The Yuma Daily Sun from Yuma, Arizona • Page 1

THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK JONIS What happend on March 1, 1032' that date, a 19-month-old ba by was kidnapped from hia par ents' home near Hopewell, 10 weeks later, the tin body, reduced almost to a skele ton, was found In a thicket near roadway. fewer lhan five miles from the baby's home. '-'That baby was Charles Llnd btrgh, son of the worM-fanv i ous kidnapping brought about the enactment of the Lindbergh Law, which permits the FBI to enter, the case after seven days op. the, assumption that thfc hostage has been taken across a state line. now, 21 years later, the body of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease of City has been found.

a cruel scheme to extract money from distraught parents! But the family would gladly have pjlid the half-million--even more-to have youngster returned safe and sound. Law enforcement officers, I'm sure, were begged to stay away from the case. But they MUST allowed in, we are to catch the criminals 1 and punish them. One half'million- dollar successful kidnapping is e- hough to set off a whole series of others. There, will be If any, misgivings the killers of the greenlease child are required to p.ay the extreme penalty for their monstrous crime.

will be if any mis jlvings in'the hearts of even the most Christian and forgiving souls when the. killers of the Greenlease child are requied to pay the ex treme'penalty for their monstrous crime. Kidnaped Boy Found Dead at St. Joseph, Missouri IA 4 fS v'i 1 A A I Printed Wednesday Afternoon YUMA SUN-VOLUME 49--NUMBER 236 IS PASES YUMA, ARIZONA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7.

1953 PER COPY 7c ARIZONA SENTINEL-- VOLUME 88--NUMBER 236 Ask for River lsl goon Recreation A SUSPECTS CONFESS: Child Is Slain Before $600,000 Paid Television Goes On Air Over Yuma tetUHiKIYA-TY Yuma" County Association-announced this morning thatV.television has arrived in Yuma. A "nuke" test pattern was arid received by four local Yuma people afternoon. The fact that this was classi- fied.as a "fluke" meanfthat the signal that will eventually emam ate from KIVA-TV will be sent put from the 480-foot tower, the signal that' was picked up yesterday was sent from only a two inch prod, a comparatively small equipment. It was a light -pattern, very difficult to 'distinguish but four of the callers were able to describe it satisfactorily to IOVA. This is in ny way-any indication of what the viewers of Yuma may expect in the future it will be a clear, strong, and distinct picture, according to Jack Fleet, chief engineer.

contest committee oj the -Yuma County TV Dealers Association met this morning at aji emergency meeting to break down the prize groupings for the first five winners. After calling KTVA, the people' that first see the pattern must write a letter to KIVA stating exactly what they sw on their screens. Judges from the Yuma County TV Association wjll judge the letters and winners will be announced in a few. days. Those in attendance today were: Chairman of the Association, Hugh Faulds; contest chairman, Paige; Ellis Crane.

Max Kumler and Jack Fleet of KTVA. the test pattern should be picked up by more viewers as the signal will be sent out with more power. KANSAS --(IB--The i e-day-o 1 Bobby Greenlease ildnap case came to a crashing nd today with discovery of his de- omposed body in a shallow grave St. Joseph, and the arrest two persons in St. Louis.

Breaking with staggering d- enness, the report that the six- ear-old boy's body had been found rere denied by local law cnforce- lent authorities in St. Joseph. Within minutes, the Federal Bu- eau of Investigation here and in Vashington confirmed the discov- ry. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov- in Washington identified the vo under arrest in St.

Louis as. arl Austin Hall, 37, and Bonnie Heady, 41. Dr. Donald Black said the father "had' a brief Interval of collapse, but has regained his composure." He administered no sedative, either to the father or the mother. In St.

Louis, it was learned that police and FBI agents arrested Hall in his room at the Congress Hotel room. Mrs. Heady was picked up at an Arsenal Street address. A snub-nosed .38 revolver was found in Hall's room. Police also found of'the $600,000 ransom money 'in room.

Like Lindbergh Case The case was shockingly similar to the Lindbergh which the present kidnap law" grew. Charles Augustus 19-month-ol4 son the famous flier, was. kidnapped March i near HopewelJ, N. Ransom I was paid but when the boy's body was found.it had been reduced almost to a skelleton. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the crime which occurred March 1, 1932.

