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Alio In TKli Section Sports Peach mm UPPER MIDWEST Section MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 195? 'Disease of Sleep Plagues Family Over 4 Generations By VICTOR COHN Minneapolis Trlbunt Stiff Wrlwr A woman who said "I have been fighting sleep all my life" has led Mayo clinic doctors to a Minnesota family that suffers from case after case of irresistible sleepiness. At least 13 members in four generations have suffered from the disease called narcolepsy meaning seizures of sleepsay Doctors David D. Daly and Robert E. Yoss. Most of the sleepy family lives in and near Rochesteri the doctors report in the Rochester medical center's Staff Meeting Proceedings.

Starting with a Rochester woman whose daughter read an article about narcolepsy and said, "This sounds like mother," the Mayo doctors interviewed 12 of the 13 sure cases. "WE BELIEVE the disease runs in families," Daly said Saturday. "We also believe it's more common than previously thought. We see a lot of patients with it We think every doctor might see a few cases every year, if he watched for it." About two-thirds of all people with the disease also suffers attacks of serious muscle weakness (called cataplexy) brought on by emotion and usualiy by laughter. driving, and often fell asleep while host at a party.

A brother, 36, admitted becoming drowsy while driving both autos and trucks but he assured the doctors "that he really was not a dangerous driver, since a 'close shave' would awaken him." Another brother drove a tank truck for a living, and habitually had to open his windows to stay awake in winter. He had been disciplined for sleeping on duty in World War II. He fell asleep twice during his Mayo clinic interview. Another brother had never been able to stay awake long After hard laughter these people sometimes fall paralyzed to the ground for a minute or two. The sleepy Rochester family suffers less of this trouble than most narcoleptics.

But they have slept and slept through the years. THE FIRST sleepy person was great-grandfather, the head of the first generation. His two daughters described him as a "very sleepy person" who "would invariably fall alseep whenever sitting down." There followed a daughter, granddaughters, grandsons and great-grandchildren who typically have fallen asleep at school, at church, while trying to read and while driving. Several have narrowly missed serious auto accidents. Some even fell asleep while talking to the Mayo clinic doctors.

FOR EXAMPLE, greatgrandfather's oldest daughter, now 67, said she has had episodes of sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. She has fallen asleep at the dinner table, while talking and while cooking. She regularly slept through movies, even those she liked. Her daughter, 43, said, "If enough to read more than a single chapter in a book in his life. A sister often napped standing up.

IN THE FOURTH generation, the doctors interviewed only members more than 15 years old. It is too hard to make sure of the diagnosis in children, they said, though the disease may start at 8 or 9. The fourth-generation afflicted slept at the wheel, in church and at school. One man, 20, "was wont to doze when he stopped the car for traffic lights, only to be Sleep Continued on Page Four 1 sit down I am lost," and this had been true since she was 14. She said unhappily that the problem jcemed to become worse and worse: "When you get older, you don't feel so much like fighting" This woman's oldest broth-.

er, 47, invariably fell asleep in church on Sundays, his wife reported. He once drove into the ditch three timrs on the way home from work. 'ANOTHER brother, now 38, was first troubled when he was in the army and had a hard time staying awake on guard duty. He had had many near -accidents while SHE WAS A REAL NICE OLD LADY' Gypsies Mourn Queen 7 Die in 3 Road Crashes; 3 Are From City Area Seven persons, three from the Minneapolis area, were killed Saturday in three auto accidents: Three persons were killed in an accident near Kimball, Neb. Three members of a Chicago family were killed in a Wisconsin mishap.

A Minneapolis man was killed In a truck-car collision streamed past to see the queen. Since the death of Mrs. George Mitchell, 57, of an abdominal tumor in St. Mary's hospital here Thursday, at least 5,000 people have viewed the body in Macken mortuary, Dan Mack-en, estimated. Last night Rochester police said some 5,000 persons created a huge traffic jam along the shore of Silver lake, with a red shawl, her open-toed shoes a matching red, gold-colored beads about her neck and a gold bracelet on her left arm, lay the queen of the Mitchell tribe of Romanian gypsies.

