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Wednesday, November 30, 1953 !
For Kidnap-Molester
Of Hollywood Child
West Hollywood, Calif. -UP) ; of clothing and driven the un
Sheriffs deputies said today a I usually colored automobile ae
, , . , ! hberatelv to throw detectives
man wanted for kidnapping and ; off hjs p-ath fey discarding them
lexually molesting an 8-year-old j after commiuing the crime,
girl wa last seen wearing oddj jhe sex deviate lured the girl
clothe and driving a pink-col- j from school by saying that her
mother was ill ana ne was iu
take her home.
Good Description
ored station wagon.
Police believed he may havei
worn the strange combination
Broadway Aciress
in Tumble
Injured
New York OJ.P' Actress
Julie Harris, Broadway's new
est Joan of Arc, bowed to a
thunderous ovation last night
with blood streaming down her
chin from a deep cut on her lip.
Misr, Harris, starring in "The
Lark," struck her lip on a stool
during a fall which she is re
quired to take in the play.
The curtain was lowered and
for 10 suspenseful minutes, the
worried audience did not know
Deputies said the victim,
Yvonne Backsdale, gave a good
description of her kidnaper. "If
the child's description is accu
rate" one deputy said, her
kidnaper should be easily recog
nized." The deputy added, how
ever, the kidnaper probably
would discard the clothing.
The girl told deputies her kid
naper was about five feet, 11
inches tall, with dark hair and
wearing eyeglasses, a yellow
hat, red. tee shirt, gray trousers
and black shoes. She said he
drove the late model pink-colored
station wagon which had
pink and black upholstery.
"It's quite easy to spot a pink
colored station wagon," the dep
uty said. "A car like that and
the weird colored clothing is
! even odd for Hollywood."
doctor finished treat- I Girl Found Weeping
up and The fcirl was found weeping
whether the show $'ould con
tinue.
After a
ment, the curtain went
Miss Harris finished" her role in j yesterday near a Santa Monica
the old tradition. Members or blvd. market where her kidnap
er left her several hours after
abducting her. A passerby no
ticed the girl and she was rush
ed to an emergency hospital
where doctors said she had been
badly abused by a sex deviate.
From the child's story, depu
ties said it was apparent that
the kidnaper bound the girl with
wire, slapped her repeatedly
and molested her many times.
The kidnaper, after about two
hours of the ordeal, untied the
girl and drove her to a market
parking lot where he told her
to get out.
the audience in the front row
said her lip was bleeding for the
remaining half-hour of the play.
Sackeii Wished
Success by Truman
San Francisco (U.R Former
D President Harry Truman wished
' tremendous success" yesterday
to the proposed Democratic, lib
eral tabloid newspaper "The
World," to be published in
Portland in March, 1956.
Mr. Truman, here for a speak
ing engagement, was met at the
airport by Sheldon F. Sackett,
editor and publisher of the new
tabloid. Sackett, who publishes
the Coos Bay, Ore., Times ac
companied Mr. Tnjman to his
suite at the Fairmont hotel.
During a press conference at
the hotel, Helen Johnson, wom
en's editoiof the Coos Bay pa
per, asked on the establishment
of a liberal Democratic newspa
per in the Pacific Northwest.
"I wish this paper or any pa-
Churchill Marks
81st Birthday .
London (U.R) The grand
old rnan of Great Britain turn
ed 81 quietly today in the after
glow of bright and hectic by
gone years.
Gray and nearly bald now,
Sir Winston Churchill gathered
his wife and children around
him for a private family lunch
eon. That was all he had in the
way of formal plans.
He felt it fitting to observe
his birthday without fuss now
that the noise of the combat that
called him to greatness is past.
He told family and friends
that he felt such a "minor mile
stone" as his 81st birthday de
served only quiet observance. He
felt this especially in view of
the honors heaped on him on his
80th birthday and the subse
quent homage paid to him on
his retirement as Prime Minis
ter in April of this year.
He still smokes 10 to 12 cigars
a day and still gives his famous
"V" for victory sign at all op
portunities while whipping
around town in a limousine.
Worker Hurt in Mishap
At The Dalles Dam Job
The Dalles U.R) William
Fitzmaurice, 36, Portland, was
reported in critical condition to
day after being struck by a
truck crane boom which col
lapsed while he was working on
The Dalles dam.
