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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 19

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L. Sports, Comics TV Fare, Page 26 News Drama, Theaters The Salt Lake Tribune Second Section Salt Lake City, Utah Monday Morning October 8, 1962 Page 19 Tribune Staff Photos by Van Porter Officer Gerald Durrans and a model demonstrate a problem. police have Officer Durrans shows what police are faced with when a youth resists -almost daily- with young people when caught committing a crime. arrest. In, such cases officers have no alternative to the use of -force.

Gun Accident Fatal To Salt Laker, 30 Special to The Tribune HEBER A Salt Lake man died early Sunday seven miles north of here after he accidentally was shot in the back when a gun which was being unloaded from the trunk of an automobile, discharged. WASATCH County officers said Alvin Shelby Cox, 30, S. Hempstead, was killed at 8:30 a.m, when a companion Alvin Shelby Cox Killed in an accidental shooting. (took a .22 rifle from the trunk of the car in which he was sitting. Mr.

Cox and two compantons, Leslie Braithwaite, 4086 Redwood and Jay Orval Snow, 195 Angelo Ave. (3130 South), left Salt Lake City Saturday night. HAVING automobile trouble they spent the night in their car on old U.S. Highway 40 north of Heber. They had decided to do some target practice with the gun they had borrowed from a friend, they told officers.

SHERIFF FLOYD Witt said Mr. Snow was removing the gun from the trunk of the car when it accidentally discharged. The bullet passed through the back and front seats before striking Mr. Cox in the back at the waist. ASSISTING IN the investigation were Deputy Sheriff Jerry Smith, Trooper Doyle Van Wagoner, Utah Highway Patrol, and Archie D.

Buys, who acted as coroner. Scrawl Obscenity Police Sunday had been asked by Winslow Livesay, 1435 Federal Way (50 South) to investigate vandalism at his residence, where obscene drawing had been painted on a wall with orange paint. The vandals also removed a plaque from the entrance to the buildTing. Crash With Car Injures Motorcycle Rider, 36 A Magna man suffered leg, shoulder and head injuries Sunday at 2 p.m., when the motor. cycle he was operating collided with an automobile at 3030 W.

3500 South. PAUL ALVIN Holloway, 36, 3350 S. Fairlane, Magna, fered fracture of the left leg and apparently minor injuries to head and shoulder. Sheriff's Sgt. Bob Jack reported the motorcycle was Sandy Driver Loses Life In Car Crash Special to The Tribune TOOELE A Sandy man was killed and six other persons injured in a two car headon collision miles north of here on Utah Highway 36 Sunday at 6:15 p.m.

THE VICTIM was identified as Milton James Heaps, 23, 8425-796 East, Sandy. Tooele County Deputy Sheriff James Park said Mr. Heaps, alone in his car, was driving north when his car collided head on with a southbound car driven by Peter Huerta, a soldier stationed at Dugway Proving Ground. IN THE HUERTA car were his wife, Winifred, 32, and the couple's four children, Michael, Johnny, Elizabeth, 4, and Robert, 5 months. Mrs.

Huerta and Robert were taken to Tooele Valley Hospital where attendants said Mrs. Huerta's condition was critical and Robert was in fair condition. MR. HUERTA and the other three children were taken to the hospital 'at Dugway. Dug.

way hospital attendants said Mr. Huerta was in fair condition and the children in good condition. THE TRAGEDY brought Utah's traffic death toll to 175 for the year, compared to 167 dead for the same period in 1961. It marked the 16th fatality in Tooele County since January 1, compared to 14 during the like period last year. TRAFFIC TOLL DAYS SINCE LAST UTAH.

DEATH KILLED TO THIS YEAR DATE 175 KILLED TO LAST YEAR DATE 167 236 DIED IN 1961 Tooele County Oct. 8, 1962 16 To Oct. 8, 1961 14 All of 1961 22 Thugs Hit Victim, Get $1,600 A transient farm machinery operator complained to Salt Lake police early Sunday that he had been attacked and robbed of $1,600 by three young men who accosted him behind a downtown tavern. THE VICTIM, Floyd ElRoy Tanner, Anaconda, combine operator, told police he had been robbed of the $1.600, most of which was in $20, bills. A witness to events precedIng and following the robbery, Edward David Squires, 45, 1181 Charlton Ave.

(2800 South), Shotgun, Lives of Visitor Finds Bodies of S.L. Couple By Jim G. Baldwin Tribune Staff Writer A Salt Lake woman was shot to death and her husband of less than four months apparently took his own life with a blast from a hunting rifle at 1126 Emerson Ave. (1500 South) sometime Sunday. RICHARD Lawrence Hardy, 24, and his wife, Sally' Lynne Henderlider Jensen Hardy, 22, were found dead in the home by a sister of the woman who called upon the couple and discovered their bodies.

