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Show t XG SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, April 23, 1950 Nailed-Dow- n Elderly Couple Dies Clawing at Doors of Flaming Home; Firemen4 Find Hoard BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 22 (U.R) An elderly couple died t the double-locke- d clawing door of their flaming home early Saturday and firemen dug thousands of hoarded dollars from the ruins. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Clapper, ; both' in their 70's, and childless, perished because they had nailed and bolted, every door and win dow to protect their small for ' me. : . : could hot get out and rescuers could not get in to save them. "They xstruggled hard to; get nut" saidCoroner J. T. McCol lum. "They ejawed and scratched t windows and doors but. they were victim! ofxtheir own, caution. They didn'VHhink to- get a key and let themselves out the Fhev i- . . out tne ironi oogi uUl..liiwihijs . . . forts'" to get 1 I i .ltn 41 fend windows. lfa lending a smau uoai 01 chickens and a cow. He served to the was taken The money a alderman eight years town safe the in hall and Lipscomb put city by Lipscomb Mayor J. J. Goode. it would be turned over to federal authorities for counting Monday. . The couple's only son died several years ago. Coroner McCol-lu- m said that to his knowledge the only other living relative was Mrs. J. N. Wachter of Bessemer, a sister to Mrs. Clapper. Clapper, 78, retired from the bottling business several years ago and since had spent his time He said "IP said the couple lifed "quietly and modestly, having everything they ffleded and minding' their own business." KThe home; was magnificently fOrnished with walnut and matt? fgany antiques, somer as much as years old? All were destroyed 2p aT$ng with a console1 organ in the pllrlor. -Neighbors I Night Club Singer Breaks Off Engagement With Elliott Roosevelt tion, was charged with niefal possession of firearm. Police said the Rebel and Hawks had become resentful be cause the Dukes "had been throw ing their weight around". They joined forces and challenged the Dukes to an anything goes battle for supremacy. The challenge waa accepted promptly, police said, arid the' gangs arranged to fight it out last night in Claremont park. But the fight neve) came off. Tipped that it was planned, authorities sent 30 policemen to the park. They arrested the young gangsters as fast as they appeared. The Holy Alliance was formed in, Europe in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna. The alliance, signed by all European rulers except the Pope and King of England, igreed to uphold the Ten f) Commandments. Hoodlum Gangs Cause Trouble on Both Coasts LOS ANGELES, April 22 (U.R) Two roving gangs of young HARTFORD, Conn., April 21 hoodlums terrorized a southside (U.R) Georgeanne (Gigi) Durston, section Saturday, causing the brunette New York night club death of one person, beating two singer, has broken her engage- others and imperiling the life ment to Elliott Roosevelt, the of an infant. t (Thomas B. Goodwin, 26, who Hartford Times aaid today. The newspaper quoted Gigi as came here a weekto ago frxm Dorattend West chester, Mass., saying the end of her romance Coast university, was killed by a with the second son of the late hit-ru- n driver when he tried to result of escape from five men who were president was "not the a quarrel. We will still remain beating him. friends." As Goodwin broke away from Also, Gigi will keep her en- the mob that had singled him for gagement ring, at Elliott's insist- an attack, he ran into the side ence, the Times reported. It is a of a speeding car and was thrown star stappmre, reportedly worm 40 feet. Neither the driver nor several thousand, dollars. She has members of the gang were cap- another rine. a blue onyx with tured. Just an hour before, four mem- the Roosevelt crest. ber of another pack were p. rested after a series of . assaults on the street. According to police, the pack first jumped Fred Garr, 14, kicking him unconscious and knocking two of his teeth out. The four youths drove a block before they spotted another victim, Edwin Chamberlin, 24, who was left bleeding and battered. The quartet then used a bottle to pound on the car of Jay C. Kennedy, 30, who was just leaving his brother's house. When he objected, the driver of the gang's car lunged at him with the car, forcing Kennedy to leap to safety. One of the pack hurled a heavy bottle at Mrs. Kennedy, who was holding their son,, Jay, Jr., 20 months.! The bottle hit her on the ar-hi- Kennedy got the license num- ber of the car and police later picked up Ralph Cons, 18, Frank and Manuel Schrober, 22 and 18, and John G. Morales, 21. They were booked on' suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. NEW YORK, April 22 (U.R) A battle among three teen-ag- e gangs was prevented Friday night when police surrounded a Bronx park and arrested 28 boys, members of the "Hawks," "Rebels" and "Dukes." The boys were 14 to 17 year old. They faced charges ranging from juvenile delinquency to unlawful assembly. One boy, armed with a shotgun and carrying a pocketful of ammuni planned all-o- ut 12-ga- - front." v Loaded Guns Expr .The fire started from tfcoal stove in the kitchen and Sent flames 50 feet into the ir. shotgun and a pistol the Clappers! had , bought as added protection and exploded in the fiery heatneararoused the neighborhood in by Lipscomb, just beyond the Birmingham western outskirts. Volunteer Fire Chief Jack l)livey said his mew could not fight the fire effectively because ON DAY AND TUESDAY APRIL 34 and 5 they they couldn't get in. iWhen ruins finally dug into the cooling Ihey found big stacks of bill in as $20 V Benominations as "big said. . plivey Z He said one stack of $20's in a tin box was six inches thick and Jhe hoard was estimated to total several thousands of dollars." Also found in the ruins were a 15 gold piece, an 1829 and an old watch. "There' hundred of dollars in Vtther neatly wrapped packages 'Jve've found, said Olivey. "And Jhere probably is more around." One wad of bills was stuffed Jn a vase. The.money wasnotcharred made. nd an exact count was' ,X u me were ui wuiiu flappers room of the antique furpving bished cottage, their bodies, badly fcurned. Olivery said, they obvli ously had made "extreme ef- half-doll- Unarmed U. S. planes TojKeep flying Baltic (' WASHINGTON, April 22 U.R ,0 , navy planes will continue to fly over the Baltic sea "on training missions but will keep !way from Russian territory. m A navy spokesman said, how-ve- r, that no flight are "immedi scheduled" over that area 0 ately where the United States claims a Russian fighter shot down am Unarmed Privateer April 8. i The spokesman said he received word Friday from Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operation, that "the navy will con- -j tinue to fly wherever interna- tional law permits, and will fly Unarmed on training patrols." The spokesman said this means we will fly where we please, provided it will not get us into ; Inarmed-- : trouble." He pointed out that "armed misplanes can fly on military not he but did, say any -sions," v. i : irthe Baltic area. 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