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Greenlease Boy's Kidnap Killers
Sentenced to Die December 18
After Jury Asks for Execution
Judge Fixes Date
15 Minutes After
Recommendation
BULLETIN
KANSAS CITY (/P).—' The
kidnap killers of little Bobby
Greenlease were sentenced to
day to die December 18 for
their crime. U. S. District i
Judge Albert L. Reeves passed
the death sentence on Carl 1
Austin Hall, 34, and Mrs.
Bonnie Brown Heady, 41,
within 15 minutes after a jury
of 12 men recommended that
they pay the supreme penalty
for their confessed crime.
By th« Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 18.—A
Federal Jury today recom
mended death for the kidnap
killers of little Bobby Green
lease.
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, the
41-year-old alcoholic, smiled
slightly as the verdict was read.
Carl Austin Hall, 34-year-old
wastrel, did not change expres
sion.
Bobby’s multimillionaire father,
Robert C. Greenlease, leaned
forward on his chair to watch
Hall’s expression. Mr. Green
lease merely nodded his head in
apparent approval of the verdict
The jury announced Hall’s
verdict first.
Verdict in Hour, 7 Minutes.
It took the jury of 12 men
one hour and seven minutes to !
give U. S. District Judge Albert
L. Reeves authority to send the !
pair to the gas chamber. Judge !
Reeves had told the jury the j
two were cold-blooded murderers j
and there were no mitigating j
circumstances for their crime.
Judge Reeves, a veteran of 30
years on the Federal bench, !
spoke extemporaneously as he
told the jury the issue before it
was simple:
Should Hall and Mrs. Heady :
pay the supreme price for their ;
confessed crime?
The case was turned over to !
the jury at 11:45 a.m. (EST). j
Judge Reviews Case.
The judge’s instructions were
short but clear as he carefully
reviewed the case, point by point.
Judge Reeves made it clear the
jury was not assessing the pen- ;
alty; that that was his function, i
But under provisions of the
Lindbergh Kidnaping law, he
said, it was necessary that he be j
cloaked with this authority if
the maximum punishment is to
be leveled against the couple.
The judge paid particular at
tention to Hall’s efforts yester
day to shoulder the full respon- !
sibility for the planning of the
kidnap killing. He said that j
under law any one who aided in
carrying out such a crime was j
equally guilty regardless of the
extent to which he or she par
ticipated.
Full Participation.
However, he said, in the case
of Mrs. Heady there was \no
question that she had partici
pated fully. The very fact that
her hat had been found in the
stubble wheat field in Johnson
County <Kans.) gave substance
to the possibility that she was
doing more than simply going
after her dog when Hall was
shooting Bobby to death.
“Reprehensible as is the crime
of kidnaping,” Judge Reeves told
the jury, “they still did commit
cold-blooded, heartless, cruel
first degree murder.
“In studying this testimony I
fail to find one line of justifying
or mitigating circumstances for
this crime.
"Is it conceivable that the
Congress could, in enacting the
Lindbergh law, have conceived
of a more merciless, more horri
fying crime than was commited?”
Watches Judge Closeby.
Mrs. Heady, dressed neatly in
the same brown outfit she wore
on the second day of the trial,*
followed the judge's words close
ly. She kept watching him as the
gray-haired jurist spoke with di
rectness and clarity to the jury.
The elder Greenlease; his
(Continued on Page A-4, Col. 3.)
Rocky Mountain Region
Has Heavy Snowstorm
By the Associated Press
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 19.
Snow continued to pile up today
as the Rocky Mountain region’s
major storm of the season slow
ly edged eastward
Glassy streets and highways
slowed motor traffic to a crawl
over parts of half a dozen States,
but no major accidents were re
ported.
The only loss of life was in a
plane crash at Albuquerque, N.
Mex., where one man died and
seven were injured yesterday.
Their C-47 transport cracked up
while taking off from Kirtland
Air Force Base in blinding
snow.
Nearly a foot of snow covered
parts of Colorado and Wyoming,
and it was still falling this morn
ing in all but the northern half
of Wyoming.
Montana, which received its
snow a day earlier, was gripped
by bitter cold. The temperature
dipped to 2 below zero at Butte.
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SENTENCED TO DlE—Kansas City, Mo.—Carl Austin Hall and
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady shown today on their way to court,
where they heard a jury recommend that they be executed,
and the death sentence pronounced 15 minutes later.
—AP Wirephoto.
