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Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- TRIO OF HUNTERS had failed to catch even a sight of a deer all day, and two admitted they had had it. The third insisted cn continuing his search. Suddenly he came head on to two enormous grizzly bears. Ke threw down his gun and hotfooted it back to camp with the bears in hot pursuit. He dove through the entrance of the tent and yelled to his companions, "You boys skin these two, and I'll go back to try to f.r.d some more." A kid at Michigan State re sided from the football squad after one practice scrimmage. "I didn't mind a thing," he explained, "till one varsity back grabbed my left leg, handed my right leg to a tackle said 'Make a wish!' " -and Sentiment still lives in Hollywood, insists Herb Stein, and cites in idence the star who wants to get divorced in the same dress $a which her mother got divorced. 1357. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Feature Sjndictte. Gamblers Said Sick People Suffering 'Dangerous Neurosis' 52nd Year MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents iCIoverlawn Herd Tops In Milk Production Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957 Pages 1-6 Southwest's Most Dangerous Man Pavs for Crime With Face in Mud Editor's note: This is the second of two dispatches outlining the life and death of Gene Paul Norris. the most dangerous man in the Southwest. By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York IP A study of chronic camblors has drawn the conclusion that they invariably gamble not to win but to lose. This led to a second conclusion which was that they are sick people suffering from a "dan gerous neurosis." Dr. Edmund Bergler, psycho analytic psychiatrist and well known Freudian theoretician, distinguished in his study be tween "real" gamblers and the "Sunday type" who gamble oc casionally, casually, and trivial ly. The "real" gambler, he con tinued, has characteristics which are so pronounced they can not be mistaken. These are: 1. Gambling is "a typical, chronic, and repetitive experi ence." 2. Gambling absorbs all other interests "like a sponge." 3. He is "pathologically" opti mistic about winning but never learns from losing. 4. He cannot stop when ho is winning. 5. He eventually riks more than he can afford to lose. 6. He "seeks and enjoys an enigmatic thrill which cannot be logically ex plained." Gamblers Are Sick Eergler analyzed the "real'' imbler this way, on the basis of what he found out in study ing gambler-patients: Very small children fancy themselves all - powerful. But they are driven to grow up, first. by accepting the fact that there are realities outside themselves. Thus, they are required to give up a tremendous pleasure which they do most reluctantly. Normal children do largely give up the pleasure and accept realities, and conscience pre vents them from reverting. Oth er children become neurotics and seek the pleasure uncon sciously and in disguised ways in efforts to get it past their consciences. But conscience isn't fooled and neurotics pay their heavy penalty of inner guilt. Seeks to Disprove The "real" gambler, Bergler continued in his newly published book, "The Psychology of Gam bling," Hill and Wang; New York, is still seeking to prove wrong the parental figures who tried to force him to give up his idea of being all-powerful." He emphasized the "real" gambler's unshakable though unconscious belief in his own all-powerfulness. "Just like a child, he expects that he will win because he wants to win. When a gambler places his stake on a card or a color or a num ber, he is not acting like a per son who has adapted himself to reality. He is 'ordering' the next card to win for him, in the complete illusion that he is om nipotent. 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WARNER , United Press Correspondent For Worth, Tex. IT As dusk was drawing near one wet, gloomy April evening, the South west's most dangerous man died with his face in the mud, only hours before the biggest job of his life. Gene Paul Norris was 35, and he had pulled many a big rob bery between killings. But noth ing in recent Southwest history would have equaled his holdup of the' S500.000 Strategic Air Command payroll at Carswell Air -Force Base here if it had come off. But an ex-con whom Norris tried to ring in on the job tipped the FBI. That cost Norris his life. On the morning of last April 30, an armored truck