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THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER at rost ornce ai tecond class matter vnatr 60th Year, No. 184 42 Pages Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, NoTember 18, 1949 Act ot Consreas, March 3, 1S79; per month UeXUS Hin3 (ft A Lno if nl 3Lru to lB)a2 Or Mead 9s Collide And Crash; 1 issin Kidnap Count Rescuers Free Youngster Trapped In Coal Car Parachutes Save Three On Board CBS To Quit Radio KOY, Sign K00L Action In Federal Court Is Planned To Retain Hookup By RALPH MAHONEY RADIO STATION KOY will lose Bombers' Wreckage Strewn Over Wide California Area STOCKTON, Calit, Nov. 17 (UP) Eighteen airmen were dead or missing Thursday after a col Girl's Death Is Admitted To Officers Hunted Man Taken Without Struggle. In Downtown Bar By FRANK FRAWLEY and GARBER DAVIDSON LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (AP) Drunk on wine, Fred Stroble, 66-year-old bakr, strangled and bludgeoned six year old Linda Joyce Glucoft to death, he admitted Thursday to William Simpson, district attorney.

Simpson said the confession was verbal, but. was being transcribed for signature later. He added that it was a "full and complete confession of guilt, delineating all his actions, and was made in the presence of 20 official witnesses and on a wire recorder. Stroble has been formally charged with murder. A SORDID STORY of molestation, followed by the killing when the little girl resisted, poured from Stroble less than two hours after he was picked up in a downtown its affiliation with the Columbia Broadcasting System January lision and crash of two B-29s that boosted to 38 the toll of dead and missing in U.

S. Superfortress Lists Mother LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (INS) Kidnaping charges were filed Thursday against the mother, stepfather and cousin of Bernice Hough, 28-year-old bookkeeper, who asserted that the trio drugged her and spirited her back to Missouri last November 5. Miss Hough swore out the complaint in the district attorney's office and charged that her mother, Mrs. Ethel Mager, 48, of Springfield, has a mother fixation and forcibly removed her to the Midwest state.

Miss Hough said that she was held captive in the home of Mrs. Mager and her stepfather, Roscoe Mager, 56, until she managed to smuggle a letter" to a Los Angeles friend, Jack Roth, telling him of her plight. The bookkeeper asserted that the Magers and her cousin, Herbert Stubblefield, 33, unexpectedly visited her in Los Angeles last November 5, persuaded her to take an auto ride and then had her administered a hypodermic by a West Covina physician. The district attorney's office said that steps will be taken to extradite the Springfield trio to bring them to Los. Angeles for trial.

The announcement Thursday by Al Johnson, general manager of misnaps in the past 24 hours. KOY, confirmed rumors which had been circulated widely in local Three of 21 crewmen aboard two superfortresses on a practice bombing flight parachuted to safe radio circles and in national trade journals. tjk VJJtt Hi ty with only minor injuries after IMMEDIATE LEGAL action will the big four-engined bombers smashed together shortly before midnight Wednesday night, 26,000 feet above the San Joaquin river be taken by the station's attorneys through the U. S. District Court oeita country.

in Chicago in efforts to restrain the network from terminating its contract, Johnson said. The contract Ten bodies were counted In the wreckage as accurately as was possible considering their cut-up con expires December 31. Basis for the suit will be revealed dition. upon the return to Phoenix from Chicago of Irving. Jennings, attor AIR FORCE rescue officials in dicated their belief that there ney who represents KOY.

Johnson said he was en route Thursday from the Illinois city. were no other survivors by throwing out no search teams to cover the delta farmland country 10 Johnson declared CBS officials had advised him they would sign i in in nrir-i inn mm ni "-ifwiianmrniirini i "milfoiLm nilff r': nmnnnmiiiini-ir nn n3faa ii-mmn i miles northwest of Stockton, where the B-29s crashed into muddy 1950 contract with KOOL, the nver strips miles apart. 2 -year-old Phoenix station own Rescue workers in Wakefield, left, dig coal from around 10-year-old Louis Racamoto, who was trapped in a railroad coal car while playing with his brother. The boy was buried to his shoulders when a chute opened beneath the car to load a truck. At right, Louis cries as rescuers lift him free from the coal.

