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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!"
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'Palace' Shown
New Yorkers Can View
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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. There are a few wom
en chiefs.
Plant died childless, and Mrs. Ro
vensky did not recognize Peter as
her grandson In her will.
REFUGEE FLOW SLACKENS
VIENNA W Fewer than 1.000
Hungarian refugees crossed the
frontier into Austria in the last
24 hours. Austrian police thought
the 48-hour general strike called
in Hungary at midnight Sunday
may have slowed them down. i
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