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Tearful Seaman Held
Under Heavy Guard
For Murder of Girl
Johnstown, Pa. (U.R) A
39-year-old merchant seaman,
who taid his tearful confession
to the suffocation of a Hallo
weening six-year-old girl was the
first time he had "cried in 20
years," was held here under
heavy guard today.
Authorities said feeling was
Tunning real high" in Cone
maugh, a steel town of 8,000
persons, in the wake of the kill
ing which police labeled the
crime of a sex deviate.
Police said Harry Gossard,
twice married neighbor of his
first-grade pupil victim, made a
written statement detailing how
he killed Karen Mauk last
Thursday night as she was on a
"trick or treat" tour of Cone
maugh. Hearing Tonight
The 6-foot, 200-pound sailor,
who was arrested Saturday when
he returned from visiting a sis
ter in Philadelphia, will be given
a hearing before Squire Stephen
McGanka tonight.
A heavy guard was posted
around Gossard when he was
taken Tuesday to the cemetery
hillside, about two miles from
Ccnemaugh, where Karen's nude
body was found.
Asked if it was the place
where he had killed Karen, the
bespectacled sailor, who has a
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record of at least five arrests,
including two of a sex nature,
replied, "Yes."
He then was whisked to Johns
town jail before crowds with a
minister before making a signed
statement. He wept throughout.
Confronted By Evidence
Gossard, who lived with his
mother in Conemaugh since his
second divorce, first made an
oral admission when confronted
by evidence which was gathered
by police even before his arrest.
Officers said he had been a sus
pect since the slaying was dis
covered. A 14-year-old girl identified
him as the man who attempted
to molest her in Conemaugh
shortly before Karen disappear
ed. Officers - also showed him
casts made of tire tracks found
on the hillside and scientific
proof they were made by the de
fendant's automobile.
Another Murder
Karen was killed just 36 hours
before the body of another
school girl was found at Ali
quippa, Pa., about 70 miles west
of Conemaugh. The victim,
Helen Jean Bryant, 16, had been
killed as she walked down a
path to catch a schoolbus the
previous Monday.
Beaver County Dist. Atty.
Richard P. Stewart said Elijah
Thompson, 22, unemplo yed
Negro laborer who lived near
the victim, has admitted
bludgeoning the Aliquippa High
school sophomore to death with
a rock.
Alegrian Troops
Combat Terrorism
Algiers (U.R) Troops and
police turned out in force today
from the Sahara to the sea to
combat the upsurge of terrorism
that has claimed nine lives in
Algeria this week.
The bloody clashes, incited by
propaganda broadcasts from
Egypt, mark the .first serious out
break of mass terror in France's
Algerian provinces since World
War II.
Two French armored columns
converged on the terrorist-held
village of Arris, in the bandit
ridden Aures Mountains, while
strong patrols of troops and po
lice maintained order in the key
cities of Algiers, Oran, Constan
tine. Batna and Setif.
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Bob Hope Receives
Forgotten Passport
Paris (U.R) Bob Hope's U.S.
passport arrived from London
today, in time to save the ski
nosed comedian from threatened
confinement in a French jail.
Hope absent mindedly left the
travel document behind when he
flew here from the British capi
tal yesterday to appear with
Maurice Chevalier in a televi
sion show. French authorities
admitted him to the country,
but said they would lock him up
unless the passport arrived in
short order.
The comedian advised friends
in London of his predicament by
telephone, and the director of
the TV show brought the pass
port with him when he arrived
today.
Spruce Budworm Still
Big Forest Threat
Portland U.R) The spruce
budworm still is a big threat in
eastern Oregon despite wide
spread action to control it, the
Northwest Forest Pest Action
committee was told here yester
day. Miles Compton, in charge of
insect work for the Oregon
Board of Forestry, said more
than 1,000,000 acres still are
badly infested. Some 3,218,660
acres have been sprayed during
the six-year program.
Compton said timber most
needed spraying included Ocho
co, 210,000 acres; Malheur 235,
000; Powder river-Baker water
shed, 76,000, and Eagle Creek
Catherine creek area, 48,000.
About two-thirds of the area is
in national forests.
McLeod
McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Herb
ert Schroeder from San An
slemo, Calif., have been guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young
on Rogue river. The Schroders
had gone to Detroit, Mich., to
pick up a car and then drove
through Canada before returning
home. .