(AP Wirephoto) Lt. warren Sherrick, James ed. by Gene Autry, cowboy movie Record State and radio star. town, pilot of one of the two planes, was at first listed as a survivor on the identification of beer. Simpson released these excerpts from Stroble's story: "I had been drinking all day-wine.

I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been drunk. "The girl and I were in the bedroom and I was playing with her xxx (Simpson said this involved an act of molestation, but not rape) xxx when she started to scream. She was resisting me. The Gene Autry Show, one of CBS's big money-makers, is carried More Chandler the operator of a fishing resort where the first survivors showed at 6 p. m.

Saturday by KOY. Crop Year Is up In a dazed condition. But Sher COMPLETION of the CBS-KOOL Wilson Hints Ouster Fight Barkley-Hadley Rites Due Today In St. Louis contract awaited only the signature ride was not hospitalized nor could he be found with a rescue crew Housing Is Set of Autry. Called Likely and he remained on the missing Charles H.

Garland, manager of list. KOOL, was in Los Angeles Thurs Board Reasons Asked day. When reached by, phone he LISTED AT. the Stockton hospital as treated for. minor hurts were Pfc.

Keith R. Bums, 19 years ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17 AP) A beaming Vice-President Aiben W. declined to make a statement on if Concern Formed For Project (Exclusive Republic Dispatch) By Fort Grant Head Barkley arrived late Thursday for his wedding Friday noon to the comely widow he has courted diligently since they first met last July.

the network switch. It was believed that his trip to, California 'Agriculture Bureau Issues Estimate on Basis Of Fall Stand AGRICULTURALLY. Arizona old, Boise, Ida, a radio operator; TSgt. Frank P. Schmidt, Spokane, "I STRANGLED her first with my hands, then with a tie.

She was quiet. I wrapped her up in the blanket and carried her out to the incinerator. There I saw the ax and an ice pick. "I stabbed her with the ice pick, and then I slammed her with the flat side of the ax six times on the head. I didn't want her to suffer.

"Then I went back to the kitch JACK WILSON, embattled super The commercial plane on which he traveled from Washington was was for conferences with CBS Of flight engineer, and SSgt. Robert delayed 40 minutes by strong head winds. Mrs. Carieton S. Hadley, intendent of the state industrial ficials.

CHANDLER, Nov. 17 A 150- his bride-to-be, 38 years old, was on hand to greet him at the airport KOYs loss of the nation's No, school for boys at Fort Grant, 5. Kluge, Spokane, gunner. Lt. Romeo Freer, heading a res' cue unit from Fair-field-Suisun air looks very good this November.

along with a crowd of newsmen and others. They shook hands and chatted, but did not embrace. has asked that the board of di unit housing project for Chandler and Williams Air Force Base was announced here Thursday by Ralph T. Pomeroy, Mesa, head of netvork (it may top the National Broadcasting Company in talent rectors of state institutions for and financial resources when this The busy afternoon called for a wedding rehearsal in a chapel at St. John's Methodist Church, where the wedding ceremony of the base, said after thoroughly examining the wreckage of one plane juveniles give, him a bill of partic en and got a butcher knife.

I have The U. S. Bureau of Agriculture, reporting; on the standard fall crops, discloses the state has high yields and big harvests, and the rate of yield stands well when com year's tabulation is completed)! is ulars as to why it desires his year will be performed. and counting bodies: Military Housing, Inc. The announcement followed filing of articles of incorporation for particularly aggravating, Johnson resignation, watched a lot of bull fights.

In Mexico, I heard the way you make certain of a kill is to stab them There were a number of other "It is very difficult to tell declared, at a time when CBS has last-minute details. A marriage Wilson made the request at pared with the rest of the nation. whether they (the bodies) are added "new stars and programs, $6,000,000 with the state corporation commission. recent meeting" of the board at license which has been waiting at parts of the three known dead and apparently is in an excellent in the neck. I stabbed her with the knife in the neck." CORN PRODUCTION this year Fort Grant, but it has not yet com tne city nau for a week had to be position to take the lead in the Associated with Pomeroy is Con "The little girl did not suffer Mercury Hits 85; Mark Falls WINTER VISITORS were soak picked up.

will be 420,000 bushels. The state's 10-year record (1938-47) is 10.5 plied, he advised Governor Gar bitter national network battle for rad J. Kleinman of Phoenix. too much. She was dead within vey Thursday.

