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r-ortiana u.K) .Portland po
lice have arrested three more
men in a roundup of suspects in
a burglary ring which has stolen
thousands of dollars worth of
goods in an estimated 60 bur
0glaries in the last three months,
The latest arrests brought to
seven the number now in cus
tody in connection with the bur
glaries.
Police identified the three as
Charles B. Bliss, 24, Leland'E.
Coffman, 31, Sandy, and Nich
olas R. Gillander, 21. All were
charged with burglary.
Four others, including a 24-
year-old woman, already were in
jail.
Detectives said they had re
covered some of the loot which
.ranges from television sets to
Squor.
Eugene Hunter
Found Alive, Well
Springfield ' (U.R) An elk
hunter, reported missing over
night in the rugged, snowbound
Olallie trail area east of here,
was found alive and well yester
day. t Delbert Van Schoaich, nim
e rod warden for the Eastern Lane
county fire patrol, said he had
received a radio report from
state police officer Robert Steele
that Pat La Chapelle, 55, of Eu
gene, had been found.
Steele's report said La Chap
elle had shot an elk yesterday,
but in coming out his car had
slipped off the road. The hunter
spent the night in a watchman's
shack.
SPEED RECORD SET
New York (U.R) A United
Air Lines four-engine DC7 air
liner yesterday set an unofficial
speed record of five hours and
22 minutes for a flight from Los
Angeles to New York.
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from heart attack. Practice putting green has been developed near house. (International)
Dampening of Ambitions Said Toughest
Part of Working With Amateurs on TV
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) The tough
est part about working with am
ateurs on TV is putting a damper
on their ambitions, according to
Ted Mack.
Mack, emcee of "The Original
Amateur Hour" for eight years,
pointed out that many sing-for-
supper performers just don't
have enough stuff ever to make
the grade.
"I probably spend more time
discouraging amateurs than en
couraging them," he said. "I've
seen too many kids beating their
brains out wanting to end up in
the movies or the Metropolitan
who just won't ever make it."
Mack, who began life as Wil
liam Maguiness in Greeley, Colo.,
joined the Amateur Hour staff
back in 1935 when it was being
chaperoned on radio by Major
Edward Bowes. Up to that time,
Mack had worked as a saxo
phonist, orchestija leader. When
Bowes died- in 1946, the crew
was disbanded.
"Then I woke up one day," re
called Mack, "and TV had start
ed. Dumont had three stations.
I was the only one of the staff
who had been a performer so I
stepped into Major Bowes' role
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"The role was tough for me
mentally. Most of us thought
that the only thing that made
the whole show click was
Bowes."
Mack's first move in his role
as emcee was to toss out the
gong which was used to signal
an untimely demise to an inept
performance.
"Undoubtedly, if we left the
gong in, we might have kept the
viewers who looked at the show
from the sadistic viewpoint. But
these kids on the show let every
one know that they're going to
be on television and I just can't
bring myself to embarrass
them."
The most important thing
about the ABC-TV Amateur
Hour, Mack said, is that it gives
ordinary citizens a chance to
grab one big moment in the
spotlight.
. "We've made it possible for
thousands of average guys who
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Washington (U.R) The Post
Office will issue a memorial
stamp Dec. 20 honoring Andrew
W. Mellon, industrialist, philan
thropist, and secretary of the
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have never had an audience, cab
drivers and bank clerks and bus
inessmen, to get it out of their
system," he said.
Mack admitted that occasion
ally there have been some
strange things in the systems of
the 17,000 amateurs who have
appeared over the past two dec
ades. Among other things, the Ama
teur Hour has presented a man
who played the bull fiddle with
his toes, a girl who tap-danced
upside-down, a boy who played
the harmonica with his nose and
one singular fellow who billed
himself as "The Man with the
Gray Flannel Head" and played
a tune by punching his noggin.
Of course, there have been
some conspicuously successful
graduates, too opera stars Rob
ert Merrill, Miml Benzell and
Regina Resnick, ventriloquist
Paul Winchell, comedians Larry
Storch and Jack Carter, the Ma
riners and Actress Vera Ellen.
"And there was also one fel
low who worked in a quartet in
one of our traveling units who
L didn't think had the stuff at
all," said Mack. "He wanted to
solo, but we wouldn't let him.
"He was a kid from Hoboken,
N.J., named Frank Sinatra."
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Subversive Board
Will Investigate
Cain Qualification
Washington (U.R) T h e Sub
versive Activities Control Board,
acting on information supplied
by the Justice Department, is
preparing to air "bias and preju
dice" charges against board mem
ber and former Sen. Harry P.
Cain (R.-Wash.)
