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Show Sunday, January 26, 1947 SUNDAY HERALD Coney Island Hold-Up Nets Gang $18t000 NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (U.R) Seven armed gunmen held up and robbed a Coney Island Turkish bath to the tune of $18,000 today, handing a new headache to "New York's finest," a police force 17,000 strong - battling with its back to the wall against a three-month-qld crime wave. The seven men, all practiced professionals by the way they did their work, escaped in two cars, which waited at the curb with motors running and drivers at the wheels. It was just before dawn, and upstairs the patrons slept peacefully, unaware their watches, cash, rings and other valuables, were gone with the night. Police, likewise, were unaware that, crime was stalking the Coney Island boardwalk until the still-scared night manager of the bathhouse telephoned. Minutes later, the beach neighborhood was alive with policemen. But the nine man gang already was as elusive as the thugs who battered Joseph Scottoriggio to his death last eletcion day in the slaying which dates the start of the current crime wave. Since the Republican worker was killed in East Harlem the police department, depart-ment, has been shaken up from top to bottom. Old hands have been retired; detectives have been sent back to pounding beats; young, alert patrolmen have been made detectives. In one instance, the staff of an entire police station sta-tion was changed. But also since the Scottoriggio slaying the crimes have continued, contin-ued, virtually unchecked new robberies, more slayings, a big jail break. Today s Coney Island robbery was the latest of a long line, similar in many respects to the $20,000 payroll holdup of the Brooklyn Eagle yesterday. In both robberies, the gang worked fast and with assurance. Van Johnson Yeds Estranged Wife Of His Best Friend HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25 (U.R) Actor Van Johnson, bobby-sox idol, married Mrs. Evie Wynn, estranged wife of his best friend, this afternoon in Juarez, Mexv four hours after she obtained a "quickie" Mexican divorce from comedian Keenan Wynn. "That's a fine thing," Wynn commented when informed of the marriage. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio revealed the marriage was performed per-formed at 2 pjn. by Civil Judge Raoul Arozco in Juarez. The surprise elopement occurred occur-red after Mrs. Wynn and Johnson both returned to Hollywood earlier this month from Sun Valley, Idaho, with the announcement announce-ment that for the second time she had abandoned plans for an out-of-state divorce. The first time, Mrs. Wynn went to Las Vegas, Nev but only remained re-mained overnight. Mrs. Wynn, the former New York stage actress Eve Abbott, left for Sun Valley Jan. 2 ostensibly osten-sibly to get a divorce, but stayed only two weeks. When she returned the second time, she was quoted as saying she "was not at all happy about breaking up her marriage of eight years." Custody of her two children was granted Mrs. Wynn in the Juarez divorce proceedings, but civil action in a United States court may be necessary to make that final. Bribery (Continued from Page One) a day in expenses for assemblymen. assembly-men. But only positive action to break the log jam in state disbursing dis-bursing machinery, within the capitol departments could keep normal services functioning, according ac-cording to State Auditor B. E. Thrasher. His records indicated that six important agencies the executive, revenue, highway, military, public safety and parks departments will run of of operating oper-ating funds next Saturday, Feb. 1. Other state departments have been allotted enough funds in advance to keep going beyond mid-February. The monetary tie-up, tie-up, ' stemming from the dual claims to the governor's office, has come to a head in the revenue, rev-enue, treasuiy,.and legal departments. Every Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation, Corpora-tion, SO South First West Street. Provo, Utah. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in Provo. