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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1956)
Pazo Li oecuon 1 LL ' Flying Santa Off Again Doctor Nabbed As Cat Burglar In Calif. Town BELMONT. Calif. (UP) - A 115,000-a-year doctor arrested as be "cat burglar" of this suhur san community said today ho "be :ame unglued" because of over work. Dr. .Inhn Francis Iliordan. 35, mesthetist nt San Mateo's com- nirnity hospital, was arrested Tuesday as he stepped out of sur (ery. Police cave no details of the mrglary with which he was marged. However. Ttinrdan admitted he sad entered one home in his neighborhood, jimmying a rear door with a metal rod. After he rot inside, he said, he heard the radio playing, realized someone was at home and fled. Belmont police refused to say Ihev believe Riordan is the prow ler who has entered a dozen or more Belmont homes in recent months. Some articles disappeared ifter the prowler's visits. Announced Own Arrest Riordan himself announced his arrest at an extraordinary prrss (inference Wednesday. Present ere San Mateo County authori ties and Dr. Harold ("hope. San BOSTON Kdwarrt Kowe Snow (center) author and lecturer. dresses as Santa Clatis with his helpers Mrs, Snow and daughter, Dorothy, 5, prior lo taking off today to visit lonely lighthouses up and down the New Kngland const drop packages containing gifts. Snow hns been handling the role for the past several years. State Withholds School Funds From St. Helens Second Year Failure to Adhere lo Minimum Standards Reason (Jiven The state for the second succcs- sulted from the Inability of the school board and the voters to reach agreement on the type of improvements the district needs to qualify for state school support funds. U. A. Emerson, deputy suncr- sive time has withheld payment , intendent of public instruction of basic school fund money lo the -said sometimes the payment to a St. Helens school district because I few schools is dclaved until thev nt failure to meet minimum stand' ards. The situation apparently has re- Football Star ;!pJaiiibyiu(i(iy XdS'paym; ir ..t. . August and the bring standards up to minimum requirements but he believed this to be Hie lirst case where funds have been withheld on two suc cessive distributions. Principal basis for holding up Hie funds was listed as a lack of classroom space in the district. id not receive a men! of $72. 310 last he December pay ment of $.-0,0!i8 is also being held up. Officials said (he school board has twice presented bond issues lo the voters for new school con struction and they have both been turned down. School Stinerinlendenf Klwnml CAIIHONDAI.K. III. lUPI-An inquest wns scheduled Intlay into I he .'laying of a Southern Illinois University fnolhall slar bv his portly roommate, during a dispute over a minor prank. Fred Sinroll. 211. Slerling. III., admitted killing one of his three mnmmnti.c trith a chnl.t,.., I. lid WpHrirsH.iv. hut rl.-iinwri tin diim'i, I KSoston "id problem lies in Maten County health director and jnR w;ts amdental. He was hotel a d'H'"'" nr opinion on what (Jordan's superior . j without hail on minder thing's 'nstruclmn should ho urulrrtaken. Riordan is married and the fa- filed hy Sheriff Howard Cheatham. lie sai ,Mr school hoard has tlvr of a seven-year-old daughter. The victim. Robert Ratura, 1!). wnl construction of a new high Alter discussing at some length , Danvers. Mass., a sophomore and M',,(,' wl,lu iine citizens want an "dhsessive compulsion nemo-1 star pass receiver on the SU1 ; additions to (he present building Riordan astonished newsmen squad, was shot in the head at constructed. hy disclosing he had been arrested point blank range hy a chitrge as a burglary suspect. "1 feel very bad," he said. "I'm now seeking psychiatric treatment. "I am not under any continuous j compulsion to do irrational thirms. I from a 12 gaune jOiotKun. The other two roommates, .John Abrnmovitch, 21. Haverhill, Mass. described as "prnciicallv n broth er to Raima, and Henry Mi'l man ,tr. in. Park Ridse. 111.. can't remember taking nny-tt,,,-p Hospitalized lor shock alter t;!itE. t'nricr the sires.; of the mo-1 "ie slinoling. ment. I acted witnout reason a'.rt 1 still cant give any reason lor it " Riordan likened his act of prow l.at; to the impule that I'-nds prople to lear jumping oft a hiuh - ulding or to wonder what would happen if they swrrved off the highway at high speed. INSTRUMENT SALE Accordion Save up to 50 Bnd Intlrumenli Sv up to 60 Fin Old Violim Sivo up lo 75 THE MUSIC CENTER 493 Ctnltf St. Siden heeler Ships Burned PtTROIT 'IT'- Two oncr p' oud sidwheelrrn were put In torch Wednesday night, rndir.g an era in Ureal Lakes .transpor tation. As thousands watched from the slore. thr (Irrater iJetrmt and tne Fstrrn States w ere niiinem ! ril into position on Lake Si CL-ir. drenched w ith gaso!:ne and in n:ted. Huge flames shot up from Hie doomed ships, racing hundreds of (ret into tne hitler wnlcr sky ard lighting tip the night lor miles around. The two big ships once were proud members ul the old )&C f!?et which used tn ply the waler ways between Octroi! and Cleve ?n'i with hundreds of passengers I'cund on trips of fun, relaxation (.r business. PW FTMA(iK TAI.KM TI.L AVIV. Israel - Or Louis Gailland. a Sum rerre srntative of the InlernaHonal Red Cross, said Thursday Kcypt and Israel have agreed In discuss an exchange of prisoners, CaiMand Mid he would fly tn Cairo Sun day to make final arrangements for a meeting of representatives of the two countries probably in the Sinai Peninsula. Th Nizam of Hyderabad. last of India's ruling princes, use an emerald the size of his fist as a j4erweihL ( "GOT THE GOOD OLD SNIFFLES!" I KLEENEX TISSUE SIZE PKGS. LIMIT 2 PLEASE Downtown Shipping "-'' '? ' ' . .' .v , . 