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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 5

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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1 t- Oakland Tribune, Thursday, April 13, 1961 Fk dnSaucepassengei Wi nds, Tide Keep Held in $5,000 Bunco Ride Churchi II Yacht on 7 NEW YORK, April 13 I a a shipping magnate High tide and gusty winds to- Aristotle Onassis' yacht. fly ivivx--' UjXJJBAjmJMMWJLJJJUUJMMU-MUJllUMI As the craft moved into the harbor, it was greeted by whistle blasts of salute from other shipping. Four police helicopters hovered above. Fireboats sent sprays of water into the air in greeting. Sir vV'insion, wearing' a yachting cap and brown fur-collared trench- coat, waved a fat cigar and gave New York the V-for-victory sign that he made famous.

In deference to his age and condition, there was littlti of day delayed Sir Winston Churchill's departure from the yacht Christina in the Hudson River. Jhe 86 year old former Brifish Prime Minister had been scheduled to disembark at 8:40 a.m. to go by auto to the home of financier Bernard Baruch. He was to proceed from there to Idlewild Airport to board a plane for London. However, two crewmen of the yacht said it was too dangerous to attempt to transfer A dapper 64-year-old man who claims he's been all over the world in flying saucers was brought back to earth today and jailed on two counts of grand theft in Oakland.

Reinhold 0. Schmidt was arrested in Bakersfield and returned here last night. Oakland Police Inspector Lester King said Schmidt misrepresented himself to Eva Newcomb, 50, of 4185 Wilshire Blvd. in obtaining $5,000 for two mining ventures last year. SAUCER LECTURER Schmidt has written and lectured extensively on flying objects from outer space and claims to have made many trips around the world by flying saucer.

In fact, said King, Schmidt hasn't worked since he first revealed he saw a flying saucer near Kearney, in 1957. Here's how Schmidt got Trtbww pl)OH ARTIST'S DRAWING OF FLYING SAUCER AS DESCRIBED BY REINHOLD O. SCHMIDT And a challenging tale of little green people, gold and miraculous mineral Sir Winston to a small boat a formal nature on the agenda (for Churchill. He lunched aboard the yacht with a group that included United Nations Burglar Becomes ONCE AROUND THE WORLD for the trip ashore. Later it was announced Churchill will leave tomorrow for London on a Pan American World Airways flight.

tide was running three feet above normal, and there were winds up to 35 miles an hour with continuous rainfall. Lost in His Work I LOS ANGELES, April 13- fUPT Willie L. Thomas, 23, got lost in the five-story ware-i house he was trying to burgle, police reported last night. "I couldn't find my way $5,000 from Mrs. Newcomb, I Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

"This is a very great man who has been the conscience of freedom in his time and who is now in the sunset of life and is entitled to the privacy that he has earned in these years of endeavor," Stevenson told newsmen later. Ethiopian Troops Kill 100 Somalis Sir Winston arrived yester down." he told police who found him hiding on the roof, day from a Caribbean cruise according to King: Mrs. Newcomb met Schmidt at one of his lectures in Oakland. She became interested in a' mine bearing "pre-ener-gizing" crystals after he displayed what he called a sample of the material. She MOGADISCIO, Somalia, April 13 (UPD Ethiopian port said the victims included the Ethopian district gover-1 nor.

if 11 gave Schmidt $2,000 to buy troPs usinS machineguns and the mine. i bombs nave Kiiieq more man 100 Somalis in Ethiopia near GREEN PEOPLE New Crisis Threatens ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, April 13 UPD United Nations troops here were told to the French Somali and inde pendent Somalia borders, ac About three weeks later, Schmidt returned and told her he was just back from a trip to Alaska aboard a flying saucer from Venus and recounted stories of little green people, Geiger counters and night to snoot if necessary should the Katangese stage new demonstrations to force the release of 32 white mercenaries captured in a battle early this week. Rumors grew that the demonstrations may come soon possibly tonight. But U.N. other special equipment.

He told the woman that with the cording to delayed reports reaching here today. Other shooting incidents involving; Ethiopian troops and Somalis were reported from other areas in a renewal of violence that first broke out along the ill-defined frontiers three months ago. A group of 92 Somali refugees from the Ethiopian town of Dagahbur reached Har- Tribum phots JUST BACK FROM TRIP IN FLYING SAUCER TO ALASKA? Reinhold O. Schmidt holds sample from his "mine" New Rocket Motor Shown to Public special equipment he had discovered the richest vein of gold ever found in Alaska. Why Take Less than AIL THIS for YOUR Savings? Highest interest on insured savings: 4lA yearly, more by far than offered by 3 "daily interest'' accoun ta.

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA'S LAROKST Schmidt told Mrs. NewcomD that for $3,000 he would lo cate the claim and put it in Force, multi- SUNNYVALE, April 13-A secretary of the Air fiiil-scai model of a new i helped dedicate the million dollar center. The de officials believed any riots were more likely to take place over the weekend. The Katanga government of Moise Tshombe continued to build pressure on the United Nations by announcing that "all sanctions are now back in force." The United Nations confirmed that the Albertville and Manono airports have been closed to U.N. traffic.

But a spokesman said the world body plans to send in test supply planes, "possibly tomorrow." velopment, he said, underscores industry's recognition of its role in space explora tion. mvESTons PIGEJEEE1 SAFETY smnnGS Former Governor Dies in Hawaii their names. Three weeks later he returned to tell her he had gone to Alaska to file the claim but was told he would have to establish residence for six months. He explained he used her $3,000 to buy a house trailer and hire an Eskimo to live in it to make the claim legal. IN BAKERSFIELD Schmidt was found living well in the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield.

Inspector King, asked by a reporter in Bakersfield how he intended to return with Schmidt to Oakland, replied: "Maybe we'll go up in a flying saucer with little green men." SINCE 1SSS geisa, in former British Somalia, and reported the massacre. They said that on April 4 a large force of Ethiopian soldiers marched on Dagahbur and razed the Somali section of the city after Somali leaders had asked the district governor for independence. News also reached here today of another incident at Aisha in east central Ethiopia near the Somali border. On March 26, according to the reports, a group of Ethiopian officials got into an argument in a bar. A hand grenadebelieved tossed by Somalis exploded and eight persons were killed.

One re AND LOAN ASSOCIATION HONOLULU. April tt-W- solid-fuel rocket motor was displayed for the first time to the public today by United Technology Corp. at the dedication of its Research and Engineering Center. The segmented motor, 40 feet high and 10 feet in diameter at the base, is capable of producing 250,000 pounds of thrust. The rocket will be test fired this summer and will be the initial step in the development of a family of low-cost boosters to poer vehicles into space.

Joseph V. Charyk, Under- nAVIAkin U.ABTUII! RlUlt TCirlDADU AVE I Ingram M. Stainback, 77, gov ernor of Hawaii from 1942 411 Fifteenth St Glencourt 1-7893 7622 MacArthvr Blvd. NEptune 8-7736 4303 Telegraph Ave. Olympic 3-7450 HAYWARD FRUITVALE SAN LEANDRO 22533 Foothill Blvd.

LUcema 2-J822 3212 Fourteenth St. KEIIof 3-3492 1601 E. Fourteenth NEptuni l-Wll 1951, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. Stain-back, who was born in Somer-ville, and came to Erlander Goes Home STOCKHOLM, April 13 (UPD Swedish Premier Tage Erlander returned last night from his visit to the United States. Erlander and his wife flew from Los Angeles.

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