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Tax Deputy Arrested U.S. Charges He Collected Funds for Self for heft, Boyko Agrees to Return and Face Murder Charge Special la tha Minneapolis Tribuna DEL RIO, TEXAS John Boyko, 22, captured near here Wednesday by two border patrolmen after a 100-mile-perhour phase, agreed last night to return to 'Minnesota to lace a murder charge In the fatal shooting ol his 18-year-old wife. Held here In Val Verde county jail, Boyko did not admit the roppe Cheatin 9 on MINOT, N. D. J.

Naumann, fired here Wednes I killing. He refused to sign any day as deputy collector of in statements or discuss the case with Texas police. He said he xams Furniture, Test Answers Are Stolen Dividends Paid, MARCIANO KNOCKS OUT SAVOLD IN 7TH if TCRT Reports would give "the whole story" to Minneapolis police when they arrived. Charles Wetherille, detective inspec ternal revenue, was arrested last night on federal charges of converting collections from taxpayers to his own use. Meanwhile, John A.

Malone, suspended assistant chief of the Income tax division of the San Francisco, internal revenue office was indicted on a charge of conspiring to defraud the United States. Malone and the Shumates Drug Co. are accused of con As fl 7W- i $301,255 Loss Twin City Rapid Transit Co. tor, and Detec-t i Calvin Hawkinson By CARL T. ROWAX Mlanaapalla Trtaaaa Itaff Wrttar Four University of Minnesota students were suspended lost $301,255 during 1951, its an a-wS the Minneapolis nual report dislosed Wednesday.

spiring to backdate excise tax returns of the drug company to avoid penalties. I Wednesday for cheating on This loss, added to $571,767 And at Austin, Texas, Frank Scofield, internal revenue collector for south Texas, resigned his paid out in dividends during the year on preferred and common stock, reduced the company's earned surplus to $6,410,693. Boyko homicide squad, will leave Minneapolis by airplane at 10 a.m. today to take Boyko into custody. They will carry a first degree murder warrant, issued here today.

BOYKO HAS BEEN missing since the nude body of his wife, Jacqueline, was found Monday beside her bed in their home at TP Ttlrpkala DUKE OF WINDSOR Arrives for funeral Former Queen Makes Up DETAILS in Sport teetion Letter Starts New Probe of Sheriff's Car The Hennepin county board of commissioners Wednesday asked Sheriff Ed Ryan and Deputy Stanley Hurley for another report on an accident in which a sheriff's car was damaged early Dec. 9. They were requested to appear at the board's next meeting Tuesday. THE ACTION followed a letter written to the board by job. His resignation was announced by President Truman in Washington.

Under provisions of its mort examinations and for stealing furniture from a university building for their fraternity house. The studentswho were not named admitted itealing answers to an examination in th college of pharmacy and to taking about $500 worth of furni. ture. The furniture theft charge was new. It resulted from an investigation of the cheating charges by the office of the dean THE COMPLAINT, signed by special agent of the intelli 3516 Thirty-sixth avenue S.

gence division of the internal revenue bureau, charged spe gage bond issue, the company cannot pay dividends out of earned surplus if that sum drops to $5,920,236. This leaves $520,457 in earned surplus still available for dividend payments in the future. Near her was their 4-month- With Vindsor cifically that on five occasions old daughter, Roxanne. The Naumann accepted checks drawn in favor of himself by baby was unharmed. Mrs.

Boyko was dead with a bullet wound in her temple. taxpayers in settlement of sup Although the number of pas posed tax claims of the govern' of students. ment. The total involved, according sengers carried ana revenue miles operated dropped about 10 per cent from 1950 during the year passenger revenue remained fairly stable, dropping Ralph D. Neighbour, 2916 Six-J TnE STUDENTS were -sus-pended after promising a faculty to the complaint, was $408.52 ma tt-f I The taxpayers were from the LONDON flNS King George VI in death succeeded Wednesday in reconciling his widow with the duke of Windsor after a 15-year-long royal cold shoulder.

