Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

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There Are No Such Insists Air orce After Eight Years of Study WASHINGTON Oct 25 (IP) The Air orce wound up an eight year study of flying saucers today by concluding there is no such thing But it alerted the public to expect radical new planes soon that could give the of being Air Secretary Donald A Quarles said an investigation of almost 5000 sight ings produced evidence of the existence of the popularly termed flying He made public a 316 page book summarizing the inquiry However Quarles noted that several new planes of radical design now are in the works and cautioned that are now entering a period of avia tion technology in which air craft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics wall begin to He said new planes will rise vertically without benefit of runway and will zoom away in level supersonic flight pos sibly giving illusion of the so called flying Quarles took the wraps off an Air orce contract with Avro Ltd of Canada to pro duce what has been popularly described as a flying saucer The Air orce conceded the Avro vehicle result in disc shaped aircraft somewhat to the public concept of a flying saucer Quarles also announced that the Air first jet powered vertical rising air plane will fly from Edwards Air orce Base Calif in a few days It is a delta wnnged ship built by Ryan Aeronautical Corp San Diego Calif Quarles pointed out that other countries also can de velop such planes His state ment recalled a recent report that planes' of weird shape and performance had been sighted Strip Tease High Above City Street NEW YORK Oct 25 A pretty former WAC and missionary staged a striptease on a fire escape five floors above an upper Manhattan street today Her performance delighted scores of passersby Police said Miss Eleanor Casazza 40 announced the act by crawling out on the fire escape and hurling a barrage of bottles to the street As a crowd collected she be gan removing her clothes one garment at a time Two policemen summoned by a neighbor crept up behind Miss Casazza on the fire escape and pulled her back in her apartment just as she was about to remove her last gar ment She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation WilTSbe Wed? Princess Mum Question Dodged By Eden LONDON Oct 25 Prin cess Margaret with the help of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden kept her secret today about whether she would marry Group Capt Peter Townsend A responsible London Conserv ative newspaper said she would But Eden ducked a direct ques tion in Commons The Princess saw Townsend and speculation grew that the pretty Princess has been unable to up her mind One informed source said it may be before a disclo sure is made Could Tell It Eden who would be party to any royal decision had a chance to reveal where heart lay when he appeared at the open ing session of parliament after the summer recess On the docket was question 61 submitted by Laborite Marcus Lipton who represents part of the Lambeth district where the Archbishop of Canterbury an op ponent of the marriage lives Lipton had presented a ques tion demanding to know whether the government intended to can cel or amend the royal marriage act of 1772 which requires legis lation in the event of a marriage in the royal family Teases Them Eden tantilized the packed chamber by answering questions printed on a sort of score card up to number 59 Then after some remarks about the defense ministry he terminated the ques tion and answer period What seemed like a sigh spread through the room The prime minister is hot required now to answer the question but may reply in writing at a time of his choosing Suspect Cleared By Lie Detector CHICAGO Oct 25 Police said tonight a lie detector test cleared a man who witnesses said had been seen in the com pany of one of three young murdered boys However Lt Patrick Deeley said the man Charles Dahlquist a 33 year old golf caddy would be held for further questioning Dahlquist was the first man picked up last week after the nude bodies of Robert Peterson 13 John Schuessler 13 and his brother Anton 11 were found in Robinson woods last Tuesday A lie test given to him then was inconclusive by tribesmen on the Afghanis tan Russian border The flying saucer study called Project Blue Book and dating to mid 1947 showed that the Air orce is now able to identify as balloons air craft astronomical bodies or other objects all but three per cent of the so called flying saucers Those three per cent still are listed as the basis of this study we believe that no objects By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK Oct 25 Arthur Godfrey today fired his former right hand man pro ducer Larry Puck and two others Puck had fallen from favor with the boss last December when he became engaged to Marion Marlowe the titian hared singer Godfrey fired in April The other employes who got the axe today in the latest of a series of sudden shakeups in radio and television family were Jerry Bresler musical conductor of Talent Scouts and announcer George Bryan Puck had been co pro ducer of Talent Scouts God evening program Like La Rosa The dismissals followed much the same pattern of surprise which accompanied the firing of 16 other The most spectacular was that of singer La' Rosa in October 1953 La Rosa was dismissed during a television program with no notice Puck sealed his doom when he announced his engagement a source close to the Godfrey programs said The sultry Miss Marlowe was fired by Godfrey on last April 15 and married Puck on May 6 duties with the God frey family have been whittled down steadily since December when Godfrey