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Ex-Convict Shoots
Self After
10-Hour Siege
PINEVILLE, Ore., UPl — An ex
convict brushed aside pleas to
surrender and killed himself to
day after a 10-hour siege that
began when he briefly held six
persons captive.
Stanley Robinson, 27, shot him
self in the head as police rushed
across the frozen lawn minutes
after midnight to pump tear gas
into his small, white frame house.
Only moments before, a psy
chologist had gone into the
house unarmed in an attempt to
persuade Robinson to surrender.
It was the only shot fired in
the siege that began when state
policeman Vern Boyer went to the
house to serve a warrant on Rob
inson, released from the State
Prison October 31.
Robinson, a Marine Corps vet
eran of the Korean ’War, then
stepped from the bedroom with
a 30-30 rifle.
“I thought I was a goner,” Boy
er said.
Boyer was kept prisoner 30
minutes, along with Robinson’s
former wife and their four chil
dren, whose ages range from 5
years to 11 months.
But then State Police Sergeant
Lewell Hertzell persuaded Rob
inson to let his captives go un
harmed.
Police evacuated every nearby
house, and began a long vigil.
Several times Robinson dashed
onto the porch. Once he shouted:
“I won’t come out until I give
up the gun, or else use it.” An
other time he accepted cigarettes
from Hertzel, who said: “He told
me that he made up his mind -that
he wasn’t going back to prison
any more.”
RUSSIA'S CONSTITUTION
GUARANTEES FREEDOMS
MOSCOW, OR — The Soviet
Union celebrated the 22nd anni
versary of its Constitution today
toy asserting that Russia has gen
uine democracy but the capital
ist countries don’t. All Moscow
newspapers carried editorials
•praising the Constitution, which
says “freedom of speech, press, as
sembly, street processions and
demonstrations” are guaranteed.
PARDON MY PAYMENT . . .
MEXICO CITY, OR — A stran
ger walked up to Guillermo Diaz
Lopez as he left a neighborhood
store, said: “Now I’m going to
pay you for everything!” and
started shooting.
Then the gunman realzied he
had the wrong target.
“Pardon me. I made a mistake,”
he said and ran off.
Diaz was in a serious condition.
Eddie and Liz
Go Night-Clubbing
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., OR — A
few hours after Debbie Reynolds
sued him for divorce, singer Ed
die Fisher escorted Elizabeth Tay
lor to a fancy Beverly Hills res
taurant Thursday night.
It was their first appearance
together in public since the round
of night-clubbing in New York
last September that led to the
breakup of the Fisher-Reynolds
marriage.
Although she publicly cast Miss
Taylor in the role of the “other
woman at the time she and Fisher
separated, Mis Reynolds made no
mention of her in the divorce ac
tion, which was based on a charge
of extreme cruelty.
Today Is 25th
Anniversary Of
Repeal of Prohibition
NEW YORK, UP> — Twenty-five
years ago today — at 5:30v p.m.,
December 5, 1933—Prohibition
came to an end in the United
States. Never, previously, had so
many ever paid so little obedience
to a law as 123 million Americans
had to the Volstead Act.
The end of Prohibition marked
the end of an era.
Prohibition, the 18th Amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution,
tbok effect January 16, 1920.
The hip flask, the bootlegger,
the speakeasy became symbols
with the racoon coat, the tin lizzie
and short skirts of the nation’s
incredible roaring 20’s.
Italian Tailor
Wants To Give
Ike Vicuna Coat
By ALLAN JACKS
ROME, Uti — Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev’s Italian tailor
wants to give President Eisen
hower a vicuna coat. He says he
knew nothing about Sherman
Adams until after he announced
his plans. %
Angelo Litrice, who made three
overcoats and four suits for
Khrushchev, is flying to the
United States tonight. He is to
attend a meeting of the Interna
tional Association of Clothing De
signers in Chicago December 7. He
plans to go to Washington after
ward.
He said he’s taking along a gray
cashmere golf jacket and a blue
vicuna overcoat he’s tailored to
measurements he derived from
photographs of the President.
The U. S. Embassy hurriedly
announced that Litrice was act
ing on his own, and that the Em
bassy hadn’t been consulted. Nor
mally gifts are offered to the
President through the Embassy
and accepted only after approval
from the White House.
Vicuna is the expensive Andean
animal fiber. Boston industrialist
Bernard Goldfine gave Adams
enough for a coat. Adams quit as
Presidential assistant after being
accused of doing favors for Gold
fine. He denied the accusation.
