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Investigate Mystery
Death of Heir To
Million Dollars
CHICAGO, I7P — Authorities to
day intensified their investigation
of the mysterious death of the 20
year-old heir to a million dollars
after being told the young man
revised his will recently to make
his fiancee principal beneficiary
and had expressed doubt he
would live to come into his own
inheritance.
Montgomery Ward Thome was
found dead in his studio apart
ment Saturday and Coroner Wal
ter McCarron said there were
four needle marks on his arms.
The coroner said there was no
evidence Thorne was a user of
narcotics.
The coroner has ordered an
analysis of vital organs, which he
said may take three weeks.
Jay Stough, who said he had
been young Thome’s lawyer for
some time, told detectives that
Thome less than 10 days ago had
changed his will making Miss
Maureen Ragan, 18, chief bene
ficiary and executor.
The police quoted Stough as
saying Thome, grandson of a for
mer president of Montgomery
Ward and Co., was afraid he
would never live to collect his
inheritance. “He asked me to as
sure that there would be a very
thorough investigation ... if he
died.”
Thome’s body, clad only in
shorts, was found lying on his
bed when Miss Ragan asked the
landlord to open the locked apart
ment. She had gone there, she
told police, because young Thorne
failed to keep a swimming date
Saturday.
Six Convicts Grab Visitors
And Use Them As Shields
In Attempted Get-Away
LANSING, Kas., (#>—Shielding
themselves with six terrified pri
son visitors, six desperate con
victs tried to force their way out
of the Kansas State Prison yester
day.
A veteran guard was killed, and
one of the hostages and two of
the convicts were wounded in
bursts of gunfire before the group
surrendered in the administra
tion building.
The convicts were armed with
crude .22 pistols and six knives,
all made within the prison walls.
The six men rushed into the
visitor’s room, where about 15
visitors were talking with pri
soners. They seized the hostages,
including two children, and rush
ed to the administration building.
Fred Kenagu, 58, an unarmed
guard supervisor with 15 years
of service, encountered the group
at the administration building
door and was shot to death.
Albert White Withdraws
As Independent Candidate
For Delegate to Congress
JUNEAU, (/Pt — Albert White,
citing ill health as his reason,
withdrew as a candidate for Dele
gate to Congress. The longtime
Republican party leader in Alaska
had filed for the post as an In
dependent.
However, in withdrawing, he
urged the voters of the territory
to support President Eisenhower
in unity.
White’s withdrawal leaves the
contest for delegate between Dem
ocratic incumbent E. L. Bartlett
and Barbara Dimock, Anchorage
Republican.
In a statement to Auditor Neil
Moore requesting his name be
omitted from the official General
Election ballot, White said a phys
ical disability would not permit
him to make an active campaign
through the territory.
Federal Property to
Alaska Without Cost
Bill Would Give Surplus
From the Office of the Governor
JUNEAU—Rep. John Saylor
(R-Pa) has introduced a bill to
authorize the transfer; of surplus
federal property to the Territory
of Alaska without cost. Governor
Heintzleman worked with Inter
ior Dept, officials and Saylor on
drafting the bill earlier this year.
The bill would make available
to the territory all federal prop
erty in Alaska that has been or
may be designated as surplus by
federal agencies. The term “prop
erty” as defined in the bill in
cludes asll real and personal fed
eral property with the exception
of the public domain, certain na
val vessels and federal records.
Heintzleman said Saturday he
believes the bijl may be extreme
ly helpful in securing equipment
for such agencies as the highway
engineer, the Dept, of Civil De
fense, the National Guard and
other branches of the territorial
governmest.
Under the terms of the bill the
territory could acquire without
cost such property as the Juneau
subport, the buildings and equip
ment used for oil exploration in
the arctic and other items which
otherwise might be disposed of at
public sale.
Newly Nominated
Attorney General
Shot to Death
PHOENIX CITY, Ala., W—
Crime-fighting Albert L. Patter
son, Alabama’s newly nominated
attorney general, was shot to
death in his parked car here Fri
day night just as he had predicted
he might be.
The 59-year-old Patterson, who
was to take office Jan. 17, was
shot three times by an assassin
who, officers said, apparently
stood along side his 1951 model
car and fired at point-blank range.
Congress Delegate
Farrington of T.H.
Dies In His Office
WASHINGTON, UP>—The Dele
gate to Congress for Hawaii, Jos
eph Rider Farrington, was found
dead in his office Saturday of a
heart attack.
When Farrington failed to keep
an appointment in the capital Sat
urday — and it was learned he
wasn’t at home — a check was
made at his office, where his body
was found.
Farrington—a Republican and
56 years old — represented the
Territory of Hawaii since 1942.
He was president and publisher
of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
His friends say he has suffered
a heart condition for some time.
Farrington’s was the second
death of a member of Congress
Saturday. Senator Lester Hunt of
Wyoming committed suicide in
his Senate office.
Truman Okay After
Emergency Appendix And
Gall Bladder Operation
KANSAS CITY, UP — Former
President Harry S. Truman, re
ported in satisfactory condition
today after an emergency opera
tion, probably will be able to
leave the hospital in 10 days.
Truman’s appendix and gall
bladder were removed early Sun
day.
The 70-year-old ex-President
was able to sit up in a chair for
a brief period yesterday. He told
his doctor he considered himself
just another patient at Research
Hospital and didn’t want any fuss
made in his behalf.