Hoover also disclosed that Bobby's father, Robert C. Greenlease, 71 year old millionaire Cadillac dealer here, had paid 5600,000 ransom. He said a great portion of the money, had been recovered. Hoover indicated that perhaps the boy had been murdered, before the ransom had been paid. He had been shot.

Meager details of the negotiations were disclosed here shortly after the tragic news announced. Newsmen tolled Robert Ledterman, Tulsa, and Norbert O'Neill. Kansas City, both partners of Greenlease in the automobile business, called newsmen to the lawn of the Greenlease mansion in suburban Mission Hills, Kan. Ledterman said that he and O'Neill were the contacts with the kidnapers for the family. He said the money, in cash, was-paid "on a bridge" somewhere Kansas City and St.

Louis at a. m. Monday, Oct. 5. Hoover quoted Hall as admitting that he the boy.

The body was found behind a residence own-' ed -by Heady at 1201 South SS.th'St;., The-body was decomposed, according'to the FBI." Hoover named Hail the one who handled letters demanding Jie $600,000 Ex-Convict Implicated The two in custody in St. Louis, the FBI said, implicated Thomas John Marsh, 37, who was released from the Missouri Penitentiary years ago after serving a two- year term on a charge of molesting a child. Mrs. Heady has a criminal Hall was paroled from the Missouri Prison last April 24 from a five-year robbery sentence. More than a week ago, on Monday, Sept.

28, at 11 a. m. CST a plump, 35-year-old, auburn hair ed woman hailed taxicab at a South Kansas City business district and ordered the dirver to the ex elusive "Catholic day school, the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion a short distance away where Bobby was in the primary grade. Ordering the taxi to wait, the woman told a nun that she was Bobby's aunt, that his mother had suffered a heart attack while shopping, and that she had come to take him home. The woman re-entered the cab 20 minutes later with -the unsus.

peeling boy and went to a South- wide drugstore parking lot. From there they were believed to have driven away in a late model Ford bearing Kansas license plates. was not until an hour later that the nuns telephoned" Greenlease home to inquire to their horror, she was not 111. Mrs. Greenlease answered the phone.

City Council Will Give Land for New Armory The proposed new armory build- sor' Jr. was Instructed to meet ng for Yuma took a big step for- vard "yesterday when the city council indicated that.it would be villing to give up 27 feet of land directly west of the present Na- ional Guard site. State' Sen. HWoid Giss asked hat council act on the request with Tucson and Phoenix National Guard officials to go over plans with them. The council also asked Winsor'to meet with local Yuma organizations who would be interested in'helping to plan the building.

Sen. Giss said that it might be used as a basketball court a that various organizations would mmediately since speed was im-1 be interested in adding features perative if the city was to get the which would make it more useful. building. He told the' council that the land was needed in order that an adequate building could be built and still meet National Guard standards. The additional land would allow the construction of a two-unit armory which would have an auditorium with between 7200 and 9000 square feet of floor Sen.

Giss said that the funds were now available for this building and that Yuma had a high priority if it acted quickly. Plans were shown to the council and Sen. Giss. added that it might be possible to even enlarge on them. City engineer Mulford Win- Funds for the- building will come from the federal government and the state.

The'government in three parts to one part for the state. Local organizations could add other funds to make additions to the building. Adult Education Classes Get Under Way at Yuma High Day and night education was in full swing at the Yuma Union High School last night as two new University of Arizona classes got under way. Dr. Victor Kelly and Dr.

Marion McGhehey, both University professors, opened classes in Snider Hall in "Teaching of Language Arts" and "History and Philoso- phy of Education." The first course Imes and that the home owners LIQHTS UP The first traffic signal Is shown being put In place at 3rd street and 4th avenue yesterday. All tour signals were In place by the end of the day and workmen from Reese Elec- tric were busy today connecting uji the wires. The lights may go into use tomorrow. The long- awaited signals have the trip connected with them so that traffic will move more ly across the side streets. (Sun StaH Photo)'.