McCarthy's Witness
Says Reds Had Cells
At Four GE Plants
Uproar Ends Session;
'Secret' FBI Agent
Points Out Communist
By the Associated Press
BOSTON. Nov. 19.—An up
holsterer, who testified he was j
an undercover FBI agent while
a member of tjie Communist I
Party since 1941, told a Senate
investigating subcommittee to
day he had worked in a General
Electric plant in Fitchburg,
Mass., and that there were Com
munist cells there and in GE
plants at Lynn and Everett,
Mass., and Schenectady, N. Y.
William H. Teto, 53, of Ashby,
Mass., created a sensation in a
Labor Action and Police Record Mark
Post of Probe Witness. Page A-2
televised hearing conducted by
Senator McCarthy, Republican,
of Wisconsin, when he pointed
out a man in the hearing room
as a Communist member at a
Lynn GE plant.
The man pointed out was Nat
Mills. Senator McCarthy said
Mills refused yesterday at an
executive session to say if he
was a Communist. He refused
again today.
The hearing ended in disorder
when Mills and Gabriel Kantro
vitz, an attorney, were removed
by Deputy United States mar
shals on Senator McCarthy’s
order.
Both shouted that they were
being deprived of their rights as
Americans, as some of the spec
tators in the crowded courtroom
; let go with cries of “throw ’em
out.”
McCarthy Bans Speech.
. Senator McCarthy said he was
familiar with the tactics of “these
Communist boys.” that he wasn’t
going to allow them to make
speeches.
Four other GE workers were
called to testify. None would say
whether he ever had been a
Communist. The men are Rob
ert Goodwin. Lynn; Henry Arch
deacon, Boston; Donald Morrill,
Lynn, and Witulad Plerkarski,
Lynn.
Mills was denied the privilege
of cross-examining Teto. Sen
ator McCarthy said at one point;
“I’d like to see some Communist
with the guts to admit it and
not hide behind the Fifth
Amendment of the Constitution.
i
Tells of Hardships.
Teto, married and father of
three, said he was a recording
secretary with the Communist
Party; that he had attended
(See MCCARTHY, Page A-2.)
Out-of-Season Tornado
Rips Oklahoma Area
By th# Associated Press
EL RENO. Okla., Nov. 19.
) An out-of-season tornado dipped
briefly into a rural area two miles
east of here last night, exploded
a garage and scattered the debris
across busy U. S. highway 66,
l knocking down telephone lines.
The Oklahoma Highway Pa
| trol said there were no other re
ports of damage or injuries.
Heavy rains flooded streets here
; and autos stalled in high water
[after the storm.
Wyt fuming Skf
Red Hunters Plan
Many More Probes
In Coming Months
Communism Held Sure
Election Issue Despite
Eisenhower's Hopes
By Cecil Holland
Plans of Congressional Red
hunters offer scant promise for
President Eisenhower to realize ;
his hope that the issue of com
munism in government will be
settled before next year's elec
tions.
While Gen. Eisenhower’s at
titude expressed in a news con-
Stories Related to Probe of Spy Ring
and White. Poge A-5
ference yesterday was being ap
plauded in many quarters. Sen
ate and House committees went
ahead today with plans for more
and more investigations.
With the boost they received
in Attorney General Brownell's
sensational charges in the Harry
Dexter White case, they seem
certain, from what Congressional
sources said, to carry their find
ings w'ell into 1954 and possibly
beyond.
A spokesman for the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
headed by Senator Jenner, Re
publican, of Indiana, indicated
it would take weeks and weeks
to pursue an investigation of
matters related to the White
case.
Probe to Take Time.
It was before this subcommit
tee that Mr. Brownell appeared
|to document his charges that
former President Truman pro
moted Mr. White from a Treas
ury position to the International
Monetary Fund despite FBI re
ports indicating the official’s
| connection with a Soviet espion
age ring.
While politely refraining from
any comment on the hope ex
; pressed by Gen. Eisenhower, the
: subcommittee spokesman em
phasize there is no long-range
plan, but said each aspect of
the White case will be taken up.
He added that it would take time
to see what direction the inves
tigation will have to take.
Again Seek Gouzenko.
Meanwhile, a State Depart
ment spokesman said the depart
ment is transmitting to the Can
adian government today a sec
ond request from Senator Jenner
that Igor Gouzenko, Soviet Em
bassy code clerk who helped
break up a Russian ring in Can
ada a few years ago, be made
(See PROBE, Page A-5.)