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, $1.00 the month, $6.00 for six months, in advance. $12.00 the year in advance; by mail anywhere in the United States or its possessions. posses-sions. $1.00 the month; $6.00 for six months; $12 00 the year in advance. Timpanogos Hatchery TEMPORARILY LOCATED IN YELLOW CAB OFFICE 170 West 1st No. PHONE 613 7 Steel Men (Continued From Page One) Tennessee Iron & Railroad, Columbia Col-umbia Steel, and the Ironton, Utah, plant of Geneva Steel. Negotiations for similar agreements agree-ments for production and maintenance main-tenance workers at other U. S. plants are in progress, the announcement an-nouncement said. The agreement provided wage increases for workers in some classifications. The steelworkers said the company would pay increases in-creases approximating $17,000,000 annually. The union estimated that some employes will receive as much as $1,800 in back pay. The agreement calls for back pay amounting to 70 percent of what the increases would total when figured retroactive from Jan. 4, 1944. The union revealed that similar negotiations are being held with 84 other steel companies. Bethlehem and Republic tsteei companies have already agreed in nrincinle to the -new standard hourly wage scale, according to the union. Philin Murray. Dresident of the union, estimated that back pay under such an agreement for the entire steel industry would total about $100,000,000, and annual wage increases of approximately $50,000,000. The 30 job classifications begin at 96 cents an hour for sweepers sweep-ers and ianitors and climb to $1.98 an hour for blooming mill rollers. Common laborers were raised to above $1 an hour. Workers in such classifications as "general labor, heavy laoor, and neavy and dirty labor will receive new rates of from $1 to $1.07 an hour. May, Garsson Brothers Plead Innocent To Fraud Charges M ; : r, 1 I it h ' " J '. 'A ,V v If - JrA Deaths" Tryphen G Ostler SPRINOVILLE T r y p h e n a Gallup Ostler, 52, died Friday afternoon at the family home, 797 East Fourth South, following a lingering illness, She was born Jan. 29, 1895 at Mapletqn, a daughter of James and Eleanor Warren Gallup. She lived in Mapleton during her early life, then spent the rest of her life in Spriagville, where she was an active LDS church member, especially in Relief Society work. She married E. La-vell La-vell Ostler Feb. 15, 1911. She is survived by her husband, hus-band, three sons and one daughter, daugh-ter, Arthur Lavell Ostler, Spring-ville; Spring-ville; Gerald A. Ostler, Salt Lake City; Valaeo Ostler, Provo and Mrs. Fern Obee, Roswell, New Mexico; 11 grandchildren; nine brothers and sisters, Mrs. Parley Perry and Mrs. Melinda Bird, Mapleton; Mr. Augusta Wood and Mrs. Millie Wood, Farmington, Mrs. Persenda Wignal, Mrs. Grace Vincent and Arthur L. Gallup, Provo Mrs. Nell Bowen, Spanish Fork and Amos L. Gallup, Rosemary, Rose-mary, Alberta, Canada. The body is at ihe Claudin funeral home pending funeral 1 arrangements. Around the World TOKYO, Jan. 25 ILE A possibility pos-sibility that the threatened strike of Japanese government and utility workers on Feb. 1 will never take place was seen by Japanese observer today. Despite the fact that a spokesman spokes-man for the National Congress of Industrial Organizations branded such reports as "rumors," some informed persons said the union leaders have "weakened" during the last few days and were likely like-ly to call of fthe scheduled strike of two and one half million workers. Book Searched (Continued from Page One) Randall Hugh Heath i&' Vl xsV; Sy? . jtaxouxn uraveside services -vn-- will be conducted . (NEA Telenhoto) Former Congressman Andrew J. May (right, left pnoto), accompanied by his attorney. Warren E. Magee, leaves Municipal Court, Washington, D. C after pleading innocent to charges that he and three key figures fig-ures of the Garsson munitions combine entered into conspiracy to defraud the government in war contracts. con-tracts. Also shown leaving court after entering their plea of innocent are the Garsson brothers (right Dhoto, left to right), Henry Garsson, Murray Garsson, Joseph Freeman. Garssons' Washington ixer, and Allen J. Krause, attorney for Garsson brothers. Argentina (Continued from Page One) til Argentina completed its de nazification. The V. S. refusal has resulted re-sulted in postponement of a proposed conference on hemispheric hem-ispheric defense at Rio De Janeiro. Observers believed that as a result of today's developments a definite date for the conference may now be set. If it is, they believed it would be set for some time after Marshall Mar-shall returns from the Big Four foreign ministers conference which starts at Moscow March 10. Announcement FORD & FIELDING CO. Cold Storage Plant Just Received Another Shipment of Modern Lockers They are ready for your occupancy PHONE 2484-R or pay us a visit at 776 NO. 5th WEST We do custom meat cutting Cut and wrapped to your specifications. We alone in Provo have the new waxing process. Gladly Glad-ly demonstrated upon request. Smoking your hams, bacon, sausage making our spetialty. We are