"She was a real nice old lady," said Andy Mitchell, 21, looking up with solemn brown eyes. "You could live with her 50 years and never have an argument. She liked all the fun she could have." While an olive-skinned infant slept face-down on the green carpet nearby, its mother watching silently from the sofa beside a pile of soiled clothing, the people By ED MAGNUSON Minneapolis Trlbunt Staff Writer ROCHESTER, Minn. A young man in faded jeans and ragged white T-shirt perched atop the back of a folding chair, his feet on the red cushion, at the side of the bronze casket. "Won't you please pray for her, Mama?" he asked the white-haired, i 1 e- aged woman at the head of the line, then nodded his curly black head toward his grandmother's body.

THERE, in a long white lace dress, her hair covered near Beardsley, Minn. i A i T-' hi -4v jj- sko The victims Mrs. Edith M. Harwood, waiting for the announced gypsy feast. 55, 364 Apple lane, Richfield.

Mike II. Elsenbcrg, 55, San Gabriel, Calif. The gypsies, who had held their memorial feast in the Randy Sue Elsenberg, 3, 11510 Larch St Coon Rapids, granddaughter of Eisen- bcrg Joseph Koperskl, 46, Chi afternoon, failed to show up. INTO THE TAN three-story mortuary just two blocks from the Mayo clinic have come clinic patients and staff members from throughout the country, visitors from miles around Rochester and local people. Thousands were turned away, Macken said.

And from throughout the cago. Joseph Koperskl, about 11, his son. Here's the Anatomy of an Attempted Murder By DICK CUNNINGHAM Minneapolis Trlbunt Staff Writer Kenneth Mell was the first detective called in the country have come gypsies an estimated 150 of them. By rail, by bus and car, they Thursday, July Mell was in his unmarked prowl car. Region Wins Battle Against-Fee Racket By JACQUELINE ADAMS Mlnneanolln Trlbun Staff Writer In a small town In Minnej sota recently, a 65-ycar-old shoe repair man received a letter from Interstate Exchange Co.

asking if he wanted to sell his business. The company explained it had buyers for such properties as his. The aging man, who had worked most of his life in the little shop connected with his home, saw in the letter a good opportunity to retire. He answered the letter, and a salesman came out to see him. INTERSTATE had a buyer for his business, the salesman said, but would requtte an advance fee of $200 for its services.

At the urging of the salesman, the shoemaker moved out of his residence-business, paid the fee and arranged for construction of a small new home which he would finance with the money from the sale of his shoe shop. Tho shoemaker never heard from Interstate again. 30 MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY MAP.TY NORDSTROM AQUA PARADE FEATURED AS USUAL MANY A CLOWN They included Minneapolis Star and Tribune Aqua Jesters, this Shrine clown Adm. Burke Rates U.S. Still World's 'Most Powerful' Nation George Larsgard assault case.

It was about 10:30 p.m. cruising in south Minneapolis He received a call from the radio dispatcher to go to Northwestern hospital. A man had been brought into the hospital badly beaten. His neck had been slashed. AT THE HOSPITAL Mell pieced together the story from Larsgard and his wife, Shirley.

They had been lured from their home at 2708 Brunswick St. Louis Park, to a partially completed apartment building at 2801 Pillsbury Av. Larsgard, a real estate salesman, had gone into the building with a man who identified himself as Clayton Day. He had been beaten, left near death. His wife found him and flagged a motorist to take him the hospital.

Larsgard told Mell one of the men who beat him "had a build like Dick Harding, a fellow who used to work for us." At the crime scene Mell found bits of plastic under Larsgard's hat. Bureau of Identification officers identified them as parts of the grip of a Ruger pistol. FRIDAY the case was turned over to the homicide squad. From then on detectives Robert W. Finn and his partner, Henry J.

Pfeiffer, worked on It days. Detectives Tree Continued on Page Five Arlcne Koperskl, 2, his daughter. Gustaves A. Robertson, 42, 3301 N. Russell Av.

Mrs. Harwood and the Ei-senbergs were killed in a two-car collision in western Nebraska. Three others were injured critically. Mrs. Donna Lou Eisenberg, 25, mother of the child, was reported in critical condition at a Cheyenne, hospital.