Heavy Bombers Attack
Mau Mau Hideouts
By the Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 19.
j Three Lincoln heavy bombers
j bombed targets in the Aberdare
prohibited area and strafed Mau
Mau hideouts today.
Squadron Leader Alan Newitt
said the bombers task was to get
the anti-white terrorists out of
their mountain lairs so that they
could be engaged more easily by
ground forces.
The Lincolns were sent to
; Kenya from the Middle East this
week.
Lemke Shooting
Cited at Hearing
On Delinquency
Senator Describes
Capitol Area Attack;
Dr. Eliot Testifies
By Miriam Ottenberg
Senate probers of Nation-wide
juvenile delinquency opened
their investigation today with a
sharp look at a Washington
crime and a survey of what
causes such crimes across the
country.
There were these highlights:
1. Chairman Hendrickson cited
the shooting of a Senator’s sec-
Two-Week Delay Seen in Selecting Lead
ers of Pilot Youth Project. Page A-6
Recreational Groups Urged to Seek Out
and Help Delinquents. Page A-6
Spencer Sees Serious Increase in Crimes
by Younger Children. Page A-6
retary by a former juvenile de
linquent to point up “just how
deadly serious is the nature of
our work.”
2. Dr. Martha Eliot, chief of j
the Children’s Bureau, told the j
investigators that the servicesj
needed by young delinquents are
“grossly inadequate.” but j
ents share the blame, too.
3. Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby, i
of Health, Education and Wei- !
fare, sen| the subcommittee a
statement warning that more
than half of the young people
appearing before juvenile courts
today go on to commit one or
more serious crimes as adults.
4. Herbert J. Hannoch. the
subcommittee’s chief counsel,
promised shocking revelations in
the sale of black market babies.
5. Judge Thomas Gill, Juve
nile Court judge for the State
wide Juvenile Court system in
Connecticut, told the subcom
mittee that punishment had not
proved itself as a deterrent to
juvenile crime and people should
be more patient with probation
and corrective methods.
Senator Hendrickson launched
the hearings by reviewing the
case of Wilbert A. Green. The 25-
year-old colored man has admit
ted shooting Miss Elsie Lemke,
secretary to Senator Johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado, during a
purse-snatching a few blocks
from the Capitol Saturday night.
The chairman said he brought
up the case to illustrate that
“one can never tell when the
problems of juvenile delinquency
will strike any of us as indi
j viduals.”
j Pointing out that Senator
i Johnson’s office lies across the
| corridor from his own. Senator
j Hendrickson said he was certain
he had passed Miss Lemke many
i times in the hallway and nodded
| and smiled to her. Miss Lemke
| was critically injured in the
| shooting.
Stabbing Case Cited.
By an odd coincidence. Sen
ator Hendrickson brought out, a
subcommittee consultant was
Green’s probation officer in Ju
venile Court. The consultant is
j Lawson Veney, superintendent
j of Boys’ Village at Cheltenham,
Md., on loan to the subcommit
tee.
Green, said Senator Hendrick
son, was a juvenile delinquent
in 1944 when, at the age of 16.
he broke into a home, seized a
butcher knife and stabbed a
woman when she awoke to find
him in her lWim.
That was not Green’s first
brush with the police nor his
last. Senator Hendrickson said.
He reviewed the record, show
ing that Green was involved in
a bicycle theft at the age of 11,
made his first unlawful entry a
! year later and followed that with
! many house breakings.
The chairman emphasized that
I he was not judging the current
I case but “the facts reveal that
somewhere along the line his
community failed Wilbert Green
i and he failed to help himself.”
Slum Area Product.
•
Mr. Veney, he said, found that
at the time of the 1944 stabbing.
Green had been reared in a
slum area without proper family
supervision and free from any
restraining influences for good.
The chairman made it plain
he was not trying to say these
factors alone contribute to ju
venile delinquency, but he said
(See DELINQUENCY, Page A-6.)
'Homing Amnesia' Takes Man
12,000 Miles to Early Scenes
LONDON, Nov. 19 (NANA).—
New Zealand government offi
cials in London, police and brain
experts are investigating the case
of the “disappearing school
master” who had breakfast in
New Zealand—vanished for a
week—and then reported to a
London police station with his
passport asking what he should
do next.
Authorities are agreed on one
thing—that the amazing story
of the man whose mind “slipped
back” 12,000 miles, is true.