He first became ill Friday night
while attending a play at the out
door Starlight Theater.
Doctor Claims New Ulcer
Treatment Allows
Unlimited Diet
SAN FRANCISCO, UP— Claims
that nearly 900 out of 1,000
ulcer patients had been treated
successfully with pills and at the
same time were allowed an un
limited diet including liquor and
tobacco were made by a Cleve
land physician in an exhibit to
the American Medical Associa
tion.
Dr. E. A. Marshall said this was
done by giving pills every hour
and sometimes oftener for the
first 16 hours of treatment. Dr.
Marshall is director of the medi
cine department of Huron Road
Hospital, Cleveland.
He made the pills out of several
conventional anti-ulcer chemicals,
including anti-acids, sedatives and
dilating agents.
On this treatment, Dr. Marshall
asserted, the vast majority of
patients were able to go ahead
with an unlimited diet.
UN Calls For Cease-fire In Guatemala
Where First Battle Is Yet to be Fought
TEGUCIGULAP, Honduras, (flM
—President Jacobo" Arbenfc Gus
man of Guatemala proclaimed
martial law throughout his in*
vaded country today as his Com
munist-backed government mobil
ized for a showdown battle with
anti-red rebels.
Insurgent leaders claimed their
forces were pushing ahead in a
three-pronged drive aimed at' key
rail and road communications in
the southern part of the country.
The martial law decree was an
nounced last night, following a
government appeal for all private
cars to be turned in for use in
moving troops. Reports from
Guatemala said the decisive phase
of the battle for that neighboring
Central American nation may
come within a few hours.
Associated Press correspondent
Jack Rutledge, in Guatemala City,
quoted Guatemalan army officers
as saying no field action had yet
been fought.' They added, how
ever, that a battle could not be
delayed much longer.
Chinese Reds Confirm
They Are Holding About
30 Americans Prisoner
GENEVA, UFi — The Chinese
Communists confirmed today that
they are holding 30 American
civilians in prison, but said one
civilian and a number of mili
tary personnel listed by the Unit
ed States as detained were either
dead or missing.
This information was passed on
to the United States in the fourth
meeting between representatives
of the U.S. and Chinese Com
munist delegations on the ex
change of detained persons.
The United States agreed to
permit 15 detained Chinese na
tionals to leave the United States
and return to the China mainland.
The Chinese listed only 30 Am
ericans which they said they are
holding in prison. The U.S. be
lieved they were holding 83 civ
ilians and military personnel
either in prison or prevented from
leaving China.
The Chinese did not say when
any of those detained would be
released if at all.
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
New York 16-3, Chicago 6-7
Cleveland 3-9, Boston 1-2
Washington 7-7, Baltimore 1-2
National League
New York 7, St. Louis 6
Brooklyn 6-6, Chicago 1-3
Pittsburgh 1-6, Milwaukee 1-3
Cincinnatti 15, Philadelphia 6
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 5-8, San Francisco
4-1
Oakland 4-6, Los Angeles 1-3
San Diego 8-5, Seattle 4-4
Portland 6, Sacramento 4
> UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W—
The U.N. Security Council called
unanimously last night for a cease
firfe in. Guatemala and for all
U.N. members to withhold aid
from the fighting forces there.
The action came after the So
viet Union cast its 60th veto in
council history on behalf of Guate
mala’s leftist government. The
veto defeated a motion to refer
the Guatemalan complaint of ag
gression to the Western Hemi
sphere’s regional organization, the
Organization of American states.
U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., council president for
June, said the Soviet veto show
ed obviously the Russians have
“designs” on the Americas. He
warned angrily:
1 “I*say to the Soviet delegate:
Stay out of the Western Hemi
sphere. Don’t try to start your
plans and conspiracies here.”
The cease-fire call was voted
after Guatemala’s delegate charg
ed neighboring Honduras and
Nicaragua, backed by the United
States and the United Fruit Co.,
had connived in an aggression
against Guatemala’s territory by
mercenary expeditionary forces.
Lodge hotly defended his gov
ernment and denied the charges.
He said information available to
the United States “strongly sug
gests that the situation does not
involve aggression, but revolt of
Guatemalans against Guatemal
ans.”
Man Is Sealed In Railroad
Car For Eight Days
CASA GRANDE, Ariz., UP) —
Food and water are on Milford
Alvin Fitzgerald’s mind today af
ter being trapped in a sealed rail
road car for eight days.
Dehydrated from the long or
deal, the 28-year-old man was
freed last night after a hobo re
ported hearing a noise.
Fitzgerald, at first unable to
talk, was hospitalized in “poor,
but improving” condition. After
several hours he began to mumble
incoherently and finally, he said:
“I’m awful hungry.”
Nurses at Pinal County Gen
eral hospital fed him chipped ice
at first, later soft foods.
Southern Pacific railroad of
ficials said Fitzgerald, of Seattle
and Spring Valley, Calif., appar
ently had climbed into the car
loaded with lumber in Washing
ton state a week ago Saturday.
The car was sealed. When it
passed through Tucson yesterday,
the hobo announced he had heard
what sounded like a man. Officers
opened the car when it arrived
here.
MIDNIGHT SOFTBALL
GAME TONIGHT!