Roy Vaughn is in the Com
munity hospital and his friends
wish him a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding
Jr. and four daughters from
Oakland have been guests of the
former's sister, and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Hume. On Octo
ber 26 the Hardings were din
ner guests at the home of an
other sister and family at Pros
pect, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Vaughn.
Mrs. Henry Schuder has re
turned to her home here after
two weeks in Temple City, Calif.
Mrs. Shirley Wilson of Val
Iejo, Calif., is visiting her mother
Mrs. Audrey Collier here.
Mrs. Ralph Young has return
ed to her home here after a
visit with relatives in Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koher
nik of Roseburg were recent
guests of Mrs. Kohernik's par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hard
ing Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyles Berry
have been called to 29 Palms,
Calif., by the serious illness of
his mother. The Hardings are
taking care of the motel during
their absence.
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HAPPY VOTER Former
President Harry Truman is
all smiles as he leaves voting
booth after casting ballots at
Independence, Mo. He re
fused to make vote predic
' tions.
Truman Well Pleased
With Election Results
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) For
mer President Harry S. Truman
received election news with a
wide smile today and said the
results "suit me very well."
But he said returns were not
"overwhelmingly enough" in fa
vor of Democrats.
He listed two Democratic vic
tories as "particularly pleasing,"
Alben W. Barkley's senatorial
triumph in Kentucky and George
Christopher's defeat of Jeffrey
P. Hillelson, Republican incumb
ent, in the Fourth Missouri Con
gressional district. That is Mr.
Truman's home district.
The former President was
asked if he thought the Demo
cratic trend in the election ex
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isfaction with the Eisenhower
administration.
"Yes," he said. "I think it
does." ,
Japanese Tuna
Threat in California
Los Angeles U.R) The direc
tor of the Tuna Research Foun
dation said today a "rising flood"
of imported Japanese tuna
threatens the livelihood of 18,
000 southern California fishery
workers.
Edwin L. Morris told the Ad
club the Japanese portion of the
American tuna market had ris
en from 15 per cent before World
War II to 35 per cent at the
present time. He said the imports
posed a "grave threat" to Cali
fornia's "fourth largest indus
try." Morris warned that large in
ventories of Japanese canned
and frozen tuna would be
shipped to the American market
as soon as Japan is granted full
membership in the general agree
ment on tariff and trades, now
meeting in Geneva.
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West Coast Ship
Tieup Expanded
San Francisco (U.R) A tacti
cal walkout by AFL sailors tied
up another ship here yesterday,
bringing the total of vessels af
fected on the Pacific Coast to
more than a dozen.
The tieup came about as a re
sult of the sailors refusing to
work overtime in port. Election
day is an overtime pay day
under waterfront union con
tracts, and the sailors do not
have to accept overtime.
The no overtime went into ef
fect last week end at Pacific
Coast ports as an outgrowth of
a jurisdictional dispute between
the sailors and the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's Union over the unloading
of ships.
Latest vessel to be affected
was the Matson Line freighter
Hawaiian Planter.
The squabble began over
which union had the right to un
load at a specific hatch on the
coastwise freighter Pacificus in
Long Beach. The ship was de
serted by both factions Wednes
day. It was still idle today. Oth
er vessels were idled in Seattle,
Tacoma, Portland, and San
Pedro.
Chairman To Ask End
Of Un-American Group
Washington U.R) Rep. Fran
cis E. Walters (D.-Pa.) who is in
line to become chairman of the
House Un-American Activities
committee in the next Congress,
announced today he will ask the
House in January to abolish that
controversial committee.
Walter said he would ask the
new Democratic controlled
House to transfer the functions
of the Un-American Activities
committee to the Judiciary com
mittee, of which he is second
ranking Democratic member.
The Un-American Activities
committee, headed during the
last Congress by Rep. Harold H.
Velde (R.-IU.) has been one of
the most controversial groups in
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Scientists Study
Armadillo Births
Houston, Tex. (U.R) Two
Rice Institute scientists have
tackled a curious problem
when a female armadillo gives
birth, why does she have ident
ical quadruplets?
Dr. Roy V. Talmadge of the
biology department and Dale
Buchanan, 26, a graduate stu
dent working on his doctor's
degree, plan to spend the next
two years on the project, fi
nanced by a $15,000 grant from
the National Science foundation.
Dr. Talmadge said the founda
tion made the grant because it
thinks the study of armadillos
may give humans the key to
more and better parenthood.
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