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WHERE 32 BURNED TO DEATH Fireman peers grimly into the
twisted, seared interior of Chicago trolley in which 32 persons were
trapped and burned to death after the trolley crashed Into a truck
trailer loaded with gasoline. The driver of the truck was also
killed and 50 other persons injured, 10 seriously. White object
(atrow) is the skull of the motorman, apparently one of the first
killed as the flaming gasoline enveloped the trolley.
Sheriff Would Compel Prison Cons
To Be Witness at State Executions
New Orleans (U.R) S h e r i f f
John J. Grosch, who used to
coax confessions out of drug ad
dicts with a gold-plated hypo
dermic, would like to make at
tendance at executions compul
sory for every convict in the Or
leans Parish prison.
" Every thief in here," Grosch
Fred Alton Haight
Teacher of Piano
Classical and
Popular
Studio, 318 Leverette Bldg.
said, "is a potential murderer.
If they had to look at a man get
ting 2,700 volts in the electric
chair, they'd think a long time
before returning to crime when
they got out of jail. If they did
go back to crime, they wouldn't
pack a gun.
Prison Made Attractive
Grosch keeps an average of
500 prisoners, some for as long
as two years in his prison. He
has the walls painted in orchid
and blue, the floors waxed and
flowery drapes over the bars, be
cause he believes a model jail
helps reform prisoners.
But at the same time, Grosch
said, he is convinced that a pris
oner ought to leave jail with a
memory that will last him a life
time, and seeing an execution
probably would make a more
lasting impression than pastel
decorations and shiny floors.
All the cell blocks in the parish
prison loog out on the prison
Roosevelt, Warren Anxiously Waif
Outcome of California Primary Vote
Sacramento. June 2 (U.R)
New York born James Roosevelt
and native son Earl Warren wor
ried today which way Califor
nia's 1.250,000 new voters would
go in the state primary election
next Tuesday.
Roosevelt and Warren are
seeking nomination for the state
governorship. Roosevelt is a
democrat and Warren, now in
his second term as governor, is
a republican. But they are com
peting directly against each other
for both democratic and repub
lican nominations.
SO Per Cent Gain
The state has gained around
4 million new residents since
1940. a gain of more than 50
per cent. Since 1942, 1.250.000
new persons have become elig-
courtyard. Therefore, Grosch
said, all he would have to do to
make prisoners attend executions
would be to hold them in the
courtyard.
"Some people tell me that the
prisoners would look the other
way when they put the man in
the chair," he said. "I don't be
lieve they would; I think they
would look. Why, every time we
have an execution, we turn away
2.500 people."
Matter of Psychology
Grosch said that what he was
proposing is simple psychology.
He said he learned about psy
chology when he was chief of
detectives in New Orleans for
16 years and caught 13,000 crim
inals who were convicted.
Twenty-seven of them were exe
cuted. "When I was a detective." he
said, "I took enough hypoder
mics and dope from hop-heads to
go into business. Filially, I got
a gold-plated hypodermic and it
started me thinking.
"Everytime I got a hop-head I
suspected of something, I put
him in the cooler for awhile.
Then I'd lay my gold-plated hypo
dermic out on my desk and have
him brought in. He'd take one
look at that hypodermic and tell
me everything he knew.
Some Oppose It
"After he got through talking,
I'd give him a shot of pure
warm water. He'd get a big smile
on his face just like it was the
real thing."
Grosch said there was no law
to prevent him from holding exe
cutions in front of his prisoners,
as long as six official witnesses
are present. But he said he had
public opinion to consider and
persons he had talked to about
the plan were about half for it
and half against it.
ible to vote, 900,000 of them
since 1946.
Roosevelt hopes they vote the
way they did before they came
here, because a fair majority of
them apparently are democrats.
And Warren hopes they fit into
the usual California pattern of
voting democratic in national
elections and republican for state
candidates.
There has been no real test
of the effect on the migration to
California on the state voting
habits. In 1946 Warren swept
both republican and democratic
nominations in the primary and
had no opposition when the
heavier voting of the general
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election came along.
Republican Get Votes
Republican candidates for oth
er state offices piled up good
majorities that year in such "rap
id growth" areas as the San
Joaquin valley. But two years
later the same valley went for
Truman and ousted a republican
congressman.
One theory Is that the newcom
ers will" give Roosevelt, thgir
sympathy. He established' Cali
fornia residence in 1938 and
there have been attacks on him
though not by Warren as
carpetbagger.
Warren Has Background
On the other hand, there's a
theory that the newest Califor
nian is the most vociferous Cali
fornian and will vote for a native-born
man. Warren has back
ground in three of the most im
portant areas of the state. He
was born in Los Angeles, grew
up in the" San Joaquin valley
and went to school and worked
in the San Francisco bay area.
Democrats have outnumbered
republicans in the state for 20
years. Right now there are about
three democrats to each two re
publicans. The ratio was about
the same in 1942, indicating new
comers have also registered in
that ratio.
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Friday, June i. USD
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Grants Pass Newsman
Going to Modesto
Grants Pass, June 2 Vincent
E. Vandre, news editor of the
Grants Pass Courier for three
years, left today for Modesto,
Cal., where he will be employ
ed on the Bee, one of the Mc
Clatchey newspaper chain. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Van
dre and their children, David,
eight, and Melody, seven
months.
Replacing Vandre will be
Ralph C. Curtis, well-known
Oregon newspaperman, who re
cently has been on the Oregon
City Enterprise-Courier. He is
former published of the Ontario
Argus and former assistant pub
lisher of the Oregon Statesman.
Curtis has a son and two
daughters, and two grandchil
dren. He will reside in an apart
ment at 710 East J street.
Vandre was an employee of
the San Francisco Chronicle be
fore coming to Grants Pass, and
is a navy veteran.
Dead line Sunday Classified te el
Noon Saturdays.
Demonstrations of
Home Freezing Slated
A demonstration nroeram to
help homemakers with food
freezing problems has been set
for next week at four Jackson
nonntv nhrlc with Pnnntv
Agent D. Eula Wintermote fur-
nisning tne answers, ner demon
strations will deal with quick
freezing processes for fruit, vege
tables, meat and chickens.
All four programs will begin
at 1:30 p.m. and are expected to
be of interest to homemakers
who freeze their food in home
freezers or who rent food lock
ers. Miss Wintermote will be at
Prospect high school Wednes
day, June 7; Rogue River high
school, Thursday, June 8; Shady
Cove school, Friday, June 9, and
Gold Hitt high school, Wednes
day, June 14,
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one blue eye and one brown eye,
has inked a movie contract with
Universal-International In Roily
wood. Normal's normal in all
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