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m. 44 2 a. m. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1956 On Guard for 125 Years Vol. 126 No.

200 40 Pages Seven Cents Victim Called 'Abusive' to Hunting Party ni3 Madman Slays Two Near Flint Tear Gas Ends Siege at Farm GIVING YOURSELF AWAY Obey Impulse To Be Generous. You'll Be Glad Group Told To Get off His Land Court Aide Tripped By Scrap of Paper A veteran Common Pleas Court bailiff Monday night confessed the fatal shooting of a White Cloud farmer on Friday, State Police said. James King, 50. was arrested Other Stories and i ft WT! i Pictures on Page 3. BY JACK CASEY Frrr Pre Staff Writer FLINT Two State Troopers were killed and a third was wounded Monday by a crazed gunman who turned his rural home into a fortress and fought off police for an i hour with a deer rifle.

The slayer, Harry G. Richards, 63, a mentally unbalanced retired postal worker, walked out of the house and surrendered after 75 policemen had come to the scene. at 8 p.m. Monday at his home at 28941 Martinsville, Sumpter Township. State Police detectives said he David Dunn long ago discovered the magic of "giving yourself away" a practical philosophy that has been increasing his personal happiness ever since.

Here he presents sound and stimulating ideas for you, and you'll discover countless ways in which you can provide others with appreciation, understanding and tolerance. This is the second of six articles taken from Prentice. Hall's just-published book, "Try Giving Yourself Away." told them he shot Lloyd Krise, 34, after the farmer became "abusive" in ordering King and other members of King's hunting party off his land. KING FIRST denied he was implicated. He admitted being in KILLED Lappi and 1 1 1 -V; i.

WERE George E. Bert A. Pozza, both 27 and both Mrs. Bert Pozza (left) and Mrs. George Lappi Mourned BY DUNN The secret of successfully giving: yourself away is not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warmhearted impulses.

Vou have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens the area but insisted he had returned to Detroit Thursday. He made his confession after three other members of the hunting party identified him as the killer in formal statements to Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Clarence Laster. King: admitted Krise had stopped his party as they drove inside ot you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours. U.S.

Asks Soviet: Stop Deportation originally from the Upper Peninsula. Each was the father of two small children. 1. Robert Vesey, 37, suffered a superficial wound of the leg when struck by a ricocheting frequently impulse- si giving results in a new ffiff 'EdseV Line to Add Jobs for 50,000 New Ford Division to Employ 7,500 Auto Workers Here across his land. "He was abusive and held his rifle in a menacing manner," police said King told them.

"I got out of the car and got close to him and brushed the gun barrel away and shot him." friendship, or leads to an interesting adventure One afternoon during the wartim gas shortage I was driving up a UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. AP Henrv Cabot home. On the sidewalk (IllllpvSt See Leo Lodge, Jr. told the United I obis Nations Monday the Krise's body was found by his Soviet Union has de-wife- Echo- He had been shot IT five times with a .38 caliber ported 16,000 Hungarians revolver.

How the name 'EdseV was finally chosen. Donovan's Column on Page 30. BY LEO DONOVAN Frw Prrsi Automotive Writer New jobs for more than 7,500 auto workers in the Detroit; lrom -Budapest He said many would die just metropolitan area will be created by the Edsel Division ot Ford Motor Co. las victims of Nazi concentration The investigation turned to King because detectives found a scrap of paper near Krise's body that bore the name of King's wife and her address. When first questioned.

King said he arrived home to find 5 Formal announcement that the new line of cars would be camps died and he heatedly de-named for Edsel Bryant Ford, father of the three sons who manded that the Russians stop; now direct the company's activities, was made Monday by, this "inhumanity" immediately, Henry Ford II, president The United States chief dele-; his house had been ransacked The announcement was madei Sgate spoke to the UN Assembly and a .38 caliber gun missing. I at a press conference at the Ford bullet as he crouched pinned down behind a patrol car for an hour. The shooting occurred in a rural area seven miles northeast of Clio and 15 miles northeast of Flint. Richards, whose right arm was partly paralyzed and whose speech became progres- sively retarded during a series i of strokes, had been declining in mental alertness, police said. i Authorities gave this account of the shootings: Richards' wife, Eulalia, 63, who takes iri washing to bolster the family income, said an argument started about 7:30 a.m.

Richards could not find his wallet and accused his wife of hiding it. She said he had been sulking over an argument on whether he should go deer hunting. Mrs. Richards had been against it. Richards struck her with a small coal shovel and cut her on the chin.

Mrs. Richards, her face bleeding, ran with her son Leon's girl friend, who lives at the Richards i home, to the home of a neighbor, MPs. Veirl L. Scott, 62. arid told of the beating.