Detectives probing into details of the tragedy determined that a rifle and a single-barrel shotgun had been used to snuff. out the two lives. RECONSTRUCTION of the crime by Sgt. D. D.

Roberts indicated the woman was in the bedroom of the white frame house when she was shot in the face at close range with a blast from a shotgun. The gun was found, broken open and dismantled, on the floor of the kitchen. MR. HARDY'S body was found in the hallway near the entrance to the bedroom. He was killed by a rifle bullet which entered behind the right ear.

Sgt. Roberts said the man was barefooted. HIS FOOTPRINTS, marked by blood of his wife, trailed to the basement, where he apparently selected a rifle to shoot himself after he had killed his wife. Neighbors told police they had heard two reports which could have been shots about 4:45 p.m. MEMBERS of the dead man's family said they had attempted to reach Mr.

Hardy by telephone from Sunday at 10 a.m. For a time, officers believed the woman, too, may have been shot in the hand with a rifle bullet. BUT LATER investigation indicated that part of the closerange shotgun blast had struck the woman in the hand and the chest. OFFICERS reported that Sydney Ann Henderlider, 1181 Sherman had found the bodies of her sister and Mr. Hardy.

A friend with her notified police. Shortly after police arrived at the scene, spectators were barred from the premises and even members, of the family were prohibited from entering the home until police had completed their investigation. LT. DON B. Pearson, Sugar House commander, related an outline of the gruesome deaths to the families as they sat in their automobiles on the street outside.

SALLY LYNNE Henderlider Hardy was born in Salt Lake City Dec. 4, 1939, a daughter of R. J. and Virginia Barker Henderlider. She married Richard Law.

rence Hardy in Salt Lake City on June 29, 1962. SHE IS SURVIVED by her parents; two sisters, Mrs. Mark (Sandra) Raleigh, Sydney Ann Henderlider, all of Salt Lake City; a grandmother, Mrs. Ray Henderlider, Boise, Idaho. Rifle Claim Newlyweds westbound behind and to the right of a westbound auto operated by Lynn Warenski, 18, 2676 Beehive when the Warenski auto began to negotiate a right turn to 3030 West.

-THE MOTORCYCLE collided with the front end of the car and was carried 37 feet. A street identification sign was struck and damaged in the accident. brought the robbery to the attention of police after he saw three men, about 20 years old, run from the alley adjacent to the Golden Gate Tavern, 217 S. West Temple. MR.

SQUIRES told police that minutes before the robbery occurred he overheard one of the three suspects say to the others: "That gentleman up there has a big roll." After the suspects had left the tavern, Mr. Squires said, someone in the tavern Rain, Winds, But Warmer If Salt Lake residents, and Utahns in general, want to enjoy the warmer weather predicted for Monday by the weatherman they may have to get damp in the process. WHILE HE said Utah temperatures will reach the mid-70s, rain and winds may cancel the semi-summer temperature effects and diehards may have to don a raincoat over their shortsleeved shirts. "RESIDENTS OF southern Idaho, eastern Nevada and Wyoming, however, may spend some time tampering with furnace thermostats and getting out heavy coats. Widely scattered rain will be turning to snow i in the higher elevations and temperatures will drop to the 30s and 40s Monday night.

Sally Lynne Hardy Died from shotgun blast at home. Utah Diplomat, 67, Succumbs in Spain A United States diplomat Cavendish Wells Cannon, 67, day morning in an American Spain. MR. CANNON, WHO had several countries and had served had undergone a gall bladder He had served the U.S. zerland, Bulgaria, Greece and Cavendish Wells Cannon Noted U.S.

diplomat dies. Road Toll Up 8 in 7 Days At the rate of more than one a day, names were added last week to the Utah traffic fatality toll to bring the roster of traffic Saturday midnight -seven more than dead, were killed in the same period of 1961. EIGHT persons were, killed on Utah roads last week- four of them on Sept. 30. deaths were reported over 'a widely scattered area of the state.

Fatals occurred in Salt Lake, Tooele, Iron and Weber counties. Sgt. John Niemeic, Sugar House detail, holds after murder of his wife. A shotgun and a rifle that took the life of a Salt Lake man rifle were weapons used in double death. and native of Salt Lake City, died of a heart ailment SunMilitary Hospital 'near Seville, (jobs in other nations of Europe, MR.

CANNON entered the diplomatic service in 1920, serving first in Vienna, where he married Marie Lucia Ottilie (Lilla) Horsetzky, a daughter of Baron Horsetsky. He later served as consul at Zurich, and chancellor for of many the years U.S. Ministry in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was serving as first secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Athens at the time of the German invasion in World War IL.

-IN APRIL, 1947, Mr. Cannonwas named ambassador to Yugoslavia, but prior to that during World War II was chief of the State Department's division of southern European affairs in Washington. In 1943 he represented the U.S. at a Moscow conference and also attended the famed Potsdam conference. During his long service in Belgrade, he was credited with strengthening Marshal Josip Broz Tito's stand against Communist pressures from Moscow.