Leading doctors say the man,
H. F. North, 40, who left Eng
land as a boy had an attack of
what is called "homing amnesia.”
The police checked his story,
were satisfied and approved his
immediate return to his home.
And the airline which accepted
his fare is worried about the
Peckham Abortion Conviction
Overruled by Appeals Court
Judge Holtzoff Is Criticized Sharply
For 'Bias' During Physician's Trial
By Howard L. Dutkin
The United States Court of
Appeals today reversed the abor
tion conviction of Dr. Henry L.
Peckham. jr., and sharply criti
cized Federal Judge Alexander
Holtzoff for “bias and lack of
impartiality” during Dr. Peck
ham’s trial in June, 1952.
In ordering a new trial for Dr.
Peckham, the court, although
critical of the judge’s demeanor,
upheld the contempt conviction
of the physician’s attorney. Dor
sey K. Offutt, who clashed re
peatedly with Judge Holtzoff
during the trial.
The opinion in the Peckham
case was split, 2-1. Judges
Henry W. Edgerton and David L.
Bazelon voted for reversal with
Judge Charles Fahy holding that
the conviction should be upheld.
The court, however, cut Mr.
Offutt’s sentence from 10 days
to 48 hours' imprisonment.
Cites Conduct of Both.
In its opinion in the Offutt
case, the court held that Mr.
Offutt’s “conduct cannot fairly
be considered apart from that
of the trial judge. Each re
sponded to great provocation
from the other.”
The appellate court agreed
that the record fully supports
the finding of contempt. “But.”
the opinion continued, “we think
the record does not support the
penalty imposed.”
The Offutt opinion quoted
from Judge Holtzoff’s order
which found Mr. Offutt in con
tempt. The order declared that
Mr. Offutt made “insolent, in
sulting and offensive remarks to
the court.”
It also asserted that he know
ingly made false statements to
the court and “persisted in re
peating questions, previously ex
cluded by the court, in order to
evade the court’s rulings in spite
of admonitions by the court to
the contrary. Many of these
questions were obviously intend
ed to besmirch a witness. , .
Mistrial Attempt Seen.
Mr. Offutt was further charged
with boisterous comments, abuse
of the process of the court, and,
the order declared, “he constant
! ly tried to create an episode that
| might lead the court to direct
a mistrial. . . .”
In the Peckham case, the court
declared: “The majority believes
I that, in the light of the disor
| derly atmosphere of the trial, it
! would require too great a degree
of speculation to say that the
appellant was fairly tried on the
; issues relevant to the first
[ count.”
The opinion continued saying:
“We are all agreed that the mis
conduct of appellant’s counsel
(Mr. Offutt) which helped to
produce such atmosphere is
j for the contempt proceedings
against counsel, and scrupulous
| legality of accepting a fare from
j an “unconscious” man.
“I remember saying good-by
i to my wife in the morning as I
: had done for many years and
setting off for school,” he said.
| “My next memory is sitting in
a Hammersmith park.
“Gradually I pieced things
together and, knowing London,
realized the incredible fact that
in an apparent instant I had
been transformed from a New
Zealand schoolmaster to a Lon
don ‘hobo’—except that I had
money and papers.
“The doctors told me that I
was a perfectly fit man with no
trace of any serious illness. They
told me of similar cases where
men had left their homes to
return to boyhood haunts. But
never had they heard of a 12,000-
i mile ‘homing.’”
; care must be taken not to weigh
such misconduct against appel
lant” <Dr. Peckham).
Judge Fahy, who wrote the
opinion, disagreed with the ma
jority decision. He declared
that in his belief "the jury was
not led away from a fair and
; impartial consideration of the
case,” and, he said, he would as
! firm the conviction.
But, he wrote. “Judge Edger
| ton and Judge Bazelon, consti
i tuting a majority of the court,
are convinced that the exces
sive injection of the trial judge
(Judge Holtzoff) into the exam
ination of witnesses, his numer
| ous comments to defense caun
’ sel, indicating at times hostility,
■ | though under provocation, dem
| j onstrated a bias and lack of
■ | impartiality which may well
•; have influenced the jury.”
; 20 Months to 5 Years.
The original trial of the case
in the U-. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia resulted
■! in the sentencing of Dr. Peck
ham to serve from 20 months to
| 5 years in prison.
The sentence is the maximum
for the offense. Judge Holtzoff
ordered the physicians license
revoked.
Three times previously, Dr.
Peckham had been tried in other
abortion cases here and in each
[ instance had won acquittal.
