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!' "
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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.
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Gamblers Said Sick
People Suffering
'Dangerous Neurosis'
52nd Year
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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. Mentally, he has re
gressed to the earlier period in
which he was, to all intents and
purposes, omnipotent, that is, to
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By JOHN G. 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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