Violent End . . .
HOLLYWOOD, UP> — Best
selling author Tom Chamales, 35,
due to appear in court today to an
swer charges he beat his wife,
singer Helen O’Connell, died Sun
day in a violent end to a violent
life.
He died in his smoke-filled
apartment despite a desperate
effort to find his way to safety.
Firemen said he was asphyxi
ated while trying to escape.
Smudged hand-prints on the
wall showed where he had sought
to feel his way to a door or
window.
Miss O’Connell was in a state
of shock after she was told the
news.
She asked a friend: “How shall
I ever tell little Maria?”
Helen Maria is the couple’s 18
month-old daughter.
During their stormy three-year
marriage, police were called to
their home five times.
Chamales first wife, Constance,
charged in her 1957 divorce that
he “cared for drinks more than
for his family.”
He leaves two sons, Thomas
and Gerald, by his first marriage.
Air Force Explains Its
Scrapping Old Appliances
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force denies it is burying $35,000
worth of washing machines, out
board, motors and other equip
ment each week at a northern
Ontario radar base.
The equipment that is buried
the Air Force explained Friday,
is beyond repair. Furthermore, it
is offered to a Canadian govern
ment agency first to see if any
body wants it or can use it.
Senate Works Sunday to
Get Through Liquor Bill
JUNEAU, UR —4The Senate,
hurrying to complete its work be
fore the scheduled end of the
Legislative session this week, held
a Sunday session again and re
jected a House resolution regard
ing liquor regulations.
i The House passed last week
20-18 a resolution which would
have repealed regulations estab
lished last November by the Al
coholic Beverage Control Board.
The regulations include the con
troversial rule setting uniform
hours for the sale of whisky
throughout the state.
When the resolution came be
fore the Senate, Majority Leader
Ralph Moody pointed out the
House failed to muster the 21
votes- needed to pass a bill or ap
prove a resolution which has the
effect of law.
The resolution was sent hack to
the House with a message calling
attention to the lack of a majority
vote.
The ABC regulations will con
tinue in force unless the House
moves to rescind its action and
brings the resolution back for an
other try at passage.
BOND ISSUES FAIL TO GET
RECOGNITION BY GOVERNOR
JUNEAU, UR — Two new laws
regarding city and school bond
issues were on the books today
although neither won the approval
of Gov. William Egan.
The Governor neither veft>ed
nor signed the measures passed
by the Legislature. One law per
mits a simple majority rather
than a 65 per cent margin to carry
a bond election. The second meas
ure ratifies all past bond issues.
Paul Fryhling, head of the
Evangelical Covenant Church of
Minneapolis, the largest of this
denomination, is a visitor here,
and will be the principal speaker
for the KICY dedication broad
cast.
Little Rock Police
Chief, Wife, Found
Dead at Home
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UP) —
Little Rock Police Chief Eugene
Smith and his wife were found
shot to death in their home here
Saturday.
The bodies of Smith, a central
figure in the Little Rock integra
tion controversy, and his wife
were found by a neighbor in the
kitchen.
Dr. Howard A. Dishongh, coun
ty coroner ruled the deaths a
murder and suicide, but said he
could not be certain who did the
shooting.
A pistol was found near the
bodies. No motive was established
immediately.
A neighbor said she heard
what sounded like shots about
9:30 p.m., Friday.
Smith, wearing trousers and a
T-shirt, was in a sitting position
on the floor. His wife, fully
dressed, was lying across a chair.
Smith had been the target of
segregationist attacks since police
under his leadership broke up a
demonstration near Central High
School when it opened with token
integration last August 19. He was
■assistant chief during he integra
tion battles in 1957.
Last week police under Smith
broke up a Negro sit-down pro
test at a downtown lunch counter.
WIEN AIRLINES TRAFFIC '
Duane Oylie, Burroughs repre
sentative, arrived this morning
from Fairbanks. Also arriving
were Herman Flint, W. Balinger,
Joe McFaddon, C. Bigson, K.