proud of our plant and we know you'll be as proud when you rent a locker from Ford & Fielding, Inc., 776 No. 5th West, Provo. Seeing Eye Dog Is Going Blind SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 25 (U.R Betty is going blind. Cataracts are slowly covering the eyes which for the past seven years have served for two herself and her master, William G. Shelton. Betty, a seemg-eye dog, seem ed to understand when the doc tor said she would not see much longer. Her head drooped and her big ears, usually held erect, folded. Shelton, a Salt Lake City at, torney, said he began to notice something was wrong last week. "She would come to a curb and step over it too soon, or else she would stop too far away. I knew something was wrong. I could feel it. "She always held her head high until a couple of days ago," he said. "Then she started holding it down. When I noticed that 1 took her to the doctor." The doctor told him she was blind in one eye and was going blind in the other. "He said I'd better not use her any more, ohelton said. I don ti know if 1 11 get another dog. 1 1 want one, but Betty means so much to me it wouldn't be the same." He said he would keep the dog, which he got from the Seeing Eye Institute in New Jersey, "nd matter what happened. "Even if I didn't want-to," he said, "I would have to. If I didn't I would lose my wife and two children. They all love Betty as much as I do." Ex-Gangster (Continued From Page One) cago, and friends, arrived at the estate during the night. However, the man who died was only the hulk of the Brooklyn barkeep that rose to bullet-rule of the fabulously lucrative Chicago underworld. His mind wandered, he shambled shambl-ed when he walked, he was a child in thought according to those who knew him in his last years. His bowed figure was rarely rare-ly seen on the streets of the resort re-sort spot he chose for his retreat. His few close friends scoffed at rumors that the balding, childlike child-like Capone still had his hand in a portion of the lush rackets that had brought him untold wealth in the prohibition era. Capone's chief amusements in later years, they said, was pottering around the garden behind the double-gated double-gated walls of his estate here. His mind could cope with only the simplest of problems, it was reported. re-ported. Capone died wealthy, but he died a caricature of the notorious public enemy who had thrown Chicago into a war for gangster supremacy. Capone was born in Naples, Italy, Jan. 17, 1899. His family brought him to Brooklyn, N. Y., when he was five. He left school when he was 11 and learned thievery, gambling and street fighting in the hell's kitchen section sec-tion of New York. He got his nickname from a scar he received in a knife fight on a Brooklyn street. Coast Guard Loaded With Gold Braid WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) Chairman John Taber, R., N.Y., of the House appropriations committee, com-mittee, warned the coast guard today to trim its gold braid or prepare to get along on less money. Taber told the United Press that unless the coast guard got rid of some of its brass he personally per-sonally would lead a fight to withhold part of its personnel fund. Congress raked the coast guard over the coals last year for having hav-ing too many admirals and other high-salaried officers. But, Taber said, the coast guard had paid no heed, and that is "indefensible." in Payson citv for Randall Hueh Heath, infant son of Hugh and Margaret Fawcett Heath, born Thursday at a Payson city hospital. hos-pital. He died Thursday. Survivors include the parents, a twin orotner, two sisters, Sandra San-dra and Patsy Heath; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jed Heath, Payson; Mr. John Fawcett, San Francisco; a great-grandmother, Mrs. Matilda Throckmorton, Throckmor-ton, Payson. Burial will be under the direction direc-tion of the Valley mortuary. denly the nose dipped downward n fan TVf J) TTnnoon 12 Killed (Continued from Page One) first hitting the runway and skidding skid-ding on the ice until it crashed into the second plane on the edge of the field. As the planes cracked together, they burst into flame. The Spencer Spen-cer Airways plane came to rest against a retaining wall, where it burned to a skeleton. It seemed probable that most of the victims died in the fire, rather than the arash. Some passengers pas-sengers were pulled from the plane while it was burning. Three mechanics who were working on the plane at the edge of the runway run-way it was being tested for the Czech air service jumped out of the way and were not hurt. Spencer was the