The opinion cited excerpts
from the trial record pointing
[ up the rapid-fire exchanges be
tween Judge Holtzoff and Mr.
Offutt
Excerpts Prom Opinion.
1 The excerpts read in part:
Mr. Offutt: “I misunderstood
i your honor’s ruling.”
i j The court: “No, I think you
| understood.”
Mr. Offutt: “I did not, I give
I you my word of honor.”
■ j The court. “You can’t be as
»| stupid as all that. Do not trans
! j gress my ruling again.”
Further on Mr. Offutt said:
“I object to your honor yelling
at me and raising your voice like
. that.”
i | The court: “Just a moment.
! | If you say another word I will
’ 1 have the marshal stick a gag in
' ’ your mouth.”
2,917 Juveniles Jailed
: In Virginia Last Year
t By (he Associated Press
X RICHMOND, Va.. Nov. 19.
; The State Department of Wel
t fare and Institutions reported
that for the second straight year
' | there has been an increase in
I I the number of juveniles jailed
, in Virginia
. Total commitments of persons
. of all ages for fiscal 1952-53
! were 7.6 per cent above the pre
* vious year and higher than they
have been in 15 years.
The report, based on informa
| tion furnished by law officers,
; covers commitments to county
; and city jails and city jail farms.
Gruenfher to Trim 57
From Officer Staff
By th« Associated Press
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE.
Nov. 19.—Gen. Alfred M. Gruen
ther, supreme Allied commander
in Europe, today announced a
12y 2 per cent cut in the number
of officers at SHAPE. There
are about 420 officers in the
headquarters.
The decision to trim the staff
by 57 men followed a survey of
I personnel that has been going
|on since Gen. Gruenther be
■ ; came Allied chief last summer.
The reduction will be gradual.
When some officers complete
S their two-year tours of duty,
their jobs will not be filled.
A Ruffian Reformed
Taking the chip off the shoulder of a
malcontent is just one of the services
performed by your Community Chest
gift. See story on
Page A-29.
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Don't Play Politics,
Career Employes
Warned by Young
Carlson Reveals Pleas
By Irate Republicans
For Civil Service Probe
Federal career employes were
cautioned today by Chairman
Philip Young of the Civil Serv
ice Commission “not to let their
personal politics interfere w’ith
! their doing an efficient job for
| the administration in power.”
In a Boston speech before a
group of Federal executives, Mr.
Internal Revenue to Reduce Force Here
by About 200. Page A-2
i __
Young declared that the admin
istration will not hesitate to act
when it finds career employes
“who are not dedicated to the
spirit of the career service or
whose removal w’ould promote
the efficiency of the service.”
At the same time, the com
mission chief emphasized, the
administration is dedicated to
protecting the merit system and
1 employes in career jobs.
Must Control Policy.
As for policy-making jobs. Mr.
Young said the administration
must control them “in order to
| give effect to the will of the
American people.” This can be
done, Mr. Young declared, with
out injury to the Government
career service.
“Translated into action, the
policy means that we are making
a clear distinction for the first
time between the political ap
pointment area and the career
service area,” Mr. Young said.
“We are providing an orderly,
logical means of placing in
policy-making positions persons
| who are sympathetic to the
policies of the administration.
At the same time we are remov
ing the career service as far as
! possible from political interfer
ence,” he added.
Mr. Young said that thus far
[ the CSC has placed 770 jobs in
the new political schedule C
I category, while rejecting 852
j such requests from agencies.
Job Cuts Ending.
Turning to the Government's
reduction-in-force program. Mr.
Young said that most contem
plated reductions have been
made and that only 43.000 more
I jobs are to be abolished be
tween now and June 30. Most
of these can be taken care
of through attrition—not filling
i vacancies—he said. It was es
timated that the reduction of
Federal jobs in the Washington
area between now and June 30
j would not exceed 2,000.
Mr. Young's remarks on pol
icy-making jobs in Government
came as Senator Carlson, Re
publican, of Kansas revealed
that the Civil Service Committee
he heads has been urged to look
into complaints that the Civil
Service Commission is failing to
open up such positions to Re
publicans.
Senators Press Pleas.
The Kansan said many com
plaints and requests for such an
; inquiry had come in, some from
G. O. P. Senators. But he de
clined to say whether the com
mittee would undertake such an
investigation w 7 hen Congress
comes back in January.
Last week. Representative A. L.
