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THE ELMIRA TELEGRAM Sunday, Oct. 27, 1963 16-B Farmers' Almanac Scientific to Boss most of the time. But I say It's cation from his bed. jwith a major in philosophy in Mobsters Still Kill; Unsolved List Grows a science and we re absolutelu By MARTY ANDERSON INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.

(AP) Geiger, 52, who travels thou- 1932. correct almost 80 per cent of the time," he added. sands of miles a year, was in- Three years later his father's terviewed during a stopoff in In- printing firm took over the Al-dianapolis to collect quips, puns manac from its staff, all in their Nineteen years ago Ray Geiger lay seriously wounded on a South Pacific island, a Japanese In a staccato pace, Geiger and philosophy of the type used iate 80s Gejger became editor in the Almanac clicks out his pet sayings like a computer. A favorite is, "Where I go hereafter depends on what I go after here." Some of his The 1964 edition is being sold and has boosted the circulation from 100,000 to "just at two million," he says. bullet buried near his spine.

But he says he knew that "I couldn't die because no editor of the Almanac has died under 80." v.vXvi-Xvv:v.v:.:v; Geiger gave a sample of the now to insurance companies, coal merchants, morticians and others who it away to customers. The Almanac is not Geiger, now in his 30th year Bj BERNARD GAVZER NEW YORK (AP) A hood-1 lum sits in a bath of television flood light and calmly details three decades of wholesale horn- others: "The definition of a bathing beauty that's a girl worth wad Almanac's prediction for the winter. as editor of the Farmers' A Statistically, your chances of getting away with murder in America's largest city are pretty good especially if you're a professional underworld mobster. 11 manac. was right in the predic- found on newsstands, nor are any subscriptions solicited.

ing for." "Our calculation shows that Ail icide in New York's underworld. I tion that ne wouldn't cue at 1 least then just as the Almanac another cold and rugged winter is at hand," he said. "There is GEIGER IS ONLY the fifth Cocksure gunmen got away with SSSMSSSSsslhas been so many times in its murder, no question of the accuracy of c.litor in the Almanac's 147-year weather forecasting. Geiger spent many months in history. The personable executive Ts no stranger to Indiana, our last prediction for the cold came and the snow blew.

In some areas records were set." a hospital after the 1944 wound' ing but edited the annual publi- though his home is in Lewis- The Almanac's main feature ton. Maine. DISC JOCKEY is a guy who lives on spins and needles. "A sure sign of old age is when you feel your corns more than your oats." Geiger said his four sons and one daughter provide some of his material. a Much is mailed to his home in Maine.

One donation bore this "elephant stew" recipe which appears in the 1964 almanac: tVA is weather predictions ana He attended the university ot Dlantine tables. There Is a Notre Dame and was graduated JOSEPH wealth ot other material, too, in Lacked Principle, Feared Principal eluding recipe. first the major religions, words to live by and Moonshiners Won't words to laugh by. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 5M40EL CICERO V'CEwT IN ICE -MSEPW MASHSCO Live This Down THE WEATHER forecasts are 1 elephant, medium size: 2 A woman pulled up at a Des rabbits (optional); salt and Moines high school campus in produced by Harry K. Bule, pro- MANCHESTER, Ky.

(AP) -ifessor of astronomy at the Uni- a new car, one of the costliest pepper "Cut the elephont into small, The reputation of mountaineersjVersity of Florida. Bule has a WS5V WXKtotErrt of makes on the market, and dumped a collection of empty FAITHFUL ALMANAC The bite -size pieces. Add enough formula that includes sun spot Otmot i i.i.. 5AM to) kIFiuocoL movements, moon rotation, At pop bottles on the grounds. nlJAV ViHCNr(MADDM)COU.

lantic and Paccific ocean tides Lester T. Miller of Des RICHARD AMATO brown gravy to cover. Cook editor of the 147-year-oio over kerosene fire about 4 weeks Farmers' Almanac, Ray Get at 465 degrees. This will serve ger of Lewiston, holds 3,800 people. If more are expect- a cony of the 1961 edition, fid.

two rahhits mav be added. Geieer. In his 30th year as Moines saw her do it, and told as sharpshooters suttered a blow in a three-hour, night-time battle between bootlegging factions on Bob Fork Creek in Eastern Kentucky. State Police Detective Walter E. Woods reported that about 100 shots were fired and one man was hit in the arm.