let him go as produce! of the morning show such as those popularly de scribed as flying saucers have flown over the United Quarles said are satis fied at this time that none of the sightings of so called fly ing saucers reported in this country were in fact aircraft of foreign The Air orce study added that there was a of any evidence of physi cal matter in any of the re ported but kept him on for the Talent Scouts program was kind of the informant said it was only shortly before then that Godfrey had described Puck as 'the most valuabe man I have in my Puck the source said had been a kind of general manager in charge of the complete God frey operations before Decem ber The source said that Bresler was given the heave ho today because he' had acted as piano accompanist and arranger for Miss Marlowe in her night club engagements after Godfrey fired her was the innocent party in the the in formant said was a kind of smokescreen as the Mariners were in the Marion Marlowe The source said that outsitfe activities of such performers as Miss Marlowe was the cause of their firing He described God frey as a kind of patriarch who liked to keep a tight control ever the activities of his brood Godfrey fired five other top performers and three writers when he let Miss Marlowe go in a mass dismissal appparently designed to halt a nosedive in radio television rat ing The Talent Scouts pro gram which ranked second in the nation with a Nielson rat ing of 580 in March 1953 had fallen to a rating of 237 in latest figures and was not listed among the top 25 shows Stubborn amily Clings to Home Despite Cave In NATO Backs Peace Plan POTTSVILLE Pa Oct 25 (UR) determined nosky family decided today to remain the in their home which is threatened by a gaping cave in that continued to rumble only 100 feet away The huge crater stretching 100 feet in diameter and 100 feet wide appeared as a three foot wide hole yesterday and expanded rapidly The Chemosky home occu pied by Mrs Bridget Chernos ky her two grown sons and her sister is located nearest the edge of the yawning cave in Three other homes also are en dangered ire Chief Stewart Row lands who said the cave in could sink as deep as 800 feet said the Chernoskys spent a sleepless night Chemosky sleep a wink thinking about that cave Rowlands said When asked why they just move out until they were sure the cave in had halted Rowlands replied in the coal regions stick to the Scores of persons flocked to the scene today to see the huge hole appears to be fol lowing the lines of the aban doned Primrose anthracite vein Rowlands put up ropes to keep the curious a safe distance from the edge Sounds of earth movements and tons of dirt shifting and falling could be heard coming from deep inside the crater but Rowlands said he thought the cave in would not expand But Study Stalls Plan to Talk On Mid East PARIS Oct 25 The 15 nation NATO alliance gave backing today to the pack age peace program the Western Big Three will offer Russia at the Geneva conference Before giving their approval however the little NATO part ners examined the proposals at such length that they threw the Big Three foreign pro gram off schedule Too Much Time Sk Secretary of State John oster Dulles rench oreign Minister Antoine Piriay and Brit ish oreign Secretary Harold MacMillan spent so much time with the NATO foreign ministers they had to cancel plans for a meeting today on the explosive Middle East situation The insistence of the little pow ers to have their say brought sev eral minor changes in the draft of the Geneva plan But when the long session fin ally ended late today a British spokesman said was com plete Offer Trade The Big Three ministers won approval for their plan to offer Russia a 15 nation European se curity plan in exchange for Soviet agreement to a reunification of Germany While the leaders of the West ern nations met it was disclosed that: 1 Secretary of State Dulles would go to Yugoslavia Novem ber 6 to meet with Marshal Tito following the Geneva Big our talks He also will stop in Vienna en route the American Embassy said 2 Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov paid a mystery visit today on rench Premier Edgar aure The meeting was arranged at the request of the Soviet en voy but there was no explanation of the purpose of his visit Russell Hints Lausche Pick As Candidate WASHINGTON Oct 25 Sen Richard Russell (D Ga) said today Gov Erank Lausche of Ohio would make a Democratic presidential nom inee But he said he is com to Lausche or anyone else Russell a powerful voice among Southern Democrats mentioned Lausche as a possi bility for the 1956 Democratic nomination at a news conference following his return from a two month tour of Europe He described Lausche as a "middle of the who might be more acceptable to southern ers than other potential candi dates He said he considered other Democratic possibilities little far to the for southern tastes Russell an unsuccessful con tender for the 1952 nom ination said he did not want to apply his label to any spe cific candidate But he named Adlai Stevenson Gov Averell Harriman of New York and Sen Estes Kefauver (D Tenn) as the leading contenders Prison Toured by Newsmen As Cruelty Charge Refuted By ROBERT BENNYHO United Press Staff Correspondent CARSON CITY Nev Oct 25 Warden Art Bernard staged a to inspection of the state prison today to refute published charges the institutionwas a and other accusations that prisoners were subjected to inhuman cruelties Making the inspection were the members of the board of prison commissioners three legislators and a score of newsmen Members of the prison board included Gov Charles Russell Attorney General Harvey Dick erson