The company's authorized cap top-rated shows." bushels per acre. This year it is Tucsonan Aboard Ill-Fated Bomber eight or 10 minutes." THE GOVERNOR said Wilson WITH MRS. HADLEY at the wheel, the veep, who will be 72 next Thursday and his fiancee drove from the municipal airport Li bushels. Indicated grain sorghum produe "KOY HAS CARRD2D CBS programs since 1937," said Johnson, HE SAID HE WENT to the will not resign unless and until he SPOKANE, Nov. 17 near-by beach city of Ocean Park tion is 3,000,000 bushels, 2 times knows with what he' is charged, ing up sunshine record-breaK- ital was placed at 60,000 shares of common stock valued at $100 a share, plus 100 shares of Class A preferred stock at $1.

Kemper Goodwin, Tempe architect, has designed a modernistic (AP) First Lt. Frederick K. Hees, Tucson, was listed So far, the board has declined "first bringing the network to Ari zona listeners under an arrange ment which resulted in heavy loss immediately after the killing, registered at a rooming house under the 10-year average. The production of 40 pushels an acre com in the new $3,000 convertible Barkley gave her as a wedding mg quantities ihursday. L.

R. Jurwitz, section director of the U. S. Weather Bureau, said to make public what it has against among crew members missing an assumed name. pares with a national average of gut.

after two B-29s crashed Wilson, except the general statement that it is "dissatisfied" with "Then I began thinking about XL9 bushels. es to us for several years. Believing in the future of Phoenix and the Columbia network, KOY dwelling with 20 variations for the project which will be adjacent toi a record of84 degrees set 1933 was broken with a comfortable near Stockton, Calif. all I had done. I decided to com Thirty-three members of the immediate families will attend the wedding.

Only others to witness DRY BEAN production will be Official identification of those his administration of the institu tion. Chandler. Designs call for two to 85 Thursday. on the planes, released by the air states-There three bedrooms for each unit. Lots will be 470,000 pounds harvested.

the ceremony will be newsmen and William Vaughan, Barkley's mit suicide. It seemed the only way out. I looked at a pier down there. I thought that would be the place to jump off. But I W.

H. Becker, Phoenix, board force today, listed Hees as a radar underwrote the loss to bring the best in radio to the state, and with the hope and conviction that the then small but fast-developing will be of various sizes. Friday's maximum temperature also is likely to break the former record of 84 degrees for November The 10-year record is 491,000 chairman, said the charges will be operator. He was one of 18 per We are expecting final approval pounds. sons whose fate has still not been made public at "the proper couldn't go through with it." from the air force any day," Pom Potato production will be 1.268.- (Continued On Page 4, CoL 3) 18.

In addition the mercury Wednes definitely determined. Wilson has been superintendent Elaborating on his movements eroy said. 000 bushels, down 500,000 bushels at Fort Grant about six years. This is the second development civilian aide. William W.

Rucker will escort his sister to the altar. Her father, Roy W. Rucker, an attorney, is recuperating from a stroke in a Kansas City hospital and will be unable to attend. The vice-president's son. David after the slaying, Stroble said he bought copies of all the Los An Capt K.

D. McFarland, base information officer here, said he could not confirm the deaths of Governor Garvey has publicly from last season, but still 300,000 bushels higher than the 10-year program announced for the Chand voiced displeasure at his being dis day tied the previous all-time high reading of 85 degrees. Record breaking temperatures were the rule in southern California Wednesday with 88 degrees period. geles newspapers and read the details of the crime, Simpson said. ler area in recent weeks.

Five hundred homes will be built at the any of the crew members. missed, saying Wilson has been Pasture conditions are rated 85 doing a good job. Typhoon Rips Across Guam I went into a bar and decided air base proper for officers and per cent of normal, against 81 per (in that plane) or remains of other to have a good time for the last reported at Los Angeles. enlisted men under plans com JF THE BOARD persists in its M. Barkley, will serve as best man.

cent for the nation at large! members of the crew. time. I went out and looked over Dieted earlier this mnnth. purpose, however, the governor is AFTER A POOR citrus record pier there in Ocean Park and 'I'lilf ,111 A Tl? AHllI AM. tlfJlUk Surveys show the need for 1,300 IMMEDIATELY following the Tax Delinquent an air force board of inquiry was bcaufe freeze a vet.