only member of the five-man crew killed. No "T for one " hp sairi. "don't in tend to have the government j trace o nis bod' or the remains played horse with." :f tne babies could be found, and Thr'. r.o euro QV in makoiit was thought that they were the coast guard reduce its officer personnel, he said "withhold funds from them." "Right now," he went on, "the coast guard is asking for money for 2,392 officers to go with about 23,000 enlisted men. This is a ratio way beyond the army's and navy's." The coast guard has and proposes pro-poses to keep next year one full admiral, 18 rear admirals and seven commodores all of flag rank. Before the war, Taber said, the service had no four-star admiral, ad-miral, no commodores and managed man-aged to get along with three rear admirals for about the same number num-ber of enlisted men as now. In addition, he said, the coast guard has and intends to keep 114 captains. "Funny thing," Taber said. "The coast guard didn't fall apart before the war when it had only 18 captains." . i U. S. Steel (Continued from Page One) might pass labor laws which might provoke unrest among unions. There also was uncertainty un-certainty over what Lewis will do on March 31, the deadline for a possible new coal strike. In calling off a 17-day strike last Dec. 7, Lewis ordered miners back to work until the end of March. Uninterrupted production appeared ap-peared assured throughout the first quarter of 1947 as a result of the steel contract extension. However, How-ever, steady operations would be upset if Lewis fails to make a new contract with the coal industry by March 31. He is expected to begin negotiations around March 1. Green's fears were prompted by the threat of restrictive labor legislation. leg-islation. He said any law that deprives de-prives workers of their rights "will menace the free enterprise system and democratic institu tions of this country." "Make no mistake about the principle that free unions are just as essential to free enterprise as is free management," Green said. completely consumed by the fire. The babies were Peter Pond, two-and-a-half years old, and his five-months-old sister. Their parents par-ents were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Pond of Weybridge, who were believed be-lieved to have been killed. George Wright, a Scot, is the man who was saved by the nun. An agent for Spencer Airways said he believed the port engine failed, because he noticed that the left wing dipped just before it started to crash. Karen Marie Rasmussen Han sen, 89, died Saturday in a local hospital of pneumonia. She was born Mar. 22, 1857 in Hjelstrup, Denmark. She joined join-ed the LDS church in her native land and emigrated to Utah in 1896. She married Ole C. Hansen in the Manti temple in 1899. They moved to Provo in 1906 and she had lived here since. Her husband died in 1920. She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Ellery Anderson, Ephraim; and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Matilda Ma-tilda C. Moyle, Manti, and Mrs. Gardner, Spanish Fork. Funeral services will be Tuesday Tues-day at 2:30 p.m. at the Berg mortuary mor-tuary chapel, with Bishop H. J. Stagg presiding. Friends may call at the mortuary prior to services. CARD OF THANKS May we express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all those who so kindly assisted us during the recent death of our beloved son, Ivari. For the many kindly acts, the lovely floral offerings, services rendered, and words of consolaT tion. we are truly grateful. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Jepperson. letters clipped from advertisements advertise-ments in magazines. The letter prompted an immediate imme-diate emergency conference behind be-hind closed doors by every officer on the homicide squad. "This is the big push," Capt. Jack Donahoe announced after the meeting. "Our men are fann mg out now to bring in the kill er. Detectives were checking the names tf the slain girl's friends through the little black book found in the envelop containing the letter. They believed the let ter eventually would break the case and give away the Brazen murderer who mailed It. "This contains the effects of the Black Dahlia," the note said. "Another "An-other letter will follow." The note was pieced together from whole words and single letters let-ters clipped from newspaper account ac-count of the torture murder of the pretty former movie extra, whose hacked body was found in a west side lover's lane Jan. 13. The Marshall girl was arrested with a diminutive male companion compan-ion on suspicion of auto theft in Barstow, after