and Secretary of State John Koontz Present also were Sen orest Lovelock of Reno and Assemblyman Bruce Bar num of Yerington chairmen re spectively of the senate and as sembly institutions committees and Assemblyman James Wood also of Reno Every corner of the prison was visited including or a row of solitary confinement cells in the basement of the prison ad ministration building The inspection tour 'followed publication of charges uy a Las Vegas newspaper (Review Jour nal) that four inmates subpoenaed as defense witnesses at the recent murder trial of three prisoners accused of causing the murder of a guard during a prison break a year ago had been thrown into solitary confinement as a reprisal measure The prison commissioners in vestigated the charge and report ed the prisoners were put into solitary confinement for staging a riotous demonstration the night after they appeared in court smashing toilet fixtures and light bulbs and causing a night long demonstration Display Damage The cells occupied by the pris oners were exhibited Broken por celain from the smashed toilet fix tures pieces of broken light bulbs and debris littered the aisle in front of the cells Bernard said he had given orders that the cell block in which the demonstration was staged be left just as it was until inspection tourw Before the tour began Bernard said press has always had a standing invitation to inspect the prison at any time or in any fash ion with or without advance no He said the Las Vegas news paper at various times prior to the most recent incident at the prison had described the insti tution as a that convicts were treated kids at a boarding and that the prisoners were running the institution After the murder trial inci dent he continued the same newspaper said prisoners were treated cruelly were not fed properly and that the prison was administered improperly Two representatives of the Re view Journal Chet Sobsey and Denver Dickerson were among newsmen making the tour When he was asked whether prisoners could be questioned the warden said they could be Not for Solitary But he said this did not apply to prisoners in solitary confine ment adding record speaks for To this Dickerson commented your word against Discussing various of the pris oners involved in the most recent incident Bernard said that one Don Gulvosen one of the trio acquitted of the murder charges had remarked after his arrival at the prison ran the Oregon state prison for three years and this tin can going to hold He read a letter from the warden of an Oregon prison who said Gulvosen had tried to escape incited riots and caused numerous disciplinary problems while serv ing a three year sentence there is one of the men who testified he was treated cruelly and tortured out the war den noted Committed Before Bernard said Gulvosen and his two fellow defendants Theodore Hinrichs and William Burman had been committed to solitary confinement for various offenses prior to their unsuccessful prison break The same was true of the four convicts called as witnesses at the murder trial Albert Smith Allen Gruchow William Brown and Charles Russell Newsmen saw all four of the latter plus a fifth con (See CONVICTS Page 9 Col 1) Mystery Prowler Plagues amily Vicious Attacks GRINNELL Iowa Oct 25 Police Chief Waldo Johnson called on all his crime fighting ex perience today to catch the unknown enemy who is waging a murderous vendetta against his own family The assailant had set fire to the bed of son while the 7 year old boy was sleeping in it and knocked his wife unconscious with an ax Johnson admitted he has no idea of the identity of the prowler who has twice invaded his home But he assumed the attacker was an unbalanced man who had a personal reason for hating him And he relied on "routine police to catch his enemy before he strikes again Both attacks occurred riday and were punctuated by a mys terious telephone call asking about the condition of the son At about 2 am riday Johnson and his wife were awakened by the screams of their son James They rushed to his room and found his bed in flames' Johnson snatched up his son who had suffered minor foot burns Then the police chief no ticed that the front door of nis home was open Hangs Up Phone Later that day when Mrs Johnson and the boy were alone in the house the telephone rang Mrs Johnson picked up the re ceiver and a man asked about the condition When she asked who was calling the man hung up Mrs Johnson then drove her son to school and the prowler was waiting for her when she re turned As she entered the kitchen someone struck her from behind with an ax Bloody Ax Recovering consciousness she called her husband Johnson rushed home to find a blood stained ax which he owned lying on the kitchen floor A chair was overturned and the back door was open There no other clues Mrs Johnson had suffered su perficial cuts and a bruise behind her right ear Both she and her son were in good condition and Johnson said today they had over come their initial fright In fact the Johnson family set an example of calmness to the rest of the town The police chief scorned to ask police protection from his own force But other townspeople were careful to lock their doors at night ind No Clues Johnson admitted he was in his investigation so far He has checked up on every un balanced person with whom he has had recent contact I find any tie he said In the meantime he ordered tests on his bedclothes to see how the fire was set and sub mitted'the ax for a fingerprint check live he said not going to scare Godfrey ires Top Aide Marion Marlowe's Hubby As Ax Hits Staff Again MAY I ifi is RxM Gov Goodwin Knight of Cali fornia is shown after he re ceived a sterling silver