unnhU nlin production estimates have bounced not expected to intervene in the issue because of his long-standing policy of refraining from entering PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 17 ceremony an informal familv new homes the Chandler area to accommodate military and civ (AP) The Pacific's heaviest typhoon of the year hammered at Auction Is Set ilian personnel. into the. affairs of independent decided I had better jump off and get it over with. Then I got to thinking, well, you've got to suffer on the other side so you might as well do some suffering on this Simpson quoted Stroble as the end of the same day that a UP t0 1.240,000 packed boxes of California-based B-29 bound for oranges and 3,500,000 boxes of Pne-land wont nfn th- Atlanta off grapefruit In each case this is boards and commissions.

luncheon will be held at the home of Mrs. T. M. Sayman. A limited number of representatives from wire services, newspapers, radio and television stations, and news UNLESS BACK taxes are paid, Garvey repeatedly has called on Hoffman Sees End Bermuda with 20 men aboard.

about xxble the fruit picked last about 400 pieces of real estate on season. the legislature to return to the chief executive's office some of saying. une piane crasnea imo jic- Of Red Aggression The poultry business is not do Guam Thursday night, doing damage as yet Forewarned, the island's population, including hundreds of American service personnel and civilian employees, had prepared for the blow and then took shelter in caves and the few heavily con magazines will be permitted to attend. which taxes are delinquent will be sold at auction December 1, E. W.

Layton, city assessor, said Thurs Donald island, exploding with a THE DISTRICT attorney also the powers over autonomous boards KlCiiMUINlJ, IV OV. 17 blast of high-octane gasoline that It will be the second marriage and commissions which have been (AP) Paul G. Hoffman Thursday quoted Stroble: "I don't deserve to live. Any man who would do a day. ing so well.

The department finds 100,000 fewer laying hens in the flock this fall and predicts egg production will drop from 5.600.000 was visible as a diffused glow for each. taken away over the years. night forecast an end to Sowet Nearly two-thirds of the delin Barkley's first wife died in 1947. aggression and the "evil plans of Wilson did not indicate whether thing like that doesn't deserve to live." quencies noted when a list was pre They had been married 44 years. last year to 4,500,000 this.

he will demand a public hearing pared in August have been re through a zero-visibility fog to witnesses along the river bank. Wreckage was hurled over a 700-yard and the plane burled its nose in soft mud. the men of the Kremlin" if the United States and western Europe Simpson said that during the Mrs. Hadley's first husband, who and resist the attempted ouster. moved by payment of back taxes.

died in 1945, was chief counsel for suck together. questioning the blood-stained Indian blanket, in which Linda had Layton said, reducing the total Jacque Mercer Arrives the Wabash Railroad Company. In a speech prepared for the from more than 1,100 to about 400 been wrapped, and the ice pick, Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the economic ce-operation admin with two weeks remaining to pay. tract, three miles distant, and bur- ror Harvard-1 ale Game structed buildings. The air force weather wing at Tokyo, 1,500 miles to the north, reported it had received a message that the storm struck at 4:30 p.

Guam time, and that winds rose to nearly 145 miles an hour. Pacific fleet headquarters received radio reports that by 4 a. m. Friday, Guam time, wind velocity was 93 miles an hour and declin ax and butcher knife were shown to Stroble and that he identified Sale of delinquent property will NEW YORK. Nov.

17 (UP) Long Beach Shaken 3y Mild Earthquake LONG BEACH. Nov. Veteran Washington (Continued On Page 2, Col. 1) istrator declared the spread of communism virtually has been be conducted at 10 a. Decern' Jacque Mercer, Miss America of them as the weapons used.

Cartoonist Stricken ber 1, probably in the city council 17 1949. arrived here Thursday to at halted. Simpson said Stroble was vague chambers. tend the Harvard-Yale football But let's not fool ourselves," he about many of his actions the rest WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) game in New Haven on Saturday asserted.

"Europe is still vulner of the day but that he stated he Clifford K. Berryman, 80 years old, auss Mercer, wnose home is finally came to the decision he veteran cartoonist of the Washing able to communistic attack and it is vital to the safety of the free (AP) Police reported that a minor earthquake shook this city about 5:15 p.m. Thursday. Sgt. G.

