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10 Human Heads
Turned Up on
Lonely Farm
■PLAINFIELD, Wis., WV—The
district attorney said today five
more human heads have been
found on an isolated farm near
here, raising to 10 the number of
cadavers discovered so far in the
house where a mild-mannered
■handy-man lived alone.
The prosecutor said Edward
Gein had broken a stubborn 30
hour silence and admitted that he
“knew something” about the ma
cabre collection.
Gein said he “might of” killed
the victims, and admitted the
■ghastly butchering of a 58-year
old Plainfield business woman
Saturday.
Gein was asked whether, in
connection with the disembowel
ing of Mrs. Bernice Worden, he
had intended to eat his victim.
“On that point he still has a
lapse of memory,” the D.A. said.
Red China Orders
Industry Decentralization
To Encourage Initiative
HONG KONG, UP)—Red China
today ordered decentralization of
much of its industry to encourage
local initiative and to end exces
sive controls at the top, Peiping
radio said.
The reorganization, similar to
one ordered in the Soviet Union
by Khrushchev, was announced
by the State Council. ,
The Council adopted regula
tions granting local governments
and industrial enterprises greater
authority in industrial manage
ment in scores of industries.
The Council admitted central
government department had fall
en down on the job of directing
some industries and had exercised
excessive control.
The state will take 80 percent
of the profits from industries
transferred to local control. Local
governments will get the rest.
Six Airmen Killed in Crash of
B-29 Superfortress Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE M—A Texas air
man was credited today with
helping to save the lives of three
Air Force crewmen Friday after
their B-29 bomber crashed during
a snowstorm.
Six men died in the nighttime
qrash in the Talkeetna Range
about 50 miles to the northeast.
A survivor told how Staff Sgt.
Calvin K. Campbell, San Antonio,
pulled three of his fellow crew
men from flaming wreckage and
then kept them from freezing to
death for 16 hours.
The Superfortress was on a
routine training mission out of
Elmendorf Air Force Base when
it dropped low to escape a violent
snowstorm, only to crash into the
snow-covered mountain.
As soon as the plane hit the
Couple Celebrates 77 th
Wedding Anniversary,
Never Had a Fight
DODGEVILLE, Wis., —Twc
merry old people, who can’t re
call a serious quarrel, yesterday
celebrated the anniversary oJ
their wedding on a rainy day in
England 77 years ago.
John Sleeman, 97, and ms wife,
96, were married Nov. 17, 1880,
in Cornwall where it then was
the custom for a bridegroom to
give the bride’s parents a present
of money. Sleeman recalled giving
his wife’s family $50.
He grinned and said, “She was
worth it and a lot more.”
'' Sleeman said he and his wife
“never had a good fight.” He ex
plained that, whenever a dis
agreement grew warm, “I just put
on my hat and went out.”
TAYLOR, B.C., The Alaska
Highway opened for traffic today
after Canadian army engineers
completed a wooden span and
paved the Pacific Great Eastern
Railway bridge near here.
They will replace the Peace
]jt|ver bridge which collapsed on
<ifctotoer 16.
| slope it exploded, killing the men
in the front of the airplane.
After talking with her husband
at a hospital, Mrs. Robert J. Mc
Murray of East Berlin, Conn., de
scribed his ordeal. “Sgt. Campbell
pulled my husband and two other
crewmen out of tl^ wreckage,”
she said. “One of the men had a
broken back. My husband had a
broken leg. Then Campbell went
back into the plane and got sleep
ing bags.
“Then the sergeant dragged my
husband and the others into the
sleeping bags. Otherwise, they
would have frozen to death.”
The period of waiting began.
Campbell fired flares, but they
couldn’t be seen thru the snowfall.
Finally the four were spotted
from the air.
The B-29 belonged to the 5040th
Radar Evaluation Flight.
Tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi
Followed by Midwest Snowstorms
(By The Associated Press) 4
A wintry storm belted parts of
the Midw^t today, snarling high
way traffic and closing some
schools.
The storm spread a heavy snow
cover from northern Oklahoma
into Wisconsin and accumulations
up to a foot deep were forecast.
The Midwest storm came on the
heels of a rash of out-of-season
tornadoes Sunday which killed at
least five persons in Alabama and
Mississippi. The weather bureau
I warned today more tornadoes
may develop in these states.
Scores of schools were closed in
Iowa because school buses could
not move over the snow covered
roads. Highway travel was slowed
in southwest Iowa and jackknifed
trucks blocked some highways.
Heavy rains sprayed eastern
Texas, western Tennessee and
Kentucky, and southeastern Mis
souri. Dyersburg, Tenn., had three
inches of rain in six hours.
Thousands of acres of farmland
were inundated and many fami
lies were evacuated in the sodden
southeastern Missouri boot-heel.
The area has been drenched by 11
inches of rain in a week.
The rains ended the cotton
crop for the year.
Twisters skipped across more
than a dozen communities in Ala
bama and Mississippi yesterday.
Another tornado, at White Set
tlement, near Fort Worth, dam
aged homes and buildings.
Three persons were killed and
nine injured in Alabama and two
killed and several injured in
Mississippi.
Allies Urged to
Make Bilateral
Treaties With Reds
LONDON, Iff)—George F. Ken
nan urged the western allies last
night to abandon their opposition
to bilateral negotiations with the
Russians.
“Coalitions are poor negotiators,
particularly when anything posi
tive is to be achieved,” said the
leading American expert on So
viet affairs in the second of a lec
ture series he is giving over the
British Broadcasting Corp.
