The Capital Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 7

Stormy Life of Playboy, Reaches Miami Beach, Feb. 24 76-year-old multi-millionaire peaceful close here Saturday for funeral rites and Thaw died of coronary thrombosis in the rented home ne had been living since last November 1. Thaw first gained prominence when he inherited a fortune estimated at $40,000,000 from his father, a railroad magnate, and reaped notoriety through his marriage to showgirl Evelyn Nesbit and his subsequent shooting of Stanford White on June 25, 1906. Thaw Twice Tried White, of the nation's leading architects, was shot on the roof garden of the old Madison Square Garden, a as a result of alleged relations between White and Miss Nesbit prior to her marriage to Thaw. Two trials followed the slaying, and Thaw was declared insane.

After spending some time in an asylum, he gained his freedom and remained in the news through breach of promise and damage suits, night club escapades and expensive parties. He tried producing motion pictures would-be feminine gave and, sponsoring, up when his efforts were not successful. Romance Well Buried His stormy romance with Miss Nesbit, his only wife, was so buried in the past that she was not even listed as a survivor. Neither was Russell K. Thaw, Miss Nesbit's son whose parentage he contested.

Sidney Werner, Thaw's attorney gave only two names as close survivors. They were Mrs. G. C. Whitney, a sister, of Milton, and Lawrence Thaw, a nephew, of Connecticut.

At Atlantic City, where Miss Nesbit, now 61, resides, she was quoted as saying she had long since "forgotten and forgiven all unpleasantness, but would not attend his funeral." Youths Held After Shooting Vancouver, Feb. 24 (U.P.) -Two 16-year-old Vancouver high school students were being held by police here today as an aftermath of a gun battle Saturday night in which a patrolman narrowly escaped death when his belt buckle stopped a bullet. The shooting occurred when Washington State Patrolman Harold Cusic stopped a reportedly stolen car to question occupants--Howard Otis Drury and Charles Gibson. door, Drury, allegedly caliber opened pistol the close to Cusic's. stomach and fired.

Staggered by the force of the shot, Cusic fell backwards. The bullet struck Cusic's heavy service belt buckle, penetrated to his trouser's belt and lodged there without injury to the officer. The boys, apparently thinking he had been killed or wounded, got out of the car and attempted escape. Shots were exchanged, but no one was hit, although another bullet pierced Cusic's cap. The pair eluded police, but were picked up later.

The car which the youths are charged with stealing was a 1941 coupe owned by Donald E. McInturff, also of Vancouver. Police said the boys admitted the theft and the shooting Drury said he shot because he didn't want to be caught." Portland Flier Has Arctic Concessions Portland, Feb. 24 (AP)-Peter W. Welch, ex-army flier, claims he has prior real estate and concession rights to any Antarctic settlement.

And what's more, he has Admiral Richard E. Byrd's signature to the contract. Welch claims Byrd signed the contract in 1927 and that the deal gives Welch pink popcorn, ice cream and lemonade concessions if and when development is started. Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, slip or wabble when you talk, cat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicaps. FASTEETH, an alkaline (non powder to sprinkle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set.

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24 (U.P.). army planes, one of them towing a glider, raced across the roof of the world today to rescue 11 fliers stranded on a bleak plateau in northern Greenland, 600 miles from the North Pole. Destination of the rescue expedition was Thule, a settle200 miles south where the B-29 made a crash landing Friday while on a photographic mission. The rescuers, flying two C-54 Skymasters, one of them towing a glider, and a C-47 transport equipped with skis, were expected at Thule sometime morning after an night flight across the wastelands of northern Canada. Brig.

Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson, commanding officer of the Alaskan air command, said the glider would play a major role in rescuing the downed airmen. The craft can land small area, load the men aboard, and be snatched into the air by its tow-plane, using a technique developed during the war. The downed airmen were spotted beside the wreckage of the "Kee Bird" Saturday by a search' apparently plane which were uninjured, reported but were having trouble keeping warm on the bleak, windswept plateau.

Food sufficient for two weeks, special Arctic survival, gear. warm clothing and blankets were dropped at the scene. The men, using a salvaged radio asked for coal to heat their food and fight off the bitter cold. The men aboard the "Kee Bird" were identified as 1st Lt. Vern H.

Arnett, instructor pilot, Riverside, 1st Lt. Russell S. Jordan, Albany, 2nd Lt. Robert Lluedke, engineer, Los Angeles, 1st Lt. John G.

Lesman, navigator, Kearny, N. 1st Lt. Burl Cowan, navigator, Grand Island, 1st Lt. Talbert M. Ages, co-pilot, Fenwood, N.

Lawrence L. Yarbrough, photo-gunner, Springfield, Ernest C. Stewart, photo-gunner, Birm(ingham, Robert Leader, radio operator, Philadelphia, Paul R. McNamara, photo-gunner, Geneva, and 1st Lt. Howard R.

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Sheriff Martin four of the men custody early deputies halted during a traffic covered the money bag of seat. Later officers and woman at wife of one of at a Newbeng $5000 in $100 session Held on concealed car's occupants: 27, Wallins, ing, 29, Clyde Pioche, 35, Portland. gation were son, 29, Portland, fred, seized at ond woman dress was tioning. Feb. 24 (A)- one woman were county jail with cash toPratt reported were taken into yesterday when their automobile check and dismen armed and coins in the front arrested a man Vanport and the the first four men motor court with bills in her poscharges of carrying weapons were the William Alfred, Robert FlemTurnbeaugh, 28.

Charles B. Davis, Held for investiRobert Lee Thompand Mrs. AlNewberg. A secliving at Davis' adreleased after quesMotorcycles Crash, One Death Results Portland, Feb. 24 (AP) Two motorcycles, traveling together, veered sharply aside to avoid a car last night and the road, killing Mrs.

Mae crashed off Schwab, 20, and injuring three other persons. Kenneth R. Nordstrom, 25, on whose cycle Mrs. Schwab was riding, was injured when his vehicle struck a power pole. Virgil Madlin, 23, and Arlene TeArthur F.

Gibbs, former missionary to Hawaii, opened a series of evangelistic series Sunday at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, 17th and Chemeketa streets. The series will continue through March 2. nipleman, 23, riding on lin's cycle, plummeted into a ditch. In 1905 the United States drilled new oil wells at the rate of 45 daily. In 1945 a new oil well was started every 23 minutes on the average.

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Those selected for the fifth in the current series of meetings at Columbia represent 17. states and the District of Columbia; five are city editors, one a political editor, one an assistant managing editor, one an editorial writer and the rest city hall reporters. "For the municipal affairs sessions," said Floyd Taylor, institute director, "we will have four to six guest experts daily to lead off-the-record discussions of the pressing city problems of the day." The seminar members selected include: James Bracken, assistant to the managing editor, the Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. to succeed Ralph Watson as political editor of the Portland Larry Smyth, Portland, slated to succeed Ralph Watson as political editor of the Portland Journal, among those selected for the seminar, is now "cover. ing" the Oregon legislature.

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