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Show X T r" I Sunday, March 26, 1950 TJ-- 10 . SUNDAY HERALD 'em Back Alive' Buck Dies In Houston; Yild Game Hunter Frcnlf1 'Bring March Tex., HOUSTON, 25. Frank Buck of "bring 'em back alive"; fame died here Sat:. ., y urday. He i was 66. The big game hunter died at 7:30 a. m. at Hermann hospital, where he was admitted in late February for a check-u- p. Death came as a result of a cancer which had halted his adventuring into the wilds of Af(U.R) i . Stabbed to Death . Ii: carried him to Africa and Asia!, and his jungle experiences were told from the lecture platform1, in books and in: motion pictures. rica... He had been negotiating for His! wife,! Muriel, who has a imovie job while undergoing lived tat a hotel here since Buck treatment. j was was admitted jto the hospital, His most recent public! state'J by hi side at her husband's ment came when the Oklahodeath. City leopard jumped its Funeral service were sched- ma boundaries and later died from uled for Sunday. poisoned meat left near its pit. creI - Buck's was to be body " He should have been brought 1. :.;mated. back alive," Buck said . "A leopard isn't, dangerous. I've met many of them face to face." One of the many stories surrounding the big game hunter was that he oijce administered a knockout purich to a gorilla with a sharp right hook, (U.R) WASHINGTON, March 25 -The cost of living fell of 'one' per cent in the month ended Feb. 15, the bureau Provo Morticians of labor statistics reported today. Attend S. L Meet "V The consumers price' index for Feb. 15, was 166.5 per cent of the Wyman and Max Berg,j local 1935-3- 9 average. The February funeral, directors. attended the average was 1.5 per cent lower eighth annual National Selected than last year, but 25 per cent Morticians 4 meeting March when 1946, in June, higher than Lake in Salt City. relaxed. price .controls were morticians The drop in ' living costs was Meeting with fellow of one fmm throughout , the Western due mostly to a per cent fall in food prices and a states, the Proyo jmen participateds in discussion oi irenas in ioaay small skid in clothing prices. In the 56 cities surveyed, the burial service, "the National Secost of food fell sharpest! in At- lected Morticians consists of 500 in the establishments lanta; Los Angeles; New Orleans; funpra) States arid Canada. Pur Bridgeport,! Conn.; Jackson, Miss.; United N. C. Food pose of the jnsm Is to improve and Winston-Salethe ' service of funeral directors prices rose slightly in Portland, .Ore., Butte, Mont.; Peoria, 111.; and to maintain; high standards i among its members. and Salt Lake City, Utah. travels ! . j r .., - -- !! Costjdf Living Slightly i two-tent- hs -- - 23-2- sjx-tent- . hs m, ROME, March 25 (U.R) A com- mob attacked the San CJ. Severo hospital Saturday in an to remove comrades who 'attempt . were among the 40 persons injured in Thursday's bloody insur' i munist ( rection in the southern ItalianYrr city.- , Police riot squads repulsed the assault and' drove off the large - .band after a struggle that lasted " half an hour. - " 1 Almost simultaneously, other communist band tried to storm the jail Sat nearby Ascoli Satriano to free leftist leaders held there. The attack collapsed suddenly 'when heavily armed carabinieri appeared in force. In Ateila, in the southern " ii : .region of Lucania, a mob stormed the local employment office, broke up furniture and destroyed files. Police ousted the group and' arrested 14 persons. At . - t an- i MERCED, Cat, March 25 16 jl U.R) Edward Dollins, one. of hood lums indicted with notorious Joe Sica for allegedly oneratincr a multi - million dollar narcotics ring, was found stabbed Saturday in a Merced notei, Sheriff N.i L. Fornell reported, hCornell said Dollins was taken immediately to county- - hospital and was expected toi recover. "He was stabbed two or three times," Cornell said. The IWBI has enJs tered the case, i Dollins was out on $5000 ball after the government's case against the alleged ring was shattered with the underworld assassination last month Of "Squealer" Aoe uavidian. p, Merced Chief of Police William' A Hydie, who arrested Dollins after a Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted the gang, said fwe are trying to find out any possible connection between this stabbing ana the Davidlan affair." ' The federal case against Sica's 'boys" had national land international ramifications,'! the government had said. Davidian, an admitted member of the gang, was killed as he slept in: his mother's home in Fresno.JHe was supposed to have "sung" about narcotics traffic, prostitution fllnd gambling operations in California which were allegedly controlled by Eica. The California, crime S; - j t j . reported Sica recently de serted Mickey Cohen's gang to join with Jack Dragna, so-cal- led Capone of Los Angeles." Officers were believed to be rounding up two Merced men, also out on bail. They were Russell DOan, and B. C. Bowden. Local gambler Lloyd Secrist, also on the "16" was in jail here on a bookmaking charge when the stabbing occurred NUVEEN 