was sched uled to roll up to the Carswell branch bank with the payroll. Kidnaping Planned Norris. his bodyguard. Carl Humphreys, and James Edward Papworth planned to kidnap Mrs. Elizabeth Barles and her 12-year-old son. Mrs. Barles, an employee of the bank, had the job of opening it every morning. The trio planned to take her car and the bank keys. The stick er on the car's windshield would get them on the base and they could let themselves into the bank with the keys. There, they would wait for the armored truck. They planned to overcome the guards, bind and gag them and trot off with the payroll. Lawmen Gather Lawmen from as far away as Houston converged to frustrate the plot. Texas Ranger Capt. Johnny Klevenhagen of Com pany A. Houston, was in town with a John Doe warrant for Norris in connection with the slaying of a Houston gambler and his wife. On the evening of April 29, only hours before the heist was scheduled, Norris and Hum phreys were making a dry run on the route they were to use to the bank. Humphreys was driving when they met a car containing Ranger Captains Jay Banks and Kleven hagen. Fort Worth Police Chief Cato Hightower, Tarrant County Sheriff Harlon Wrisht and De tective Capt. O. R. Brown. The lawmen spotted their quarry just as Norris saw them and let loose with a charge from his 12-gauge shotgun. The chase began. Two other squad cars converged on the rap idlv changing scene, putting a total of 11 officers in the chase. Humphreys gunned the car away from Fort Worth, with Norris blasting at their pursuers every time Humphreys made a right turn. Not an officer was scratched, however. The chase roared through lit tle Azle at speeds up to 120 miles an hour. Near Springtown, Hum phreys whipped off onto a mud dy farm road. He took the turn too fast, and his car spun in the mud, clipped a pair of scrub oaks and smashed into a fence. The Chase Resumes Norris and Humphreys jump ed out. blazing away with .38s. They left the empty shotgun in the wrecked car. The fugitives raced across a small clearing in a barrage of bullets, running toward rain swollen Walnut creek. If they reached the woods beyond, it would have taken bloodhounds to find them. Norris and his bodyguard, who chose an odd profession for a man with a mor bid fear of death, fired over their shoulders as they ran. Humphreys splashed into the creek and dragged himself to a small island before he died. His left leg was smashed, his chest and mouth ripped by 23 slugs. About 50 yards upstream from Humphreys. Norris waded across the creek, leaped to the other bank and jerked like a puppet on a string. He spun and dropped halfwav into the creek. Two bul lets had pierced his brain and 14 more lodeed in his body. Gene Paul Norris. a gun for hire, was permanently retired by an occupational hazard. Papworth was convicted of conspiring in the Carswell plot. Officers expressed a slight sur prise at Norris' decision to make a fight. Arrested 25 times in Fort Worth alone, he had never re sisted an officer. Possibly he knew the last big job was, in re ality, the law. were automatically fulfilled." "There can be no neurotic ag gression without guilt,", Bergler said. "This guilt is expiated by self - punishment. In the case of the gambler, this takes the form of an unconscious desire to lose and a wish to be rejected by the outside world." Re-Rating Possible For Navy Veterans "Former Navy men, discharg ed since October 1955, can now reenlist in the Navy with the rating held at discharge if their rating is within one of the many groups recently opened by the chief of naval personnel," Lt. Com. C. Helm, officer in charge of Navy recruiting announced today in Portland. Those ratings opened are in the fields of aviation, engineer ing and hull, deck, electronics and administration, and in some cases, include the top grades of the enlisted structure. Ex-sailors who have recently been discharged and desire to investigate these opportunities are urged to contact their local Navy recruiters. "The Navy has also opened many service schools for the purpose of changing rates for those recently discharged." Com mander Helm stated and asks that interested and qualified men call or write for more details. Convictions Reversed For Portland Trio Washington IP The Su preme Court Monday reversed with government consent the contempt convictions of three Portland, Ore., witnesses who refused to answer questions to the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1954. The