Map Will Of Sewer Bond Issue How to sell the forthcoming sewer bond issue to the people of Yuma received considerable atten- ion in the city council meel yesterday. State Sen. Harold Giss told the council that the Coordinating Council, in a meeting Sunday, had felt was imperative that the should know everything edly. He said that many persons who voted against the sewers dur- ing the 1948 bond election, actually ting needed sewers. "They Just didn't hat it people about the ultimate costs of the project before the election.

To that end, Sen. Giss asked that the council have a map prepared showing the logical sewer improvement districts which would hook up all the indididual homes to the trunk had 30 persons enrolled, while the second met with eight persons. Both are required courses for teaching credentials. Dr. Robert Nugent, vice presi- i be advised as to what the ultimate cost of the hookups would be to them individually.

James B. Rolle, chairman of the city sewer commission, Licensed To Wed Licensed to wed Oct. 6th B. McLay, clerk of the su perior court, were. Paul W.

Berg er, Oakland, and Ji dith Tracy, 47, of Yuma; and Con rad C. Swope, 21, of Yates City Kansas and Joan M. Swayze, 19 of Yuma. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK: Free Press Is the Keystone of Our Liberties, Yuma Elks Leaders State all our American liberties, and must combat efforts to restric 1 this freedom, local and nationa leaders of the Benevolent and Pro- Order of Elks have de- tective clared. A free jress keystone ing the independent press of our commun)ty and nation." Demanded by People Earl E.

James, grand, exalted ruler of the fraternal order, issued a statement on the observance In which he "The provision for freedom of the press was not included In the original Constitution adopted bv the 13 states. It is significant that the guarantee of a free press was one of the specific guarantees demanded b. the people, and added to the Constitution' in the first 10 amendments, which make up our Bjll. of Rights. They realized then, as too niany fail to realize today, that a press that was free to seek out and publish the truth was indispensable to the protection of all liberties, a safeguard against tyranny and corruption and" a for the successful conduct of self-government.

"Experience has confirmed their wisdom, and yet, In recent years, we have seen an increasing num- L-r of attempts tc whittle away his vital freedom. Public officials, local, state and national, here md there have attempted to withhold public information from Uw And they suit their actions to their words tonight with their I traditional dinner in observance of National Newspaper Week, with some 20 local newspaper, ra- dio and TV men as guests of the I lodge. Joe Quinn, United Press war correspondent, will be the princi- pal speaker. Slogan of this year's i nationwide observance is, "An In- formed press means an informed people." exalted ruler of Yuma lodge of Elks, has declared: "Our grand exalted ruler has declared that a free press'is the keystone of American liberties, ind asked all Elks lodges to join in observing National Newspaper Week in order to strengthen tho nrinclpli of a free press and to Jombat efforts to restric'' tiit.i freedom. "We strongly support ttiia stand, tod in aalut- press.

State and city lawmakers sought to enact legislation to restrict the freedom of the press, or to handicap it in its mission of keeping the people informed. Censorship necessary to the national security has been misused to conceal negligence and wrong-doing. CHIienn Who Suffer "The real victims ol any attempt to curb freedom of the press are the people, and all such attempts ale directed not at the press, but at the people, their liberty, their right to know and be informed. "Instead of restricting the press, must -make sure that It has the widest freedom to inquire into the public business and to report to the people. The people everywhere must make It clear that they will not tolerate the slightest infringement of this "precious freedom.

"I earnestly hope that every Lodge of Elks will Join in the ob- icrvance of National Newspaper Week, to support the press of its community in upholding to the fullest the American principle of I press," dent of the University of Arizona, "greed with Sen. Giss wholeheart- accompanied the professors opening evening. Registrations for the two college classes will be accepted for the last time next Tuesday evening. Tn another part of the high school last night a class in electricity was started under William Barnum, of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

This class is being presented jointly by the electricians' union and the State Department of Vocational Another adult education class is being conducted carpenter understand the issues and what it would ultimately cost them," he said. The council felt that this was a fine idea and instructed. City Engineer 'Mulford Winsor, to see what could be" done about the matter. Winsor said.that he-was going to Phoenix this week and that he would with the engineering firm of Hadman. Ferguson and Carollo.

