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Teen-Age Suspect in Slaying of Six Still Believed in Nebraska Lincoln, Neb. OP The superintendent of the Ne braska Safety Patrol said to day he thought a widely sought slaying suspect was "still holed up" in Southeast ern Nebraska, the area where he is accused of killing six persons. Col. C. J. Sanders admitted, however, that "we have noth ing solid to go on" in the "all out" hunt for Charles Stark weather, 19, accused of mur dering an old family friend, two strangers and the mother, step-father and half-sister of his young girl friend. "I think he's still in the area," Sanders said, "because the second car stolen from a victim has not turned up. Be sides, we have been getting few reports, however reliable, of any sightings and this is most unusual." Far for Girl In addition to three murders here and three in nearby Ben net, police wanted to question the young garbage collector about the shotgun slaying two months ago of a Lincoln Texas Firm Lends Physics Teachers To High Schools Dallas. Tex. (IP) A Texas aircraft firm has started a lend-lease program of its own for needy high schools. The company, Temco Air craft Corp., has loaned out its top engineers free of charge to four high schools around Dallas that could not afford physics teachers before. May Be School Crimes Cause of Principal's Dealh New York IP) A grand ' jury investigating violence in schools prepared today to question board of education ' officials about "pressure" on a principal who committed suicide shortly before he was ' to have testified a third time ! about juvenile crime in his ' school. " The principal, George Gold- farb. 55. of John Marshall ' Junior High school in Brook- : lyn, jumped from his apart ment house roof Tuesday. He . had been scheduled to appear ! a few hours later at his own ' request before a Kings coun ty grand jury that has been looking into lawlessness in public schools in Brooklyn. Disturbed by Publicity Goldfarb's school has been the scene of a rape and three assaults - in the last eight weeks. A member of the school system 33 years and John Marshall principal since 1954, he was reported greatly disturbed by publicity result ing from the grana jury m- trfxstitration. w also was caught in the .vf a rontroversy be- tween the jury and the New VArlr wranrl iurv and the v,narri of education over pro posals to assign policemento violence-ridden schools. The three times has KanHfi nn resentments call ing for such action. The . Vx-iarrl has called the SLUUUl WVM nrnnfisal "unthinkable." But some relaxation of the board's stand was indicated Tuesday with disclosure that tendent of Schools William Jansen is notifying all principals that they may have a policeman stationed inside their schools if they re quest one. It is up to each principal to decide, Jansen said. Gem Bandits Raid Jtew York Shop New York OPt Two ban dits held up a Madison ave. jewelry shop shortly after it opened today and escaped with 5100,000 worth of gems, mostly diamonds. The hold-up was the second major jewel theft in the city this week. Burglars broke into the Hotel Edison suite of Mrs. Lillian Kramer, an owner of the hotel, Sunday night and escaped with S250, 000 worth of jewels, mostly diamonds and pearls, and SI. 100 in cash. Today's bandits held three clerks in the Kobrin Bros, 'jewelry shop at gunpoint 'while they scooped the gems from the newly opened cases. All the schools now have physics classes. This means students who finish the courses can study engineering and other scientific fields in college. They could not do this without the high school physics course. Interesting Students "The plan is getting stu dents interested in science right away and preparing sen iors for college this fall," said Robert McCulloch, president of Temco. He feels that plans to increase the number of U.S. scientists are fine, but won't really help until the 1960s. "In the meantime," he add ed, "we need some program for' immediate results. If each industry helps out in its area with a plan such as ours, we can overcome the shortage of engineers and other scientific personnel much sooner." McCulloch sends his think ing" engineers - those re served for top level problems and who don't have to punch time clocks cut into high schools five hours a week to teach physics. High schools in Duncan- ville, Seagoville, Cedar Hill and Desoto, all towns around Dallas, set up physics courses last fall with engineer-instructors. Helped Design Nautilus Teacher-engineer at Dun canville is Fred Watts, 35, who has a master's degree in physics and helped design the Nautilus, the first atomic sub marine. Principal Roy A. Ro ger and Duncanville's new physics department cost noth ing. Watts uses the school chemistry lab and supplies part of his own equipment. There are 18 students in his class, including four who are "A" students and who, Watts thinks, may make brilliant scientists. The point to re member here is that many of the students wanted to take engineering in college but couldn't because their high schools didn't teach physics until Temco came to the rescue. Watts thinks parents can help their children learn bet ter if they are given a good idea of the things their chil dren study in school especi ally subjects such as physics. A few nights ago, he of fered a lecture on physics for adults in the school auditor ium. He expected about 25 people. One-hundred