committee was investiga ting Communist activities in the area . The man are Herbert Simpson. Donald W. Wollam and John Rogers MacKenzie. MONEY WORTHLESS West Berliners, whose faces have been partially blocked out to prevent identification, wait at money exchange office in West Berlin following announcement by East German Premier Otto Grotewohl proclaiming a currency exchange as means of foiling Western "militarists and monopolists" who allegedly were holding East German marks for espionage pur poses. East marks held by Westerners were thus virtually turned into worthless paper. Edith Green Issued Permit for Parking Portland HP) A special free parking permit for Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) has been is sued by City Commissioner Wil liam A. Bowes who earlier turn ed it down on grounds it would set a precedent. Bowes said the request first came to him in a note from Phil ip Lang, administrative assistant to Mayor Terry D. Schrunk. Bowes said he returned it say ing it has been against city coun cil policy to issue parking per mits tot individuals but that he would do so if he were "ordered" by the mayor. Bowes, in charge of the traffic engineering bureau, said he or dered the permit after receiving a letter from the mayor saying "I request that a parking permit for use of meter areas be issued to Congresswoman Green to be used for official business while she is in Portland during the congressional recess." U.S. Russia Agree To Exchange Data Cambridge, Mass. OP The United States and Russia have agreed to exchange all Moon watch information on the Sov iet satellite, it was announced Monday. Leon Campbell, supervisor of American Moonwatch operations told newsmen here he reached the agreement at Barcelona, Spain, with his Russian coun terpart, Mrs. A. G. Massevitch. Both were attending the 28th annual Congress of the Interna tional Astronautical Federation in Spain. Campbell said the exchange will be between the Smithson ian Astrophysical Observatory here andthe Russian Academy of Science, but details have not yet been worked out. Missing Glendale Girls Found in Cabin Glendale, Ore. OP) Three teen-agea Lriendale girls were found safe and unharmed early Monday after being lost more than 12 hours near this southern Douglas county town. The girls, Sandra Palmer and Joyce Brickey, 16, and Louise Johnson, 15, were found in an abandoned cabin southwest of here about 12:45 a.m. They be came lost on a hike. State police, sheriff's officers and 20 volunteers from the Glendale area participated in the search. A herd of 15 dairy cows at Cloverlawn Guernsey Farm were top milk producers in the county during September, ac cording to county extension office reports. The herd pro duced an average of 929 pounds of milk with an average of 48.3 pounds of butterfat for the month. Among the five top herds in the county were J. E. Parsons, 45 cows which produced an av erage of 749 pounds of milk and 39.1 pounds of butterfat; Bill and Jo Hubbard, 57 cows, 905 pounds of milk and 37.5 pounds of butterfat; Don Geren, 43 cows, 877 pounds of milk and 36.4 pounds of butterfat; and Clarence and Sadie Williams, 31 cows, 778 pounds of milk and 34.4 pounds of butterfat. A cow owned by Don Geren was top milk producer during the month. The cow produced 2589 pounds of milk with 95.8 pounds of butterfat. Among the top ten cows in New York (IP) Carl Brandt, 68, literary agent for some of the world's leading novelists, including Booth Tark ington, John P. Marquand and Joseph Conrad, died Sunday. milk production during th month were cows owned by Bill and Jo Hubbard. Mervin Hix son, Straus Brothers, Birdseya Brothers, Gilman's Dairy Farm, James A. and Ncola Edge, Bur reson Brothers, Chet Jensen, and Eagle Meadow ranch. Mansfield Promises 'Moonr Investigation Washington (IF Senate Dem ocratic whip Mike Mansfield Monday promised an investiga tion of charges the Army was kept from developing what Army men claim could have be come man's first artificial moon. He blamed the Eisenhower ad ministration for failing to "knock heads together" among the armed services and for get ting this country "behind the eight ball" in missile and satel lite development. Mansfield told the United Press an Army rocket team headed by German scientist Dr. Werner Von Braun produced "the only fully developed bal listic missile I know about" the Redstone missile with a 200 300 mile range. 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