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Cheryl Crane Tells
How She Stabbed
Her Mother’s Lover
LOS ANGELES Of) — The 14
year-old daughter of Lana Turner
was quoted today as saying that
John Stompanato was chasing her
mother when he was stabbed.
The daughter, Cheryl Crane,
did not appear at an inquest to
day to tell her version of the
fatal stabbing in Miss Turner’s
Beverly Hills home last Friday
night. Police said Cheryl told
' them it was she who stabbed her
mother’s lover.
The Los Angeles Mirror News
today published an account of
a talk with Cheryl by an uniden
tified friend at juvenile hall
where the youngster is being
held pending a hearing April 24.
The friend quoted Cheryl as
saying: “I still can’t believe the
whole thing happened. Every
thing happened so fast I can’t
really remember much about it.
“I do remember that mother
was rushing out of the bedroom,
Johnny was chasing her. He was
going so fast that he couldn’t
stop when he saw the knife.
He ran right into it.”
Gambler Mickey Cohen
Refuses To Identify
John Stompanato
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Former
gambler Mickey Cohen refused
to testify today at an inquest in
to the stabbing of Johnny Stom
panato, declaring that he was
afraid he might be accused of
Stompanato’s murder.
Cohen, first witness called,
was asked to identify the slain
boy friend of Lana Turner, who
once served as his bodyguard.
“I refuse to identify him be
cause I may be accused of his
murder,” said Cohen.
He was testifying under oath.
The astounded hearing officer
excused Cohen from further tes
timony and the pudgy little ex
West Coast gambling figure left
the crowded inquest room in a
hurry.
Cohen refused to elaborate on
his statement other than to say
that Beverly Hills police chief
Clinton Anderson had led him to
believe he might be accused of
the murder.
“He said that Johnny and Lana
were going together to finance;
my operations,” said Mickey. I
“If he can say that he can say
anything and I’m not gonna tes
tify about anything.”
Cohen did not explain what
he meant by his “operations.”
Six Cops Arrested For Thievery
MUSKOGEE, Okla.,* UP) — Six
Muskogee policemen were ar
rested today and charged with
second degree burglary in con
nection with thefts which occured
while they were on duty.
Chief of police Ernie Wehba
announced the action after the
six were taken into custody and
he demanded their resignations.
Webba said that the men are
specifically charged with the
theft of automobile tires, coffee
and tea and foodstuffs.
SON OF JIMMY DOOLITTLE
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
AUSTIN, Tex.—Maj. James
H. Doolittle Jr., son of the famed
flying general who led the World
War II raid on Tokyo, was found
dead of a gunshot wound recent
ly in his office at Bergstrom Air
Force base. ^
Ancient Eskimo Paintings
Found on Tuksuk River
According to the White Alice
periodical, rock paintings have
been found up the Tuksuk River
about seventeen miles from Tel
ler. These are the only such
paintings found in northern Alas
ka according to the report al
though many are found in the
Cook Inlet country.
The drawings are in both red
and black paint and majority of
the drawings represent human
beings in various attitudes.
The article states that the lo
cal Eskimos believe these pictures
illustrate a war between them
selves and Siberians who raided
the Alaskan coast centuries ago.
A.E.C. Excludes
Private Citizens
From A-Tests
• WASHINGTON, UP)—The Atom
ic Energy Commission today
threw up a legal barrier against
the plan by four Americans to
sail a small boat into the Eniwe
tok area as a protest against
forthcoming U. S. nuclear tests.
They will be subject to arrest if
they proceed with their plan.
The AEC issued a regulation,
effectively, prohibiting all U. S.
citizens and persons subject to
U. S. jurisdiction from entering,
attempting to enter or conspiring
to enter tlfe proclaimed danger
zone.
Issued under AEC’s broad gen
eral powers, it applies only to
Americans because much of the
danger zone is high seas under
international law. The United
States can control its own citizens
but only warn other nationals.
The 30-foot ketch Golden Rule,
with four persons aboard, sailed
from San Pedro, Calif., March
25 to protest the forthcoming
nuclear tests. Tne voyage is
sponsored by the committee for
Non-Violent Action Against Nu
clear Weapons.
The vessel is scheduled to
reach Eniwetok in May, after the
tests have started.