He indicated a a map could be prepared in the near future and that, although the costs could not be pinpointed on a cer-i tain amount, they could be esimat- ed closely so that it might be possible to quote a figure of "say $175 to $200 per owner spread over a ten-year period." Interview Tonight Will Get Nationwide Airing Facts Forum State of the Nation, the weekly Governor-interview radio program will visit Phno, j. fi. ijiiuiutv, i uiiia, Phoenix this week to interview etrist, opened the argument for Arizona Governor Howard Pyle the squatters by'saying that he about. Anwnno'c nni i 1 t. City To Make A Tentative Application Yuma City Council has voted to contact the Bureau of Reclamation with a tentative application to a whether it can'obtain possession of a 150-acre "island" and lagoon in the Colorado river for use as a recreational area.

The council voted yesterday to take the action upon request of the Yuma County Chamber I Commerce, and desnite strong objections from a Yuma optometrist, Dr. P. A. Birdick. who appeared to protest any such action.

The Council was urged to make application for the recreation site by the Chamber, which reported that when channelization of the twisting Colorado river is completed, a loO-acre island and lagoon will have been created just upstream from the highway bridge over the river, in the vicinity of Harsh Airport. Osborn, president of the Chamber, appeared before Council to ask that consideration be given the request. Two Conditions Two conditions were agreed upon by the City Council, In taking steps to investigate the acquisition of the (1) "That the city" wbuljijivWffcs a determination of federal' policy with regard to the selling of. federal domain lands to "squatters" who have investments in such lands; and (2) That the city would make its request subject to the findings of the California-Arizona Boundary Commission which is studying state boundaries along the Dr. P.

A. Birdick, Yuma optom- about Arizona's opinions on the current state of the nation as a vhole. As spokesman for had farmed the land in question for three yars and that he would "appreciate it if the people of cil) would leave you (the coun- me alone." He training Meeting in Carpenter's Hall. Monday and Tuesday nights the class is instructed Jon Van Goethem. bv Rites Thursday at 2 for Wm.

R. Steen Public in Uproar Over Radio Call From 'Spaceman' NEW YORK (U.B A telephone caller claiming to be "from outer space' 1 interrupted a local radio show this morning and sent the listening public into one of the Thursday at 2 p. Arizona, Governor Pyle will be declared that he keeps 27 head of a on and and (hat had spent thousands of dollars improving the land. He said that he had purchased the squatters rights to the land in 1951 and that the land he was farming was worth $300 an acre to him. Dr.

Birdick remarked that somebody had been misinformed as to the number of acres available in the area. He stated that, at most, there was only a 25-acrc tract a- about national and in- ernational problems by two of the tate's leading newsmen, Paul Gribben, news editor of the-Ariona Radio Network, and Bill Turnbow, political staff writer for the Phoenix Gazette. The pro- Tam win be broadcast nationally ver the Mutual Network tonight at 8:30 p.m. Yuma time on KYMA. Facts Forum State of the Nation, which has already broadcast Page One Rites Thursday IS Funeral services for William cause of American freedom be- Ralph Steen, 50, who was killed in i ca se a well informed public an automobile accident in New' i i 'U insist on the correct Mexico last Saturday will be con- future" determinin ducted by the Yuma Elks Lodge Facts Forum is a non-partisan at the Johnson Mortuary Chapel! non-political organization dedicat- from eight different states visits' vaililble He also brought up the a new state each week so that fact that the claimed the A same land and that they were working towards acquiring title.

Intend to Buy "We (the squatters) are ith- want is what we are doing there and that Americans everywhere can have the opportunity of what their fellow citizens throughout the country are thinking. Facts Forum believes that by bringing trying to get something for no America these weekly "grass-1 in he insisted. "We just wa root" opinions, it furthers the 'ght to buy the land. That is why we are farming the land and spending all that money for." Under questioning by Councilman J. B.

Bailey and City Attorney John B. Wisely, Dr. Birdick stated that the government was biggest spins since Orson Wells panicked the country with his "Men from i years ago. Mars" broadcast 15 The caller's warning to "earthmen" to cease preparations for war "or your planet will be annihilated" sent hundreds of panicky listeners to their telephones to try to find out what they had heard. it was an- i ed to the Purpose of making avail- not kel to seU 'and to the nortuarv Inter t0 the general uatt if the city put a strong noituarj.