and 25 showed up. service station attendant. They were also afraid the girl friend, Caril Fugate, 14, was no longer with Stark weather and might have been killed. This fear was prompted by a medical finding that one of the six known victims, a 16-year-old high school girl, had been subjected to an un natural sexual attack. Hopes that Starkweather would be captured without further violence were raised briefly when Kansas City, Mo., police picked up a young couple riding in a car answer ing the description of the stolen vehicle. However, Missouri officers, after questioning the pair, said occupants of the auto did not tally with the descriptions of Starkweather and the Fu gate girl. Descriptions Broadcast After hours, of confusion' among officials on Stark weather's height and weight and the girl's age and spelling of her first name, patrolmen finally agreed on the de scriptions that were widely broadcast. Starkweather was listed as 5-feet 5-inches, 140 pounds, with red hair and wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans. Caril was de scribed as 14 "but looking like 18," 5-feet 1-inch, 105 pounds and wearing black jeans and a blue parka with plaid trim ming. A birth certificate that con firmed the name spelling as "Caril" indicated the girl would not be 15 until July. Formal charges of first de gree murder were filed against both Starkweather and Miss Fugate today by County Attorney Elmer Scheele. They were accused of kill ing Carol June King, 16, Ben net, whose nearly nude body was found late Tuesday in the storm celler of an abandoned school. Names of Victims The attorney explained that naming only one victim was all that was necessary as a basis for the murder charge. The other victims of the crime orgy were Robert Jen sen, 17, Miss King's classmate and boy friend; August Meter, 70, bachelor farmer and long time friend of the Stark weather family; Marion Bart lett, 57, Caril Fugate's step father; Mrs. Velda M. Bart lett, 36, her mother, and her half-sister, Betty Jean, 2. There were many puzzling aspects to the case. No firm time had been fixed for deaths of the first three victims, the Bartletts. They had been dead "at least 48 hours" when tneir Doaies were found late Monday. Starkweather and the Fu- zate sirl were last seen Mon day afternoon when they stop- npH at a Lincoln service sia- tion to buy gasoline for their old car and shells for three guns. The old car was found abandoned Tuesday near the Meyer home, wnere oiarn. weather had been a frequent visitor to hunt squirrels. It was the finding of the oar that lea oiiiceis iu uia- Mevpr slain in a shed behind his two-story tarm home. A few minutes later searchers discovered the hndies of Jensen and Miss King stuffed into a storm cel ler at an abandoned school nearby. Theyll Do It Every Time - - By Jimmy Hatlo 0 lf NOWH4-rM- (AHEM!) VVTLlYIPsK. W ALL OF THE OLDER LAD)ES)r&Ml ill IT N HARROMPH-S1T OH THE W0 "V L1 11 JA CHAQS IM FRONT 4ND - At LW WCWf what Acnoti! AH H-BOMB COULDN'T EV4CU4TE THE FRONT . ROWS FASTER WINNING 107 MERIT BADGES during 16 years as Boy Scout, Specialist 3C John W. Gilbertson, Sioux City, Iowa, is rated most decorated Scout in U. S. Army. He is serving with mortar battery in Mainz, Germany. (International) Attempted Suicide Costs Vatican Title Rome (IP! Prince Filip po Napoleone Orsini's at tempted suicide has cost him his title and ended eight cen turies of Orsini family leader ship in the papal court, a high Vatican source said today. Banner headlines in Rome papers linked Orsini's wrist slashing with the hospitaliza tion of British film actress Belinda Lee for an overdose of sleeping pills. The Vatican source said Orsini automatically forfeited his title as prince assistant to the papal throne the moment the incident reached the pro portions of a "public scandal." The source said the Vatican will not dignify the affair with a formal condemnation of the prince but from now on the 37-year-old nobleman is considered ostracized from court circles. Wednesday, January 29, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN McLEOD Family Moves to Area McLeod Mr. and Mrs Wageman and children of Prospect are now living in the Herzog house near Butte creek. Their son and daugh ter are enrolled in the Elk Trail school. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carl ton, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn all attended the "visitation" at the Gold Hill Grange Thursday, Jan. 16. The Lions auxiliary of Prospect, Butte Falls and Shady Cove-Trail held their annual luncheon for the state officers Saturday, Jan. 25, at Rogue River lodge. There were 36 ladies present. Mrs. Faith Thompson, the presi dent, spoke. Prospect auxil iary entertained. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Knud sen of Medford were dinner guests at "Harding's Para dise" Monday, Jan. 20. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lingren of southern California have rented the Elrod place on Crowfoot rd. Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume on Sunday, Jan. 26, were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Du- OLD-TIME PILOT DIES London (IP) William T. Warren, 79, designer, builder and pilot of one of the first bi-planes to be flown in Bri tain, died in Brightlingsea, England, Tuesday. senberry and sons, Lan and Jan, Miss Sandi Cheek of Eagle Point and Miss Jacque line and Josephine Hume. ; Word has been received of the coming marriage of Miss Beverly Ann Hallett to Ger ald Edwin Harris on Satur day, Feb. 1, at St. Edmunds Episcopal church in San Ma rino, Calif. The Hallets often visit here during the summer at the home of their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding. Set the stage for new mobile styling! : Add new distinction that's in good taste! ; phasize the exciting low, level look! .Mil I. - ft 1 i ' I! 0 t Young Convicts Given Blame for Montana Strike wiiiiiifi V-...: :V:: - if DIME A DANCE? London (IP! Roy Lyons, newly arrived from Jamaica, went up to a policeman the other night, threw his arms around him and shouted "I'm happy in this country. Let's dance." A judge Tuesday told : Lyons "It is very nice to know you are happy in this particu lar country." then fined him 10 shillings (S1.40) for being drunk ad disorderly. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Lif tie Worry Eat. talk, laugh orsneeze without fear of insecure false teeth dropping, slipping or wobbling. FA3TEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at ny drug counter. s - If -r 'life i i!SsiSit?S VANGUARD AWAITS BIG MOMENT Attempts to launch the Vanguard missile, shown on its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., were suspended because of un favorable weather conditions and a series of minor mechanical 'difficulties. Navy missilemen who have struggled' for days to put the rocket into the air with this country's first satellite in its nose hope that their bird will fly by mid-week. Deer Lodge, Mont. (IP) A prison official blamed "hard core" of 40 young con victs today for a 28-hour sit- down strike at Montana State Prison. Prison Sgt. Bill Mitchell who was in the cell house after the disturbance began said about 40 "agitators were responsible." , "They're young fellows who don't know how to do their time," he said. "They're the kind who always look for trouble." The distrubance began Mon day after breakfast and ended shortly after noon Tuesday It involved about 300 con victs. It was the third such incident since July 30. Convicts were locked in their cells in the old and new wings of the prison after roaming at liberty in the locked galleries of the new cellhouse. Officials said they would not allow the convicts to re turn to work or to -give them canteen or exercise privileges until they could make sure there would be no further dis turbances. Warden F. O. Burrel said the future "depends on their actions." During their sitdown, the convicts smashed electric bulbs, burned wood and paper on the floor of a shower and scattered debris. The convicts returned to their individual cells after the warden gave them a choice of remaining at large in the cellblock and not eating, or returning to their cells and getting fed. After they re turned, they got meat loaf and cheese sandwiches. A prison official likened the disturbance to a "panty raid by college boys." WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Hickory, N.C. (IP) Night jailer Arnie James Smith, 50, was out of a job and in trouble with his former em ployers today. An alcoholic beverage control agent, "jailed" so he could watch Smith, caught the jailer sell ing moonshine. Coal Mine Shaft Falls; Four Dead Roundup, Mont. (IP) Four men were crushed to death Tuesday when the walls of a coal mine shaft collapsed without warning, showering them with tons of rock. The badly crushed bodies were brought to the surface by weary coal miners, who worked feverishly for four hours to clear away the rubble. iney were identified as Martin Meznarick, 54; Frank Nose, 45; Jim Molna, 48; and George Larson, 55. Six other men were work ing with them at the time, but they managed to escape with minor cuts and bruises The accident took place at the Queen Coal mine, 35 miles east of Roundup. Grange News in re- Live Oak Granka Live Oak Grange met regular session Jan. 23. Agricultural committee ported cattle market steady, hog prices up, strong market on lambs, tgg prices down with surplus being shipped in. Price of hens up 3 cents. Legislative Chairman Larry Sheehan gave a short report. Foster Luce reported on flood control. Next meeting to be Feb. 10 Six directors to be elected this year. Demits were granted to Otto and Treva Jones, who now live at Winchester. Grange went on record as being in favor of establishing Veterans hospital facilities "at Camp White. Literary program consisted of songs by the Grange: birth days of four famous men: Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee, Grover Cleveland and F. D. Roosevelt, who were born in January, were ob served. Poem was read by Betty Frantz. Thought for the day was by Maude Dengler. Pictures were enjoyed by the Luce's trip through the Grand Canyon. Refreshments were served by Marjorie Dunham and Adella Miller. BROOKS Electric & Plumbing Are Discontinuing their Retail Operation SALES 1 FINAL wSr I . w 0 We will continue our electrical and plumbing con tracting business and will continue to display the newest in electrical and plumbing supplies. Every Item In Our Store DRASTICALLY REDUCED Now In Progress . . . Our Store Wide I NUTONE K ENTIRE STOCK OF r LIGHTING FIXTURES Still a Good Selection 40 Off WIRING MATERIALS 30 off 14-2 by the roll 3c ft. 12-2 by the roll 4c ft. NUTONE Fans - Hoods & Chimes 30 Off ENTIRE STOCK OF ELECTRIC HEATERS 30 Off Winston-Salem, N.C. 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