Litrice said the garments he
made for Khrushchev had been
ordered, and were paid for, by
the Soviet Embassy in Italy.
$43,000 Federal Grant
To Help Rebuild
Dynamited School
WASHINGTON, UP) — A fed
eral grant of $43,510 will be made
to help rebuild the dynamited
Clinton, Tenn., high school.
Secretary of Welfare Flemming
today announced approval of the
grant.
The dynamiting occurred Oc
tober 5.
Federal funds are being pro
vided under a law authorizing
grants for construction of schools
needed because of increased
school enrollments resulting from
Federal activities.
The school board qualified for
the money on the basis of an es
timated increase between now and
1960 in the enrollment of chil
dren whose parents are employed
at Oakridge and other federal in-1
stallations in the Clinton area.
In its application for federal
funds, the school board estimated
cost of rebuilding the high school
would be about $250,000.
Contractor Shoots
Labor Official
Who Interfered
LOS ANGELES, UP)—“I wanted
him to jump into a swimming pool
to humiliate himself and he re
fused.”
That, says painting contractor
Howard Newman, is why he shot
and killed a union official Thurs
day.
Newman, 36, was booked on
suspicion of murder after Roberic
MacKenzie, 64, business agent for
Local 35 of the Painters District
Council, was gunned down in
front of startled workers.
Newman became angered at
MacKenzie Wednesday when the
union official pulled a union pain
ter off the job because Newman
had hired nonunion workers.
“MacKenzie came right on the
job and pulled one man off that
he knew was a union man,” said
Newman, “I brought a gun to work
knowing MacKenzie would re
turn.
“When he did show up I said
to myself, T’m gonna make that
guy walk over to the swimming
pool.’ I wanted him to jump into
the pool to humiliate himself.”
“I told him to walk and when
he refused I shot him in the stom
ach. Even after I shot him the
first time I still .panted to make
him walk to the pool and jump
in.”
MacKenzie turned and ran.
Newman shot him in the back and
leg. MacKenzie fell. Newman
stooped over the victim, turned
his head over and shot him again
at close range behind the ear,
witnesses said.
Newman went to his office, laid
the gun on his secretary’s desk,
and told her to call the police.
SCARLET O'HARA BECOMES
A GRANDMOTHER
LONDON, UP) — Scarlett O’Hara
became a grandma today.
"It’s divine,” gasped actress Vi
vien Leigh, now 45, but still
about as beautiful as when she
starred in the movie of “Gone
With The Wind.”
Her grandson was born to Su
zanne Farrington, Vivien’s 24
year-old daughter by her first
marriage.
Professor Envisions
Super City, 250 Miles
Long — ‘Sea-Tac-Port’
SEATTLE, UP) — A super city,
250 miles long and with a popu
lation of five million, was envi
sioned for the area between Se
attle and Salem, Oregon.
Professor George Spindler told
the Washington Education Asso
ciation at its 1958 meeting that
educators would have to turn out
leaders to handle such a munici
pality and would have to help
make the transition.
Spindler said the huge city of
“Sea-Tac-Port,” would be shroud
ed in smog and would be barren
of beaches and parks. ®
Japanese Fishing
May Force Closure
Of Bristol Bay
SEATTLE, Iff! — The United
States Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries said Thursday that com
plete elimination of Bristol Bay’s
rich red salmon fishqfy next year
is under serious consideration.
The bureau told the Alaska
Salmon Fishing Industry at a pub
lic hearing on proposed 1959
Alaska salmon fishing regulations
that the high seas fishing fleets
of Japan map force closure of
the Bristol Bay red salmon fish
ery if any of the area’s red salmon
are to be left alive to multiply.
George Johansen, secretary
treasurer of the Alaska Fisher
men’s Union, raised the question
of whether this policy is the one
the government should adopt.
“It is our belief that the Jap
anese are not going to be willing
to make any agreement as long
as — by American sacrifices — an
adequate spawn is allowed to es
cape each season,” Johansen said.
“The proposal, in effect, tells
the American fishermen to quit
fishing in order to maintain a
constant supply for the Japanese
to harvest in the North Pacific
waters.
“We believe these proposals
should be sent by the American
government to the Japanese gov
ernment, so that they may obtain
full information as to the extent
the American fishermen are con
serving the salmon for the exclu
sive use of the Japanese.