Statistics Show
Decline Was Less
Steep In March
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The gov
ernment reported today that re
tail sales dropped one per cent
in March and the rate of person
al income dipped 300 million dol
lars annually.
In each case the decline was
less steep than in the previous
month, giving support to Pres
ident Eisenhower’s assertion ear
lier this week that March saw a
slowing-up of the decline.
The Commerce Department
said the annual rate of personal
income in March was $341,400,
000 by comparison with $341,700,
000 in February. The March
rate was 5Vz billion dollars be
low the peak rate attained last
August.
The most significant aspect of
the personal income figures was
that the annual rate of wage and
salary payments showed a $1,
100,000,000 drop. This reflected
further layoffs and shortened
working hours in industry.
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower flew to Augusta,
Ga., today, hoping for three days
of golf and leisure.
It was Eisenhower’s 19th trip
to Augusta since he was elected
President in 1952. His last
weekend there was March 22-23.
CAB To Hold
Hearing In Nome
| Next Thursday
A Civil Aeronautics Board
hearing has been announced to
be held here Thursday, April 17th
at the City Hall at 1:30 p.m.
Representatives of the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and
CAB will hold the hearing in
the interest of requirements and
regulations pertaining to air car
rier operations of small aircraft
and proposed regulations for
bush operation, charter opera
tions and pilot-owner operations.
In the party from Washington,
D.C. are Ward Masden of the
Air Carrier Division of the CAB
Mr. Burbick of the General Safe
ty Division, John Quinn chief
of the Air Carrier Division. From
Alaskan CAA headquarters will
be A1 Hulen, regional director,
Marritt Boyle, A. Tibbs, Bud S.
Saltenreich, Don Gretzer* A.
Young, Charlie Planck and J.
Allen McPeeke.
All persons interested in the
regulatory phases of small air
plane air carriers and pilot-own
er operations should attend the
hearing.
Personnel Warned
Not to Oppose New
Military Set-Up
WASHINGTON, UP) — Uni
formed officers and civilian of
ficials in the Defense Department
have been told bluntly to avoid
any public speeches opposing
President Eisenhower’s proposals
for tightening the top military
command.
But in issuing this warning
yesterday, Secretary of Defense
McElroy said such persons should
give frank and full replies to
Congressional committees which
seek their views on the issue.
A House Armed Services sub
committee will open hearings
next Tuesday on the reorgani
zation plan.
McElroy also indicated a be
lief that any officers or civilian
officials who disagree with the
reorganization plan should quit
if their objections were so strong
they felt they could not work
under it.
The Defense chief made these
statements in reply to a question
after a speech to the National
Press Club. In that speech, Mc
Elroy denied the plan would
make him a czar in military mat
ters, and he disavowed any de
sire for blanket control over de
fense appropriations. Congres
sional opponents of the Presi
dent’s plan have raised these two
chief points.
As described by McElroy, the
reorganization plan would stream
line the chain of command, clar
ify the Defense Secretary’s au
thority and give him a “modest
flexibility in money matters.”
Russia Grants Japan Fishermen
Quota of 100,000 Tons Salmon
MOSCOW, UFi — Japanese ag
riculture minister Munenori Ak
agi said today the Soviet Union
has proposed to grant Japanese
fishermen a quota of 100,000 tons
of salmon in the North Pacific
this year.
The Japanese have been asking
for a quota of 145,000 tons. The
Russians previously proposed 80,
000 tons. Informed sources here
express belief the Japanese will
accept the 100,000 ton quota.
V
Pan American To
Suspend Nome Service,
Last Flight April 25
Pearse Walsh, local manager,
for Pan American Airways an-1
nounced today that the CAB has j
granted the P.A.A. permission to j
suspend temporarily its flights
to Nome. ,
The last flight will be made on I
April 25th and the station will
close on May 1st.
Word was also received that the
request of Alaska Airlines to fly
from Fairbanks to Nome since
Pan American was leaving was
denied by CAB.
CUBAN REVOLT
SEEMS DOOMED
HAVANA, Cuba, (£) — Fidel
Castro’s chances of ousting Pres
[ ident Batista soon faded today
after failure of his forces’ second
attempt at total war and a gen
eral strike.
Bomb-throwing young rebels
tried yesterday to touch off an
uprising in Santiago but national
police quickly smothered them
with machinegun fire.
