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Tt'ESPAY. FEBRUARY 17. lfl.V)
Clark Gable Mimics Twain:
Death Rumor Exaggerated
By VKRNON SCOTT
VP! Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD LTI Clark
Gable is not dead.
He's not ccn kick.
But the rumor c ropped up, thi
week that the handsome actor
had gone to his reward ayuin!
"I've laughed about my o
called 'death' before," Gable said
oti the set of his new movie. ' But
this time there could have been
complications. A reporter called
my home and told n?y wile. Kay.
there was a report 1 was dead.
"Kay has a heart condition and
a thing like that can be danger-oil.
Gl Turncoat
Eyes Hew Life
ANDREWS. Tex. lAP'-Claudo
Batchclor, once given a life sen
tence for collaborating with the
fnemy. is trying to build a new
lile lor himself in his native West
Texas.
"I don't want to forgot my past.
I want to live with it." the hand
some young man told a re
porter for the San Angclo Standard-Times
who found him work
in Andrews. He may write a book
about his decision to remain with
the Communists alter the Korean
conflict.
"I'm not bitter," said Batchclor,
who was paroled Jan. 2'i Iroin the
Federal Correctional Institute at
Texarkana alter serving the last
eight years in U.S. and Commu
nist prisons. "I hold no malice to
ward the Army." His life sentence
by an Army court-martial was
later reduced to 1(1 years.
The ex-soldier from Kermit.
Tex., is working as a junior
accountant for Paul D. Lassiter of
Andrews. Lassiter says Batchclor
is a hard worker, is likeable hut
has a long way to go belorc be
coming a proficient accountant.
"He's still carrying some of the
ears of prison," Lassiter said.
"When he gets home, he goes
straight to his room. That's his
prison training. He's not moody.
He just doesn't know what to do
with his spare time."
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She called me at the studio,
and thank God she wasn't excited
about the rumor. Kay t a good
sensible girl.
1 hey II be right about my
death some day, but let s not
ruh it."
Gable isn't the. only star who
hears frequent reports aitout his
etath. Its a rare month that
Goes by without a false rumor on
the passing of some well-known
star. Usually the "departed one"
is Bob Hope or Bing Crosby.
"Maybe it's because we're the
oldest guvs around." Gable said,
flashing his famous grin.
' ' Death rumors aren't as bad as
some of the others. It's surpris
ing how otten 1 pick up a paper
or magazine to read where 1 m
off hun'ine in Africa when actual
'y I'm sitting by my pool at
home.
"Nobody could hunt as much as
I am credited with doing. There
isn't that much game in the en
tire world. I hunt a maximum of
Ml days a year."
"King" Gable rattled olf a list
of other common rumors.
".Movie stars are forever read
ing where they are getting mar
ried, becoming engaged, being di
orccd, being in lured, traveling to
distant countries, romancing a
girl they've never met and ap
pearing in pictures that aren't
being made. I could go on and on
"Fortunately, the marriage and
divorce rumors are all in the past
ior me. It 's been years since I've
gone through that." he laughed.
"If I made all the news that's
written about me I wouldn't have
time to work or even sleep,"
he said.
"But I'm not complaining. The
movie business has been awfully
kind to me and I wouldn't change
lobs with anybody dead or
alive."
'DENNIS TH MENACE"
Y0U BETTER GO HOME 30BY. 'CADSe kVHEM MV TIME IS
UP m GOT SOMEWIri'TO SAy THAT'S SONNA PUT ME
Underground
Heat Probed
VALE. Ore. 'APi-Test wells
may he used here to decide
whether thre is a sufficient sup
ply of hot underground water to
heat a new courthouse and other
buildings in Vale.
Such wells were run tor 30 days
with heavy duty pumps. Hot
springs at the east edge of this
y, near thq Idaho burdcr, are
the source of "warm water for the
swimming pool and a number of
residences.
Ross Butler, president of Hot
Springs, Inc., said he had recent
ly inspected Klamath rails and
Lakeview hot water heating sys
tems and looked into slate legal
requirements at Salem.
Two test borings, he said, yield
ed 300 gallons a minute, raised
to the surface at between 26 and
Kill degrees Fahrenheit.