'BIDS ON SWIMMING POOL BONDS POCATELLO, Match 25 (U.R) A $150,000 bond issue for build-an- d improvements at Idaho State college has been sold to John Nuveen and Co., Chicago, ISC President Carl W. Mcintosh anj nounced today, The state board of education authorized the bond? primarily for the building of a swimming pool in the new gymnasium r; building. ' There were eight bidders. The Nuveen bid was on he basis iof less than 2 per cent accrued .; " Communists Storm Hospital In Italy To Move Comrades ") 1 Found In Hotel Buck em-- l A native Texan, barked on his "bring 'em back alive" career in 19 II alter serv ing as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. That year, he made hisfirst expedition, to South Amer- ic;His Coast Gangster Ruoti. in the same area,' jpolice dispersed a group; of peasants who seized and started to plow the fields of a local landowner.! , . The new violence came as the Italian cabinet met in emergency sessidn to hear Interior Minister Mario Scelba reiort on new security; measures tt deal with communist-led riots iwhich have cost four deaths and! left some 600 interest. injured in the past week, jin the One of the youths shot San Severo battle between communists and troops and police died today. He jwas Michele Di democrat Nunzio, 23, a Christian ' party member. The government announced that all public rallies had been banned for a month In ithe province of Foggia, heart df the "Bloody region where th4 San Puglia Severo uprising i occurred. . The ban was extended to two months in San Severo itself. ' j i Negotiations In Ingrid Bergman Case Hit a Snag. HOLLYWOOD. Marrh 2S 16 KILLED IN TURKISH STATE Two Construction Workers Killed flJ.Pl Negotiations to settle the Ingrid wergman-D- r. Peter LIndstrom difficulties out of court have hit a snag. Greb Bautzer, the actress Hollywood attorney, said. he wanted a xnorough accounting of the couple's $250,000 in community DrODertv before anv further sten is taken in negotiations. Bautzer and Lindstrom's Isaac Pacht, met for 10 vesterdav. following lengthi er talks earlier in the week. The, attorneys did not discuss 12. custody of Pia Lindstrom, Miss Bereman has filed suit for custody of her daughter, division of the community property and si34,ouo she claims as her salary for making "Stromboli." Lihdstrom has delaved filincr n to his wife's suit pending the outcome of negotiations between Pacht and Bautzer. ISTANBUL; Turkey, March 25 (U.R) Sixteen rxr- sons were killed Saturday when a passenger plane of the Turkish State Airlines crashed on a landing at Ankara. ;;i The plane carried 10 passengers, a crew of four. 1 n English! technician named Steward, and the pilot's child. All were killed. The pilot, Renzi Gokce, radioed a few minutes before the crish that he had flown into a thick snow cloud a few milek from the Ankara airport, and visibility at the moment was zero. He apparently was trying to climb out of the cloud when he crashed into the side of a hill outside Ankara. t The plane burned. It was the first crash m the history of the Turkish airlines. In Alaska Crash ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March (U.R) Two i construction men were killed and 12 others were passenger injured when a special train plowed into a railway gas car hauling them back to camp after the day's work. The dead were .identified as Patrick A. O'Brien and Wesley Benzien, whose home addresses, were not immediately given. The men were employed by the Construction company. The accident occurred on the Alaska railroad's main Vine between Anchorage and Seward late Friday. The highway construction crew of about 30 workers was returning to a temporary camp at Rainbow, about 22 miles from here when the accident oc . curred. Lester Locomotive Fireman Sheriff said he first spotted the gas-ctrain with its load of workers on three trailers just after the engine rounded a blind curve. j He said he yelled to Engineer, POMONA, Cal., March 25 (U.R) J. M. Desico to apply the brakes; Two elephants lroke loose from but the was unable to attendants her Friday night and stop the engineer train in time. rampaged through the east Dart of Pomona, critically injuring one of their attendants. The beasts were ' being taken from the Clyde Beatty circus to a loading train when the whistles and bells of a passing train frightened them. They broke ropes which restrained them and went tearing through. East Po OMAHA, Neb March 25 U.R mona. A woman who said The elephants knocked down in a note she was "just another clotheslines and slammed cancer victim fences, j to escape trying nine-foa down high steel wire those never-endin- g pains" jumpfence which surrounds a Pomona ed to her death from the sixth reservoir. The police switchboard here floor of a downtown hotel. She was identified as Mrs. Lulu was swamped with calls from citi zens who reported the beasts S. Schroeder, Denver, Colo. Her struck a sigh and then landpeering in their windows. LeRoy body sidewalk shortly before on ed a circus Spellman, 29, attendant, 11 p. the m. Friday night. She was finally cornered one of the ani- pronounced