On Wednesday rebels in Ha
vana and Matanzas called a gen
eral strike and popular arisings.
That time, too, the public did not
respond and police quelled the
outbreak.
From his guerrilla headquar
ters in the Sierra R^aestra of
southeastern Cuba, Castro con
tinued to direct sabotage and at
tacks on communications—the
kind of campaign he has waged
against Batista for 16 months.
But the two failures to win
popular support for his pro
claimed all-out war to over
I throw Batista apparently left
j Castro without any immediate
chance of success. The defeat in
j Santiago was a particularly hard i
j blow, since Castro’s main strength
I and theater oi; operations is the
surrounding Oriente province.
U. S. Denounces
Latest Russia
Summit Note
WASHINGTON, W) — The Uni
ted States quickly denounced as
unacceptable today a Russian
suggestion for opening prepar
atory talks for a summit con
ference in Moscow next Thursday.
The U. S. action, one of the
fastest on record, was announced
from the White House while
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State Dulles were still
discussing a note just received
from Moscow.
The Soviet note said in effect
that an ambassadors’ meeting in
Moscow and a later conference
of East-West foreign ministers
should concern themselves only
with fixing the time, place and
composition of a summit con
ference. Moscow proposed that
unanimous agreement be re
quired to bring up any other
problem.
Recalling that the western
powers on March 31 had pro
posed pre-summit diplomatic
talks in Moscow in the last half
of April, the White House said
“the Soviet reply is manifestly
not an acceptance of this West
ern proposal.”
In the official view here, the
heart of the western proposal
| was that there should be prepar
atory work aimed at fixing a
time and place for summit talks
and at bringing out, “by general
discussion, the possibilities of
agreement” at the summit.
Harry Tells Ike
To ‘Slug It Out’
With Detractors
WASHINGTON UP) — Harry S.
Truman almost bubbled over
with benevolence for everybody
but Khrushchev today as he ar
rived in Washington for a busy
weekend.
His only advice to President
Eisenhower was that his White
House successor “slug it out with
both hands” when critics make
personal attacks.
That didn’t mean the Demo
cratic former President didn’t
feel there was ground for criti
cism of the way things are going
under Republican Eisenhower.
For instance, Truman told in
terviewers at one point, “you
can’t buy your way out of a de
pression—you’ve got to work
your way out of it.”
And Truman said he saw “no
danger” that a public works pro
gram aimed at combatting the
recession would lead to inflation.
Truman was asked what he
thought about “personal attacks
on the President.”
“I don’t think it’s proper and
right to personally attack the
President of the United States,”
he said without hesitation. “It
is the most important job in the
world. When he is attacked ,
personally he ought to fight back
—slug with both hands. That’s
what I did.”
As for Soviet Premier Khrush
chev, Truman didn’t see any dif
ference between him and his
predecessors since “all dictators
are alike.”
Navy Now Able To
Fire Polaris Missile
From Underwater
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
Navy said today it has developed
the equipment to fire its Polaris
1500-mile range ballistic missile
from underwater. This means
solution of the problem of get
ting it up into the air where, its
rocket engines can be ignited.
Rear Adm. W. F. Raborn, top
Naval expert on the new weapon,
said the launching device “is now
actual hardware and is under
daily tests even before the mis
sile-carrying submarines are
built.”
BALTIMORE, UP) — Alger Hiss,
convictdd of perjury when he
denied passing official papers to
a Communist spy ring, will get
about $15,005 from his mother’s
estate.
Mrs. Mary L. Hiss also wrote
off a $9,500 promissory note Al
ger owe her and left him $750
as a separate bequest. Her will
was filed in Orphans Court yes
terday.
Blimey, What A
Sensitive Pooch!
READING, England, UP) — Mrs.
Betty Leslie-Smith said today her
pet rfetriever, Lindy, got sick to
her stomach while watching a
televised medical program show
ing a dog with rabies.
“She turned from the set,
walked over to a comer of the
room and lost her dinner,” Mrs.
Leslie-Smith told a reporter.
“Now she just doesn’t display the
same interest in television as she
used to.”
British coroners have ruled in
three cases recently that women
committed suicide by gas in fear
of ailments and surgical pro
cedures they saw on BE 2 tele
vision programs.