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MONDAY. MAY 19, 1958 HERALD AND NBWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE Jews Name i New Leader ' MIAMI BEACH, F!a. I The American Jewish Congress has (or ils new president a German-born Newark, N. J., rabbi who links . Vice President Nixon's riotous re ception in South America to seg regation troubles at home. Dr. Joachim Prinz was elected national president yesterday at the end of the AJC national conven tion. The organization, which takes pride in making strong stands on controversial issues, fought over a watered-down resolution voicing its concern over nuclear weapons tests. But it swung hard on race, Southland bombing and Middle East policy, issues which were the main concern of the AJC through out its convention. It went on rec ord, by unanimous votes, with cri ticism of the Eisenhower adminis tration on these issues. Prinz, who succeeded Dr. Israel Goldstein of New York as presi dent, said in an acceptance speech: "The events in South America point clearly to the fact that we have failed to understand that Lima, Peru, and Caracas Venezuela, are but a stone's throw from Little Rock, Ark., and that our fight for civil rights here in America might well be understood in terms of the foreign policy of the United States and in the battle for the souls and minds of the un told millions of yet-uncommitted peoples in the world. Prinz is rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in New Jer sey, Temple B'Nai Abraham. He also has an international reputa tion as a ' Jewish leader and it prominent in the World Jewish Congress. For 12 years, until the Nazis threw him out in 1937, he was a rabbi in Berlin. Want To Die On Gallows Says Grocery Clerk Killer POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah i "I want to die, man. I'm fed up with it all," said Barton Kay Kirkham, 21, a cocky killer scheduled to hang June 7. If his death sentence isn't com muted at a final hearing June 4 the 200-pound youth will die on the gallows for killing grocery clerk David Frame, 50, in a $50 holdup in bait Lake City in August 1956 Mrs. Ruth Webster was also slain in the holdup, but Kirkham was tried only on the Frame killing. Kirkham has refused to appeal tor clemency. "I don't want life. My parents are the ones who want me com muted. They think you can be re habilitated in prison . . . but re habilitation comes from within The stubble-haired youth wore a fixed smile and seemed unaware that he was wringing his hands during an interview at Utah State Prison. Despite an occasional lapse into bop talk, his conversa tion showed evidence of the read ing he has done in his 16 months in death row medical journals, psychiatric texts and legal briefs his case. Reds Win First Top Film Award CANNbb, trance un The new Soviet cultural offensive has won the Soviet Union her first top in ternational film award. The Mos cow offering. "When Storks Fly." took the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival. The film, a nonpolitical romance of war-separated lovers, won the unanimous nod of a jury headed by French playwright Marcel Achard for its "artistic and hu manitarian qualities." Director Charles Vidor was the American representative. The only U. S. winner of a festi val ward was Paul Newman, named top actor for his perform ance in the American film version of Nobel prize-winning William Faulkner s Long Hot Summer. Newman is now in Hollywood. The female acting award was divided among women taking part in the Swedish entry "At the Threshold of Life" a story of childbirth. with the thought of dying so long, you get used to It. I may get .shook up at the iast minute, but I don't think so." Does his religious upbringing provide solace now? "There's too much hate in me to accept religion. If I were going on a religious kick, I'd have done it long before now." Any reason why he turned to knew it was wrong to kill . , , but But how did society wrong him? crime? I don't feel any remorse. Why did he kill? "I'm lazy. Three psychiastrists1 "I can't say I have any beef Kirkham grinned again, thrt said I don't feel normal emotions, 1 about my environment or parents up his hands and shrugged, but they say I'm legally sane. I or anything." "Man, I don't know ..." "I guess I'm just a rebel," he said, grinning. The eldest of five children raised in the Mormon faith, Kirkham said he turned from the church and quit school in the 11th grade. After 18 months in the Air Force, he went AWOL, committed a robbery in Colorado and was given an un desirable discharge while serving nine months in a reformatory. ' "I was out five weeks on parole when 1 shot those people, he said. His rebellion extends into prison. After letting his hair and beard grow for 