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Show Sweeping Brush Fire Destroys Nine Homes - PHIH141WU. l.' 7. m1S55fc,,l13 Wife Slayer Tripped In His Attempt to Cover 1 Up SUNDAY HERALP !IU "? A CHATSWORtH, t , t' 1 county crews were" left to patrol Calif., (UP) 'controlled a sweeping brush fire destroyed nine homes and forced 150 persons to evacuate the ?t roared over an estim4 area as .N . 1700 acres. , ated The blaze, was reported "controlled except for a few hot spots" ,and most, of the 500 firefighters : were pulled off the line. Four "'which - 27 tems On I FHA Loan List Knocked Out 4washingt6n no Home- (UP) owners can governlonger get ment guaranteed Moans for building airplane hangars dog kennels or f lower boxes in their back . yards. 'y The Federal Housing Adminis tration Friday published regula- on .22:aliber rifle Wednesdi SHAWANO. Wis. (UP) A rouNexamination tine tripped up a young husband who has admitted killing his wife and setting fire to their home to make the death appear v accidental, au r thorities said Saturday. The husband, Thomas Bostwick, 20, admitted to Sheriff Ted Eul Friday that he kired his wife, nase, also 70, with a shot from coroner's File offioi?ls announced they have the line today. The fire threatened some 200 other homes and a number of upper San Fernando Valley ranch es during its rampage. rnree men who tried to set a backfire to save a ranch were ar rested on suspicion of malicious burning of shrubs and trees. They were identified as Bill Ward, own er of the Spahn Ranch near Chats worm; unerokee L a n d r u m a stuntnaan, and Ray Taylor, a ranch hand. , A fire official termed the Chats- worth blaze "one of the worst" in his memory. More than 90 fire companies fought the flames in the Box Can yon and hanta Misana Mountain areas, 'only 3o miles from the heart of Los Ange.es. Eight firefighters were treated for first and second- degree burns. . Fire officials said they hoped to control the flames soon if the wind doesn't change in the mouri " i. tains. Some of the evacuees began re turning to their homes late Friday from emergency Red Cross 1 shel ters where women and children had been brought from the Box Canyon area. . areas has been The burned-ove- r the scene of innumerable smaller brush and forest blazes this year "she cried all night." Bostwick's wife was originally . reported to have burned to death when, their four room home near here caught! fire early Wednesday. Bostwick told police then that he rescued his wife and their ; daughter the- - j , v. ' , A Tu rllv f'i. l ; 9. from burning home and took them to.. a neighbor s house. : Later, he said, he noticed his Wife missing and thought shexhad Pvt. Schine Is Given been trapped when she went back ' into the burning house to save, Transfer to Alaska; some household goods. ..V Raise However, a routine coroner, $15 Monthly examination of Mrs. Bostwick's Irac- David charreda body showed a skull AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)-- G . was , oraerea.. the controversial former autopsy Schine, and it . woman died of' aiue w oen. a .22 caliber bullet wound iri the; nas received a promotion and Aead. orders transferring him to Alaska-- After fepurs . of questioning. au-lt was disclosed Saturday. thorities said. BostwickN chanted Schine was promoted from pri his story and admitted' shootin: vate to private first class, giving his wife,- pouring gasoline "overt : the wealthy hotel owners son her body and igniting it. . In his statement. Bostwick said about1 a $15 monthly raise. He i will leave Camp Gordon, his wife "cried all night" over her' where he trained for duty as a inability to bearv" any more chu! dren, according to District Attoiv military policeman, about for Ft. Lewis, Wash. He ney Frederick Eberlein. N will be processed there for trans; "F. inally it was daylight. I fer to Alaskan duty, it was an4pjcked up the gun which was on a small stand, near the bed and nounced at Camp Gordon Presumably he will be I doing shot her in the back, of the head. MP duty at his new assignment. I don't vjtnow", why," Eberlein Alleged special treatment for quoted Bostwick. Schine was one of the big issues Eberlein sj said first degree- mur-in the famous clash between 'Mc-fdcharges would bex filed against S. arid U. V Bostwick. . the Army. Carthy 1 -- - . ' - tions making official .a ban, those items annbunced several months ago by FHA "Commission- i er Norman P. Mason. That means -backed loans no 'more government ' 27 items. lor Also spelled out in the five ,k is the ,sec-- r pages, of the fine printlenders and tion which makes h lending institutions share part of the risk on government insured roperty improvement loan. Beginning next rrway, as 1 aior bank a rected by Congress, any other lending institution must bear 10 per cent of the loss on, BRUSH FIRE OUT OF CONTROL A brush fire r ages around homes in Box Canyon 30 miles is not reany insured loan which ' northwest of Los Anceles and several homes were reported destroyed in this area. Numerous pay the rest. paid. The FHA will ein fire. (United Press Telephoto). FHA other homes were reported threatened by the has, Heretofore the amount whole the covered ffect,ail Kidnap-Deat- h f insured loans which have on gone into default.