He was named minister to Syria in 1950. DURING HIS residence in Damascus, the American Legaso bombed. In February, 1952, Mr. Cannon was named ambassador to Portugal; then the following year be became ambassador to Greece. been a U.S.

ambassador- to in other diplomatic posts, operation Wednesday. Foreign Service Austria, SwitYugoslavia and in many special (jobs in other nations of Europe, Take It With Grimace Police Get Cheers, And Many Jeers By Stan Bowman Tribune Staff Writer How much can you take? You are a police officer. You are sworn to uphold the law. AND THEN YOU find a youngster. A kid who should school-or learning a trade.

You find him walking down the center of a downtown street. A church meeting has just let out. There are many fine people on the street. IF THE KID was to be quoted, a reporter would have to leave several paragraphs blank most of the words would be of the variety not used" in good company. An officer hears it.

HE STOPS THE youth and tries to reason with him. He offers to take him home. The youth, just 16, obviously is very intoxicated. He uses extremely vulgar language to the officer. The officer again tries reason, but -no avail.

THE YOUTH is placed under arrest. -He resists. Have you ever tried to handle a strong, healthy, 16-year-old? The officer is forced to handcuff the boy and he is brought to police headquarters. At the records bureau, the boy hurls epithets at everyone, even innocent bystanders. He screams obscene words at everyone.

THE POLICE try to remain calm. It is difficult to do. Just then another police officer arrives with a drunken woman who was found wandering in the downtown area. She takes turns in calling officers names and trying to sleep anywhere. The youngster's parents are unavailable.

On orders from the field commander, he is put in isolation in the city jail. THE WOMAN is put in jail in the women's section. Even though the two are far separated, screaming voices of the youth and the woman can be heard. "You. dirty, stinking cops," the boy shouts.

"THAT'S MY brother, you filthy cops," the woman yells back. It is not true. The officer at the desk shrugs. "How can you take that abuse?" he is asked. "WELL, THIS IS bad enough, but some of them go even further.

"It is hard to keep your temper when a man- or a woman--spits at you, or your shirt is torn, or you get hit," he answers. BUT THEY hold their temper. They ask the questions that must be asked: name, address, age, birthdate, occupaItion. And they get the answers: "My name you dirty I was born in St. Thomas Hospital, you slimy "YEH, BE'A BIG cop.

Think you're big just cause you have me handcuffed. Wait till I grow up, I'll buy "all of you. Yeah, you with the glasses, when did you have your first cigarette? Huh? Bet you had it before you were 21. Bet all you. smoked before you were 21, THE TIRADE continues until the youth is led to a cell.

He keeps screaming for a while. Then he passes out. Police keep searching for his parents. WHERE WERE. they? Where were they when the youth committed a number of other offenses on his record? No one will know until tomorrow.

And a 16-year-old spent the night in jail. It happened in your city. In Salt Lake City. Won't Honk-No Horn David Child, 1018 Milkert Sunday had reported to police the theft of the horn from his automobile. IT WAS IN 1956 that he was named the first American ambassador to the newly independent nation of Morocco.

It was from that post that he retired in 1958. For the past several years he had maintained a home in Lisbon, Portugal and in Tangiers, Morocco. He last visited his home town of Salt Lake City in 1940, although he had been a frequent visitor in Washington and New York. HE WAS BORN in Salt Lake City Feb. 1, 1895, a son of John Q.

and Annie. Wells Cannon. He was educated in Salt Lake City public and graduated from the University of Utah. While at the university, he was prominent in student affairs and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. MR.

CANNON was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, served, on the Pioneer Stake School 1 Board and was stake organist and chorister. He later taught school in Hyrum, Cache County. June 17, 1917, Mr. Cannon joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in France during World War later studying in the Sorbonne in Paris.

gested to the victim that he should leave the establishment through the back door. THE VICTIM told police the trio of suspects was waiting when he left. He was beaten in the face and knocked to the ground. The incident was one of several strong-arm robberies which have been reported to police as occurring to persons as they left downtown taverns in recent weeks. In almost every instance, three young sug-(men have been involved.

RELATIVES IN Salt Lake City said funeral services and burial will be held Tuesday in Seville. Survivors include his wife, Lisbon; brothers and sisters, David W. Cannon, Theodore L. Cannon, Mrs. R.

D. (Louise) Andrew, Mrs. David H. (Margaret) Clayon and Mrs. Lyman R.

4Emmeline) Martineau, all of Salt Lake City; George Q. Cannon, Redwood City, Abram H. Cannon, Washing. ton, D.C., and John Q. Cannon, New York City, IN THE LATE 1940s, Mr.

Cannon assisted in forming government policies as a member of the State Department's policy planning board..

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