Fitzmaurice was working on
a truck crane stripping turbine
forms in main unit five of the
nowerhouse when the arcirient
per with a liberal editorial view j occurred. Ted Leon, 43, The
tremendous success," Truman Dalles, was slightly hurt in the
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Settlement Reached
In Fire Negligence
Portland IU.R) An out-of-court
settlement for S100.000
in a SI, 000. 000 domage suit
brought against the E. K. Wood
Lumber company by the govern
ment for alleged negligence in
controlling a 1951 forest fire
was reported here today.
U.S. District Judge William
East dismissed the government
complaint on stipulation of both
litigants after which Manley B.
Strayer, attorney for the lumber
company, handed a check for
S100.000 to U.S. Attorney C. E.
Luckey.
In another consideration of
the settlement, the company
conveyed to the government half
of a section of timber in Douglas
county, roughly equivalent to
the O&C timber destroyed in
the fire.
O said
1 same mishap.
Jobs Show Increase
Salem !U.R) The Portland
Vancouver metropolitan area re
ported 250,300 workers on the
job last month, about 7000 more
than a year ago and a decline
of only about 1.4 per cent from
the summer high in September.
Tabulations showed slight sea
sonal declines in lumbering,
food processing, construction,
transportation and service lines.
Most other groups changed lit
tle from the previous month.
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India Forests Scanned
For Parrots for Russians
Lucknow, India (U.R) The
forests of Uttar Pradesh state
were searched today for two
beautiful parrots to be present
ed to Soviet Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin and Communist Party
Secretary General Nikita S.
Khrushchev.
The visiting Soviet premier
was reported to have asked for
a parrot when he visited a farm
in the state last week.
Executive Order
Returns La Prensa
Buenos Aires (U.R) A gov
ernment decree-law today order
ed that the newspaper La Pren
sa and all its assets be turned
over to its rightful owners, the
family of Dr. Alberto Gainza
Paz.
Undersecretary of the Interior
Carlos Muniz released the text
of the decree-law abolishing a
law passed by ousted President
Juan D. Peron on April 4, 1951.
That statute ordered the expro
priation of La Prensa.
Dr. Gainza Paz said he had not
been paid for the newspaper and
described the action as confis
cation. The new decree-law orders
the solicitor general of the
Treasury to drop immediately
the suits Peron brought against
the Paz family.
It then ordered the present
government-appointed Interven
er, placed in charge of the paper
last week, to hand over its as
sets in their entirety to the Paz
family as the rightful owners.
Police Chief Gives Quick
Service on Theft Report
Camden, Me. (U.R) Police
Chief John Rainfrette gave a
service station operator, Ollie
Dore, fast service after Dore re
ported three car mufflers stolen
from in front of his station.
Rainfrette took down the com
plaint and went out to a patrol
car to start searching for leads
on the missing mufflers. He was
startled to find them in the rear
seat of the patrol car.
Seems the night police crew
had found the mufflers lying in
front of the gas station and took
them to headquarters for safe
keeping but forgot to tell the
chief.
Klamath
Car Crash Victim
Klamath Falls (U.R) Ed
ward Reeves, 24, Klamath Falls,
died today from injuries suffer
ed last night when his pickup
truck went out of control result
ing in a seven-vehicle accident,
police reported.
Two other persons were in
jured. The mishap occurred on slick
pavement just outside the city
limits. Officers said the pickup
struck two parked cars after
passing a car, knocking them
into two other parked cars, then
swerved back into the road and
struck the car it had passed.
Then the pickup, according to
police, swerved right into a
parking lot and hit another car.
Injured were David Hamilton,
24, Klamath Falls, who was rid
ing with Reeves and Edna Lu
cille Clawson, 21, Klamath
Falls, who was sitting in a car
parked in front of a theater.
Adlai Raps Handling
Of Housing Program
Miami, Fla. (U.R) Adlai
Stevenson accused the Eisen
hower administration today of
conducting the public housing
program with '"slogans" and a
"lukewarm attitude" while
spreading city slums were exact
ing a mounting toll in human
misery.
The candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination
delivered a "non-political" ad
dress to 1,300 city officials and
said there is an urgent need for
a "combination of government
activity and private enterprise
which alone can solve" slum
clearance problems.