There was immediate speculation that the royal doors would open to the American-born duchess of Windsor. disciplinary committee that they Anamoose, N. area. would pay for the furniture. The off a little more than 1 per cent.

On Nov. 28, 1951, Justin Van committee would not disclos He was captured early yesterday by the border patrolmen after a 40-mile chase at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. The chase ended when Boyko's car failed to make a turn at a wye intersection about five miles north of here and skidded into a ditch. When patrolmen William S. Eatmon and Edwin C.

Dennis approached the 1950 Cadillac young Boyko was driving, Boy THE REPORT did not indi Mlnnaapalii Triaane pnata dp Patar Mirnt denoever, deputy collector at cate what percentage of the de Williston, N. was fired for Trouble? To discover what is the matter with this young lady turn to page 18. "irregularities" while perform what furniture was stolen. Suspension differs from expulsion In that the four may apply for readmlssion to the university whereas an expelled student crease in passengers and revenue miles was caused by ing his job. The reconciliation between the service cuts, including discontin In both cases the men said they had submitted their resig 57-year-old duke and his sister uance of the Brookside-to-Hop may not.

teenth avenue who said that he visited the accident scene before the damaged car was towed away. The car driven by Hurley was damaged near the Calhoun Beach hotel, 2925 Dean boulevard. Hurley, who had just left a meeting of the Hennepin Peace Officers association in the hotel, said the car hit a curbing. The county subsequently paid a $391 repair bill. Commissioner Jens Chrjstensen launched an investigation, during which Ryan stated that information Riven him indicated Hurley should be cleared of any blame.

nations prior to the dismissal ac kins and St. Paul-to-Mahtomedl streetcar lines. A suspended student normally in-law, Queen Elizabeth, who had refused to forgive him for tion but that the resignations Philbrick Makes Deal With FBI to Act is not readmitted for a year or had not been acted upon. abdicating the throne in 1936 to marry an American divorcee, NO CHARGES were filed more, Dr. E.

G. Williamson, dean of students, said. The faculty committee also placed Phi Delta Chi, profes Discontinuance of these lines, the report said, resulted in a property loss of $552,580 but some of this loss may be regained after salvage and pos against Vandenoever. came at a family tea at Buck-ingham palace. Of Schofield's resignation, tax sional pharmacy fraternity to His sister-in-law always had commissioner John Dunlap, in Washington, said a preliminary sible payment for the rights of way.

managed to be elsewhere when the duke visited hi brother ko held an automatic pistol against his head. HE THREATENED to shoot himself until the patrolmen promised not to hurt him. Then Boyko rolled down the car window and threw out the pistol. The border patrolmen did not know the youth was wanted for murder. Boyko was driving a two-tone green Cadillac which he had contracted to take to Los Angeles, for a Minneapolis auto dealer.

The patrolmen took Boyko to border patrol headquarters here where he was questioned for King George. investigation "indicated it would be for the best interest of the revenue service that he submit NEIGHBOUR SAID that he Wages and salaries (Including other employe payments such as vacations, sick leave, pensions and group insurance) in His acceptance was believed which the four belonged, on "strict probation." The fraternity already was on probation as a result of "social infractions" last falL Asked if the "social Infractions" involved whisky and wrote the letter because he was his resignation." to have been the result of the efforts his mother, who neither surprised at Ryan's clearing creased by $61,892 to $11,523,845. Scofield thus became the sev Hurley of blame. hid her affection for her eldest This was done, according to as Counterspy hate to be ipy," Herbert A. Philbrick told the FBI, he ay in today' inttallment from hi book, when accepting the assignment to trap the Red for the government.

