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EDITIONIfftmms/Michigan's BiggestReaderAdvertiserPHONESK«t» «-mt -Niiacw Ml- t»2ut— tinBENTON HARBOR, MICH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1947 24 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTSWEATHER FORECASTOccasional light snow tonight and Thursday; no decided change in tem*perat ure.TEMPERATURESHeadings fr«m Tnc«. noon U Wed.12n. ...............24|a a.m.3 p. m,......6 a.m6p. in.9 a.m.12m. ........12 n.2MtotoGood Fellow19 ARMY, NAVYFLYERS KILLEDIN2CRACKUPSB-29 Carries 12 ToDeath At Tucson;7 Die At NorfolkHere's Jimmy Dallas, age U anda sixth grader, with his bottle ofyear’s savings for the Good Fellowfund, amounting to $8.16. Last yearJimmy joined the Good Fellows and this year nearly filled his bottle with silver and pennies. He’s the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dallas.Hunter FindsBody In WoodsRetired South Haven Man Commits SuicideSOUTH HAVEN, Dee. 17— Solon G. Farrer, 74, retired, 234 Park avenue, South Haven, took his own life Tuesday afternoon by slashing his left wrist with a pocket knife in a wooded area 150 yards north of the Phoenix road and one mile east of US-31, east of South Haven.Coroner Fern E. Calvin, who was called to the scene, said it was a clear case of suicide and that no inquest would be necessary.The body was found at 4:15 p m. by Walter Oldenburg. It was lying in a thicket on the resort property operated by Oldenburg and about 100 yards from the Oldenburg home.Coroner Calvin said Farrer had apparently been dead about two hours.Farrer is known to have been despondent for some time and on several occasions had threatened suicide, State Police who investigated were told.* * *iOLDENBURG FOUND THE BODY as he was tracking a rabbit with the aid of his hound. The dog, Oldenburg said, had created a considerable disturbance about noon Tuesday and had attempted to break his chain and to run in the direction of the thicket where Farcers body was found a few hours later.Because snow on the ground around the thicket had beenconsiderably trampled, investigators theorized that Farrer hadTUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 17-(AP)-Twclve of the 20 crew members of a Jamaica-bound B-29 died in the flaming wreckage of the four-engined bomber a few' minutes after taking off from Davis-Monthan Field last night, Maj. D. D. Burke, press relations officer, announced today.The casualty list is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and an Army board of inquiry will today begin to probe the cause of the crash.The base reported the ship hadjust taken off from the field andwas being watched from the tower.It was within sight of the towerwhen it crashed in flames.• * • *THE ANNOUNCEMENT SAIDtwo planes of the 49th squadron of the Second bomb group at Davis-Monthan took off shortly after 7 p. m., heavily laden with fuel and bound on a non-stop flight to Vernam Field, Jamaica.One of the ships was slowly gaining altitude when it is believed to have banked in an effort to return to the field and crashed into the desert approximately five miles southwest of the base and in an uninhabited section of suburban Tucson. It caught fire almost instantly.Seconds later crash wagons and fire trucks had been dispatched from the base tower and rolled across the roadless, cactus studded desert toward the 50-foot flames.Arizona Highway Patrolman Walter Sheets said:“I saw eight men leaving the crash area, dazed and shaken. Miraculously, all were walking and did not appear to be badly hurt although one of them was obviously suffering from burns.I didn’t bother asking them the cause of the crash, being more anxious to get them to the hospital.”Unofficial reports said one engine, possibly two, failed a few minutes after the takeoff. Base officials say the cause will not be officially known until the inquiry board completes its investigation.There was no immediate explosion as the plane hit the ground, according to witnesses. The first explosion followed about 15 minutes later and a second 43 minutes after the crash, which rattled windows in Tucson as far as five miles distant.NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 17- (AP) Seven naval airmen were killed Tuesday when a Corsair fighter plane and a patrol bomber carrying a crew of seven collided in the air and crashed at the Norfolk Naval Air Station.Naval spokesmen said the Corsair, attached to the Aircraft Carrier Coral Sea, collided with the right wing of the bomber, attached to Amphibious Group Three. T * Corsair caught fire and '” pilot burned to death.Sole survivor was a crewman aboard the bomber who was thrown from a gun blister when the plane crashed in swampySammy Price WrestsFrom Banditinvades HomeSammy Price, 39, well-known Benton Harbor ex-prizefighter, jerked a Luger pistol away from an ex-convict fleeing police after a grocery store holdup last night and knocked the bandit unconscious with the butt end of the weapon.The ex-convict, James J. Martel], 22, of Schenenectacfy, N ,Y., is being held in the Berrien county jail on a charge of stealing $220 cash in an armed robbery of Buck’s grocery, corner of M-139 and Indiana Ave.C Till G ROGGY from ablow 011 thlt;* James J. Marlell is shown being led to a cell in thewfVV/UU I Berrien county jail last night after he was captured following the stick up of a small neighborhood grocery store on the outskirts of Benton Harbor. Martell was captured when he entered the home of Sammy Price, former prize fighter, who