"Even the late Sen. Robert A.
Taft, when he sponsored the
housing act of 1949, called for
the construction of 810,000 pub
lic housing units within the next
six years," Stevenson said.
"Those six years have gone by
now, with only 190,000 units
built, and another authorized.
The current program is only
45,000 units for this fiscal year,
and even this congressional de
cision is 10,000 units higher
than the administration's recom-
I mendation."
Shrine Hospital Named
Beneficiary of Bequest
Portland (U.R) Shrine hos
pital for crippled children in
Portland yesterday was named
beneficiary of a S3000 bequest
in the will of Mrs. Angeline Mc
Gill, widow of a former Port
land nurseryman.
Others named in the will were
Central Presbyterian church of
Portland, S1500, the First Pres
byterian church of Salem, S500.
Balance of the $40,000 estate
went to relatives.
Abbott Case Moving
Toward Crucial Point
Oakland, Calif. (U.R) The
trial of Burton W. Abbott moved
today towards one of its crucial
points the story of how the
body of 14-year-old Stephanie
Bryan was found near a remote
Trinity County mountain cabin.
While an eyewitness waited to
testify to the discovery, the de
fense continued its cross-examination
of Olaf Anderson, a map
expert who supervised the prep
aration of some maps of the area
around the cabin.
The cabin is owned by a mem
ber of Abbott's family. The de
fendant claims he went there on
April 28, the day that Stephanie
disappeared. However, he has
said he left his Alameda home
for the cabin at 11 a.m. Step
hanie disappeared five hours
later in Berkeley.
Information Granted
For Atom Power Study
Olympia (U.R) The Wash
ington State Power Commis
sion has been granted accessQto
nuclear information for. studies
in atomic power production,
Chairman Thomas 2ust sn
nounced today.
The commission was granted
a permit by the Atomic Energy
Commission for access to nuclear
technology under the AEC act of
1954.
J. Frank Ward, commission
managing director, said the per
mit accomplished the same pur
pose for the "use of the infor
mation " that previously was
achieved under study agreement
which various agencies entered
into with the AEC.
Ward said the power commis
sion was "very much interested"
in nuclear development in recent
months and was following tech
nological advances "with a great
deal of interest."
Prospects Seen Good
For Shipbuilders
San Francisco '!U.R) A Cali
fornia congressman believes the
prospects of West Coast ship
builders in the next 10 years
look good despite the fact their
industry is at a low ebb right
now.
This note of optimism was
sounded yesterday by Rep.
George P. Miller, an Alameda
Democrat. He was one of 150 in
terested persons who attended
a meeting of Gov. Goodwin J.
Knight's Committee of Ship
Construction and Repair.
"Pacific coast companies are
planning to build $500,000,000
worth of ships in the next dec
ade," Miller said. "They are
making plans for a big trade in
the Pacific basin."
Freedom Brief Matter
For Released Convict
Salem (U.R) Freedom was
only a matter of moments for
George Fredericks. 58, released
from the Oregon state peniten
tiary yesterday.
He had served 10 years of a
15-year sentence for armed as
sault. But the 58-year-old man was
arrested at the prison gate by
Marion County Deputy Sheriff
Amos Shaw on a hold order for
California authorities, who said
they want him for violating his
parole from a life sentence for
robbery.
California authorities were ex
pected to be here in two or
three days to return Fredericks
to San Quentin.
Khrushchev Tells
Of Nuclear Blast
Calcutta, India (U.R) Sov
iet Communist party chief Nik
ita Khrushchev told an Indian
official that a nuclear explosion
in Russia affected nearly 100
square miles of territory, it was
reported today.
On a river cruise with ' West
Bengal's chief minister, Dr. B.
C. Roy, Khrushchev referred to
the dense population of Calcut
ta where he and Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin were hemmed
in by 5,000,000 cheering Indians
on their arrival yesterday.
Sources said the Communist
chief ' advised Roy to "spread
Calcutta out lest some madman
decides to throw an atom or hyd
rogen bomb."
There was no further report
on the conservation, or wheth
er Khrushchev referred to the
recent hydrogen bomb test made
by the Soviet Union and an
nounced last week.
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