Also in critical condition were Henry Gutierrez, 19, Kimball, driver of one of the autos, and Leonard B. Romero, 23, Kimball. THE ACCIDENT occurred at 4:30 a.m. on highway 30 some two miles west of Kimball, according to Sheriff Jim Shaul of Kimball county. Eisenberg was the driver of the auto carrying his.

aunt, Mrs. Harwood, and his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, authorities said. Mrs. Harwood is the wife of Elmo Harwood, Richfield excavating contractor. The Kopcrskis were killed in a two-car collision on highway 27 three miles north of Holcombe, 100 miles east of the Twin Cities.

Kopcrski's wife, Helen, was hospitalized in critical condition at Ladysmith, Wis. A third child, Edward, 10, was reported in fair condition. AN AUTO driven by Francis Wetzel, 43, Milwaukee, collided with one driven by Koperskl, authorities reported. Wetzel's injuries were not believed serious. Robertson was alone in his auto when it collided head-on with a truck hauling another truck behind it two miles west of Beardsley on highway 28, Associated Press reported.

IN THE TRUCK were Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Sorby, Culbcrt-son, Mont.

Mrs. Sorby. was treated for cuts. Her husband was not hospitalized. By john c.

Mcdonald Minneapolis Tribune -Staff Writer Artist's Sketch to Aid Hunt for Molester By AL McCONAGHA Minneapolis Trlbunt Staff Writer Golden Valley police Saturday released an artist's conception of the man whose continuing menace to neighborhoods northwest of Minneapolis has affected the lives of countless suburban families. This man sexually assaulted an 8-year-old boy June 2 in Osseo, a boy June 30 in Crystal and a 7-year-old boy last Sunday in Golden Valley. THE MAN has a slightly crushed nose, that may once have been broken. He has a clean cut, athletic look. His hair is blond to medium brown.

It is crew cut and probably needs trimming. He is about 22. He is about six feet tall and weighs around 210 pounds. He has a fat face, big neck, barrel chest, muscular arms, small wrists and dainty hands, police report. Police know him by his Molester Continued on Page Five The United States still is the most powerful nation in His business was not sold.

Reluctant to admit he had been "taken," he struggled along trying to do his own carpentry on his new home. He fell and broke his neck in the process. That tiro a iUa irhrtk have gathered to mourn and hold their traditional memorial feast. Since Friday, they, too, have jammed into the two waiting rooms of the mortuary, eating lunches there, dozing restlessly, the children running noisily, some neat, some grimy all keeping their three-day vigil. There are old women' In long billowing bright-colored dresses, thin scarves about their heads.

There are younger, trimmer women, their black pony tails tied with gay ribbons. There are men in rumpled suits, men in well-pressed suits, many in open-at-the-neck sport shirts. THEY LOUNGE about the mortuary lawn, talking briskly in their own language as cars of the curious roll past constantly. A gypsy woman carrying a baby rushed out of the mortuary, past the line of viewers. Switching from her own language to English, she said loudly: "It's too hot in there for this.

If their queen was dead, they wouldn't let us in." An Indiana Cadillac cluttered with clothes was parked at the curb, a baby bottle propped against the window. A Persian kitten was tied outside on a leash and gypsy youngsters looked out dully. A young gypsy girl turned to make a face behind a visitor's back. A kindly-looking gypsy man thanked another visitor for his expression of sympathy. George Mitchell, husband of the queen, shook a reporter's hand warmly but said Gypsy Continued on Page Four The Weather Will Be the world today, Adm.

Ar-leigh A. Burke, chief of naval operations, said Saturday in Minneapolis. "They (the Soviet Union) are out to rule the world," he asserted. "And if they do rule the world, it will be with the same iron hand with which they rule Russia now. "The Soviets are trying to A J1U TT tAtJ TT 11 VIA UiV TV ilVJI Racket fs? (i.

If! it continued on rage tour not be carried by submarine, he pointed out. Burke said he believes the aircraft carrier will have a place in the military scheme of things as long as we employ manned aircraft. MISSILES, he said, are effective against pre determined targets and for mass destruction at known locations, but so long as there is a need for search and attack, for reconnaissance, for close air support "for somebody who can think" there will be a need for piloted airplanes, and for carriers to transport them within target range. One nuclear-powered carrier, the Enterprise, will be launched within a year, he said, and a second one has been put into the defense budget by the senate. He said the navy asked for 260 million dollars in its 1960 building program for a con-Burke Continued on Page Four extend their sway over free people everywhere.