It May Not Be Brave, But It’s Good
Sense to Cry After Tragedy, Says Doctor
By ROBERT GOLDSTEIN
Associated Pres Science Writer
MINNEAPOLIS, OP — If tra
gedy strikes, forget all about keep
ing a stiff upper lip and let your
grief gush out, a Mayo Clinic
psychiatrist advised today.
Dr. Robert L. Faucett said the
person who is brave and holds up
well when a loved one dies wins
praise from society but is headed
for possible mental trouble in la
ter years.
He told family doctors attend
ing the annual clinic conference
of the American Medical Associa
tion that the physician is in a po
sition to administer psychiatric
first aid in such situations that
could guard against later mental
trouble.
The important period, Dr. Fau
cett said, comes a few hours after
the first stunning impact of the
catastrophe has passed and there
is a gradual return of semicon
sciousness.
“This is the crucial phase in
the grief reaction and its proper
wearing through is necessary for
future emotional health,” he said.
“There is a great need to talk and
ventilate feelings about the dead
one in this phase. This need to
ventilate — to cry, to be angry,
to talk about the past must be en
couraged.”
Dr. Faucett said the bereaved
person should not be removed
from his situation geographically,
socially or emotionally and that
sedation or tranquilizers should
be used sparingly if at all.
Even at this point, he said, the
doctor should encourage the per
son to reconstruct the past in re
lation to the present and begin to
realistically contemplate the fu
ture.
FIVE YEARS UNCONSCIOUS
SALT LAKE CITY, UP) — It was
five years ago last June that Ar
den A. Winn was taken uncon
scious from the scene of an auto
accident. He died Wednesday at
the age of 32. Doctors said he
had been unconscious the entire
time.
Arizona Warden
Calls Bluff Of
46 Rioting Inmates
By CARL BELL and
REID MILLER
FLORENCE, Ariz., UP) — A steel —
nerved warden led 25 lawmen
storming into barricades at the
Arizona State Prison last night
and rescued two guards held 'by
rebellious convicts.
Despite warnings from the 46
insurgent prisoners that they
would kill their hostages if at
tacked, Warden Frank Eyman de
cided to call their bluff — and
won his desperate gamble.
About 300 National Guardsmen,
deputies, police officers, guards
and civilian volunteers ringed the
walls with rifles and automatic
weapons to guard against new out
breaks.
Guards Calvin Hunt, 33, and
Scott Wright, 30, were held hos
tage for nearly an hour.
Both later expressed fear the
prisoners would have killed them
with their homemade knives after
the warden announced he would
not bow to inmates’ demands to
take over the prison.
“They told me to ‘tell them
guys (the lawmen) not to come
any closer or we’ll kill you’,” said
Wright. “I didn’t say anything.”
At this point, Warden Eyman, a
graying, 60-year-old former sher
iff, armed with a .45 automatic
pistol, shouted to the barricaded
convicts: “If you S-O-Bs even so
much as scratch my men, I’ll kill
all of you.”
NAM Elects New Pres.
NEW YORK, UP) — Stanley C.
Hope, a business leader who
launched a second career at the
age of 65, is the new president of
the National Association of Man
ufacturers.
Hope was elected at the annual
NAM convention last night to
succeed Milton C. Lightner, board
chairman, the Singer Manufac
turing Co., Elizabeth, N. J.
In a statement of acceptance,
Hope suggested NAM “could af
ford to change its name to the
National Association For Manu
facturers.”
He declared, “We must b£ for
and not against. We must be* for
government expenditures but on
a reasonable basis; we must be
for taxation but on an equitable
basis; and we must be for labor
relations but on an honest and
constructive basis.”
The new NAM president retired
as president of Esso Standard Oil
Co. last July after spending 46
years with several affiliates of
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
He immediately assumed the pres
idency of Soundscriber Corp.,
North Haven, Conn., manufactur
ers of dictating equipment.
Homemade Rocket
Explodes, Killing
Three of Its Builders
LAWRENCE, Kans., UP) — A
homemade rocket exploded early
today at a plant which manufac
tures missile fuel, killing three
young engineers who helped build
the device.
four others were injured by the
blast at the Callery Chemical Co.
Two of them, both engineers who
worked on the rocket, were cri
tically hurt. (
The rocket exploded in a waste
disposal area, and caused no
other material damage. The plant
makes Boron, compounds to fuel
missile and jet engines.