Show 4 SUNDAY MORNING THE OGDEN (UTAH) 24 1955 APRIL -- TACHIKAWA Japan (AP) — Paradise is lost Harlem and Monaco are deserted and the streets of Tachikawa no longer swarm with American GIs out on the fs y v is W fa S ' X y 4? ' 4g' m £ VW - f£? " 0u: y i ! i j i': j ''nj- Vy V t A ! 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(AP) — Shy quiet Harry L Washburn comes to trial tomorrow with the defense that he was 400 miles away when a cleverly devised auto bomb blasted his former mother-in-lato death jhere Jan 19 Prosecutors claim only a wild midnight drive got the Houston contractor back home before the dynamite trap exploded Mrs Helen Harris Weaver 51 ranchwoman and civic leader died when she pressed the starter of a family car that fateful morning Ten sticks of dynamite wired HONG KONG (AP) — The to the electrical’ system of the crew of the Dutch cargo ship year-olCheyrolet exploded toss- Boutman reported today that a ing chunks of the engine a block Communist Chinese warship with away 1300 aboard sank in Hangchow Investigation of the wealthy T3ay last Sunday after striking a woman’s death caused a furore rock in this prosperous west Texas They said they arrived at the ranching center that hasn’t set- scene five hours later and saw: tled yet “No trace of the 1300 passengers Washburn was arrested Jan and crew Only the funnel of the 29 and charged with murdeiv On warship was visible above the Feb 12 he anil a tough jail- water” Andrew H breaking The Boutman steaming from Nelson 45 who said he showed Japan to Shanghai was diverted Washburn how to make a dyna- to answer a distress call heard in mite bomb were indicted for Hong Kong from the Chinese murder identified as “Mingtse Nelson’s trial will be called warship No 3” later “They indicted the wrong The Boutman arrived here topeople” Washburn said in jail day “I was the one they were try‘ ing to get” Harry E Weaver 60 well known architect and a civilian consultant for the Navy Public Works Department told The Associated Press Death Was Mistake CHEYENNE Wyo (AP) — Officers agreed With Mrs Gov Wilward L Simpson has Weaver’s husband They said ordered a crackdown on coffee her death wras a “mistake” and breaks in the Statehouse had plotted for He told department heads to nearly a year to ambush Weaver limit state employes to two Mrs Adela Heninger 24 a breaks a day sometimes professional woman “The coffee break is a priviwrestler known as “Nature lege not a right” he said Girl” told police Washburn wanted Weaver killed so he could extort $10000 from Mrs Weaver She said Washburn dubbed Mrs Weaver “a soft touch’ Weaver has said that he and his wife had trouble with Wash$AN ANGELO Tex w ld t Red Warship Sunk Dutch Crew Says j d But it has ruined our one business” Bar Girl Dejected A bar girl sitting dejectedly in a local dive commented bitterly: “The provost marshal thinks he knows everything but he doesn’t Most of the girls were on this side of the station where the off limits signs apply But the dope and black market joints are on the side that stayed on limits” i The mayor Shinichiro Itaya and most businesses have taken a somewhat similar attitude They complain that not all of the guilty spots were hit and that many honest houses were hurt itaya said the order should have been applied to individual establishments rather than whole area The town’s older respectable citizenry who watched with misgivings as the lurid commerce grew are trying to begin a cleanup of their own g They have put up ” and citizen and paorganized signs trols to cruise through the town at night and pick up violators that-Washb- Morgro is of proven quality for western soils! 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