certifi cate of membership from the National Republican Club in New York He said that if President Eisenhower urged the nomination of Vice President Richard Nixon and if the latter was nominated for Pres ident he would support Nixon Knight told reporters that if Eisenhower would not seek re election he would file as a favorite son candidate armers Want Democrat Plan Must They Demand WORTHINGTON Minn 25 Several farmers demand ed at a Senate agriculture com mittee hearing today that Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra Benson and drew a burst of applause from about 400 farmers and small town businessmen The farmers spoke at the sec ond in (a series of nationwide ag riculture committee hearings to find out what farmers want writ ten into a new farm price support bill Another hearing is sched uled tomorrow at Des Moines la Taft Benson must Bert Bellig a fanner from Sanborn Minn told the com mittee He said he was tremely at Benson for lowering support Bellig said today was the piest of his life He said he never dreamed he would five minutes in which to blow my before a Senate committee He asked the senators to re store the old Democratic program of rigid supports at 90 per cent of parity on wheat cotton rice peanuts and corn He also asked the same protection on all important crops including per ishable products like hogs cattle and poultry ormosa Attack May Come Soon TAIPEI Oct 25 The Chinese Communists are putting the finishing touches on their military buildup in South China and may launch new attacks in the ormosa area much sooner than previously predicted ac cording to Nationalist Chinese reports The Nationalists say the Reds have massed from 250000 com bat troops plus reserves and militia units considerable naval strength a new tank corps and 1200 airplanes in coastal prov inces across from INNS SUED BAKERSIELD Calif Oct 25 (IP) An $8000 suit was filed today in superior court by Kern county against the flying inn twins who have engaged the federal government in a four year legal battle over possession of a 46 transport Stimulant Narcotics orbidden Labelled Menace To Trucking Industry By GWEN GIBSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Oct 25 The government today ordered the arrest of 42 persons in six states in a determined crack down on the illegal sale of "goof and other stimulant nar cotics to truck drivers and juveniles Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr announced the drive following a year long undercoyer investigation by agents of the ood and Drug Administration All those alleg edly sold narcotics to truck drivers ederal officials immediately began rounding up those named in the warrants Several arrests were made in North Carolina but officials in some other states in volved said they expected to seize the suspects tomorrow National Drive George Larrick food and drug' commissioner and other federal officials said the move was just the beginning of a nation wide effort to abolish the illegal sale of stimulant drugs Larrick said the narcotis com monly known as or are a menace to the trucking industry and partly are responsible for the growing juvenile delinquency rate The stimulants ampheta mines are used by some truck drivers to keep awake on long hauls They also have been used by youngsters for Larrick said the drugs are tremely when usedby persons unfamiliar with their effects Larrick said the investigation was started when the trucking industry requested the help to keep down the number of accidents resulting from the use of narcotics Heavy Penalty The warrants charge 42 per sons in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Illinois and Indiana with violating the federal food drug and cosmetics act by selling the narcotics with out a prescription Conviction carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $10000 fine Larrick who said the great majority of truck drivers do not use the stimulants reported that his undercover agents worked as ZI interstate truck drivers for a year to get the evidence that led to criminal actions One Sold 4000 He said agency learned from other drivers where the narcotics were being gold and bought as many as 4000 from one defendant is evidence that some truckers using the drugs lost their own lives and needlessly risked the lives he said of drugs by truck drivers ticularly dangerous because so stimulate the driver that he stays on the job long beyond the point of normal physical endur ormer Death Studied BEVERLY HILLS Calif OcC 25 (IP) An investigation under way tonight into the death of Thorvald Valdemar Kierulf Larsen 53 Danish actor prominent in American films' whose body was found in hi apartment here authorities Larsen better known as V3TL Larsen was a European film star before coming here His American picture was with Greta Garbo He starred with silent movie queen Corinne Griffith llTT Divine Newlywed Couple Rescued rom 'Honeymoon1 Island MIAMI Oct 25 A Coast Guard plane found a missing atomic engineer and his scantily clad bride on an unintended today using part of their clothes for distress signals like castaways in a car toon Joe Richards 35 had his light plane without injury to himself or his 19 year old wife on a deserted eel shaped reef in the windswept lorida Straits There they had sat since Sunday after noon while the Coast Guard Navy criss crossed the Keys search of them The honeymooning couple cold but relieved crawled aboard Coast Guard cutter for a nine Z' hour trip to Miami The young bride said she was feeling little aboard the rocking ship But neither is a deserted and rocky tropic isle tneZT best place for a honeymoon said in response to a question would recommend some place like she added a.