County Judge G. Y. Chester
said that if an adequate supply
could be assured, the county
would like to consider natural
rot water heat for the new court
house now being huilt here.
Air Collision
Aversion Told
MIAMI. Fla. AP1 A Miami
bound Kastern Air Lines Elcctra
narrowly avoided a collision with
an Air Force B47 jet bomber near
Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday.
Three passengers and a steward
ess were injured.
Capt. Raymond Runrecht, 51.
the airliner's pilot, said the big
bomber shot past 400 feet below
the climbing Llcctra.
The Kastern plane, Flight 127
out of Chicago, was southeast of
Chattanooga at 23.000 feet when
the incident occurred. Seventeen
passengers and a crew of five
were on the airliner.
Huprecht, of Miami Springs
said he and his copilot, V. C
Tays. were looking to the right for
a Northwest Airlines plane, 1,000
leet below.
"Then 1 happened to glance to
my lelt, he said, "and saw this
big bomber coming."
He threw the airliner into a
l,;mi-ool climb. .
The Kastern plane was travel
:ng about 445 miles ground speed,
Huprecht siid. The bomber was
Hying at an estimated 600 m.p.h.
The Air Force plane wheeled
into a sleep turn just a few sec
onds before he pulled up. Hu
precht said, "He must have just
seen us."
The stewardess, Miss Lois Bor
ehers of Miami, was treated at
North Shore Hospital and re
leased. Three persons from the Chicago
area were hospitalized. They were
Phillip Kaplan, 44, Chicago; Mrs.
C. R. Allen, 53, Winnetka: and
Sam Landsman, 40, Oak Park.
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Year's Leave
NEW YORK f API-Edward R.
Murrow will lake a year's leave
ol absence from the Columbia
Broadcasting System eflective
July-1.
lie said in a letter to CBS Presi
dent Frank Stanton that his con-
racl contains a provision for
leae. and said his only reason
for seeking it is to take time for
travel and reflection. Stanton re
plied that the network was happy
to grant the leave and looked for
ward to his return.
Murrow's move followed reports
of strained relations between him
and CBS officials. It was reported
that his leaxe has nothing to do
with his health nor with the con
troversy thai followed a recent
radio piogram on prostitution.
Murrow. 50. has been with CBS
since ttl't..
While on leave Murrow will con
tinue his program, "Small World."
a (limed Sunday evening TV se
ries of international conversations,
on a reduced basis.
He will discontinue his documen
taries, his nightly radio program
ot news and commentary, and his
weekly television visits to celeb
rities, "Person to Person."
California Weather
United Press International
San Francisco Bay Area: Vari
able cloudiness with occasional
heavy showers through Wednes
day: high today 58-62: low tonight
30-53: southwest winds 20-3o
m.p.h.; chance of rain 90 per cent
today and 70 per cent tonight and
Wednesday.
Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Snow
through Wednesday with total
amount moderate to heavy: snow
level dropping to 2,500 or 3,000 feet
today: colder.
Sacramento Valley: Intermittent
rain through Wednesday with pos
sibility of thunderstorms and hail;
little change in temperature; high
both days 50-57: low tonight 45
50: southerly winds 18-38 m.p.h
Northwestern California: Inter
mittent rain through Wednesday
with scattered thunderstorms and
the possibility of hail; little
change in temperature: high today
and low tonight Napa 55-40, Santa
Rosa 53-38, Ikiah 53-43; small
craft warnings on coast for south
erly winds 20-35 m.p.h.
City Services
'Status Quo'
PORTLAND (API The city of
Portland will be able to maintain
present services, but cannot pro
vide any new ones for its citi
zens during the 105!l-60 fiscal
year, said Finance Commissioner
Ormond R. Bean Monday.
Bean said this would be the
case on the basis of preliminary
ngures prepared for a bedrock
budget for the next fiscal year.
Only an estimated $6."i0.ooo in
new income from a 6 per cent
property tax increase is exiiecl
cd, and that must go to provide
wage adjustments for some, but
not all, city employes, Bean said.
Bean said the current general
fund base coupled with the ex
pected new revenue probably will
put the level of spending for the
coming fiscal year at slightly
more than 20 million dollars.
Police and (tremen already
have asked (or a cost-of-living
salary increase and other em
ploye groups are expected to do
the same.
