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
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35, and wounded Kemmerer
Town Marshal Frank Kulinski,
50, in the abdomen.
Then Durrant said the man
kidnaped him and forced him
to drive to Green River and
then through Manila, Utah, and
into the Uintah Mountains."
"We got stuck there and de
cided to turn around and come
back," Durrant said. "After we
got back to Green River, I let
him out just across the tracks
from the depot."
During his spree, the man
killed a Kemmerer, Wyo., auto
dealer, a Green River deputy
sheriff and wounded the Kem
merer marshal. He also threat
ened to kill a Green River fam
ily. 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."
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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.
There was strong political and
public opinion pressure for a Big
Three "what next" meeting if
the pacts go through as scheduled.
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Senators Studying Top,
Cases in Stock MairEteit
By DAYTON MOORE
United Press Staff
Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Senate
investigators are studying about
20 "tip and rumor" cases where
insiders apparently profited on
the stock market at the expense
of suckers, it was disclosed Sat
urday. 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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The committee staff now is
concentrating on. the Pantepec
case. Edward T. McCormick,
president of the American Stock
Exchange, already has given the
committee the names of some
persons, and their brokers, deal
ing in the stock on the Monday
following Winchell's telecast.
McCormick has promised to
produce later the remainder of
the names and the transcripts of
the two Winchell broadcasts in
volved. Fulbright said that after a
study of this material, the com
mittee first will call as witness
es persons trading in large
blocks of Pantepec stock if such
action appears justified.
The committee then will de
cide whether to .call Winchell as
a witness, Fulbright said."
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He also said that the ' com
mittee will dig deeper into the
other similar tip .cases if a pre
liminary study indicates any
market manipulation.
Winchell issued in New York
a statement saying that he had
told the truth in his stock tips
and "nobody has yet challenged
the veracity of what, I report
ed." This apparently was in con
flict with what Fulbright said
about Amurex. '
But elsewhere in the state
ment Winchell said, ' "No one
has ever challenged the ' accur
acy of my report on the comp
any in question."
McCormick testified Friday
that as far as he knew Winchell
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