The nited States, Britain and
France have steadfastly rejected
Soviet suggestions for U.S.-Rus
sian talks on major world issues.
The British and French fear such
bilateral negotiations would force
them into the back seat.
“I am sure the people of the
world would prefer we make
some sort of progress privately
rather than that we continue to
get nowhere in a series oi sterling
public demonstrations of Atlantic
unity,” said Kennan, former U.S.
ambassador to Moscow and auth
or of the West’s containment pol
icy.
Kennan also said summit talks
between the Western and Soviet
government chiefs would be vir
tually useless except “at the end
of a negotiating process and for
the purpose of formalizing agree
ments already arrived at, rather
than at the beginning.”
The Soviet leaders, he contin
ued, “are committed, by their en
tire political record to date, to a
strangely distorted image of the
outside world.”
Airliner Record Set
Tokyo to Anchorage
TOKYO, UP>—A Northwest Ori
ent Airlines DC-7C set a new
transpacific commercial speed
record of 9 hours 19 minutes from
Tokyo to Anchorage last Tuesday,
the airline announced yesterday.
Northwest said one of its Lock
heed Turbo-Constellations set the
old record of 10 hours 35 minutes
April 20, 1955.
Strategic Air Command Logs 10,600
Miles Nonstop in Flight of Six
B-52s U.S. to Argentina and Back
Navy Will Try
To Advance Date
Of U S. Satellite
WASHINGTON, W—'The Navy
announced today that if it is suc
cessful in launching a small six
inch satellite next month it will
then try to launch a fully instru
mented 20-inch satellite ahead of
the original March target date.
Original plans called for the
launching of three “test vehicles”
containing six-inch, 3.4-pound
satellite spheres. The first would
be sent up some time during De
cember.
But a spokesman said if the
Navy was successful in launching
the small sphere into an orbit on
the first test the other two prelim
inary tests might be foregone and
an attempt made to put a 20-inch
sphere into orbit.
The original plan as announced
by President Eisenhower some
weeks ago was that the month of
March was the objective for put
ting the larger sphere into orbit.
Expense Account
Items Must Be
On Tax Form
WASHINGTON, (St—The head
of the Internal Revenue Service
says that where necessary, esti
mates may be used in reporting
expense account items for income
tax purposes.
But Director Russell' C. Her
rington, asked about reports from
his service that the little taxpayer
can forget the whole thing, re
plied, “Such reports are not cor
rect.”
He did agree, in a copyrighted
interview with the magazine TJ.S.
News & World Report, that “gen
erally speaking, yes” it is the peo
ple with large expense accounts
on whom the service will check
carefully.
“A revenue agent isn’t going to
spend a lot of time on small
amounts,” he said at one point.
Ever since 1921, the law has re
quired than an employe who in
curs business expenses for which
his employer repays him must re
port as income the money he re
ceives in payment. He then may
deduct his expenses.
But that requirement has been
generally ignored by many with
small expense accounts, and the
Revenue Service has not com
plained.
The Internal Revenue Service
has changed the 1957 income tax
forms to require listing totals of
these items on the form itself in
stead of only on a separate sheet
of paper. That led to reports of
an intensive crackdown, which
IRS officials sought informally to
contradict with Word that little
change was anticipated.
► PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. The
! Strategic Air Command had an
other entry today in its log of
achievements—a 10,600-mile non
stop flight of six giant jet bomb
ers from the United States to •
Buenos Aires and back.
The flight market the first time
a “cell of planes,” as the Air
Force describes the group, had
made such a trip. It took slightly
less than 24 hours.
The big B-52s screamed to a
pre-dawn landing at Plattsburgh
Air Force Base yesterday. The 54
crewmen caught up on their sleep
while the craft were checked and
fueled, then they were off to the
home field, Loring AFB in Maine.
The planes roared over the Ar
gentine capital Saturday after
noon, where an air show was be
ing held as a climax to Argen
tina’s Aeronautical Week.
The bombers, each powered by
eight jet engines, flew on a direct
route to Argentina from Home
stead AFB, Fla., and back at an.
average ground speed of 560 mpti.
at altitudes of 40,000 to 50,000 feet.
The bombers were refueled by
KC-135 and KC-97 tankers. It was
the first time a KC-135 was used
to refuel a B-52 on a long-distance
flight, an Air Force spokesman
said.
Earlier last week, Gen. Curtis
LeMay commanded one of these
huge tanker planes on a record
breaking flight from Massachu
setts to Buenos Aires. The 6,350
miles was flown without stopping
or refueling.
Police Search for
Seven Convicts
In Jail Break
CROWN POINT, Ind., Ufc—Sev
en men, including three charged
with murder, broke out of the
Lake County Jail early today by
forcing window bars apart with a
metal table leg.
Sheriff Jack West broadcast a
warning to citizens not to admit
strangers to their homes and
asked them to call police if they
saw any man not wearing a coat.
It was the first major break
from the jail since John Dillinger
made his famous “wooden pistol”
escape in 1934.
At least some of the men were
believed to have fled north to
Gary in a stolen car. A car was
reported stolen in Crown Point
about the time of the break and
was recovered later in Gary.
One of the fugitives, George R.
Borwon, 25, East Gary, charged
with slaying two women near an
airport in New Chicago, Ind. He
was treated as a criminal sexual
psychopath two years ago.
Brown’s trial was to have start
ed this morning. He appeared at
his home a half hour after the
5 a.m. break and left hurriedly
with a brown leather jacket, his
wife said.