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peting for title "Maid of California" at State Fair Sept 1 through 11. From left: Marcia
Malatesta, Amador, Marilyn Van Deusen, San Bernardino; Joan Beckett, Sacramento; Joye
Monroe, Fresno; Nancy Smith, Alameda; Elaine Herrmann, Monterey; Patricia Hutchens,
Trinity;' Gay Cowie, San Diego; Judy Kileen, Kern; Margie Morec, San Mateo, and Arlyta
Grove, Contra Costa County. Winner will preside over major Fair activities. (International)
A Nichol's Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Fra Futaw Writer
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Washington (U.R) I'm a lit
tle perturbed about a letter I
got from Miss Gertrude Whit
tum of Spring-
JJ J' ' I field, Mass.
f lntM ine iaay gui
ail woricea up
about a piece I
wrote saying
that some man
ufacturers still
are turning out
such articles as
button shoes,
long under-
wear with the
Human Nichols drop -down or
"barn-door" rear, and high col
' lars.
Miss Whittum mentioned in a
nice letter to me that she had
no interest in antiques like the
high-button shoes, or night caps
with tails on. All she was con
cerned about, she said, was the;
hich collars for men. She was
interested, she said, because she I
had a young friend who "isnr
comfortable unless he is uncom
fortable." She explained that her
friend just doesn't feel right un
less he is running around in a
high collar.
I had a mind to sick Miss
Whittum 'onto forfter President
Herbert Hoover, who brought
the high collar back in the B.R.
(before Roosevelt) days or to
some of the bartenders I know
who put more collar in a glass
of beer than they do beer.
But I didn't
"I'm taking a trip," she said,
''and what n young friend;
wants more than a new Cadil
lac is a bunch of stand-up col
lars. He has been making them
himself out of cardboard, but
what with the hurricanes, wet
weather and all, they won't
stand the strain of buttons,
Either the fore one, or the
one aft."
In desperation, Miss Whittum
confessed that her young friend
has managed, at no little ex
pense, to get himself a few old
celluloid collars. But these have
a distressing habit of catching
fire when a pipe, is lighted if a
man gets reckless.
Also he has some of the
starched kind, but she says these
cannot be scrubbed and starched
properly where he lives, wher
ever that is.
The lady sys that her friend
had been mailing what collars
he has to her to send to a Chi
nese laundry.
"Time was," the lady said,
"when we had 26 Chinese laun
dries here in Springfield. Today
ye have only five and they are
far apart, and not only that, they
are pretty slow on doing up
high collars."
A deplorable situation, indeed.
Miss Whittum said she finally
wrote to England and somebody
sent her back a collar four
inches high.
"They got the wrong measure
ments," she added. "Not only is
it a choker around the neck. It
is so high that it makes him hic
cup and gurgle. He has to take
it off when he eats, because he
can't swallow. Not only that, it's
the wrong color. Who wants to
wear a green collar with a blue
suit?"
Hospital for Horses
Is Builder's Project
Chicago (U.R) Joe Prince
makes a living building homes,
but he spends much of his time
on another project, a hospital
for horses.
Prince and his late partner,
Stanley Bartecki, who owned
and raced horses, had planned
the horse hospital together.
After Bartecki died, Prince
went ahead alone.
First, he purchased a run
down 60-acre cattle farm on the
southwest side of Chicago. Then
he began refurnishing, painting,
rebuilding. Now he has facilities
for 100 horses of all. typres.
These facilities include a $25,
000 hydraulic operating . table,
an X-ray machine for therapy,
padded recovery stalls for in
jured horses and numerous
other aids. '
"We have a veterinarian here
all the time," he said, "but any
vet can come in and work. We
make all facilities available to
him."
Since Miss Whittum read the
first story I .wrote, she knows
by now that she doesn't have to
go clear to Britain to get high
collars.
She can prowl around most
any country store and , find a
few. Or if she has a bundle of
long green, she can go . to a
maker of custom shirts and col
lars fin a big city. These outfits
will sell her all the collars she
can afford, and tailor them clean
up to the jowls.
And if Miss Whittum buys a
couple of dozen or so at aftime,
the man might pitch in a couple
of polished collar buttons.
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Military Reservation
Sees Area As NY Port
Camp Drum, N. Y. (U.R)
This northern New York mili
tary reservation is being en
visioned as a staging area and
the nearby Black River as a
port of embarkation by the
Watertown Chamber of Com
merce. The group proposes that Black
River Bay, an arm of Lake On
tario, be utilized to take deep
draft ships and be named the
"Port of Northern New' York."
