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Law Mceirs Seek 3rd - Virthn.: If Wild Bflurderer in Wyoming Green River, "Wyo. U.R) Law officers Saturday started looking for a third possible mur der victim of a killer shot down Friday night in a Green River home when it was learned the murderer was not ex-convict Melvin Henry Gray, as he had been identified. A fingerprint check showed the man shot down by a railroad agent Friday night after he had killed a Kemmerer auto dealer and deputy sheriff, wounded two other men and held a 17- year-old boy as hostage during a 14-hour attempt to escape a police dragnet, positively was not Gray, Sweetwater County Sheriff George Nimmo said the change in identification may mean Gray himself was a victim of the kil ler, whose true identity has not been established. The gunman was driving Gray's car when he started his bloody reign of ter ror at Kemmerer, Wyo., Friday morning and was wearing a belt with a buckle bearing the initials "MGH" when he was killed Fri day night. Changed Clothing Nimmo also said it was learned the youth held as hostage on the roadblock eluding ride Friday, Bob Durrant of Evanston, has disclosed the killer stopped at a town in Utah during the day, bought new clothes and threw his old clothing, except for the belt, away. The clothes . were discarded along the highway. Nimmo said the discarded clothes may have contained ad ditional identification. The killer was identified as Gray after the car, which was abandoned at Evanston when the gunman kidnaped young Durrant and escaped in the boy's souped up hot rod, was found to be reg istered in Gray's name in Wa shakie county and that Gray him self answered the general phy sical description: of the killer. The first description of the killer was obtained from one of the two men he wounded at Kem merer shortly after 4 a. m. Fri day. The man, Don Wagner, 35, described the assailant as being about 6 feet tall and having dark hair and a ruddy complexion. Gray was approximately 6 feet tall, had brown hair and blue eyes. The killer was shot down in the home of Mrs. Gus Kalivas after he had threatened to kill the woman and her 20-month-old twin daughters if officers tried to take him. Special Union Pa cific Railroad Agent G. W. Sher man disregarded the threat and -shot through a-glass door pane with his shotgun, hitting the gun man In the, chest. A few minutes earlier the killer had surprised one of the .men trying to flush him out of the railroad freight yards, Deputy Sheriff Ed C. (Red) Phil lips, and shot him In the chest. - Phillips died a few hours later. Officers started the search through the yards after young Durrant, who had been released , by his abductor at Green River, told officers he last saw the man , walking across the railroad over pass leading into the railroad property. The chase started at Kemmer Oil Leases Set Up In Yakima Region Yakima, Wash. (U.R) One oil company had 52 oil leases on rec ord with the county auditor here Saturday, a regional firm had two on record in Benton- coun ty and three other oil firms were reported leasing land in Benton and Yakima counties. Ohio Oil company had 52 leases on two to eight acres of land in the Grandview-Mabton area of Yakima county. . In Prosser, Leo Oil company, a corporation of Benton and Franklin county men, recorded two leases on 6,270 acres in the county. The law firm of Swanson and Wilson, Yakima, attorneys for Leo, reported that Standard of California, Shell and Richfield also were believed to be buying oil leases. Spokesman for the law firm said it appeared doubtful that immediate drilling, other than exploratory work, was planned but that the firms probably were buying the leases in hopes of finding reserves of oil for use when established fields run out. Second in Series of Musical Programs Set - Second in the series of "Sing ing Time," musical radio pro gram presented by Station KMED Tuesdays at 9:45 a.m. for children of Jackson county's el ementary schools has been an nounced. According to the di rector, Miss Helen Robinson of Southern Oregon college, . the five songs to be featured this week are "On the. Mountain Height," Swiss folk song, "Am ericans Shake Hands," "Round up Lullaby," "Shuckin' the Corn," a Tennessee folk song and "The Keeper," old English folk song. The "Singing Time" program is presented annually as an acid to the rehearsal of songs for the county music festival. er about 4 a. m. Friday when the gunman shot and killed Kem- merer ,auto dealer Albert Muffei, Youth Tells Story of Ride With, Crazed Double Slayer Green River, Wyo. (U.R) The young president of a hot-rod club told Saturday how he spent 12 hours with a crazed killer be fore a railroad agent shot down the gunman. Bob Durant, 17, said the gun man kidnaped him at Evanston, Wyo., Friday after killing one man and wounding another. The killer was destined to kill yet another man before being slain in Green River Friday night. Durrant said the killer en tered an Evanston service sta tion just after dawn. "He waved a gun right in my face and asked me where our money was," Durrant said. "I took him over to the cash reg ister and just pulled the handle and let him at it. He scooped up all the bills." Korean Armistice Commission Should Disband, ROK Says Seoul, Korea (U.R) South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said Saturday the Korean armistice agreement is "dead" and the four-nation neu tral truce supervisory commis sion should be disbanded. Pyung said the armistice "now has become just an excuse for artifically prolonging the cessa tion of hostilities." The T. S. has proposed abolition of the com mission. Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) Red China has agreed to a reductidn in the Neutral Nations Super visory Commission in Korea but flatly rejected an idea of abolish ing the commission, Radio Peip ing said today. Reply to Request The Red stand was taken in reply to a request by Switzer land and Sweden, . members of the commission, that the com mission either" be abolished or reduced. The Communist reply came from Red China's Foreign Ministry.