Mrs. Scott phoned the Rich Soviet Foreign Minister! He sald ne reported the loss to sheriff's denuties at 12t2n Central Staff Office Building in Dearborn while workmen were umitri bhepnov angrily accused However, deputies removing the Continental United States and the non- said they the report at sion sign from the company's world of instigating! 1:03 a.m. Saturday. HarperWoods Cycle Officer Dies in Spill the Willow Run Expressway two the Hungarian troubles. The two diplomats clashed in KING AT FIRST refused to name his hunting companions.

Turn to Page 10, Column 1 11 the first round of Assembly debate on a resolution by Cuba calling on the Soviet Union to halt deportations of Hungarians. Cleveland Still Paperless miles away. Richard E. Krafve, vice president and general manager of the newly named Edsel Division, told representatives of press, radio and television that the division by next tall would employ about 15,000 persons in the nation and create ultimately more than 50,000 new jobs, directly and indirectly. Investment in the new division, includinsr facilities, tooling and Share Your Key to Living Many people have found the secret to happy and successful living.

One of the more effective ways, to this better life is through helping others "giving yourself away." What has been YOl'K most rewarding experience in "giving yourself Or you may know of a friend whose charitable acts are noteworthy. The Free Press would like to share your experience with other readers. Send your story to "Giving Yourself Away," Detroit Free Press, Detroit 31. For each story printed the Free Press will pay $5 to the sender. equipment shipped to his home town.

"I just can't make a go of it here in Boston," he admitted sorrowfully. Taking the young man by the shoulders, the caller turned him around and marched him upstairs. "Unlock that door," he commanded. "Turn on the lights all of them make this place bright and chertul. You are not going to give up now.

after all the months you have invested in this place. Goodby." And, with a friendly slap on the back, he departed. That afternoon a woman came in who had been -ecommended to the dentist by a friend. Over a period of weeks this woman's dental work amounted to $300, and her enthusiastic recommendation brought other patients. The tide had turned.

In time, the man who was saved from quitting by the impulsive act of a friend on a gloomy morning became one of Back Bay's leading dentists. ONE DAY 1 RECEIVED this brief note on feminine notepaper from England: "Today 1 was the dues. Domestic affairs were a bit vorrymg. I sat down at my desk to do accounts, but before beginning picked up the Reader's Digest and rea your article. "Isn't that was my inward exclamation when 1 had finished.

The blues had vanished and 1 felt quite cheered. "You say 'one must act fast, while the impulse is So 1 am writing at once to send my This woman could not know that her impulsive note from across the Atlantic would arrive at a time when I was going through a period of discouragement, and that it would cheer me as much as my article had cheered her. Following is another letter winch was Inspired by that same article: "My first thought, which from long habit I instantly put out of my mind, was to drop you a note telling ycu how much 1 enjoyed your article. Then it occurred to me that i was not obeying that natural impulse that made your article so interesting. "It also made me realize something that I hadn't really brought to the front of my mind before.

1 had always thought ot certain friends as being generous, but. after thinking it over, 1 believe they are really successful people at "giving-away." The writer of this letter has hit -on the truth; giving-away is not a matter of generosity it is the basis of really successful living. TOMORROW: Bread upon the waters. Patrolman Phillip Genna. 35.

of 1S551 Woodside, Harper Woods, a part-time motorcycle patrolman for the community, was killed by a fall from his vehicle Monday night. Genna was found lying on a private road at J. L. Hudson's Eastland at 7:50 p.m. by passing motorists.

He died shortly after SHEPILOV and Hungary's Foreign Minister, Imre Horvath, qsiH rpnnrts nf mass denortfltinn1? are "lies" and "fabrications." CLEVELAND (JP) The tnree big nany newspapers here In strong- tones. Lodge and British Foreign Secretary Sel- was a woman carrying i rj two large bags of VFy groceries My impulse was to stop and ask if tnL she would like a ride. MfOllllS But it meant stopping on the hillside. "She probably lives on one of the side streets a block o'r so up the hill," I told myself. But my giving-seli squelched that argument and I pulled over to the curb.

"Can I give you a lift?" 1 asked. The woman got in gratefully. She had been obliged to walk two miles to the village for her groceries, since the merchants delivered only twice a week, and company had descended on her unexpectedly. She was just starting the long trek home with her bundles. It turned out that she lived just around the corner from my own home, having moved there very recently.

Thus, by obeying an impulse, I made the acquaintance of a delightful new rtjghbor. Recently, 1 was having dinner on a train. The soup was especially good. On impulse 1 said to the wai'er, "please tell the chef this mushroom sou; is delicious. The waiter looked surprised, then pleased.

So, apparently, was the cr.et, tor when the vanilla ice cream 1 ordered lor dessert was served; it was smothereo with crushed strawberries, though they were not on the menu. The chef had obeyed an impulse, too and surprised me! YOU JUST NEVER can tell what will happen when you act on a giving impulse! I am sometimes asked, 'When you obey your impulses, aren't you likely to be too impetuous and get yourself into embarrassing situations?" Yes; every so often. But what of it? We are supposed to be getting fun out of life. We lose so much oy inOI obeying our impulses that I figure we can aftord to take a few risks for the sake ot adventure. There is a serious aspect to impulse-giving, too.