They prefer to do it by economic, psy -Almanac- Watermelons Spread Seeds of Neighborlincss chological, subversive and political means. They back ADM. ARLEIGH BURKE Aqua grand marshal a A A I unfitly juiy ivt 144 o.m.j ivntef I 34 9 i fiiiia a'urif i jiiiiiu vu 1 1 i mvuiu a uin luiii it vim tirely under water, he guessed, because cargo -carrying merchant vessels will travel on the surface for a long time and they must be protected. Bulky cargoes can i I- Eden Prairie family, bearing ft 3 Hurt as Car with them a watermelon as a gift offering. After the melon had been-dismembered and the rinds lay ankle deep all around, the E.P.

wife got to thinking her garbage had been collected that morning and the truck would not be back for a week. "When Is your garbage col- Island, Jump; Warm and Fair Today these up with the prestige of real military strength and the threat of force. They are ready to use force when, arid if, they think they can get away with it. "BUT WHEN we stand up and face them, they don't use force. They back down.

We are still the most powerful nation in the world today. Burke, a four-star admiral, the top navy fighting man in the nation and a member of the joint chiefs of staff, flew to Minneapolis yesterday to be grand marshal of the Aquatennial parade. He was the main speaker at the Editors' luncheon sponsored by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune at the Rad-isson hotel. Earlier, at a press conference at the Leamington hotel, Burke told newsmen that it will be a long time before the navy is totally nuclear-powered and he thinks the fleet will never be completely submerged. BOTH THE WEIGHT and price per horsepower of nu rvrcr ity Warm weather, fair skies and low humidity are forecast for the Twin Cities and Minnesota today.

The forecast calls for a high of 82 degrees in the Twin Cities. The rest of Minnesota will have highs ranging from 78 to 85. AQUA PROGRAM TODAY MORNING 10:30 a.m. Water ski tournament, Lake Nokomis. Finals at 2:30 p.m.

10:30 a.m. Sailing regatta, Lake Calhoun. Finals at 2:30 p.m. AFTERNOON 1:30 p.m. Minneapolis Millers vs.

Denver Bears In Metropolitan Stadium. Skipper pin event. 6:00 p.m. International Geneva association's Aquatennial gourmet banquet, Pick-Nicollct hotel. EVENING 1 p.m.

National Invitational Amateur Speed Skating meet, Ice center. p.m. Aquatennial Religious day services, Parade 8:00 p.m. Skipper Pin concert, Lake Harriet bandshell. 8:30 p.m.

Aqua Follies, Theodore Wirth pool. (lndlrate admission charged. Further Information available at Aquatennial office, FEderal l-UU.) Davy Jones Clue No. 2 "To minister, to serve mankind, my aid in need yoQ sure can find." Hits Other Auto Three persons were injured, one critically, about midnight Saturday in a head-on collision on Wayzata Blvd. near Glenwood Pkwy.

General hospital attendants reported the most seriously injured was Mrs. Lila Weng-ler, 22, 924 SE. Essex St. She and her husband, Robert, 23, were pinned in their vehicle after the crash. The Weng-lers baby, also In the car, apparently was uninjured.

Wengler and the driver of the other car, identified by police as Richard Houle, 25, Brainerd, also were taken to General hospital. Police said Houle's car jumped the center island and collided head-on with the Wenglers' eastbound auto. icctcai' sne asKca me a.L,r, wife. "Tomorrow," re her guest, who later left with a package of watermelon rinds and a bemused expression. Fair ucathcr today In the Twin Cities with low humidi-'" ty.

The high temperature will be 82 and the low tonight 62 St. Paul father heard a siren close by and slammed on his brakes, dumping all his kids on the floor ofthe car. None of the vounESters IN TODAY'S TRIBUNE Twin Citlei and Regional News in this section. Sports Peach folded into this section. TV and RADIO LOGS Page 6 Feature section.

clear engines are-higher than steam or diescl engines, he said, and until those obstacles are broken through, atomic power will not take over completely. was hurt, not even the one who gives such convincing imitations of fire engines. ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF SUBURBAN MOLESTER He hat eommiltcd three assaults In suburbs The fleet will never go en-.