Ivanoff, and Mr. and Mrs. Funk
and child.
Departing for Fairbanks, were
Axel Edman, Todd Smith, Eph
Wheeler, A. Melgon, and for Ga
lena, Bill Secor.
In 1905 the Alaska Road Com
mission was established as a
function of the Corps of En
gineers.
Northwest Airlines
Stratocruiser Takes Steep
Dive to Avoid Collision
MINNEAPOLIS, UR — A pas
senger and stewardess suffered
minor injuries Friday night when
a Northwest Airlines Strato
cruiser carrying 73 made a sharp
dive the pilot said was necessary
to avoide two military jets flying
in formation over Lansing, Mich.
. “It was a real dive and it was
very obvious the pilot was trying
to avoid something,” said Arthur
W. Smith, Minneapolis a passen
ger.
But a military spokesman in
Michigan denied the airliner had
been endangered.
The airline said the plane,
Flight 7 from New York, was fly
ing at 16,000 feet when William
Smith, the pilot, made the diving
right turn of about 300 feet to
miss two military jets.
Woman Kennels Owner
Chewed to Death by
Prize Pet Doberman
NORTHVALE, N. J., UP) — A
50-year-old woman was killed
Saturday by her pet Doberman
Pinscher. Police Chief John Ga
vales said the woman had been
bhewed to death.
The body of Frances Tetreault,
owner of the Augdenberg Ken
nels, was found badly mangled in
front of her house. Northvale is
in North Jersey near the New
York State line.
Gavales summoned by an em
ploye of the kennel who disdov
ered the body, found the dog in
a state of uncontrollable wildness.
Gavales shot the animal with a
12-gauge shotgun.
Mrs. Tetreault had lived alone
in the house with the dog since
her husband died six months ago.
The dog was a full grown male
and a prize winner at dog shows.
SEATTLE, UR — Morell E.
Sharp, Seattle attorney, has been
named vice president, administra
tion, for Alaska Airlines, the com
pany announced Saturday.
Probers Call Out
Army to Search for
Air Crash Victims
TELL CITY, Ind., W) — A
power shovel and a bulldozer
probed a deep hole Saturday for
remains of a Northwest Airlines
plane and air crash detectives
called for 200 soldiers to hunt
widely-scattered bits of wreckage.
The investigators still had no
real clues to whether a planted
bomib, a high-altitude storm or
something else broke up the
plane and killed all 63 persons
aboard Thursday.
The search for evidence went
on in a heavy snowstorm, which
hampered low-level helicopter
operations.
In St. Paul, Northwest Airlines
announced plans to fly relatives
of the 63 victims to a memorial
service at the scene next week.
'Investigators said the troops
were being called in because
wreckage was scattered at least
six miles from the farm field cra
ter where the main section of th^
airliner fell.
Asked what the wide scattering
of wreckage indicated, a CAB
spokesman said:
“Nothing, except that the plane
broke up at high altitude.”
Specialists in aircraft engines
and structures were doing the
work in the crater near a country
farmhouse nine miles east of Tell
City in the Ohio River hills.
. The secialists said they think
the aircraft’s fourth engine may
be found in the crater. The other
engines were found as much as
fiVe miles away.
Beltz Laughs Off ‘Collapse’
As ‘Too Much Corned Beef
JUNEAU, Wl — “Too much
corned beef and cabbage for a
smoked Irishman.” That’s the rea
son Sen. William Beltz jokingly
gave for his collapse Friday.
The 57-year-old Unalakleet
Democrat, who is president of the
Senate, slumped over his desk
during a morning legislative ses
sion. He walked to the lounge for
a preliminary medical checkup
and his physician later said the
attack apparently was caused by
exhaustion. •
Beltz returned to his duties for
the afternoon session.
Beltz’ remark about eating re
ferred to the traditional Irish din
ner served at a legislative ban
quet on St. Patrick’s Day.
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