This it the fourth of IT daily installment to be printed In the Tribune from Philbrick' -I Led Three Lives," just published. Chapter Four By HERBERT A. PHILBRICK lopfrifht, ItM, ar Herbarl A. rhllprlct By early autumn It became urgently necessary for Communists to re-establish their connections through front organizations with the "masses." But it had to be done under a new banner "support the war, aid the Allies, more guns and less butter, help son nor her distress over his Fred A. Ossanna, chairman of the board and president, "by women, a university official said no whisky was involved.

Ryan, informed of the letter, said "I am not trying to cover up. I am amazed this man waited two months to bring such UNDER STRICT probation. strenuous efforts to reduce expenses," despite additional wage costs which increased operating expenses about $1,200,000. facts to my attention." Ryan added that the asserta enth of the nation's 64 regional tax collectors to leave office in less than a year. Altogether, 166 tax employes were fired or required to resign, 60 for alleged dishonesty, within 12 months.

Dunlap and the house subcommittee investigating tax scandals feuded yesterday after, according to Dunlap, investigating agents "in the dead of night" took bureau files from Williamson explained, the fraternity must function under active supervision of the student activities bureau. Part of the reduction, James ostracism. It was brought about within an hour after the duke's arrival, without his wife, in London. A hint of the reconciliation came as Britons waited in a line which stretched three miles at times from Westminster hall, to pay their last tribute to the king. The duke, his mother dowager Queen Mary, 84 and his tions in the letter were serious and that it takes "witnesses and H.

Towey, secretary, said in a separate notice to stockholders, The four students may appeal was a cut of $67,912 in salaries paid to officers and directors i i i OKiAtiDMA I LJ I ImihnFapous I --A I TWO MKIS 1 fS Sua Afl4a their suspensions to Dr. J. L. Morrill, university president, who would appoint a committee to review their cases. a cut of more than 43 per cent A CHART distributed with However, three of the students have resigned from the fraternity and it was announced New York.

He insisted the files belonged to the tax bureau, not the subcommittee, and their loss means information to be presented to a New York grand jury Monday will suffer. the report showed the number of passengers carried has declined steadily since 1946 while sister, Mary, the princess royal, prayed at the bier of the late monarch in Westminster hall Duke Continued on Page 13 last night that the fourth also would resign an indication that the USSR." In October 1941 a call went out to youth leaders for a mass meeting at the Hotel Touraine in Boston, Mass. Arthur Solomon pressed mr to attend for the Combridge Youth council. I sent a quick report through the mail to Harold Leary of the FBI. THE RALLY was started off by Sam A below, an accomplished rabble-rouser.

He urged immediate aid to the Transit Continued on Page 12 Train Hits Car, Farmer Killed WINONA, MINtt-OTV-Gust Madland, about 60, was killed Wednesday night when his car was struck by a Chicago North Western freight train at a crossing in Utlca, 15 miles west of here. Witnesses said Madland's car apparently stalled on the tracks, he became rattled in attemnt- about four hours by Charles Kirk, chief Inspector of the Jane Russell, Hubby Deny Splituafion Over Contours TCRT Extends 2 Bus Lines Twin City Rapid Transit Co, The fugitive had $86 when he was captured. He told Kirk he had $175 when he left Allies and to Russia, increased no appeal is planned. The four students had a key that they used to enter the phar-macy building, a committee member indicated. THEY APPARENTLY used the key to steal examination answers for more than a year, Williamson said.

No other students were involved directly in either the cheating or the furniture thefta as far as his office had learned, Williamson said. The committee said It was withholding the names of the suspended students "in the hope defense produe evidence" to prove a man guilty. Neighbour's letter follows: 2916 16th Avenue S. Minneapolis, Minnesota February 12, 1952 George W. Matthews, Chairman Board of County Commissioners Court House, Room 130 Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear Sirs: I have followed with Interest the accounts in the Minneapolis Tribune about the damage to the sheriff's car driven by Deputy Stanley P.

