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Show 12 Sunday, February 2. 1947 SUNDAY HERALD i Pretty Si Her Phoenix Bank Holdup Yields Yeggs $14,000 PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 1 U.R Two bandits early Friday staged a daring daylight holdup of the Valley National Bank in the heart of downtown Phoenix and escaped with more than $14,000. The stickup pair entered the war bond redemption department of the bank shortly after it open- President Voices Backing To Air Safety Plans WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 (U.R) President Truman was reported receptive today to suggestions for possible budget readjustments to finance a program for improving air safety. Sen. Owen Brewster, R., Me., said he asked Mr. Truman during a call at the White House whether budgetary revisions might be made to cover the cost of radar, radio and other aids needed at ed brandishing .45 a tomatic pistols. They held four girl clerks (major airports and several customers at bay The president "agreed on the wnne mey scooped up $i4,334.zu,j importance of the problem and all in cash. They then successfully escaped on foot, splitting up as they left the bank building. Police issued an all-point pickup order. said he would be glad to have any suggestions we have to offer," Brewster, who heads a senate air safety investigation, told reporters. report-ers. . ' . One suggestion .that might be made to the president, Brewster indicated, would be to divert funds already appropriated and earmarked for improving and building new airports this year. He said this will be considered by his committee. Murray Assails Newsprint Control Police Hunt For Four Kidnapers NEW YORK. Feb. 1 (U.R) State policetoday sent out a 13-statc 13-statc alarm for four kidnapers who snatched the blonde wife of Max Hill, NBC radio commentator, commen-tator, from his side in midtown Manhattan and drove her to Long Island where they attacked and rMresd Koebe Hill. 26, a bride WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U.R) -of two months who married Hill ; Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont., after his first wife committed! charged last night that big news-suicide news-suicide last Nov. 10, was released: papers, magazines, and paper mill by her attackers early yesterday: . . ... .. and told police a strange story. 1 operators re,. controlling the She said four men stopped J Production and distribu- them on the street Wednesday ! tlon of newsprint. . night near their home. He called on congress to ' break One of the four grabbed hcr tne bottlenecks." wrist. Hill attempted to push him He said small newspapers "are away. Then the other three defenseless in the face of growing closed in. knocked down Hill and, big publishers big mill arrange-forced arrange-forced Mrs. Hill into a car. j ments which cut small users out." Hill, police said, did not re-! Murray, former chairman of port the incident to them, but; the senate small business corn-went corn-went home to await his wife's re- mittee, also made public a hither-turn, hither-turn, i to-secret report made by the Mrs. Hill told police three of; federal trade commission in 1939 : .-A 411 i (SEA Teltohotol i Marilyn Monroe, lo, native oi Hoi-I Hoi-I lywood. was working as a commer- cial model and baby sitter until she i went to the home of 20th Century- Fox talent scout the other night to sit with a baby. Now she is under contract to 20th Century-Fox studio. Pack of Puppies Attack, Kill Boy, 5 the men forced" her to submit to them. They. held her prisoner for several hours. Finally they stripped strip-ped the rings from her fingers and took her wristwatch, seized her purse and then started to drive toward New York. on the "newsprint paper decree investigation. The inquiry was made at the request of the then attorney general. Homer S. Cum-mings. Cum-mings. Murray released the 89-page report as a committee document. Scorned Suitor Kidnaps Child RICHMOND. Calif., Feb. 1 (U.RV A 37-year-old merchant teaman surrendered today on Kidnaping charges and turned over to police unharmed the four and one-half year old girl he was accused of abducting when the child's mother mo-ther rejected his marriage proposal. pro-posal. Ralph Worrell, wanted on a kidnaping warrant issued in Reno, Nev., by the child's mother, Russian-born Alexandra Agafan-ova Agafan-ova Levkovich, telephoned police and offered to give himself up when he learned from friends the oolice had an all-points bulletin out for his arrest. Worrelf waited for a radio car squad to pick him up at the apartment here- where he was staving with friends. the child, Ramona, was unharmed, un-harmed, neatly dressed and in 'good spirits" according to poHee who took Worrell to headquartr ers on a hold for Nevada authorities. auth-orities. Police said Worrell told them he was actually the father of the child who was born in a Japanese prison camp. They quoted him as claiming he brought the girl to Richmond while, the mother obtained ob-tained a Reno divorce so they could be married. The child, Worrell said, had not been officially awarded to any one. State Prison Is Getting Crowded SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 1 (U.R) Warden John EL, Harris reported report-ed today that the population of the state prison has increased by more than 150 men in the last two and one half years. The prison had 268 inmates in November, 1944 Now it has 422. Of these 355 are in the Salt Lake City prison, built to hold less than 300. and the-rest are in barracks bar-racks at the new prison site near Jordan Narrows. The car ran out of gasoline a; stating that the present attorney few miles from the place -where i general. Tom C. Clark, and the she was attacked and the kid- f. T. C. had "cleared" it. almost napcrs fled, leaving Mrs. Hill in eight years after it was prepared. tno car. She hailed a motorist who took her to a Nassau county police station. The police sped her backj to the locality of the attack andj found the car. which was identi-l fied as one that had been stolen" in Richmond Hill Wednesday. County Jail Trusty Skips VIRGINIA, Minm. Feb. 1 (U.R) Glen Brace, 