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Show SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1957 Utah County. Utah 26 SUNDAY HERALD Twining Due As New Joint Staff Chief Governor's Call Is Too Late Too Stay Execution such Legislature CITY SALT LAKE 'UP Su- gov- - - preme court justices and the - rJ Gen. j ; -- opened - White, vice chief of staff, was 0 KOPENHAVEN Five-piec- be- His elevation to the chairman-slii- p of the joint chiefs has been new-salar- DINING ROOM SET, extension table and slcle chairs. set e after the dropping of the pellets lieved to be running ahead of othuntil all gas has been pumped out er candidates. approximately n hour and a Twining, who is 59, has been Air half later. chief since July, 1953. Force a Abbott, University a year will $12., ernor of California student, accounting electstill be among the top paid to his death went insisting calmly, ed officials m Utah under to the end he was not responsible schedules allowed by the of for the kidnaping and mur-de-r 32nd Legislature. 14 - year - old Bryan, Stephanie The governor and justices now Calif., schoolgirl in 1955. receive $10, (XX). District Judges Berkeley, The sequence of events in the now get $8,000 and will be adprison was chilling. Abbott was vanced to $10,000. strapped into the chair at 11:15 include: at (UP) Nathan F. Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force, has been tagged to succeed Adm. Arthur W. Radford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs trf Staff next summer, scurces said today. Twining will be the first Air Force officer to hold the post of chief military adviser to the President and secretary of defense, according to present plans. courts. A His appointment as the nation's telephone call to the gas ame the chamber after tiny pel- highest ranking military man will lets had been dropped. clear the way for a broad scale shift of top jobs within the Air Chamber Must Stay Closed Force. The new air chief of staff Prison authorities said that the has not been selected, according construction of the gas chamber is to reports, but Gen. Thomas D. thait cannot be State Salary Revision Set By WASHINGTON hydrochloric acid to end the life Buo-to- n of convicted kidnap-slaye- r W. Abbott at the same minute that Gov. Goodwin J. Knight was trying vainly to delay his death. Knight, who was cruising off the California coast aboard the aircraft carrier Hancock, was attempting to stay Abbott's execution to give his attorneys time to raise a final question in the By GLENN STACKHLSE United Press Staff Correspondent SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif. (UP) A few tiny pellets of cyanide dropped in San uentin's gas of rechamber produced a splash ' end capthat coi sentment today in California ital punishment The pellets loos.xi deadly gas om a vat of that seeped up $184.95 wonderful! wonderful! widely forecast for many months. Radford's second term as chairman expires next Aug. 15. Some high ranking civilian officials at the Pentagon were reported to have advocated that Radford be reappointed. But Defense SecreOther pay raises were dropped at tary Charles E. Wilson- was said a.m. The Secretary of state: from $7,200 11:18 a.m. pellets he call from the gov- to have turned down that propsi-- 1 to $9,500. ernors clemency of e in Sacra- tion. which would have required Auditor and treasurer: $6,000 to an act of Congress since, under mento came at 11:19 a.m. $7,500. At that minute, Abbott's battle present law, the posv can be held Attorney general: $7,500 to $9.- - to was for only two terms. escape the executioner 000. ' over but a new fight over CaliCity judges: $6,500 to $7,200. State engineer: $6,000 to $12.- fornia's controversial death penalty broke out on se eral fronts 000 State Atty. Gen. Edmund G. State commissioners and depart- Brown said that his observations ment directors: $6,000 to $7,000. led him to doubt that capital punChairmen of state ishment has a deterrent effect on MILWAU .'C E E, Wis. (UP) $6,000 to 57.300. crime. of the Coronet Theater, Patrons State adjutant p neral: $7,500 tc expecting to see t e French made $9,000. Asks Moratorium film, "The Snow Was Black," In permission was into a "Rather ian being deterrent, were surprised at a quick program granted county commissions decrease county officials" pay. if capital punishme t has given of- change Friday night. to the taking of life The theater manager substituted sired, as follows: in Salt Lake ficial appj-ova- l 20 a cent: Utah. certain film biography of the Italian Weber, per under circumstances," County, CounBrown Iron and Box said. who "Those Elder have opera composer, Verdi, after she Davis, ties, 15 per cent: all others, 10 neither the mone for continuing was threatened with possible ar legal proceedings, nor the emo- rest for showing the French film. per cent The superintendent of public in- - tional publicity Attractiveness of Mrs. Barbara Hanley said the struction was raised from $8,000 their cases, are ummarily exe- change was made to cooperate to $10,000 but the Legislature re- cuted as a routine matter." with the mayor and the licensing tained power to fix the salary. A The attorney general said he committee of the common council. bill was introduced, and passed was of the "firm opinion" that Acting Mayor James Mortier the Senate, bo return to the State California should consider a five-yea- j' had warned Mrs. that she School Board the salary - fixing moratorium ' on capital pun- would risk arrest Hanley if tK film was ishment. power. shown and found by censors to be The mayor of Salt Lake City Lester A. McMilAssemblyman will get an increase in pay from ' lan, author of bills pending in the "a violation of the city's code of ordinances." $7,500 to $9,000 and his commis- - state legislature to abolish or sussioners will get $7,20 each. pend the death sentence, said that of second class cities Abbott should have been executed little more than a year, while Mayors a lew maximum sal- under the law the way it is now may receive other men in condemned row have of not more than $4,800 and but that the law is all wrong. ary been there seven years and are their commissioners $4,320. "He was in death row only a still alive," McMillan said. - ? D j Quick Program Change Is Made i Here the best features of Scandinavian design are interpreted for your American taste. KOPENHAVN correlated dining and bedroom pieces fashioned in rich cinnamon-toneselect hardwoods. Picture these stunning pieces In your home. 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