Cain has sharply criticized the
administration's s e c u ri t y pro
gram. An authoritative source said
the board will suspend hearings
in a case charging the Washing
ton Pension Union with being
a Communist front. Cain has
been presiding over the hearings
at Seattle since Oct. 8.
Called io Washington
The informant said the hear
ings will be suspended for at
least 10 days while the board
formally investigates Cain's qual
ifications. He said Cain has been
called ' ck to Washington.
The board inquiry will center
on a statement which Cain made
while a member of the Senate,
denouncing the Pension Union
as a "notorious Communist
front." This statement was called
to the board's attention by As
sistant Attorney General William
F. Tompkins.
Tompkins is in charge of the
Justice Department's security
program, which Cain has public
ly attacked recently as being
unfair and un-American in some
of its aspects.
Tapeslry of Space
Noted in Discovery
Mount Hamilton, Calif. (U.R)
Star-gazers have discovered
another indication that the mil
lions of bodies in the sky are
woven together in a vast and
ordered tapestry of light and
space.
A body of astronomers at the
Lick Observatory here reported
the first fruits of a 7 5-year , re
search program begun in 1947.
They have discovered that the
great bunches of stars called
"extra-galactic nebulae" are not
scattered in a random fashion
over the surface of the sky as
many scientists have believed.
Instead, there seems to be a
gigantic system of order and or
ganization throughout the uni
verse, according to Dr. C. D.
Shane, observatory director.
The California scientists have
found the huge nebulae are dis
tributed in clusters and that
there seems to be a strong ten
dency for the clusters of extra
galactic nebulae toward larger
clusters of two or more. These
findings, according to Shane
suggest a greater order to the
universe than has been shown
before and may have a bearing
on theories about its origin.
Utah Governor
Endorses Knowland
Davenport, Iowa (U.R)
Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah
Wednesday night attacked the
foreign and domestic policies of
the Eisenhower administration
and endorsed Sen. William
Knowland (R-Calif.), for the Re
publican nomination for presi
dent. ,
He said in an interview the Ei
senhower administration has fal
len down on campaign promises
to cut the budget and is carrying-
out the same "giveaway"
programs followed by the Tru
man administration. He called
the giveaway programs uncon
stitutional. Lee also called for an end of
subsidies to farmers.
"It 'isn't right for us to subsi
dize one segment of the econ
omy and not others," he said.
Brewster, Wash. (U.R) The
fourth generator at Chief Joseph
dam was put into operation
Wednesday.
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BRR! WINTER'S HERE
Seven-year-old Sandra Nel
son, dressed for winter, still
has to cover her ears with
mittens as Salt Lake City reg
isters three-below-zero. It was
the coldest Nov. 14 in the
city's history.
r 15f To Be Sent
Home From Germany
Frankfurt, Germany (U.R)
U. S. consular officials disclosed
yesterday they were returning
to the United States a 15-year-old
American girl they said
posed as a soldier's wife for a
month.
Officials did not give her
name but said 'her home was
in Wichita, Kan. They said she
arrived here Oct. 7, on a pass
port identifying her as the wife
of Pvt. James R. Stonehouse, 27,
of Stamp, Wash.
Stonehouse, of the 10th Infan
try Division, is in the guard
house at Scheinfurt on charges
of being absent without leave.
The story of the girl came out
at his courtmartial two weeks
ago.
Army authorities found the
girl living in a hotel in Schein
furt and said she had no money
The Army turned her over to
consular officials because she
was not officially an Army de
pendent. The Army wired the girl's
mother in Wichita to send
money for her passage but was
told "Tell her to get the money
from her husband."
Army authorities said the girl
and Stonehouse had been living
together in Kansas before he
was transferred from Fort Riley,
Kan.
Communist Spy Plot
Uncovered in Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon (U.R) Le
banon police have announced
they had uncovered a Commun
ist spy ring headed by a Polish
official who bribed a newspap
erman to steal secrets from the
American, British and French
embassies.
Police identified the head of
the ring as George Gutkovsky,
Poland's consul general in Da
mascus, Syria, and said he was
active in both Lebanon and Sy
ria where' girl friends of the
newsmen gave him copies of em
bassy correspondence.
Police said they had obtain
ed a confession from Lebanese
newsman Pierre Raphael that he
had acted for Gutkovsky in this
country and often met him at
the village of Kahheleh, barely
sjx miles from Beirut.
Court Denies Petition
To Rewrite Ballot Title
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Supreme Court yesterday
denied a petition asking the
court to rewrite Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton's ballot
title for a proposed constitution
al amendment.
The title concerned the so
called "federal plan" for appor
tioning the Oregon Legislature.
Milwaukie, Ore. '(U.R) Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York
will speak next Tuesday night
at a Democratic party dinner
rally at Milwaukie Union High
school.
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