- -' Dade County FHA officials feel the new loss MIAMI (UP)-rT- he 11 lend"'"Ss, make will a secret. has returned grand jury sharing regulation PVnX ers more careful about extending indictment in the brutal , loans to poor risk borrowers. kidnap-slayin- g old of seven-yeai Uiah NaSPARKS, Nevr (UP) Uninsurable items now include Judith Ann Roberts last the July, Raw-ling- s barbe-u- e bathhouses, burglar tional Committeeman Calvin pits, On .application destroys, crabfras by killmg Miami Herald reported Saturday. WILLIAMSON, W. Va. (UP) alarms, burglar protection bars, The name of the will be the major speaker at The bodieis of two tht seed. Eliminates sail pests. jDecs net harm person charged door opening ind closing devices, in the murder of the little girl will found in to children a Democratic be held night wfre Friday or discolor desirable grasses or dichoadro. Pro M. WILLIAM BATES party rally said Democrats had been the Pres By dumbwaiters, fire alarms, fire ex not be mada sus- United Press Staff Abandoned until the icebox where an they public Oct. Sat18, it was announced vides concentration of nitrojen PLANT POOD f Correspondent ident's "best friends" on legisla here tinguishers, grading and landscape pect is arrested, the newspaper WASHINGTON (UP) had crawled while playing in a President tion dealing with national and in urday. Jng. greenhouses, lawn spruuumg- said. The secret indictment was Eisenhower's BUY ON EASY PAYMENT PLAN vacant house at nearby Hardy, speech to the Ameri- ternational r3curity. outdoor fireplaces, pent- returned The rally will be sponsored joint- Ky. I . a the after ' systems, by can jury won of Federation 1952 has Adlai Labor E. the Stevenson, houses,' photo murals, radiator engthy meeting in a Miami hotel both FROM YOUR AUTHORIZED DEALER Ross N j Booker HI. i .BUY N OW praise and criticism but Dem- Democratic presidential candidate, ly by the Sparks Democratic Club The bodies ofEdmonds U . covers,' stands, steam cleaning of Friday, it reported, were loand Teddy ocrats continue ta heap mostly said at Evanston, 111., that the con and the Washoe county and state Jr., the outside of the house, swim207 j NORTH l$t WEST r r fori fifffliV q IrtTitT coarnh thaf Words on his harsh tennis The jury heard testimony from foreign policy. gressional election in .November central committees. All Democrat- - started when the v disaboeared ming pools, TV antennas, PHONE 4070 Miami homicide detectives and GOP National Chairman Leonard could bring an end to "impotency ic candidates for state courts, tree surgery, valances and two and national from! the Eastern Coal Co. camp ' re- W. Hall wired Mr. Eisenhower that weakness was a it and in investigator, private blinds. uncertainty x Venetian office will attend. v. where their families lived. liis speech Friday' to the AFU con American foreign policy ported. "It could mean the beginning The indictment was received by vention at Los Angeles was "mag He nificent. said the President Circuit Judge Joe Eaton. maturity, of confident dedication,Ex-Convtiad words "the and of great conviction of Amenict given marching The body of the little girl, daugh that can to us can the carry victory leadereship toward peace, free ter of Baltimore attorney James we so to continue need dom and tranquility on the earth," urgently T. Roberts, was found on the morn Stevenson declared. theisenhower program. ing of July 7 in a mangrove thicket to the convention, Delegates of her which has heard much criticism about a mile from the home grandparents where she and her of (he GOP administration, agreed family had been staying. Uiat Mr. Eisenhower s appearance Police said she had been gagged. sent his personal popularity soar James bound and garroted with strips ""LOS ANGELES (UP) But some labor leaders said wanted about her nightgown. The blonde ing. Merkouris". 40. not '"promise fcnough" to he did if In connection with the murder of girl had been taken from the sofa satisfy labor. i r i hs former wife and her husband in the grandparents house where Promises y Changes in she was sleeping and driven off I here, was . captured. Saturday Mr. Eisenhower told the conven CAST EL GANDOLFO, Italy T itii Pnrld Ark., the FBI an- - in the grandfather's car, tion that he respected and adPope Pius XII underwent Her father had been visiting In mired what organized labor has (UP) two-hosaid office agents - Th lnral FBI strength buildulg treat Miami with his wife and theirother done for the country. And he prom a arrested Merkouris on charges of daugher, three-year-oment a to Swiss specialist Satur of ised work for removal union by Betty. "unlawful flight to avoid prosecof the Taft- - day and spent the rest of the day. provisions busting" utionmurder" at the Arlington Hartley labor law. t - Hotel in Littler-Rock- . Dave Beck, president of the pow resting. Los Angeles police have charged erful AFL Teamsters union said Swiss doctor Paul Niehans,, who r frLmnA PanM --4 r Mirh. Mr. Eisenhower "made a fine im- returned to Castel Gandolfo Frin slay-idouble the of day after a visit to his home, with suspicion pression" on the convention. Mau- treated Pontiff in the f Robert Forbes. 