-. " ' ' "7 It said that in view of the fact that the number of person nel in the NNSC is not stipulated in the armistice agreement, re ducing the number of members is acceptable. Peiping's answer said the com mission "is necessary" and that Red China "is not in a position to give consideration to the sug gestion of putting an end to the activity of the NNSC." GAS PRICE WAR Salem (U.R) Standard brands of gasoline sold as low as 18 cents a gallon here Satur day as a price war continued. Some stations kept a price of from 23 to 25 cents.' One dis tributor said he sold more than 1500 gallons in two hours. TO ERECT SPANS ' Portland (U.R) Hamilton and Thorns of Eugene has been awarded a $108,890 contract for furnishing, fabricating and erect ing 593-foot plate girder spans for . the superstructure of a bridge over the Willamette river, three miles west of Oak ridge, the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads announced today. Little Girl in Fine Shape After Rare Heart Surgery Houston, Tex. (U.R) . Doc tors who performed an intricate four-hour operation on little Ste phanie Gordon to correct a con genital malformation of a heart vessel reported Saturday she was in "fine shape." Stephanie, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gordon of Queens, N. Y., was operated on Friday in Methodist hospital. Her parents are here, but her twin sister, a fully normal child, remained with her grandmother in Queens. A doctor in New York discov ered that an obstruction in Ste phanie's aorta, or great blood WMKJE TS LASTS! 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Union Pacific Special Agent Gaylord Sherman fired the death-dealing shotgun blast at pointblank range through a win dow of the house where the man had taken refuge from a posse of armed men. Threatens Twin Girls "I'm dead, dam it, come get me, the killer shouted as. he crumbled to a bed and died in his own blood. Cornered in the Gus Kalivas home in Green River, he had threatened the lives of the 20-month-old Kalivas twin girls and several other members of the family during the gun battle. "Get back or I'll kill the kids," he shouted at the sur rounding law officers. When he moved away from the children for a second, an officer shot him in the leg. As the killer buckled away from the twins Sherman poked out the bedroom window and blasted him with his 12- guage shotgun. He fatally wounded Deputy Sheriff Red Phillips during the battle. Phillips caught a slug in the chest and died a few hours later after an emergency opera tion at Rock Springs, Wyo. There was no explanation for the man's rampage. Guard Exposed to Radiation in Tests Of Atomic Devices Las Vegas, Nev. U.R) Doctors conducted tests Satur day to determine whether Eu gene D. Haynes, 36, a security guard at the Nevada test site, was injured when he accidental ly exposed himself to heavy ra diation after last Tuesday's at omic blast. ' Atomic Energy commission spokesmen said Haynes, of Co tati,' Calif., drove in to the blast area of high radiation by mistake and was exposed to 39 roent gens of radiation, 10 times the amount considered safe by AEC. Most Serious Case It was . the most serious case of exposure to occur at the pro ving grounds. Blood tests were run on Haynes to determine if the ra diation has affected his blood count. The AEC said Haynes felt nothing during his brief trip into a highly, contaminated area. His exposure was discovered during routine processing of a sensitive film badge worn by all workers at the test site. The test series has been under way since Feb. 15. Weather con ditions have caused postpone ment of the next shot until Monday at the earliest vessel, was growing and slowly choking off the heart's blood circulation. So critical was her condition that she was given only two months to live unless something was done. The doctor sent Stephanie here here because an operation that was necessary to save her life was originated at the Texas Med ical Center in Houston. . It called for grafting a piece of the . aorta around a portion of artery located near the kid neys. Stephanie went into sur gery Friday and was wheeled out four hours later, according to doctors, "in fine shape." 2-8086 Today French Officials Predict Meeting of Big three Leaders Paris (U.R) French official sources said Saturday a meeting of the western Big Three foreign ministers appears certain after final ratification by France of the German rearmament treat ies. French sources said the meet ing had not been set definitely but that it was under discussion. Paper Adds to Information The conservative morning newspaper Figaro added weight to the information in a Wash ington dispatch that the Big Three probably would meet there in April. Informed sources said such a session - appeared certain after ratification of the Faris pacts which Premier Edgar Faure hopes to push through the Sen ate before end of the month. American sources here doubt ed if the Big Three could get together before the May meet ing of NATO foreign ministers in Athens when they would see each other anyway. But French sources prefer an early meeting. Serious Question There still was a serious "if." Faure has no assurance he can get the pacts through the French upper house without amend ments. An amendment will send the pacts back for another ex plosive debate in the National Assembly. 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Two of, the cases, involving Pantepec Oil and Amurex Oil, were aired briefly Friday in the Senate Banking committee's in vestigation of the sharp rise in stock prices in the past 18 months. Chairman William Ful bright (D-Ark.), said other cas es are under study. Fulbright said it has not been decided whether to call as a wit ness columnist Walter Winchell who plugged the two oil comp any stocks in television broad casts. Following Winchell's Sunday night broadcasts, brokers on the American Stock exchange, New York, were deluged with orders from throughout the country to buy the stocks at the market opening Monday. As a result, prices of the two stocks shot up on the opening Pantepec last month and Amurex in April, 1953. Lose Two Million But they soon went down and persons buying at the opening prices suffered losses about $2,000,000 on Amurex. Amurex stocks went down that much in 90 minutes after the company denied Winchell's report on its activities, Fulbright said. 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