dead at a hospital. mals. Police found a note in her room He got hold of a rope attached to the female but the animal, still at the Paxton hotel. It was adn, picked him up dressed to "whom it may conwith its trunk, threw him down cern," and instructed authorities and rolled on rflm. . Spellman was to contact two Omaha relatives taken to Pomona Valley hospital "who will pay the hotel bill" and where his condition was described arrange funeral plans. Ss critical. A total of 4,352 new oil wells Three police officers, with the aid of circus personnel, finally were completed in Oklahoma durcornered the elephants and quiet- ing 1949. The Oil and Gas Journal ed them down. They were loaded reports 804 of them were wildon the train without any further cats resulting in 165 producers, 18 incident. gas wells and 623 dry .holes. cross-compla- British Mourn La ski, Labor RLINE PLANE LANDING CRASH i 25 two-year-ol- sen Party Leader i LONDON, March 25 CD-i- Th ruling Labor party today mourned the death of one of its most influential leaders. Harold J. Las- ki, who thought Britain should be more friendly with the soviet Union that with the United StMes. The Laskl died Friday night 48 hours after being stricken with bronchial pneumonia. In poor health for several months, he had been advised by his doctor to take a complete rest for six months. . He was chairman of the Labor a party in 1945-4- 6 and had been member of the Labor party executive from 1936 until he retired last year. La ski was leader of the leftist intellectual wing of the party and was: most influential in formulating Labor .policy in the yeari leading up to the party's landslide victory In the 1945 general elec' ' ' tion. ., Laski faded from the picture, as Prime Minister however, Clement R. Attlee and his, moderates gradually gained control of the party. d. . Old Blonde Found Murdered On Mountain Trail 20-Ye- ar int ; Stray Elephants Create Panic CHRISTIANS ar Woman Jumps To Her Death; Note Reveals Motive ot panic-stricke- j BURG, into' the girl's back ground. fellow-worke- rs Her knew her as ,a shy, retiring person seldom seen with men. But Webb said apparently she had ?more'than one" boy friend. He was questioning youths who had gone out wiin ner. Va., searched March 25 (U.R) Officers found a faint footprint trail Saturday on the scenic mountainside where a killer or killers tossed the bludgeoned bodyof a lovely blonde girl. They called it the most important clue yet in the murder of Alice Marie Taylor, government worker from Roanoke. It was the second brutal slaying of a pretty young girl to shock this substantial section of central Virginia in as many years. It was in Roanoke that Dana Marie Weaver, also a blonde, was beaten and choked to death last year in a church parish house. A high school classmate, Lee Scott, is serving a life term for the crime. Fully Clothed Alice Marie's body, fully was clothed except for her shoes, found about 20 feet off a scenic highway winding over . Brush mountain between Christiansburg and Blacksburg, the seat of Virginia Polytechnic institute, second largest college in Virginia. Blacksburj, is 10 miles nbrth of Christiansburg and Roanoke is 32 miles to the east. Sheriff George Arrington said . that the footprints, partly muddled by rain, were too faint to provide a cast but it was hoped they would indicate the foot size and type of shoes worn by the person who made them. Back in Roanoke, where Alice Marie worked for the veterans officers under administration, City Detective Capt. Frank Webb ; ! ' Many Questioned "We have questioned a lot of people," he said. "We are questioning those we think can give us a ieaa. The girl had had an engagement on Thursday evening with a youth whose name was not disclosed. The boy Went to her home and waited for her but Alice Marie never showed up. She had, left the VA office late that afternoon, complaining that she did not feel well. No One had come forward to report seeing her alive after that time. Unless the footprints turn up something, "we're stumped" in the way of physical evidence, Arrington said. He believed that the girl was killed elsewhere and brought by automobile to the remote spot where she was found. Taken From Car The girl apparently was taken from the car and thrown down the slope, he said. The fairly condition of' her- nylon stockings and wool dress indicated that she was not dragged. Alice Marie's killer had beaten her brutally about the head and face. Acting Coroner R. H. Grubbs said death resulted from a brain hemorrhage produced by savage un-soil- WELL LOCKED t A new AUBURN, Ala. f(U.R) lock was installed .after thieves rifled a , safe at Alabama Polytechnic Institute here. It was a good lock so good that clerks, tried for a full day te open it. Finally they called a safe company representative, ' -- ; i blows with a heavy instrument on her face and forehead. Bernice Dowdy. 32, found the body yesterday and went to a Blacksburg restaurant owned by David R. Smith, 42, who called police. ; fo) FOUNTAIN PEN ed - TO ALL WHO OPEN A SAYINGS . 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