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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1963)
Financial Wizard Returns To Face Conspiracy Count NEW YORK (UPI) - Earl Belle, "boy financial wizard" unose paper financial empire fraud and conspiracy charges, relumed from his Brazilian i refuse Saturday fo face federal prosecution. Belle, 31, arrived at New York International Airport on Varig Airlines flight from Rio de Janeiro. He was accom panied tiy an agent of the In ternational Police Organization i Interpol i. KBI agents took Belle inlo custody. Informed sources said Belle had been "invited" to leave Brazil by authorities there. This did not necessarily mean Ik' had been deported. ; Belle fled Pittsburgh in ISM. leaving behind a vast financial tingle which resulted in a fed eral grand jury indictment on 20 counts of fraud and con spiracy. Belle appeared weary as he left the plane. He wore a rain coat and carried a pair of trousers and a shirt on his arm. Blaze Levels Grade School EDDYVIIXE (UPI) - Fire of undetermined cause destroyed the grade school at Eddyville, 35 m i le s west of t'orvallis on U.S. Highway 20, Friday nighi. About 100 pupils were without classrooms as result of the blaze that leveled the four-room frame structure. Grades one through five were taught in the building. '. A meeting was scheduled Sat urday at the nearby 'high School to determine how classes tere to be continued. If you desire something TIIIJLY .1)1 IWJMt'EXT remount your present diamonds 700 Main St. ; Say "We..." when you talk about First Federal! In 11)57 at the age of 25, Belle and Murray Talenfeld, 24, ac quired control of Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., and expanded their holdings to include a drap ery firm, a water healer manu panies. Their "empire" was repre sented as being worth more than $.1.5 million. Rut troubles beset the youthful financiers and creditors began filing legal actions. The Peoples Union Bank It Trust Company of McKcesport, Pa., filed judgment with a $209, 408 note against Eastern Invest ment & Development Company, a firm in the, Belle group. Boston clothing merchant A. A. Franks asked the Massachu setts Supreme Court to require Belle to post $300,000 bond to cover 1 million shares of stock which Franks said Belle held in voting trust. Belle fled the country July 4,, III58. Eastern Investment and Development was declared bankrupt, and the "paper" em pire of other firms collapsed. Belle, a cum laudc graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, described himself as a "front negotiating man." He maintain ed that he was "duped." "I did nothing wrong," he, said after fleeing. "Other peo ple were responsible." Belle lived openly in Rio. The United States requested Brazil ian authorities to return him for trial, but lack of a formal extradition treaty between the two countries enabled him to stay south of the border. Belle left the country with his fashion-model bride, Naomi, his second wife, who bore him a child in Brazil. Yes, we can mount your present diamonds in a new, exciting, high-styled wedding set or r 1 n g of your choice . . . even of your own design. Come in now and moke your sel ection. We can have yours ready for Christmas delivery. Ph. TU 4-3151 You ore actually PART of First Federal if you have a savings account there. First Federal is a mutual association of those who have savings deposited there earning a full AVa, and every account is insured up to $10,000.00 by an ogency of the U.S. Government. You and mem bers of your family con each be part of First Federal . . . and say "WE . . ." when you talk obout it. finST FEDEklilL snumGs and Loan Association 540 MAIN STRUT PAGE-6A HERALD AND V - - lifiiinllll 'mb GOING HOME Andrew Fischer and hit wife, Mary Ann, fake two of the quints home from St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen Saturday. The two girls are Mary Maqda line (left) and Mary Margaret. UPI Telephoto Hospital Releases Two More Quints ABERDEEN. S.I). lUPD -Two more of the Fischer quin tuplets joined the rest of the brood at home Saturday and their proud but tired mother slai ted looking for a babysitter. Mary Magdalene and Mary Margaret, who along with tlwir two .sisters and home-body brother were three months old Saturday, were picked to go home "simply lwcau.se they ale the largest of the four girls. The other two girls stayed be hind in the St. Luke's Hospital nursery where they have been since their birth Kept. 14. The quints are the first U survive in the United Slates. James Andrew, the huskiest of the five and a trailhlazer of sorts, has boon home with his four older sislers and brother for two weeks. Dr. James Berlins, the family physician who delivered the quints and gave bis name to the boy, said South Dakota's bitter cold weatlicr w ilh tem peratures dropping to 8 degrees CBIPDIP S TAHnr f l AVOW 7 r irrl NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oregon t', 6 S - i below zero presented no prob lem in transferring the two in fants from the hospital. "They arc as well prepared for it as any other baby that leaves the hospital," he said.' Wary Magdalene and 'Margar et will continue their diet of fruit, cereal and milk at Ixime, Bcrbos said. The quints were being put in one room of the Fischer's four-bedroom split level home so that their mother can care for them with as little difficulty as possible. SUSPEND EVICTIONS ROME lUPD Borne police Saturday siis)e.nded the evic tion of ail residents from Moji day until Jan. Hi in an annual Chrislmas gesture. iltilli, MM!. MM Ask about Weisfield's mm 1 ml M i WEISFIELD'SH ... fcj-n.jt .0 ,'. 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The singer's body was found in bed by her seventh hus band, professional football star Dick "Night Train" Lane. Her personal physician. Dr. B. C. Ross, said he believed Miss Washington had "ingested pills of an unknown type." Homicide Del. William J. Chubb said an unmarked bottle of orange and blue pills was found next to the bed. The con tents were not immediately known. The body was taken to the Wayne County morgue where an autopsy was scheduled later Saturday. "Nervous Condition" Miss Washington, whose big gest hit was "What A Differ ence A Day Makes," had been taking pills for a "nervous con dition." according to Mrs. Ethel Harrison, 67, who lived with tlie Lanes. Lane, a standout defensive star with the Detroit Lions, said he and his wife had retired about 1 a.m. He said lie awoke at about 4 a.m. when he heared the bedroom television set buzzing. He found his wife uifc conscious and called Ross. She was pronounced dead at 4:50 a.m. Lane and Miss Washington had gone to the airport Friday CHOOSE FROM FOR YOUR MONEY 1964 year watch 635 Main Ml?; night to pick up her two sons by previous marriages, George Jenkins, 18, and Robert Gray son, 15. They were home for the holidays from a Boston area prep school. Mrs. Harrison said Miss Wash ington often took the pills when performing and that they had been prescribed by a physician. Carnation Canned AALK Sure-Fresh COTTAGE CHEESE 18' LOW COST FRESH Rib Steaks Sirloin Wilson's MOR Luncheon Meat 12-oi. tin 3:100 S&W Nectar O Pear Nectar Peach O Apricot - Pineapple Pear - Pineapple Reg. 15c 12-oz. Tins APPLIES 3?25c CABBME h Si RIGHT RESERVED ft TV 'f ! TO LIMIT TOWN Burn in Tuscaloosa, Ala., as Ruth Jones, Miss Washington's family moved to Chicago when she was still a child. Slie won an amalcur singing contest at the Regal Tlieater in Chicago when only 15. 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