Hurley. I was especially surprised at the statement of Sheriff Ed Ryan that "the information I got completely cleared I had just returned from Du-luth, Minnesota, the night of the accident Since my car had a flat tire, I pulled in to the Direct Service Gasoline Station at 29th and Hennepin to have it repaired. While waiting there three young boys about eighteen years old drove into the station and Sherif rs Car Continued on Page Eight St. Paul Firm Seeks TY Permit Ing to start it and failed to see the train. A farmhand, the victim lived at nearby Stockton, a Boyko told Kirk nothing about the shooting.

Kirk asked him if he was married. tion, a larger army, adoption of the Atlantic charter, and repeal of the neu 1 LED THREE LIVES' BOYKO SAID he had a wife HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (IP) Jane Russell, sporting a shiner and a bruised jaw, came home Wednesday. Husband Bob Waterfield met her and a happier couple you've seldom seen. To reports of a rift, both said: "Ridiculous." THE REPORTS started in Las Vegas, N.

where Miss Russell went for a premiere. First there was unpleasantness in a night club, when Waterfield told him to "get away." The party went out to the car, Blue following, still trying to patch things up. Again Waterfield told him to "get away." First versions said Waterfield took Blue by the lapels in the lobby, but both Blue and Kelley said this was incorrect. Everyone agreed no blows were struck. Blue acknowledged he made some remarks about Miss Russell's curves and the actress accepted his apology.

and a baby. He gave his address trality act to as 727 NE. Madison street, Wednesday announced extension of service on two bus lines. The Bryn Mawr line will be rerouted from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Sundays to turn off Hennepin avenue at Twelfth street, proceed to Fourth avenue then to 10th street and return to Hpn-nepin to its regular route. This is planned as a service to churchgoers. The Thirty-ninth street bus, operating in the Lake Harriet-Lake Calhoun area, will extend its western tprminus from where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Boyko, live.

'of increasing the possibility of Kirk said the youth was ex Women Gef in the First Word, Also The fraternity and alumni cooperated in the investigation. tremely nervous and very tired. His eyes were red from lack of sleep. Williamson said. He said the "He 6aid he was driving the fraternity indicated it would car from Minneapolis to Cali carry out "a real housecleaning." fornia for an auto dealer and Chowen to France avenues effective Saturday, on a 60-day ri had come down here because he Nine pharmacy alumni ap peared before the committee yesterday to speak in behalf of the accused students.

wanted to see Dallas and Del 5, saw red at some remarks by Ben Blue, comic on a stage show, about his wife's celebrated curves. Then, Tuesday night. Miss Russell turned up at the pre on" Rio," Kirk related. support nations against Hitler. I felt an irresistible impulse to needle the Communist "comrades." For three minutes, I raked up all the old discarded arguments of Abelow, Solomon and the Dally Worker.

I blasted the "Wall Street monopolists who are dragging this country into war." I raged against co-operation of any kind with the "imperialist" British, French and Dutch. I sounded off against munitions makers and industrialists who "have everything to gain and nothing to lose by embroiling the world in a bloody war." THE MEETING turned into a near riot, directed primarily at me. Speaker after speaker ripped my arguments to shreds. At last, someone proposed the trial basis. CARRIER READY FOR A-BOMB PLANES "He broke down when he WASHINGTON (Special) The Minnesota Television Public BREMERTON, WASH.

(UP) Service St. Paul, Wednesday filed application with the The aircraft carrier will be recommissioned miere with her damaged com Blue federal communications commission for permission to operate a television station on channel 11. here Friday after completion of work which will permit it to handle bombers "capable of carrying the atom bomb," the navy Thursday, Feb. MJ taariaa it a. aanart It p.m.

Here's a Leap year Valentine note: A New York greeting card company (which does extensive research In this field) has statistics to prove that the girls initiate the romance "by overt acts on their part" 43 per cent of the time. And women actually pop the question 63 times out of 100. If you didn't plant your tulips deep enough, or if you planted them too close to the house, they've probably put up some green shoots these mild days. And our prediction is that the squirrels are raising Old Ned with them. Partly cloudy in the Twin Cities today with a high of JO.

