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Show Young Hero Gets Radio StoryOf f er 12-Year-Old Sleuth in S. L. Robbery May Go East A 12-year-old Salt Lake City boy whoss bravery two years ago snsbled police to capture a gunman gun-man who fled after a pawnshop holdup may get a respite from In- carceration at the state industrial school to tell the radio world about his heroism. Ths Telegram Saturday learned that the boy, Max Ryser, had been invited by a cigaret company to come to New York City on a program that dramatises thrilling thrill-ing newspaper stories. For it was as "a newspaper man" that Max, in March, 1935, rushed in where many a braver man would fear to tread. Be Heard Shots Hearing shooting in the Relis-ble Relis-ble Losn office. 88 East Second South street, Msx quickly decided de-cided : "I'm going to be a newspaper reporter and a reporter has got to hava nerve." He felt that he waa a newspaper news-paper man already, being school correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune, Thus spurred by his new- found courage, he looked Inside ths loan office and saw a police-msn police-msn sprawled on the floor, then entered, alipping along tha showcase show-case for protection. Seeing a man emerge from the shop and Join a woman, hs shadowed the couple, noting that they entered the Hawkeye hotel, 212t South State street He notified noti-fied police where the gunman could be found, then beard more gunfire as another officer was shot through ths abdomen and the gunman was wounded In ths arm. True ta Tradition True ta the tradition of tha newspspsr, Max's first thought was to get the story into print Borrowing paper from a nraitreas In a eafs near by. be begsn. properly enough, with, tha headline. head-line. Ha wrote: "Two Shot in Big Hokshop Hpldup." Then he got a better Idea. Hs rushed up to ths newspspsr office and pounded the story out oa a typewriter. Superintendent F. A. Child of the industrial school at Ogdea ' said be had not yet received tha cigaret company's proposition but that hs.' thought Max probably would bs allowed to accept tha offer. Max was sent to ths school several sev-eral months ago because he eras "uncontrollable" at home, stsy-Ing stsy-Ing away for periods. Mr. Child said. Na fixed term was Imposed Im-posed upon him. but in such cases, youths remain under school custody, cus-tody, either at tha institution or free en probation, until they are eU, the superintendent explained. s |