and position of planets. "The formula is so Geiger said, "I don't know it." VIT0 CAUSE WlUftM GRAY her he would report the incident to the school principal if OOMIMICK BOUMklA WS ROSA FRAKIC ESPlSiTO RALPH MASOU "Some people- say we make she didn't return the bottles to her car. But do this only in emergency; editor, says the forecast is for most people do not like hare in another cold and rugged win-their stew." ter. ALEX FE50 JACK(lK5) DIAMOND predictions so ambiguous that we're bound to come out right JACK RYBAKOFF She did. WHUAXfmtOOU) ALFRED LOFREOO P0VLE An ambitious gang presses some oldtimers in a Brooklyn power struggle tnat has all the sound and fury of the Capone heyday in Chicago.

At least 11 men die or disappear in the first 10 months of 1963 and no one has been tagged for murder. There are other kinds of criminal homicides the so-called run-of-the-mill crimes of passion, and the perplexing casual slayings, such as that of two Manhattan career girls or the strangulation of nine women in the Boston area in 1962-63 but gangland slayings such as described by hoodlum Joseph Val-achi confound the ordinary citizen who wonders how such killers can remain immune. Hundreds of men have been assassinated in gangland style slayings. Very few have been solved. Rarely has anyone gone to prison.

Why? 9 ONE OF THE MOST detailed answers is provided by Virgil W. One of the most detailed answers is provided by Virgil W. Peterson, former FBI agent who has headed the widely respected Chicago Crime Commission for 21 years and in his tenure became an expert on the hoodlum rub-out. Peterson lists 980 gang- land type killings in the Chicago area since 1919 and notes that only 2 were solved. He says: "When a gangland type killing is involved, law enforcement agencies are confronted with an extremely difficult and at times almost impossible situation because: "1.

If there are any wit CHARLES YAN0W5R MARCELE PECKERf JOE FRAN MlREWWt EDWRD LfslCH VJILUE MORETT7 ArfAX SOLOM0M PHILIP MAAGANO PAT (liSIM) MITCHELL GEORGE MILAzzo AHtmy zecala HOW at Kob acker' COLORat TRA COST JraaUUU. fRAWieyALE I i Anri nn AfxiAM BflW)JmiosrJusri 1 I fill 1 I MICHAEL I S.U LV UJ Lb 1 POLICE SUPERINTENDENT Atty Frank S. Hogan of New IT'S JUST LIKE REMODELING YOUR KITCHEN O. W. Wilson of Chicago, dean i York.

In the spectacular arena of nesses, they are frequently members of the underworld who under no circumstances would cooperate with the authorities. "2. The killing is frequently committed on contract. Gunmen who may not even know the vic- mob murder, there is some at the University of California School of Criminology before taking over Chicago's much- AIA AST A A thought among police experts fc i jiAAfrwww your. that the underworld is applying cnticized police force, came up with some murder statistics in a hold-down on street slayings.

time are hired to commit the The new vogue was discussed testifying at the Senate hearings crime. Frequently, they are imported from another city, com by Chief Inspector John Shan-ley, who sorted thick manila en at which Valaclu was the chief attraction. In "run-of-the-mill murders," mit the murder and return to velopes with inch-high blue-ink letters on the covers as he their native city. Wilson testified, there is a na "3. The motive for the killing spoke.

In on pile he put ones tional average of 62 per cent of is known only to the underworld GAS RANGES arrest and convictions in all of 4The mes Gmmae, Gam-America's big cities. ibln. Lucchese, Magliocco, Bon- nW ft fill Mf AMia tit Hrlrta which remains mute. "4. MEMBERS OF the gang "Run-of-the-mill" does not WZrd "I can teU you at practically which ordered the murder and who might be considered logical suspects usually have iron-clad U1K3 WIJIUU IVU3UI1 UU1IUCU UUl ,1 produced only prosecutions out of nearly 1,000 Se HSS alibis.

ALL CHROME OVEfl "5. The victim of a gang kill tL out Strollo, Squillante, Morelli, ing is frequently an underworld 11,5 Dicola, Giogelli, mob hoodlums. rM Swi fha nnciml rv "find the "first tion are casual, or contact" murders. This could be the store owner character and in the minds of both the responsible law enforcement agency and the public, the attitude frequently is one of apathy: one hoodlum has killed another hoodlum and the tendency is to shrug the should "These five guys disappeared within the last three years. The man and his car vanish without a trace.