13 months, he recently shaved his head and face bald to irk prison officials who ordered his hair trimmed. His execution will be Utah's first hanging in 46 years. "1 chose hanging instead of the firing squad because of the pub licity. . . the novelty ... to put the state to more inconvenience," he said. Kirkham spends his last days listening to radio music, reading books and scanning newspaper clippings about his case which he keeps pinned to the wall of his cell. Is he scared? "Not particularly. When you live Siassen's Chances May Be Hampered By Light Voting PHILADELPHIA UV-The pros-. pect of a light vote may hamper Harold Stassen's chances of win ning the Republican nomination election tomorrow. A light vote in a Pennsylvania primary traditionally favors can didates backed by state political organizations. Stassen is running against tne Republican organization cadidate, Arthur T. McGonigle of Reading. head of one of the largest pretzel firms in the country. Williams s. Livengood Jr., former state secre tary of internal affairs, also is making an independent Did lor Ihe GOP gubernatorial nomina tion. Pittsburgh Mayor David L. Law rence, 68, is the Democratic or ganization candidate for governor! Man Uses Head To 'Shoot' Thief DENVER W A young stickup man flailed an elderly man on the head with the butt of a gun last night. The weapon fired, fatally wounding the bandit's accomplice. The red-haired victim, between 18 and 21, was not immediately identified. The gunman tried to arouse him. then fled in a car before a half dozen witnesses. The intended victim, Emil Myers, 68, was treated at a hospital for a severe head cut and released. He told officers the pair had accosted him outside his home and demand-' ed money. Alaska Bill Defeat Seen WASHINGTON lff House Speaker Sam Rayburn was quoted Monday as expressing lear tne Alaska statehood bill may be beat en when it comes up in the House later this week. Rep. Clair Engle ID-Calif) said Rayburn had advised him he be lieves the bill may be sent back to committee but the Californian added, "I don't think so myself." Engle, chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee, made his comment during the course of a presentation to him by Ralph J. Rivers of a trophy making the Californian a member of the 49ers. Rivers. Alaska's unofficial rep resentative in Congress, said the award was in recognition of Engle's efforts to make Alaska the 49th state. His chief opposition is Lt. Gov. Roy E. Furinan, running on an independent ticket. Rep. Hugh Scott R) of Phila delphia is running with McGonigle (or the U.S. Senate seat being va cated by the retirement of Sen Edward Martin (R) next January Weldon B. Heyburn, former state auditor general, is Stassen s run ning mate for the Senate. Heyburn has been inactive since he suf fered a slight stroke at the be ginning of the campaign. Liven good is running alone. Gov. George Leader is the JJem ocratic state party choice (or the Senate nomination. Clarence P, Bowers, Reading battery manu facturer, is opposing him on the Furman ticket. Stassen, 51, was governor of Minnesota three times. An issue during a listless campaign has been his Pennsylvania residence. He also was President Eisenhow er's disarmament aide and in 1956 he strongly opposed Vice Presi dent Nixon's bid (or renomination at the Republican National Con vention. The state GOP leadership looks favorably on Nixon as a 190 pres idential candidate and a Republi can governor would wield great influence over the direction the Pennsylvania delegation takes in 19H0. McGonigle, also 51, was lapped by the state leadership as a new (ace to spark a GOP rally (rom defeats in the 1954 gubernatorial election and the 1956 senatorial election. He has never run (or po litical office before. HERO MOSCOW Wl-Nikolai M. Shver jMk, former president of the So viet Union, was named a hero of socialist labor Monday in honor of his 70th birthday and for his services to the Communist Party and the Soviet people. Dog Rips 4-Inch Wound On Girl, 4 DALLAS in Audrey Lee Helms, 4. stooped to pet a shaggy black and white dog while visiting her grandparents yesterday. Before bystanders could rescue the screaming child, her father said, the animal ripped a four inch wound near her right eye, and gashed both checks, her scalp and right shoulder. The father. Edward Ray Helms, pulled the dog away while his wife snatched up the little girl. They were here from Euless, Tex., to( visit the grandparents, Mr. andi Mrs. E. L. McQueen. Police took the dog to the pound for rabies observation and ticketed its owner for a leash law violation. MAN THE FENDERS! ROCK ISLAND, 111. (UP) Heavy river boat traffic gave two local residents a cool idea. 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