The first Valentine day party In what is now Minnesota was held at Stillwater 102 years ago today. Half the guests were from Wisconsin and half from I I Robert Butler. St. Paul con 3 tractor, heads the company and announced Wednesday. Off With Their Heads? is listed as majority stockholder.

mentioned his wife," Kirk said, "and told me his arrest would bring shame to his family. He said he had been getting into a lot of trouble, but I didn't know about the shooting. "If he hadn't acted sus- Capture Continued on Page 11 Violence Flares in Tunis; 2 Killed TUNIS, TUNISIA (IP) Two French gendarmes were killed Wednesday in an ambush on their car near Gafsa. It appeared to be a new outbreak of Tunisian national violence. The calm following the climax Red Continued on Page plexion only partly hidden by makeup and Waterfield nowhere in sight.

He left for home a few hours earlier, it turned out. A friend said Waterfield, quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, had to make a prearranged radio broadcast. Miss Russell said the injuries were caused by a car door, torn from someone's hand by a sudden gust of wind. An account of the Ben Blue incident cam from Bob Kelley, He is associated in the pro-posed operation with Alvin Gluek, Minneapolis, president of Gluek Brewine and Quentin LONDON Two London lawbreakers heard the hard way Wednesday that England has a new queen. They were charged with attempted shopbreaking David.

St. Paul, president of MOTHER AND DAUGHTER GIVE BIRTH SAME DAY SIOUX FALLS, S. A woman and her daughter gave birth to babies in the same hospital on the same day. Both the babies were girls. They were the daughter's second child and the mother's tenth.

Nuns at McKennan hospital said Mrs. Clifford Oberg, 36. brought her daughter, Mrs. Dan Graves, 20, to the hospital Tuesday morning. Mrs.

Graves' baby was delivered before noon. Mrs. Oberg promised her daughter to come back for a visit later. She returned unexpectedly in the afternon, but not as a visitor. Her daughter was born at 8 pjn.

Grandmother, mother, daughter, granddaughter, aunt and niece are doing welL David, advertising agency. HAREM TO RIDE IN 'OGLE-PROOF CARS CINCINNATI, OHIO (UP) Part of a fleet of $12,500 "ogle- I "contrary to the peace of our TURN THE PAGES TO: I sovereign lady, the queen." radio sportscastcr. Blue did a "pretty rare" skit Involving Jane, he said. Water- Washington 2 People 5 Foreign 3 Wash. Memo 6 LETTERS TO TRIBUNE 6 Minnesota.

The Minnesota Pio of nationalist demonstrations proof" Cadillacs were en route Wednesday to Saudi Arabia for the king's harem. They are being given to King Ibn Saud by the Arabian-American Oil which has rights to the monarch's rich oil fields. Each blue car will carry six passengers, a chauffeur and an attendant Hof Money MEXICO CITY, MEXICO UP) Mexico's supreme court ruled Wednesday that miners working in temperatures above 99 degrees are entitled to a peso extra a day. A peso is worth Women's 15-17 Amuse. ..18, 19)ast month was broken earlier field did a slow burn and presently said, "Let's get out of here." He demanded the check, although he and his wife had been invited as Blue's guests.

BLUE SENSED trouble and came to the table. Waterfield Pictures ....18 Kilgallen the fcv an attack on two neer approved "such interchanges of conviviality amongst neighboring villages" and commented editorially: "The St Croix girls may they live a 100 years and never grow any older!" streetcar workers, who were MR. FIXIT 22 Comici ..22. 23 Crossword ..23 VT Trtpha BOB WATERFIELD GREETS WIFE, JANE RUSSELL burned by bottles of flaming ill1 rents. Spors See by gasoline thrown Into their car.

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