49. and his rice Hutcheson, president of the Tie-U- p wife. Despiae, 35, In their ceramsaid he "did an the bedroom of the papal summer! Carpentersunion, Vinn hre Seot. 20. ic excellent Job - in view of all the residence here. of Hollywood brother IS Forbes, STOCKHOLM (UP) -H- andsome criticism heaped on him by the Niehans treated the Pope during rehomicide detective C. C. Forbes, Swedish his illness last winter, He was stage producer Gustaf convention." was shot through the head. His called this week when- the Pontiff L. But of head James McDevitt, a he said plans the AFL's today report .wife's body - was founc. under a Wally bluntsuffered a mild recurrence of last said arm, political comto a marry Greta Garbo is desk near her 'husband's. the chief executive that "didn't ly year's attack of hiccoughs. The slain man himself had been plete surprise tome." to But promise enough satisfy us," duty with The Stockholm newspaper Ex- - McDevitt added: "If he does what in officer on temporary here 351from pressen .Friday quoted tne he promises it will be a step in thepolice department year-ol- d Wally as saying "maybe thevright direction." ' later on he would many the Democrats Hit Foreign Policy I I' "I want to be alone actress Democrats Friday kept up a run i Another Stockholm newspaper; ning attack on the administration's Afton Bladget, said he indicated foreign policy., Radio and Television wedding plans in an interview but Sen.. Estes Kefauver ; the paper guessed the bride would said in Oakland, Calif., that the Specializing In Swedish model Maud Blom- - nation still has time to "recoup be "A ''''(' its lost prestige" in the world. But Radio and Television berg; now-i- n New York. Wally told a reporter by tele he said Mr. Eisenhower and SecreService II phone that "everything is a com tary of State John Foster Dulles to cope" with the situSAN 4IEGO (UP) Sen. Robert plete surprise to me. I know both are "unable ladies and have met Ihem ation. Hendrickson PHONE 945 and 94 . plans to rec these hit administration He don't YorkXbut in New ''ineptiI certainly be border ommend the 226 Sonth University, Ave. having an alternate closed to' servicemen and unescort- know wheref the papers togot the tude"forInthenotwrecked De- that plan European marry story wasgoing' ed juveniles because of prostituifense Community idea. Kefauver either of them. tion, narcotics and pornography. the Senate Judiciary Headin Subcommittee investigation of the " . nation's juvenile delinquency prob-his . launched lem. Hendrickson probe here Friday to determine -w n n ' if federal action is needed, Before the hearing, he personi ' x ally made a trip to Tijuana, closes . f"'--'-Mil:.. mm border town to SanDiego, where . t j shocked-bhe was "completely y WITH YOUR NEW the wholesale .distribution of porliter obscene said He, nography." ature was available and that mos Kke navlngr yotar own private mm onrytnt of the pornographic pictures dealt , with acts of sex perversion. the flip of a switch. An can turn on or off-aReporter Gene Fuson of the San ' Di-'g- o Union testified he and sub automatic ELECTRIC clothes dryer brings sunshine committee counsel James Bobo "toured the border- town and into your home all yeajround. Snow and yam , ' found 15 places in the downtown ' area where heroin could be pur xwon't lold up washday when you dry clothes avail-- , chased. Marijuana lso-vas ' able, Fuson testified eiectrically. With a modern ELECTRIC clothe one mid, During period from night to 6 a.m., Fuson continued, dryer iri your laundry eyerjrdayk a perfeet dryinj he and Bobo counted 2C0 "obviousor darnp-d-r ' ly minor" Americans a-- Tijuana day. Clothes come out fluffy-dr-y - Beautiful in are leaves saloons. Thttj for ironing v . i either way you choose. And. Rock Pole Canyon, Canyon, iinid-Octob- -- er 1 - er ? Indictment Returned In fast-movi- ng &SoUR3sfconmoL " two-cou- Democrats Continue To Blast Foreign Policy nt r- I Utah Democrat To To Speak In Nevada Children Die In Old Refrigerator 4-Year- -Old I four-year-o- !Dl-- - ld , ff I - j . &fccfatoG . : . ' Picked iJpin Little Rock Pope Undergoes Treatments To Build Strength ex-conv- - Taft-Hartle- V- romi INDObS .'SUNSHiHE nil v j ur ld ' ' Swedish Stage Producer Denies Garbo I ! - i r j - -- j RALPH'S " PtirtialjClosing Of Mexican Border Urged i - (D-Ten- n) :- 7 (R-N.J- .) U.S.-Mexi- co i it Bonflrapinr mm i Mill r -- A -- mm j Its -a- r'-- i -- 1 J T . G3 speaiitis Hobble Creek Canyon, over the Uitmts u Alpine Loop, the Neboi Loop, and ' up Provo Canyon at this time of year , Oc3 lVC3T' ft- electric powess here in Provo, thanks to low-coyou can enjoy this timersaving convenience for little as $1 per montji. Beat the weather I Se your electric appliance dealer soon for a free demonstration st - , Buy froni your LOCAL DEALER! , . rhni Ch.Irs TAKE PLENTY OF COLOR PHOTOS Got Your Cameras and Equipment Now rois t Hendricks' Prescription 23 N. ; i V i i Ftt. s . t Heer Ctal. Pk. 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