W. Workman said the chandeliers in the police station One Burglar Shot; Phoenix, plans to visit Oklahoma ing rapidly. An hour and a half, later it was down to 60 "miles an hour. ton Star, was described in "satisfac would call up his daughter (Mrs. Ruben Hausman), call up a bakery City after her trip east.

world that Europe should not be. tory" condition at Emergency Hos Second Gives Up where he was once employed, and then come in and surrender. swayed but that no reports of any pital Thursday several hours after collapsing in the lobby of the newspaper he has served for 42 years. SANTA FE, N. Nov.

17 damage had been received. (INS) One man was shot and an Surgery Believed To Have Saved Sight Of Daughter Of Blind Parents other surrendered to Santa Fe police Thursday when they were surprised in the act of burglarizing a Santa Fe warehouse. Los Angeles and was sitting in a bar when he was arrested. Simpson a.iked him at one point, "have you ever killed anyone else?" He William Pate, 53 years old. Amarillo, Tex was shot through the chest when he tried to break through a cordon of Santa Fe police surrounding the warehouse of Gross-Kelly Company.

His companion, identified as quoted him as answering, "By God, no. It bad enough as it is." Simpson was asked if the man gave any indication of the motive for the slaying. The district attorney replied: "He said he had molested the girl on a previous occasion and on this occasion she was resisting, and he was afraid she would cry out FIRST PRELIMINARY TONIGHT 8:30 P. M. (Seidell (Gloves TOURNAMENT tar Preliminary Bouts Ray B.

Hood, 24, Big Spring, Tex surrendered to police after Pate was shot. Pates wound was de Phoenix Traffic Deaths Three Short Of Record PHOENDC may be headed for a record year in highway traffic fatalities. Thus far in 1949, 15 persons have died of injuries suffered in accidents in the 17.1 square miles which comprise metropolitan Phoenix. This compares with 12 killed from January 1 to December 31, 1948. The record year in the 12 years the traffic bureau has been functioning as as statistical agency was in 1947.

That year 18 persons lost their lives as a result of accidents on city streets. Police Thursday Investigated the accident this year. Motorists involved were Mrs. Donald Smith, 22 years old, 78 West Wilshire drive, and Eto Veshitaka, 24, Route 1, Box 120. Neither one required hospitalization, and damage to the two vehicles was negligible.

Vic Stewart, captain In the traffic bureau, cautioned the public to "remember the black toll In 1947, and help keep this year's mark right where it Is. scribed as "not or later tell her mother. PORTLAND, Nov. 17 (INS) A miracle In preventive surgery for Mary Hope Hodgdon, Portland's "last eye" girl, was declared successful Thursday by the chief surgeon at the Elk's Eye Clinic. Blind parents of the 12-year-old girl, who had lost sight in her left eye, were overjoyed when told at the hospital that their daughter had every chance of retaining vision in her good right eye.

Mary Hope has been the "eyes" of her parents ever since she was old enough to read. Promptly at 9:10 a.m. the cheerful little girl waved goodbye to her hospital ward companions and was wheeled into surgery by nurses of the Doernbecher Children's Hospital. After Mary Hope had been on the operating table for 45 minutes, the surgeon announced that the surgery was completed "perfectly and without the slightest evidence of hemorrhage. The district attorney said It was the risk of a sight-destroying hemorrhage that prompted the surgeon to make the pre-operation warning: "It is a dangerous operation, but what there is to be gained far offsets what will be lost if the operation is not performed.

After the operation, he said with satisfac- tion: "It looks like we have the cystic-area properly treated. It will be 10 days before we will know certainly. During that time bandages will be changed but no attempt will be made to lodk into the eye. "We consider the patient is past immediate danger of complications." Absolute quiet for Mary Hope was imposed by her doctor. Only her parents will be allowed to visit briefly during the critical days in which the newly created weld-like adhesions around the edge of her retina are healing.

Stroble displayed very little emo tion during the lengthy question Biased Ccal. Aim. Bomb Wrecks Office Of De Gasperi Party .11 ing. HE SAID STROBLE gave, the ROME. Nov.

18 (AP) A dis CUUxtm SI trict headquarters of Premier Al- names and addresses 01 lour or five other little girls he admitted cide de Gasperi's Christian Demo he had molested. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SponsorH by Tha Phoenix Gaaetta and fhoenl OpUmwt Qua crat party, near St. Petere, was lamaged by a bomb early Friday. Adolph Alexander, deputy dis-(Continued On Page 4, CoL 4) No casualties were reported,.