1 Art Treasures In 5th Avenue 'Palace' Shown New Yorkers Can View Greatest Display of Antiques for $1 1 Br FREDERICK M. WINSHIP United Prna Stall Correipondent NEW YORK (UP) The most fabulous of the half-dozen remain ing "private palaces" Fifth Aven ue soon will be stripped of the treasures that lock one of Amer ica's most acquisitive millionair esses more than 40 years to' col lect. The fate of 1051 Fifth Avenue, a 40-odd room white marble renais sance mansion containing the famed "Lord Nelson Room," was sealed when its owner, Mrs. Mae Rovensky, died last July. The society beauty's widower, indus trialist John Rovensky, plans to sell the mansion and its furnish ings, together with his wife's jew el collection, and retire to his re sort homes. Mrs. Rovensky's hoard of art ob jects, valued at nearly $2 million, will be sold by Parke-Bernet Auc tion Galleries at four sales be ginning Jan. 12 after a public ex hibition of the house for the bene fit of Hungarian refugees. Open To Commoners For $1 admission, New Yorkers will have a chance to see what Parke-Bernet's experts describe as "the greatest private collection of antiques" in America. Only the "400" and very few of them were ever before privileged to step inside what Mrs. Rovensky called "my little museum." Rovensky hopes the mansion will be bought by an Institution in the cultural, educational or art field so it will escape the fate of Fifth Avenue's other great homes. One by one they have gone down to the wreckers to make way for apartment buildings until only six with more than 30 rooms remain today in private hands. I his house was built to last 000 years, but the chances of anyone buying it for a home are very slight," said Rovensky, who is still living in the mansion. "It's the end of an era. I'm the last. you might say." Dispute Over Estate Proceeds of the sale will be added to Mrs. Rovensky's $3.2 million estate about half of which she left to Rovensky, her fourth husband. Several family connec tions, including actress Constance Bennett s son Peter Bennett Plant, 27, are suing for a share of Mrs. Rovensky's fortune which totalled $50 million in the 1920s. Mrs. Rovensky's son. playboy Philip Plant, married Miss Ben nett in 1925 and Peter was born while their divorce suit was in the courts. The Connecticut Superior Court ruled in 1943 that Philip 11 Injured in Bus Flip Still Hospitalized ALBANY (Special)-All but two of the injured Greyhound bus pas sengers who were detained at the Albany General hospital Monday night were still in the hospital Wednesday. Released were Mrs. Eleanor Ahers, Eugene, and Mrs. Pauline Gottfrecken, Portland. The list remained at 11 still under treatment following the overturning of the bus at Tan gent. Added was William, 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heilman, Redding, Cal., whose mother is among those still here, along with her 6-year-old daughter, Linda Sue. The baby was at first thought to be uninjured but subsequent examination disclosed that treat ment was necessary. The other passengers who were released have left for their re spective destinations. Wreck Kills 3 BYU Students MESQUITE, Nev. (UP) Three Brigham Young University stu dents were killed Wednesday and three others injured when their car rammed into the rear of a hay truck while they were en route home to Southern Califor nia for Christmas. The dead were identified by Las Vegas Deputy Coroner H. H. Bi shop as: i Joan Sperry, 20. Pomona, owner and driver of the car; Phillip Cluff,. 19. Long Beach; and Ro bert Mayhem, 18. Larry Taylor, 19, Long Beach, was reported m serious condition with a possible broken back and internal injuries; Jack Reeves, 18, Long Beach, and Maurine Poeh leim, 19, Seal Beach, suffered mi nor injuries. The injured were taken to Sou thern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Las Vegas, about 110 miles south of here. SWISS PRESIDENT NAMED BERN, Switzerland Ifl The National Assembly Thursday : elected Finance Minister Hans Streuli as president of Switzerland for 1957. The election, by secret ballot of both houses of Parlia-j ment, traditionall is based on automatic rotation among the scv-j en members of the cabinet. Streu-' li, 64, was the only candidate to succeed Markus Feldmann, tha president for 1956. SH1GEMITSU TO N.Y. TOKYO uF Foreign Minister Shigemitsu left for New York Thursday night to attend the ex pected admission of Japan at the United Nations General Assembly next Tuesday. Polygamy is legal in British To- goland, Africa, but not generally practiced. 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