We never know when some impulse action of ours may mean much in the life of a friend or neighbor. A young dentist ot my acquaintance was struggling along in Boston, trying to build a practice. He had come to the end of his money. One bleak morning in February, he decided that he would have to up his dreams oi a professional cai eer in Boston and return to his home town. That morning one of his friends was passing the brownstone building in whicri his office was located.

At church the previous Sunday he had noticed that the dentist looked depressed. PURELY ON 1MPLL.SE he decided to could admittance to Saratoga General ards home, hoping she ul JV. wyn Lloyd replied their govern will approximate 2o0 million dol-. rAnnrt patch up the fight. She said the; Hospital of head injuries first Harper Woods oincer to I portations.

Lodge said: remained Idle Monday. None of them has circulated since Nov. 1. Negotiations between the publishers and the printing craft unions were- the focal point of efforts to gel the papers back into production. They are the Cleveland Press, an afternoon Scripps Howard paper, and two dailies owned by Forest City Publishing the afternoon News and the morning Plain Dealer.

phone in the Richards home was picked up and then dropped, without a word. She called the State Police. First on the scene was Trooper Turn to Page 10, Column 1 i is survived by his wife, Sylvia; two daughters, Sandra, 12, and Mary Ann, 2, and a son, Samuel, 9. vehicle, its price and a descrip-j tion of its appearance were with-1 held for competitive Ford and Krafve said. Industry sources are confident that thej new line of cars will be designed to compete with Buick, Oldsmo-1 MORE PUZZLES SLATED "Information available to the United States Government indicates as of Nov.

14 that the deportations from Budapest alone run to a minimum of 16.000 people. On Nov. 13, for example, at least three trains of sixty boxcars each, with 50 to 60 persons crowded into a car, were reported moving East over the Monor-Szolnok-Debrecen route. You'll Find: bile and DeSoto. It is scheduled to be intro- Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Tangle Town Contest Winds Up in Big Tie Judges checking the U.

S. Tangle Towns entries have told us that a tie exists for all of the 1,084 cash prizes. So many more than 1,084 en-! Mother Earns Extra Money i "Our reports indicate that this movement is continuing I understand that the weather in' Hungary is mild at this time of the year, but that it is already cold in Russia and Siberia. Amusements 29 Ask Andy 22 Astrology 22 Bridge 16 Comics 38-33 Drew Pearson 19 Earl Wilson 29 Editorials 8 Financial 30-3'i MetroDoiitan Memos 18 Movie Guide 39 Iv'ames and Faces 5 Radio and Television 37 Sports 25-28 Tangle Towns 28 Want Ads 32-36 Women's Pages 13-15 "It is inevitable that many of the men in those boxcars will die from cold and exposure just as the unfortunate victims of the Nazi concentration camps died in the trainloads of boxcars which I saw with my own eyes at the horrible. Nazi camp at Dachau in 1945." you can still get information on how you may become eligi- ble for one of the lavish bonus prizes offered in the Tangle Towns game.

Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to U. S. Tangle Towns Editor, Detroit Free Press, P. O. Box 2057.

Detroit 31. You'll receive complete information on eligibility for one of the 34 bonus prizes that include a 1957 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, a 1957 Plymouth Belve- dere and a Royal Scott-Atwater 40 H.P. Outboard Motor with 14-foot Olympia Boat plus ac- cessories and Alloy Marine i Trailer. entrants have proved their knowledge of United States cities and towns that it will be necessary to run a set of 20 additional puzzles to break the tie. THESE PUZZLES (as provided for in Rule 2c in the official rules) will be published in the Free Press, one each day, beginning Wednesday, Nov.

21, through Monday, Dec. 10. Be sure to read the Tangle Towns announcement on Page 28 of today's paper for further details on the tie-breaking puzzles. If you are entered and if you haven't already done I A Lodge said these reports added 1925 i urgency to the need for com with fast acting Free Press Want Ads. You, too, can round up from every nook and corner in your home the things you no longer use and turn them into real moneymakers.

Simply call WO 2-9400, ask for an ad-taker, say "charge it." FREE PRESS WANT ADS stop in to see nim. As ht mounted the stairs, he met the dentist descending. "Well, where are you going at this time of the morning?" ne demanded cheerily. The dentist confessed that he was going out to make arrangements to have his 11121514 151617 2524 2526272823 30 2 5 i 5 6 7 SOT? pliance with Assembly resolu-i tions calling for the withdrawal! of all Soviet troops from Hungary and for the dispatch of ob-j servers by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to Hungary, He appealed to the Assembly to approve the Cuban proposal. i FIRST NIGHT PHOTO FBOM AIRPLANE AT i ROCHESTER, N.Y.

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