5, rushed home from kindergarten yesterday I through the house and out the I back door He was in a hurry to 'see his neighbor's "puppies." He was found dead in the snow a short time later, the victim of a neighbor's six half -grown dob-erman dob-erman pinschers who were yap- ping wildly around his torn and SALT LAKE dlTY, Feb. 1 (U.R) j " ;The Republican partys. today had been ripped off. I . fllfi rontro, SatkLake . A. E. Bibbins. the dogs' owner.! county, Utah's largest, follotaing .found the body when he investi-ja scries of raoid-fire devel sated the barking. He summoned : ments that ended a month-Ion Republicans Take Over Control In Salt Lake County One Nun, Five Orphan Girls Missing In Fire PRTTVrF AT.RJTRT Sak "Vh 1 (U.R) One nun was burned to!fm death and five orphan girls were- rtiiectrirr onri Ki I iniro rln'iH in a ' lire today which destroyed St. i where SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. 1 (U.R) A 19-year-old trusty at the Salt Lake county jail. Owen R. Spence of Boise, went a long way with his snow shovelling Friday night. Sheriff George Beckstcad reported re-ported that Spence went out with other prisoners to remove snow near the jail. When the others rturned. Spenced didn t He'd kept on shoveling some- else. Authorities were Patrick s Catholic orphanage. A second nun was in serious condition with a broken back she suffered when she jumped in panic from a third story window to a cement sidewalk. Thirteen other nuns, two broth- c seeking him today. LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 1 U.R) Louis Renburg, 49, who turned turn-ed out to be an escaped Utah! convict, was disclosed today to ; have swept his way out of the 99 orphan boys and girls and La v,egas jail. : the principal of the orphanage, nenourg. who tsiaptu i.u... Father Latour. escaped from the u,a.h Pfon Dec. 26, was jailed burning building in night clothes. n Las Vegas on Jan. 19 for as-, - saulting -an officers. Three days later he was placed on a street sweeping detail and kept on go-! ing. j The night after he escaped from, the point-of-the-mountain prison: barracks near Salt Lake .City.i 1 Renburg eluded officers by vol-i untarily appearing at the Amer-I ican fork jail ana spenaing me; Glen's father. Howard Brace, construction supervisor for a mining company. "Just what happened, we'll never know." the boy's father said. "He never had any pets of his own, but he liked dogs. He used to pet them on the street He wasn't afraid of them." Bibbins said the neighborhood children often had come to see the seven-months-old dogs. "They were never vicious but they often would jump on a person," per-son," he said. "Somehow they got out of their pen and attacked Glen. When I found the little fellow. fel-low. I couldn't recognize him." He shot all six of the dogs. Boys Held For Wrecking Train fieht. Roscoe Boden, Democratic commissioner com-missioner who remained in office of-fice despite his defeat last November No-vember by a Republican who died a few weeks later, resigned last night. Boden wanted to quit effective Feb. 6, but the other two commissioners com-missioners Democrat George W. Morgan and Republican Robert L. Cranmer made it effective immediately. However, Boden gets paid i'or another week, Cranmer then nominated Homer Hom-er W. Jaynes of Crescent, formei president of the Utah Republican club, to fill the vacancy. Morgan approved Jaynes' selection -and the Crescent farmer was quickly sworn in. The two Republicans arc now expected to act to have all commission com-mission actions in which Boden participated since the original end of his term reexamined. This could mean increased patronage 1 ! appointments for the victorious GOP. Sues ExBoss For Million Dollar Affections Loss LOS ANGELES. Feb. 1 (U.R) nr : r t,.i r r,. VY HI let 1 1 1 Dl efll JUUIIEIUII Ul rui I- i land. Ore today apraiscd the Joss Jn boln cascs jai,crs dWn.t of his wifes affections at $1,000,- learn untn too late of Rcllburgs t' u . r i . t u . escape record. Johnston filed suit for hat amount against his former boss,' f wealthy George H. Waale oV QQQ VVOman Ull Glendale. Calif., yesterday charg-! A , ing Waale "unlawfully, wickedly i QQ p Committee and maliciously and by reason ofj his great wealth." gained the af-: CHICAGo Feb. 1 (U.R) Mrs. fections of. his wife and enticed, Roso Gorr Mavcs Kellogg, Ida. her to leave him 'by offers of;arjd Mrs w w WcrtZi Charles-money, Charles-money, lurs and jewelry. lpn w Va.. todav were elected Johnston claimed he was si ill members of the executive corn-lawfully corn-lawfully married to Bernice V. mittee of the Nntional Federation Hill Johnston, although she ob- of Women's Republican clubs, tained a divorce in Nevada late meeting here. in 1945. They were married in, Both women are president of Reno. Nev.. July, 1941. the women's Republican clubs in Johnston's suit filed in federal their states. roni-1 r-hareed.his wife cave birth, A 7th state federation was ad- ' LOGANSPORT. Ind.. Feb. (U.R) Federal District Judge Luther M. Swygert said today that the two boys who derailed a PROBLEM SOLVED sDeedine Pennsylvania nassengcr! NEWBURYPORT, Mass. UJ.R) train Monday night would be. Firemen had no trouble getting a prosecuted by state authorities! new $17,000 aerial ladder truck and not by the government. I into Central Fire Station but they Swygert said the case would! couldn't get it out again because be handled by the state or Cass the doors opened inward. So' they county authorities because any took down the doors. prosecution of Lysle Graves, 11.' and Jack Sprinkle, 12, under the! Saint Patrick, patron saint of federal train wrecking act "Would i Ireland, was thought to have been be too strong in view of the born In Scotland of Roman par-tender par-tender years of the subjects." Icntage. April 8. 1945, to a child, allegedly by Waaie. He asked $250,000 for alienation mitted into national membership with the inclusion of a newly-formed newly-formed Kentucky Federation of T I ' . ' . T . . U I 1 -. . 1 l of affections, $250,000 for "em- Vk ' "i""1"-"" "?u ncaa K,,mn( .i -p.ied by Mrs. George Joplin. 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