Inter- maUon concerning national and Clalm Wlth much pres- IT, rioem-h T.iiiT, ckilu nounced at the- m. ment will follow in Desert Lawn Memorial Park. i -Born in Texas, Nov. 19, 1903,1 he resided in the Yuma Valley i for many He left recently 'for Eagle Nest, New where he was employed on a sheep (Cont. on Page 2.

Col. 3) New -York Telephone Company of- ranch owned by Roy Young, also Garbage Collection Change Is Debated by City Council ficials immediately placed tracers on the call. Jinx Falkenburg and her husband, Tex McCrary, were interviewing Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (Ret.) of the U.S.

Marines 3 about his new book "Flying Sau- 1 cers from Outer their breakfast show at the Waldorf- Astoria when they received the call through a hotel switchboard. A spokesman for the Tex and Jinx Show said the mysterious caller phoned the McCrary's lavish Manhasset, N. home, using an unlisted number, five minutes before he called the Waldorf and repeated the call after the broadcast. a former Yuman. system in the city or not to change Surviving are the widow, Thel- the garbage collection system was ma, two sons, William, and lh subject of much debate in the Jesse J.

Steen. all of Yuma; two cit council meeting yesterday daughters, Mrs. Noreen Collom of A proposal of the Yuma Sanita- Comptson, and Patricia Fay tion Service to take the garbage the garbage collection, couldn't see 'where it would save 101 Jack The Weather Highest yesterday Lowest 66 Temperature at 11 a. m. today 91 Relative humidity at 11 a.

m. Average high this date 94 Average low this date 67 FORECAST Thursday night: today through Thursday. Little change in temperature. Expected high today 101 degrees. Steen of Yuma; three brothers, Jesse of Yuma, Lewis 6f Bishop, and Walter of Tucson; four sisters, Mrs.

Irene Graham of Apache Creek, N. Mrs. Myrtle Hudson of Gallup, N. Mrs. Ora Shannon of Phoenix, and Mrs.

Frankie Jones of Douglas, and eight grandchildren. Viewing hours at the mortuary will be from 7:00 to 8:30 tonight. Building Permits Two building permits were Issued Oct. 6th by W. W.

city building inspector. F. Hogue received a permit to remodel a bedroom at 770 8th avenue to cost. SSOO; R. E.

Klein received a permit to add a rarport at 7th avenue to S250; on Oct. 7th. Clifford Brown received a permit to add two rest rooms at 1C6 M. Main to cost $1,000, I collection job off the city's hands received i comment. Joe Mansfield, Yuma attorney appearing for W.

V. Estes of the Sanitation Service, explained the advantages of the new proposal. Mansfield declared that the city could have its garbage picked up for less money and still save the costs of the trucks if it accepted the Sanitation Service proposal. He said that the city would remain in complete control of the collections and that the service would have to be performed to the complete satisfaction of the street superintendent. The service would put up a performance bond and would make twice a week collections to the homes and daily service to commercial establishments.

Mayor Opirast'H Mayor W. J. Anderson sold that he did not think the proposal would be of benefit to the city. He salrl that the city Is now making three times a woek pickups and, that he any money. Councilman J.

B. Bailey said that he felt that the garbage collections were not costing too much money and that he would like to sec the city get out of the garbage business. A Yuma citizen, Tom Rushin, stepped up to ask if the Yuma Sanitation Service was the same outfit that was now coitcning outside the city limns. Assured that it was, Rushin said that he Imd heard many complaints concerning the service and that he had many people say that one of the reasons for gcting in the city wns lo get the garbage collection service that the city now offers. Called on to explain the difference between the proposed service and that that the city now gives, City Engineer Mulford Winsor, slated that the city collects thrca -Imes a week as compared to Ihe proposed two times and that city will pick up grass not in containers am! tree llmui of any ulze.

Decision Following a discuasli.u thin, the council took the mnllcr under (Cont, oh Page 2, Col, 41.