It was pointed out that such a
port would be about 225 miles
closer to. Europe than is New
York City.
Traffic Loses Whistle
And Man Loses Cows
Williston, Vt. (U.R) Farmer
Eugene Blair usually listens for
the whistle of the train before
he drives his cows across the
Central Vermont Railroad
tracks.
Recently he cocked an ear
but all he could hear was the
noise of cars on a nearby high
way. He was halfway across the
tracks when a train swept down
and killed four of his cows.
Complained Blair:
"The traffic these days is so
noisy you can't even hear a train
whistle no more."
Mystery of Missing Greenlease Ransom Money-
Continues To -Baffle Police and FBI Agents
St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Roger
Lind, an airport employee, walk
ed into a Minot, N.D., bank some
weeks ago to cash hi paychecE.
He left the bank with the first
clue to a 5300,000 mystery that
has baffled the shrewdest inves
tigators in the United States for
almost two years.
The clue Lind carried from
the North Dakota bank was a
$20 bill, one of 17,000 bills paid
to the kidnap-killers of six-year-old
Bobby Greenlease.
In the days that followed
three more of the ransom bills
turned up. Then they stopped
It was the first time any of
the ransom notes had been seen
in circulation since two business
associates of wealthy automobile
dealer Robert C. Greenlease put
$600,000 into a duffle bag and
tossed it from a speeding car
near a culvert on a lonely road
outside Kansas City.
Largest Ever Paid
The ransom, largest ever paid
in a kidnap case, was delivered
according to instructions of the
kidnapers in eirly October. With
in 48 hours the-body of Bobby
Greenlease was discovered in a
shallow grave in St. Joseph, Mo.
and Carl Austin Hall and Mrs.
Bonni&rHeady were arrested in
St. Louis for the crime.
When he was captured Hall
had thousands of the ransom
bills packed in his luggage. The
luggage was opened at the New
stead District Police station. It
Air Force Nylon Cord
To Defy Rope-Stealer
Washington U.R) Parade
watchers in the nation's capital
have been getting a little too
much rope.
After each parade culprits pull
out pocket knives, slash off some
of the rope used to hold back
crowds, and haul it away before
workmen have time to get
things cleaned up.
Police figure the rope thefts
average upwards of 150 feet per
parade, and Washington has lots
of parades.
So the police have asked the
General Services Administration
for 167,000 feet of surplus nylon
rope once used by the Air Force
to tow aerial targets. Worked in
side the nylon are four strands
of knife-proof heavy wire.
held $293,000 of the $600,000
delivered by the Greenlease fam
ily. Hall insisted he had most of
the $600,000 with him when he
was arrested. The officers who
took him into custody, Lt. Louis
Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer
Dolan, were equally insistent
that all Hall's luggage was
brought into the station.
Sentenced io Prison
The two officers were even
tually dismissed from the police
force, convicted of perjury and
sentenced to prison terms.
They were convicted mostly
on the testimony of witnesses
who said they saw Hall brought
into the police station and that
the luggage was not brought in
with him.
The mystery of the missing
$300,000 grew deeper with the
execution of Hall and Mrs. Heady
and the insistence of Shoulders
and Dolan that they knew noth
ing of the missing money.
The FBI speculated unoffic
ially that the ransom was paid
in 13,401 $20 bills and 3,570 $10
bills. Serial numbers of the bills
were made puDlic.
For more than a year the mys
tery of the missing money . re
mained one . of the greatest in
the history of crime. It was often
compared with another famous
crime money mystery: The $1 -000,000
cash holdup of a Brink's
vault in ston.
Then the mysterious ransom
notes began seeping into circu
lation. After Lind discovered the
first missing $20 bill, three other
$20 bills were found at the fed
eral reserve bank in St? Louis
by FBI agents.
One of the bills was traced
to the Union National Bank at
Springfield, Mo." A second was
traced to the Sedalia Bank and
Trust Co., at Sedalia, Mo. There
was no indication -where the
third bill came from.
The FBI still doesn't know
who is putting the bills into em
ulation;" whether the remainder
of the ransom money is intact; or
whether it will ever be found.
But agents are sure that it still
exists, that it hasn't been de
stroyed and that there is a chance
of finding it.
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