they tried to sell a 1942 Chevrolet for $700. Police turned to questioning her about the "Black Dahlia" case after four persons reported over hearing her in a bap saying: "I know who killed Beth Short but I'm afraid to tell." Police checked two new names in the address book which was mailed in by the killer but the two men were cleared, although they admitted they had known the slain girl. Robert S. Geissinger, an advertising adver-tising executive, said he was acquainted ac-quainted with Miss Short but that he had no contact with her since last October. Jimmy Harrigan, an airplane mechanic, located at San Bernardino, Bernar-dino, Cal., air base, where he is employed, said he picked up Miss Short Dec. 1 and took her to a Los Angeles night spot. He said he had another date with her on Dec 2, but that that was the last time he had seen her. NANKING U.R China has officially of-ficially demanded the withdrawal ol French, troops from the Chinese-occupied Parocel islands east of Indo-China and negotia tions now are under way in Nan king and Paris, a high government govern-ment source close to the Chinese foreign office said today. O PEIPING (U.R) U. S. Marines completed arrangements today for an air drop of urgentl needed need-ed clothing, blankets and medical supplies to a group c communists commun-ists the one political organization organiza-tion which has been loudest in its demands for the marines to get out of China. O HALIFAX. N. S. (U.R) Six persons, per-sons, all believed to be United States navy personnel, were injured in-jured last night when a DC-3 transport plane en route from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., to Argentina, Nfld., overshot a rhn-way rhn-way near Dartmouth, N. S., and crashed in a woods. A seventh person escaped uninjured. O House (Continued From Page One) Knew 'Dahlia' LAHORE (U.R) All Moslem businesses here were closed today after the arrest of 51 persons in scattered raids throughout Punjab on head- ' quarters of the outlawed Moslem national guard. O NORTH ALLERTON, York shire, Eng. (U.R) A royal air froce Mosquito plane crashed on an estate near here today, killing the two men aboard. The plane hit the top of a grove of fir trees and crashed 'in a field. Wreckage was scattered widely. O BUENOS AIRES (U.R) Sources close to the foyeign office said today that Argentina soon will take over more enemy-owned firms in addition to the 60 newly new-ly listed for government acquisition. ac-quisition. O BERLIN (U.R) Ten American news executives touring Germany Ger-many under the auspices of the war department arrived today. A conference with Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clary, deputy military governor, gover-nor, was scheduled. O PARIS (U.R) Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera star, said today to-day regarding an Oslo newspaper attack on her wartime con "uct that "my conscience is clear." Miss Flagstad received an ovation ova-tion from a capacity audience at a public dress rehearsal for her first concert in Paris since the war. PROPOSES AUDIT OF FEDERAL AGENCIES WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R) Sen. Edward V. Robertson, R., Wyo., said today he will propose a $10,000,000 independent audit of "every penny" spent by government govern-ment departments and agencies. TAILOR MADE SLIP COVERS COMPLETE SELECTIONS QUALITY MATERIALS 7 DAY SERVICE ZION Upholstering 955 So. Springville Rd. Phone 1911 W 7 Ft 48 to 19. The act also called for a whole new arrangement of committee staffs. i "That we got done with pre- -1 liminary organization work as quickly as we did certainly ought to be a credit to us," Halleck said. "The first thing the country seems to be terribly concerned about is this portal-to-portal suit situation. I look for that to get very early consideration. "The labor committee has just been organized and it can be expected ex-pected to begin hearings on legislation leg-islation dealing with labor-management relations in the not too distant future. "Also of great public interest is the matter of taxes. The excise tax extension bill (to continue $1,130,000000 in wartime excises) ex-cises) is coming up in the House on Wednesday. "I assume the ways and means committee will begin to give consideration con-sideration soon to the personal income tax reduction measure. (NEA Telephoto) Georgia "Toni" Smith, mother of a three-year-old son, and one-time roommate of Elizabeth Short, victim vic-tim of butcher slaying in Los Angeles, An-geles, told police "I want to tell all t might know in aiding the case." 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