The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 7

AUGUST 5, 1952 Woman Says Suicide Effort Was Part Of Publicity Stunt for 'Politician' CATtK.) TOTJTirRK NKWS By 21, mother of two children, said ifi A young yesterday she was offered -SftOO to mother who was reported bent on'fake the Jump attempt because inamnu a suicide leap from sixlh Maynard H. "Snuffy" Smith hero floor letlfic last Thursday now says jot World Wni II. wanted publicitv newhole thing was a hoax lo gel, in his campaign for governor of publicity for (he medal of honor I Virginia. winner credited with savins her. Assistant Corporation Counsel Mrs.

Ernestine i.nHlle Whomble, 1 Clark King promptly charged ONE MAN proudh display om the paintings he executed Uunns vacation at the Rocky ranch of old friend, Aksel Nielsen, led among them was a portrait Nielsen. Among the other "early E'en- bowers were pamtmw of local landscapes and an Indian head, cooled from a calendar. Michigan Polls Open at 7 am, Fair Chance Seen To Unseat Moody DETROIT Mv-Around a million Michigan voters chose today between a thousand candidates' seek- In nominations lor national, jtate nnrl local offices in Republican and Democratic, primaries. Partly cloudy to fair. weather prevailed.

Polls opened al 7 a.m. They offl- close at 8 p.m. (EST) through- ijiml, the slate, but everywhere authorities have promised that anyone in line at closinE time allowed lo vole regardless of when he reaches a booth. Secretary of St.ile Fred predicted a turnout of 1.050.000 voters. Other experts predicted from 650.000 to one million.

Alpcr, himself a candidate-for Ihe GOP gubernatorial nomination, forecast /BO.OflO would vote In the Republican primary He said he based this estimate on "heated contests." including his own. and strenuous gct-out-the-vote drive, 1 throughout the state. Michigan's primary voting record was set in 1932, when 1,047,000 ballots were cast. Missourians Have Their Say Symington Opposes Choice of Truman ST. LOUIS (IP, Missouri voters had their say today after a bitter primary election campaign in which President Truman gain took e.

part. The state's No. 1 citizen openly endorsed only one pleasant. Gen. J.

Buck Taylor for the Democratic nomination for tl. s. senator. Truman planned to vote at his home town of Independence around 10 a.m. (EST) then return to Washington.

fri a senatorial primary Turf fn 1950 Truman came out for Emerv i JIIII.HLIJIL W. Allison of Holla, then a state! whom lo back. Smith with making false report to police and firemen. A similar charge was filed against Roland I Bennett, described as Interested in i furthering Smith's political fortunes. Smith.

41, ajid Bennett. 37, fellow employes in a radio shop. Smith could not be reached for comment. Bennett said. "There Is not a grain of truth In what this younp lady ha.s said." Smith's wife said it was "ridiculous to say Snuffy is planning lo run lor governor" and said she.

doubted there had been a boax. Uut she added: "Snuffy is a darins lypp of fellow who might be tallied into something like that." who won Ihe nation's highest military award for single- handedly bringing a burning Ply- iiiH Portress and Us wounded crew members safely across the English Channel, been involved with the law before. In 19-18 he pleaded guilty lo a charpce of violating food and drug laws by inlsbrandlng a "rejuvenation" ciciim which he sold to an elderly Virginia mna. Kins said Smilli and Bennell considered Mrs. Whomble a "natural" for the (nked suicide attempt because her five months old daughter bad died a few days before.

According lo Mrs. Whomble'B signed report. Bennett made the first suggestion that she fake a suicide. She said she told her husband, a taxi driver, about It and he Iried to dissuade her. But she said she went ahead anyway because she feared Bennett.

She said she wanted to back out at the last minute but Bennett had waited below the YWCA building "to see (hat I did It 1 while Smiih would be on the sixth floor "to see that I went through with She climbed out on the narrow ledge, and smith followed. A photograph of the incident shows her apparently being pinned by Smith on the ledge. "What's really happening is that trying to get back inside the building by walking past him and he's trying to block me. I was scared to dealh," she said. At tba time.

Smith gave newspapers long accounl of his appeals to the woman lo give up thought of sucidie. He said he urged her to think of her two children still living. Baruch to Wait And See on Vote NEW TORK Bernard Baruch to see which presidential candidate "hat thr greater wisdom and fortitude lo, beat Inflation" he decides senator. Thomas Allison was O. Henniiigs beaten the adviser to In i Jr.

of St.j wo wan adds that the abil- Louis, who went, on to defeat Re-' to halt Inflation In posjewed C. Donnell Dwfgnt D. Elsenhower und Adlai Stevenson. "Words alone won't do it." Bimich opposed bv Stuart Symington ot i 5a 5 "It "ill takp fortitude, publican Sen. Forrest that.

November. Truman's choice (his Hiw "vas Louis, a one-time key man In the Truman administration. 5 Die In Train Crash i Five PEMBROKE, Out Kanmnt Today TOPEKA. KM. If, voted today in primary election enlivened mally by Republican lieutenant governorship content that may have bearing on future po- lraln C.

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