Miller, Republican, of Nebraska
called upon Mr. Young to re
| sign as chairman of the Civil
Service Commission, citing the
same reason Senator Carlson
■ said had been raised.
Police Seeking
Man Who Knew
Selph's Routine
Facts in Case Show
Slaying Was Swift,
Carefully Planned
The slayer of Thomas N.
Selph. jr„ moved with the swift
ness of a man who knew exactly
what he intended to do and was
well aware of his victim's rou
tine. police theorized today.
Information gleaned thus far
by homicide squad detectives in
dicates the 23-year-old loan
company messenger was slugged
unconscious, taken from the
District, robbed and killed and
his car abandoned within 55
minutes after he left his office.
Mr. Selph. messenger for a
Mount Rainier loan company,
vanished October 9 with more
than $3,000 in cash.
Bullet Hole in Head.
His body, a bullet hole in the
back of the head, was found in
the woods off Highway 214. 5
miles west of Davidsonville, Md.,
Tuesday.
Mr. Selph left his office at the
American Finance Co.. 3308
Rhode Island avenue, just across
the District line in Maryland,
with $13,000 in checks and
money orders.
He went to a nearby post of
fice. cashed the money orders
into a check and deposited the
check at the Hamilton National
Bank branch in the 2000 block
of Rhode Island avenue NE.
There he cashed another check
for $3,169.29. planning to return
• this to the loan company.
Got Cash at Bank.
The slayer knew that the mes
senger carried no cash until he
left the bank, police said.
How the gunman got into the
Selph car is still a mystery,
but homicide men said if he had
been shot in the car more blood
would have been left. The blood
grouping matched Mr. Selph’s,
j they said.
Within 55 minutes from the
time he left his office, a National
Capital Parks employe spotted
the abandoned, blood-stained
car in Barnard Hill Park, a few
blocks from the loan company.
Report Two Days Later.
The employe did not report
the matter to nolice until two
days later when he read of the
messenger’s disapparance.
Two known hoodlums are be
ing sought in the case.
Homicide Capt. Richard Fel
ber said ’ one suspect might be
i the same man who got SI,OOO
i from two employes of the Allied
Finance Corp., 8025 Georgia ave
! nue N.W., last Thursday.
Another police are seeking for
! questioning, although not either
I of the two mentioned by Capt.
i Felber, is Thomas E. Dickerson,
30. an Ohio parolee who was
indicted and jailed for an Ar
lington holdup and then escaped
from a mental hospital.
In Maryland. Capt. W. C.
Wade of Anne Arundel County
police, was leading a search for
i clues in the woods where the
body was found.
Found by Cab Driver.
The body was found by a
part-time taxi driver and Gen
jeral Services Administration em
ploye. Elmer Basinger, 54. of
609 Fifty-seventh street. Cap
itol Heights, Md. He had stopped
his car en route to Shadyside,
Md., he told police, and gone
into the woods.
Positive identification was
established late yesterday by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
through fingerprints made when
Mr Selph was a naval air cadet.
No trace was found of the
cash the victim carried, the bag
he carried it in or his wallet.
Two rings were found on the
hand, however.
Five Held in Forest Fires
ROME, Ga.. Nov. 19 (AT
Five persons have been arresfed
on charges of starting some of
the forest fires raging in North
west Georgia. E. H. Terry, chief
fire investigator for the Georgia
Forestry Commission, said two
teen-agers were arrested here
! yesterday and charged with set
ting three fires near Rome’s air
port.
Reform of a Bully
Through Your Help
YOUR GIFT AT WORK—Horry
Hall was mad of the world and
vented his anger by socking people
on the jaw. The Community Chest,
with the aid of your contribution,
helped him to grow up emotionally.
His story is told on page A-29.
TURKEY TIME—A bird fit for the
family's Thonksgivmg feast should be
easy to find this year. The Star'*
Food Editor Violet Faulkner reports
on turkey and all the trimmings in
her weekly "Report to the Home
maker" on page B-l.
HARRIED MOTORIST—When a
new car makes like a steamer there's
a reason. And Chicago barbers think
crew cuts are premium jobs. For
these and other glimpses of life in
the United States see page A-20.
Guide for Readers
Amuse'nts B-20-21 Lost. Found A-3
Classified C-6-13 Obituary A-34
Comics A-40-41 Radio-TV A-39
Editorial A-26 Sports C-l-5
Edit'l Articles A-27 Woman's
Financial.. A-36-37' Sectipn B-l-4