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THE COST OF CRIME
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J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI states: “We complain
about high taxes, but last year crime cost every man,
woman and child in the United States $122.00, or a
staggering estimated total of twenty billions of dollars.
Perhaps this figure could become more meaningful
if we realized that for every $1 spent on education,
crime cost $1.46; and for every $1 which went to the
churches of the nation, $13 went to crime.”
Mr. Hoover said this in a speech urging improve
ment in crime control — especially as it affects the
parole system and the problem of the repeater. And
the challenge of this he added, “is a challenge to all
of us. _
Alaska Salmon Harvest Seen as
Heading Back to Previous Peaks
WASHINGTON, UPl—Fish and
Wildlife Service officials are opti
mistic Alaskan salmon runs are
headed back to previous peaks.
The finny harvest bounced back
strongly this last summer after
several seasons of low catch.
Seton Thompson, chief of the
Alaska fisheries division of Fish
and Wildlife, said it may be “quite
a while” before red salmon runs
are back to par because of that
fish’s five-year life cycle.
With any luck in natural condi
tions, however, he expects runs
of pink salmon with its shorter
two-year life cycle to be back to
peak levels within two years.
Thompson said the depart
ment’s No. 1 program to rebuild
the depleted runs still is regula
tion of fishermen and seasons.
It also has a program of stream
improvement directed at remov
ing waterfalls or other barriers
which block passage of fish.
One of the principal parts of
this program is removal of some
30 to 50 beaver dams a year in
the Cook Inlet area.
Studies also are under way to
determine the extent of the pred
ator problem.
A recently completed study oy
the Alaska department of fisher
ies will show that the beluga
or white whale is a major preda
tor. eating both adult and migrant
salmon in the Bristol Bay area,
Thompson said.
Thompson dismissed with a
grin any questions concerning the
effectiveness of electrical fences
to keep marauding bears out of
the spawning grounds.
The idea, tried out in the Kar
luk area of Kodiak Island, was
that the bear would be stung by
the electrical charge in the .fence
and be discouraged in his idea
for a salmon dinner.
It worked, too—up to a point.
“The bear was stung, all right,"
Thompson reported. “But he was
also mad. He'd just rare up on
his hind legs, take one swipe at
the fence and walk right on in.”
NICARAGUA PRESIDENT ATTACKED BY ASSASSIN
WASHINGTON, —President
Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua
was shot three times at a recep
tion Friday night and his assassin
was beaten to death, the Nicara
guan embassy reported here.
Wounded in the arm, leg and
stomach, Somoza’s condition was
described as “delicate.”
Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla
Sacasa said he received details of
the shooting by telephone from
Managua, capital of Nicaragua.
Earlier, the White House said
President Eisenhower had re
ceived word from the U.S. Am
bassador Thomas Whelan that
Sarnoza had been shot four times.
Eisenhower ordered a U.S. medi
cal team flown to Managua from
the Panama Canal Zone.
Sevilla-Sacasa said the attack
on Somoza occurred while the
President was attending a recep
tion in his honor at Leon, a city
near Managua. ,
He said that while most of the
large crowd at the reception was
dancing, Somoza was seated in a
chair at one side of the ballroom.
Suddenly, Sevilla-Sacasa said,
the President was approached by
a man who fired probably four
shots, one shot breaking the Pres
ident’s arm, one hitting him in the
leg, the third piercing his stom
ach.
The ambassador said the crowd
turned on the assassin^and beat
him to death. Sevilla-Sacasa iden
tified the man who fired the shots
as Rigoberto Lopez Perez.
He said he did not know wheth
er Lopez Perez was a Nicaraguan
or not but that he had come to
Maegua a few days ago from the
nearby country of San Salvador.
Sevilla-Sacasa said the reason
for the shooting had not been de
termined but a thoro investigation
was under way.
Samoza was flown by helicop
ter to a Managua hospital, the
ambassador said.
Somoza first served as Presi
dent from 1936 to 1947. There
after, as commander of the army,
he ruled thru President Roman
y Reyes, his uncle, until 1950.
On the President’s death in that
year Somoza assumed office and
later was elected for a six-year
term.
Somoza was educated in the
United States. He was graduated
from the Pearce Institute in Phil
adelphia in accounting and busi
ness administration.
Back home, Somoza ran an
automobile agency, promoted
boxing, drifted into politics and
joined the Revolutionary Party
that put Gen. Jose Maria Mon
cada into the presidency.
Eisenhower Asks Farmers
To Withhold Judgement
’Til Tuesday Speech
President Eisenhower, in in
formal talks to some 75,000 per
sons at Newton, Iowa, Friday,
asked them to withhold judge
ment on his own farm program
until his 'Tuesday night speech at
Peoria, 111. This is billed as the
major farm speech of the Eisen
hower campaign.
“Many of you will not agree
with me,” Eisenhower said. “Some
of you, frankly, will probably
think I am a little bit carzy. But
I am sure that none of you will
think I am not honest."
On the return trip to Des
Moines for the flight to Washing
ton the President and Mrs. Eisen
hower were greeted by a crowd
estimated at 100,000 persons. In
a brief statement at the airport
he praised Iowa GOP nominees
and urged Republicans to get ev
ery possible voter to the polls on
Election Day.
Nixon Foresees Future
Of Four-Day Week and
Two Cars for Everyone
DENVER, un—'Vice President
Nixon Saturday spoke of a “not
too far distant” future in which
the American working man can
have “a four-day week”-and “pov
erty will be a forgotten word.”
“Our goals are more than mgre
statistics,” Nixon said. “fVe could
say that our hope is to double ev
eryone’s' standard of living in 10
years. We could promise two aut
omobiles, three television sets, a
better house and a dozen other
comforts.”
“These are not dreams or idle
boasts,” Nixon continued. “They
simply are projections of the gains
we have made in the past four
years."
Sen. Estes Kefauver, Nixon's
Democratic opponent on an 11,000
mile tour of his own, told a news
conference in Ephrata, Wash.,
yesterday Nixon sounds like “a
modern-day version of Herbert
Hoover.”
GOVERNOR'S STUNG HAND
NO GOOD FOR SHAKING
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Iffi—Gov.
Dennis J. Roberts, Democrat, lost
the use of a big political ass^t
Sunday—his “handshaking” hand.
He was stung by a bee on the :
palm of his right hand yesterday j
while shaking hands with well
wishers at a West Warwick clam- ,
bake.
By the time he reached his next I
political gathering, Robert’s hand j
was swollen to \he point where he I
was unable to use it for hand
shaking purposes.
Babe Zaharias Becoming
‘Perceptibly Weaker’
GALVESTON, Texas, bPl—Babe
Didrikson Zaharias became “per
ceptibly weaker” within the last
48 hours, altho she spent a restful
night, hospital authorities report
ed today.
Yesterday, in what they called
their “first realistic statement
about her fight against cancer,
the authorities said the famed
woman athlete’s condition might
become critical at any time.
_
CHAPLIN’S EX-WIFE. 46.
WEDS BANK CLERK. 30
HOLLYWOOD, WV-Lita Gray
Chaplin, 48, a former wife of
Charlie Chaplin, has married Pat
Longo, 30-year-old bank clerk.
The wedding was performed
Saturday in the nondenomina
tional Little Brown Church. It
was the third marriage for the
bride, the .first for Longo. They ]
had been dating the past two
years. ‘
The former actress married
Chaplin in 1924 when she was 16.
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