knocked him unconscious after wresting a gun from the holdup man’s hand. Shown in the picture above from left to right are Chief Deputy Charles Andrews, Martell, Deputy Dale Shafer and Deputy Edward Sandera. (News-Palladium Photo),Constitutional Rights InvolvedU.Supreme CourtxaminesState’s Grand Jury SystemEuropean AidBill Made LawHouse Republicans Beaten On InflationBULLETfaWASHINGTON, Dec. 17- (AP) The Senate Democratic policy committee today discarded proposals to try to block consideration of a Republican anti-inflation bill and decided instead to attempt to amend it.Contempt Citation Of Oakland County Man Is ChallengedWASHINGTON, Dec. 17-(AP)-The Michigan one-man grand jurylaw was tinder close scrutiny by theU. S. supreme court today after apin-ball machines owner convictedof contempt of court appealed his case to the nation’s highest judiciary authority.Justices Black, Frankfurter and Rutledge, considering the petition of William Oliver of Oakland county, fired questions thick and fast yesterday at Michigan Solicitor General Edmund E. Shepherd, called in to explain how the system operates.Door To Be LeftOpen To RussiaPowers To Resume Talks On GermanyBULLETINWASHINGTON, Dec. 17-(AP) -President Truman today signed the $597,000,000 top-gap European aid bill.UWASHINGTON, Dec. 17-(AP)~ Republicans in Congress, defeated in the House when they tried to force through a program to fight inflation their own way, prepared today to try the Senate.Bombarded w i t h queries, Shepherd finally declared: “Well, it’s peculiar to Michigan: there’s no doubt about that.”Then he defended the svslem as “a very efficient way of discovering crime,” and told the justices he was “not so much concerned about Oliver as about the destruction of the system and the danger to it here.”BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Dec. 17-(AP)-Further talks among western power representatives on the organization of western Germany were expected here today amid indications that whatever steps are taken the door will be left open to future co-operation with Russia.Secretary of State George C. Marshal! was reported to have had an exchange of ideas with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault last night concerning a possible economic merger of the French occupation zone with the already linked British and American zones so as to unify all of Germany westMARTELL ENTERED THE PRICE HOME at 1567 Union street shortly before 11 p. m. last night and tried to force Price at gunpoint to drive him to his getaway car which had stalled in the dead end of a nearby street.Price, whose wife was absent and whose two children were asleep in a bedroom of his home, refused to leave. The young bandit, who claims to have been a Marine during World War II. prodded the ex-prize fighter in the ribs with his pistol.Price hit the bandit on the jaw with his fist and followed with a scries of blows which drove Martel! against the wall of the Price living room. Price grabbed the gun and after afierce struggle managed to wrest it away. He hit the bandit over the head, knocking him to the floor unconscious. Then he telephoned police.When Benton Harbor police arrived, Price was standing over the unconscious form of the bandit, si ill holding the. hold up man’s gun in his hand. Price was cut and bruised on his hands and arms during the struggle.Martell whose cut head was sewed up at the county jail last night, was still groggy this morning.The $220 in cash was found on the young gunman’s person after Price turned him over to city police.SAMMY PRICE(See RUSSIANS, Page 20)THE DRAMATIC CAPTURE ofthe hold-up man followed by only a few minutes the stick-up which Martell staged at Buck’s grocery, just before 10 p. m. Martell told Berrien Chief Deputy Charles Andrews after his capture last night that driving by the grocery he observed only a man and woman in it and decided to “stick the place up.”He pulled his gun as he entered the store and veiled, “This is a stickup. I’m from Chicago, and I know how to do this. I don’t want any fooling.”Then, according to Leonard Buckner, owner of the store who was present, he attempted to herd Buckner and a son whr was also present upstairs Sheriff’s officerssaid the gunman apparently becameconfuseu over the fact that the stairway entrance was on the outside of the building.Deputy Sheriff Dale Shafer am Deputy Victor Hauch, who inter viewed Buckner, revealed that Mar tell then became excited and hur ried to the cash register where. h scooped up approximately $220 ii cash and failed to pick the silve out of the cash register. He t-hei grabbed five cartons of cigarette and raced out of the store.Buckner notified the sheriff’s of fice and two squad cars containini Chief Deputy Andrew*. Deputy An drew Novikoff and Deputies Edwart Sandera, Shafer and Hauch werlt;dispatched to the scene.• * *Benton Harbor police were also alerted and one of the most intensive manhunts seen here in several months began.Meanwhile, Marlell’s old coupe had become stuck in the ditch at the end of the dead end street and he was unable to drive it. He went to a house at 1301 Agard street, home of Man ford M. Hall, and telephoned for the Urick wrecker. A short time later when the officers spotted the car they telephoned for the Ross wrecker to get the car. Officers heard the message for the Ross wrecker and sensed something strange when theysaw the other wrecker puli upfor the car. Later they learned(See GUNMAN, Page 20)
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