100 Hollywood Stars May Take Stand
To Tell Truth of Scandal Stories
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Couple in Car Trunk
Rescued by Police;
Convict Captor Arrested
KANSAS CITY, WV-Attracted
by a hand waving from a partial
ly open auto trunk, police today
stopped the car here and rescued
a young couple from the trunk.
The driver of the auto, identi
fied as James Richard Essen, an
escaped Ohio convict, was arrest
ed. He was armed with a pistol
but did not resist arrest.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wagner of
Salina, Kan., owners of the car,
told police they picked up Essen
. in St. Louis early this morning,
and that he forced them into the
trunk at gunpoint.
Wagner, 21, suffered a severe
head wound. He said Essen hit
him with the pistol. Mrs. Wagner,
18, was treated for cuts.
A stop at a safety checkpoint
sponsored by the National Safety
Council led to the arrest. Wagner
said he heard a siren, realized
they were probably in a city. He
pried open the trunk lid enough
to get his hand outside.
New Foreign Aid Chief
Wins Approval of
Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, Wt—President
Eisenhower’s new foreign aid
chief won Senate committee ap
proval today. In comment on his
new job he said he has “never
set sail on any venture with so
many storm signals flying.”
James H. Smith Jr., 47-year-old
Colorado rancher and former avi
ation consultant, made this ob
servation to the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee which ap
proved his nomination to be the
director of the International Co
operation Administration (ICA).
It was a reference to the strug
gle in Congress over the amount
of money to be spent on aid to
U.S. friends and allies abroad.
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Language Difficulty
Lands Man in City Jail
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (ZF>—Juan
Alicea tried to tell the cops they
were all wrong when they arrest
ed him on a drunk charge.
But Alicea, a Puerto Rican who
speaks very little English, could
not get the point across. Finally
an interpreter was called to the
city jail.
Only then was Alicea able to
explain he was not drunk but had
been slugged on the head by a
robber who stole $50 from him.
f> LOS ANGELES, (JV—The state
launched a legal battle yesterday
to save more than 100 Hollywood
celebrities from filmdom’s hottest
! spot—the witness stand in the
confidential trial.
The defense attorney in the
criminal ' libel trial of Confiden
tial and its sister scandal maga
zine, Whisper, says he has .sub
poenaed the celebrities for just
one reason: to ask them, under
oath, if what the magazines said
about them .was true.
Producer Paul Gregory testified
today he was told he could keep
a story out of the scandal maga
zine by paying between $800 and
$1,000.
Gregory said the offer was
made by Mrs. Marjorie Meade,
one of the operators of Hollywood
Research, Inc., and a defendant in
the trial.
He said Mrs. Meade told him an
article had been written about
Charles Laughton, Robert Mitch
um and Elsa Lancaster. She said
the article was scandalously in
jurious and “would put me out
of business.-”
Gregory said he told Mrs. j
Meade her offer was “blackmail,” j
that he wasn’t going to buy off!
anybody and that he was going to |
report the matter to authorities. !
Thirteen stories accusing movie j
stars of illicit amorous adventures!
were poured into the ears of the i
jurors yesterday. More are ex- j
pected later today.
Here are some of the principals
and the stories:
Mae West—Her alleged predi- i
lection for “muscle men” and her |
employment of a Negro boxer, j
Robert Mitchum—The story !
called him “the nude who came j
to dinner.” Mitchum sued Confi- j
dential for a million dollars but1
the action was dismissed because j
of a question of jurisdiction.
Dick Powell and his wife, June j
Allyson—“How long can Dick j
Powell take it?" the title asked.
The story said Miss Allyson was
a “hubby snatcher” who carried
on flirtations with her leading
men.
Corinne Calvet—The F r e n e h j
actress, according to the story, |
was overly demanding of affec
tion from her husband, John
Bromfield, and Later from actor
Jeff Stone. ,
Jayne Mansfield—The buxom
I blonde entertained Mr. Universe
' in her home overnight, Confiden
‘ tial alleged.
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Admitted: Howard Weyanna.
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JUNEAU—Here are the final
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sale. It is the second best in the
history of the Alaska Tuberculo
sis Assn., being surpassed only by
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Received from sponsors in 20
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Sixteen cities increased by per
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It has been reported that by
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As of April of this year there
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Russia Tells Disarmament Group
Agreement on Arms Race Must
Eliminate Foreign Military Bases
LONDON, </PI—Russia told the
disarmament conference yester
day any agreement for slowing
down the world arms race must
include measures to eliminate for
eign military bases and to with
draw foreign troops from East
and West Germany.
Valerian Zorin declared before
the five-member U.N. Disarma
ment Commission:
“Evasion of a direct reply (to
these proposals* can be regarded
as unwillingness to settle these
question in a businesslike way—
questions on which the establish
ment of a normal situation in
Europe and a real lessening of
the danger of war depend.”
The Soviet spokesman com
plained the Western powers have
allowed nearly five months to go
by without clearly answering
these proposals.
He asserted the attitude of the
American, British, French and
Canadian members of the group
“is not consistent with their ex
pressed desire” to reduce the dan
gers of war.
Zorin’s speech was before the
148th session of the subcommit
tee. Harold E. Stassen, the U.S.
delegate, presided over the dis
armament meeting.
The Russian made no reference
to his government’s attitude to
the Western proposal of Aug. 2
for an intercontinental air and
ground inspection scheme to
guard against surprise attack.
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