"There is no apparent violence. No sprawled body in a who looks up to see an armed man who suddenly starts shooting; or it could be the woman who surprises a sneak thief in her home; or it could be the bullet-punctured car. No grue ers and say, 'Good No reliable statistics on gang secretary whose apartment is. some pictures. No public hysteria or outcry.

There is no land murders are available for suddenly invaded by a man or New York. An educated guess woman never seen before; or it body and no complaint of homi-could be a casual acauaintance Clde-11 Just a missine person." is that since 1930 there have been between 230 and 300 such just met hours before and un known to any other friends or slayings. They are part of the list of 2,477 unsolved murders relatives, or it could be a clean ing woman resisting a purse- IT'S AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3 1. Just snap out the oven sides and back liner. 2.

Carry them to the sink where cleaning is easy. 3. Snap them back and the job's all done! Eliminates tiresome bending and reaching does away with rags, brushes, smelly oven cleaners. snatcher. 'Stan the Man' Halves Fine for Philly Fan SUCH A CASE recently brought terror to many career since 1920, the year New York began keeping statistics that showed unsolved or "not cleared," criminal homicide.

Joseph Valachi's free wheeling public testimony in Washington and New York, the headlines attending the mutilation slayings of two career girls in Manhattan's posh East Side, and the rat-tat-tat of hoodlum woman in Manhattan. Two well-educated attractive young women Janice Wylie, 21, and HV ST. LOUIS (AP) A Philadelphia man had to pay only half his speeding fine because he, the arresting officer and the fights in Brooklyn, have focused judge were Stan Musial fans. Joseph M. Boyle, 44, drove to St.

Louis from Philadelphia attention on New York soaring crime rate. NEW YORK IS America in mi- Emuy Hoffert, 23 were found mutilated in their nicely appointed, well-located East Side apartment Aug. 28. Police have questioned hundreds of persons, but admit they are up against a blank wall. In Boston, police stand against the same wall in trying to unravel the strangulation murders of nine women since 1962.

There are similarities B'V El 1 111111 ml' to see the Cardinal baseball star play his last game. On OTHER IMPORTANT Ip-1--" Wj United States has the highest murder rate of any vr his vay home, Boyle was ar nation in the world, with tne ex ceDtion of Ceylon and the Ital Yes, these sparkling new Tappan ranges are available in either 30-inch or 36-inch models you just slide them in the place of your old range and your kitchen comes to life. Priced now to fit any budget. rested for exceeding the speed limit by eight miles per hour ian provinces of Sardinia, Sicily, at Litchfield, 111. which suggest that a single mur- and Calabria.

Boyle told Illinois state pa There are no pat answers as derer may be involved, but that trolman Leland Storm and is about all. to why. Magistrate Henry Cress why he was in the area. Storm said he too was a Musial fan and Boyle should get a break. "What else can be expected in a society which teaches violence to its children, which glorifies it in motion pictures, television, radio, newspapers and comic books?" says Dr.

Frederic Wer-tham. psychiatrist author of All glass backpanet Lifetime burner guarantee In Chicago, the mystery slayings of Patricia and Barbara Grimes one 13 and. the other 15 remain unsolved after nearly seven years. Even the cause of death was never determined. "Those are the kind of cases I would give an' arm to break, Judge Cress agreed to cut the fine in half, 50 cents for each mile ever the limit rather than Clock with interval timer ievauitionry Hu til- i I IV SiU'N chrome ovrt 1 tr XiulC'.

I the customary dollar, such works as "Show of Violence" and "Dark Legend," and Then the judge asked Boyle those lousy crumbs who kill de- met burners I teflecta heat, i I I exclusive browns faster, I i vl two-Diece deAicra, I trior avenlv. i I All porcelain chassis Smoke-free gas broiler at various times expert witness fenseless, innocent ito tell him about the game and in murder cases. says one of the top aides to Dist. ceremonies honoring Musial. Once every hour, there Is a violent, criminal homicide in the Answer to today's crossword.

United States. That is, a discovered or recognized, one, according to the FBI. 1 1 fP Ovn door lifUr VlwiIIU oven 1 Ovn door lifU "The average case is easy to solve," says Deputy Chief Inspector John Shanley, the talL graying chief of New oii liners snap out for extra easy cleaning. I Window let yoa cnck baknifr progress easily. York's Central Investigations NO DOWN PAYMENT! PAY $11.40 MONTHLY Bureau.

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