Moon May Furnish Settlers With Natural Atomic Plants
NEW YORK (L'PD The first
settlers on the moon may find
natural a'Onic power plants all
ready to nook up and put to use.
accord 9t to a new theory stem
ming from a recent observation'
of volcanic activity in one of
'! moon's craters.
The theory depends upon two
surmises. ur us that some it not!
all the moon's craters are filled i
wun ausi to consiaeraDie dui un
knot a depths. The other is tha'.
the moon, hk the earth, has ra-
riiav'tiva minerals deep ia its in
terior giving orf atomic particles.
This preduces heat.
If the interior of the moon is
hot eaugh to be composed of
molten or liquefied rock las the
earth's core is), the gases result-
FBI Seeking
Desperado
BURLINGTON. Vt. AP - An
uneasy pursuit of a notorious des
peradoone of the FBI's "10 most
wanted" centered around the
sparsely settled New York-Vermont
boundary today.
Police warned that the quarry,
Frank Lawrence Sprenz, 29, was
a crack, marksman who would not
hesitate to shoot to kill.
Sprenz flew into Burlington Sat
urday in a stolen plane. He then
stole an automobile which was
found at Salem, N.Y., close to the
state border. The quest took a
new turn when the FBI was told
a motorist picked up a hitch hiker
who answered the fugitive's de
scription in Arlington. Vt.. also
near the slate line Saturday night
Police said they hoped to cap
ture Sprenz outside a thickly pop
ulated area, fearful there might
-be shooting. They cautioned that
anyone who might encounter
Sprenz exercise extreme caution
and quickly notify authorities.
Radio and television stations
were asked to broadcast a de
scription of the hitchhike car a
cream and brown 1956 Pontiac
sedan.
Sprenz stole a plane in Scranton
Pa.. Friday night. After landing
it Burlington, he walked a mile
to a used car lot in Winooski and
posing as a prospective purchaser.
was allowed to take a machine
out for a trial. That was the car
found at Salem, N.Y.
Sprenz, who hails from Akron
Ohio, has been at large since he
escaped jail there last April. He
naa been Jailed for armed rob
bery.
ing from such heat have to es
cape somehow. If they don't pres
sure builds up until there is a
tremendous explosion and molten
rock soills all over the landscaDe.
This is the "volcanic" activity we
know on earth.
Astronomers know for sure
there has been no such activity
on the moon for a long. long
t:me. But that doesn't necessarily
mean the moon has a cold interi-
rather, it most likely means
the interior temperature of the
moon is high enough to keep rock
liquefied but the temperature is
in equilibrium that is. the pres
sure is relieved as it builds up.
It is relieved because hot rock
an excellent conductor of heat.
The heat disperses outward from
he liquid core and the rock be
comes more and more solid and
less and less hot as it approaches
the surface. You wouldn't have
this" nice equilibrium across the
floors of craters, however, if those
floors were buried under rock
dust.
The ability of dust to disperse
hot gases is very low. and under
known moon circumstances is just
about nil. J. H. Kremlin, physi
cist of the University of Birming
ham, 'Eng.) pointed out in pro
pounding this theory.' backed by
simple but convincing mathemat
ics, in the technical journal. Nature."
Therefore, you'd expect "insta
bilities" in dust-filled moon crat
ers. But they wouldn't be of a
highly explosive kind as those in
earth's volcanos, since dust is
light and the pressure even vast
amounts of it could offer to gases
bent on escaping, would be quite
low. Fremlin said the result would
be something like water at a high
boil in a pot, "bumping" along
and giving off puffs of steam.
"These instabilities would re
sult in periodic liberations of
hot gas and dust just as the slow
liber.'.lion of marsh gas leads to
occasional bursts of mud and gas
Noted pianist-statesman Ignace
raaerewski loved to play bridge.
He had a bridge table installed
in the official railroad car he used
as Premier of Poland
from the bottom of a stagnant
pool." he said.. This, he added,
would produce the very kind of
"volcanic" activity which was ob
served recently on the moon.
Fremlin credited his colleague.
F. R. Stewart, with the idea that
this could be "a large and fairly
accessible source of power avail
able to the establishments which
will doubtless be set up on the
moon in due course."
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