.
"I blame the parents as much
as the boy," the chief said. "If;
a case of too much freedom and
a kid trying to keep up with the
Jonses."
The father, Juech said, made
his money in farming and re
tired during the war. The fam
ily moved to West Bend, giving
the boy his first chance at town
life.
With the money gained by the
ruse, the boy began spending
heavily, buying clothes of the
type he had seen men wear in
movies and purchasing fancy
gifts for his girl and boy friends.
As a result, the boy's popular
ity zoomed and he cut a fancy
social figure in school circles.
Once, Juech said, a suspicious
merchant checked by telephone
with the boy's mother after he
made purchases with $100 bills.
The mother told the merchant
"that was all right."
But the end came when other
suspicious merchants reported
the boy s heavy spending to
Juech. The youth was seized
before any bank statements had
reached his father and he didn't
know about his son's activities
until officers told him.
Juech said a total of $4,400
appeared to have been taken, but
the boy still had $394 on his per
son when arrested. Some of
the embarrassed friends return
ed the expensive gifts he had
given them.
'The boy apparently realizes
now that he didn't have to do
what he did to get a reputation
as a sophisticated city boy.
Juech said.
U of O Chosen
Washington, Dec. 5 VP) The
University of Oregon Medical
school and the University of
Washington are among 10 insti
tutions for which the atomic en
ergy commission said yesterday
it had approved new research
proposals in the fields of biology
and medicine.
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mops his chin after addressing SlOO-a-plate national demo
cratic committee dinner in New York as his bride speaks to a
friend across the table. Barkley challenged republican leaders
to state specifically what government, welfare activities they
would curtail or abolish. The dinner was Mrs. Barkley's
first official appearance as the nation's second lady (Acme
Telephoto)
East Salem School Boys
Form New Organization
East Salem, Dec. 5 A new
has been completed at Swegle school. It will be the Gray Ys.
The leader will be Oscar Wright. Members who will meet each
Wednesday night at 7 o'clock
Donald Kufner, John Harger,
The first half of the meeting
will be for business, with the
simple rules of democracy with
the Christian philosophy being
taught and this followed by a
recreation hour.
These groups are compara
tively new on the west coast, be
ing organized under the advice
of Roth Holtz, YMCA secretary,
and his counselers. There are
now two at Keizer, one at Lin
coln and several in the city. The
number each leader has will be
kept small.
Mrs. Robert Fromm was host
ess for a meeting of the Merry
Minglers club at her Silverton
road home Thursday afternoon.
A dessert luncheon was served
to Mrs. Orlen Kring, Mrs. Carl
Snyder, .Mrs. Albert Fabry, Mrs.
Henry Sprick, Mrs. Covil Case,
Mrs. John Ackerman, Mrs. Har
vey Page, Mrs. Cleo Keppinger,
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ess, Mrs. Kring, received a spe
cial prize.
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Seoul, Korea, Dec. 5, (U.R)
Sen. Allen J. Ellender, (D., La.)
said today that the United States
should "call Russia s hand now'
instead of pouring more and still
more money into economic aid
for communist-threatened coun
tries.
Ellender told the United Press
he believes in giving such coun
tries immediate aid and telling
them they must get rid of the
threat of communism with such
help as they get.
One of the ranking democrats
on the powerful appropriations
committee, Ellender made it
plain he does not want to cut
off aid to these countries. But
he deplored what he implied was
their use of the threat of com
munism as propaganda" for more
U.S. help.
He did not elaborate on his
plea for calling the Soviets' hand
but expressed grave concern
over the mounting U.S. national
debt.
"We have a two to six billion
dollar debt right now," he said
"With tax loses caused by recent
strikes our government's 1949
deficit will be $10,000,000,000.
"Russia is bleeding us white.'
Ellender made his remarks
shortly after arriving at this
south Korean capital following a
two-month world tour which
carried him and three other
members of his party through
Europe and most Asiatic coun
tries except China.
Crommelin Likens
Defense to Nazi's
Washington, Dec. 5 U.PJ
Navy Capt. John G. Crommelin,
who touched off the recent uni
fication row, says he believes
the present U. S. military setup
is too much like Nazi Ger
many's.
In a broadcast on the Mutual
Broadcasting system's "Meet the
Press" program, the veteran
naval aviator criticized present
defense policy because it does
not give the armed services "con
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lels it much too closely for a
democracy like the United
States."
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