Daily Sitka Sentinel
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VOLUME XVI
Tuesday, November 22, 1955
NUMBER 242
Pretty stewardess killed by
rejected suitor in big plane
Passengers stare
pvith disbelief as
shots fired
SEATTLE (/P) A pretty Uni
ted Air Lines stewardess, greet
intg passengers coming lalboard
a Los Angeles bound flight, was
shot to death iby iher former boy
friend at the crowded Seattle
Tacoma airport last night.
The rejected suiitor. Robert
Clendenin, 26, then fired bul
lets into this own neck and
head, killinjg himself.
Sally iShedd, a 25 year old
(blue eyed brunette, was struck
twice in the chest after Clen
denin knocked her sprawling
im.o a seat.
Clendenin, a trainee with the
New York brokerage firm of
3. A. Hogle and Co., had enter
ed the plane and taken a seat
before he turned with rage on
his former sweetheart.
(Mrs. (Herman Loescb of Pomi
land, Ore., who occupied the
seat next to Clendenin and
watched him take a gun from
his briefcase, said:
“|J thoulgiht it was a cap pis-\
tol. Even after if went off 11
thought it was a cap pistol. It
just kept on going off. Bang, j
Bang. Bang.”
Clendenin, who met Miss
Shedd several years ago in
New York, was one of the last
&i some 40 passenlgers to file
up the ramp of the DC6B.
He nodded tand spoke to his
former girl friend before tak
ing his seat next to Mrs. Loesch
at the front of the plane.
Withdrawing the pistol from
his briefcase, Clendenin rush
V eatchcomblng
• Doesn’t it always happen? ]
After 'knocking down a lititle, ’
bitty doe, and your gun being.
so that you can’t fire it. a foilg I
four point (buck shows uip in
easv shooting range.
—I—I—
H This year the boss cur. the
size of the turkey we are hav
ing for Thanksgiving. “You are
getting too fat.” Now is that
the way to ureat the “Lord and
Master” even if he is getting
a little plump9
-H- ,. . f
0 VMM questions the fact
that I believe a constution for
Alaska should he drawn when
and if we get statehood. He re
fers to the U. S. constitution
as not being “obsolete.'’ But
if you will study the cost of
drawing the state and national
constitutions — only Hawaii
and Alaska PAY their men and
women for doinlg this service..
Yes. Vern Metcalfe, we are
against the (political theory of
“Tax and Spend.”
M
• And continuing about WM
he is doing a good job — he
shock! chanige his occupation
and make the publishing of a
newspaper his profession — he
will find that he has the knack
and loves the responsibility of
truthful reporting. ^
ed down the aisle and confront
ed Miss Shedd. He pushed her
into a seat on top of an air
force lieutenant and fired four
shots.
Two of the sots struck Miss
Shedd. Both (hit her in the chest
The passengers on flight 678
stared in disbelief at the scene
untoldinjg before them.
The air force lieutenant. Nor
man Stout of Portland, Ore.,
said:
“'She was laying almost a
cross me. Then he shot her
point blank three or four i.imes
I couldn’t tell which. She lit
on me, uttered a gasp and then
he shot her.
“I couldn’t get loose from my
safa:y Ibelt until he had shot
her.”
When he did free himself,
Stout leaped from his seat and
gralbibed Cledenin. A fifth shot,
which plunged hanmelessly in
to the plane’s side, was fired as
they grappled.
'Stout finally tumbled Clen
denin through the door of the
plane and down the "ramp to the
concrete field.
Clendenin, the son of Bever
ly Clendenin of Salt Lake City,
ran about 25 yeards and fired
,continued on page tour.s
Brazil in throes of
fiew political crisis
for presidency
RIO DE JANEIRO (IP) A
fresh political crisis afflicted
Brazil today in the wake of an
unsuccessful ibid by Joao Cafe
Filho to resume the (presidency
from which he took leave of
absence two weeks ago.
Bojh houses of congress last
night rejected his claim that
he could take up algain the
functions of chief executive.
Both passed a resolution that
he must remain on leave until
congress decides otherwise.
At the same time, the army
took firm measures i.o pre
serve the administration of
provisional president Nereu
Ramos, who was installed by a
bloodless army coup on Nov.
10.
| The% legislators so clearly
were following the bidding of
the army in rejecting Cafe’s
return no office that many in
the capital speculated that
| the country is heading for a
I military dictatorship. The ar
my officers who have actual
i control may have to resort to
force to retain it, they reason.
| Cafe was 'being held incom
municado at his apartment in
(the fashionable Copacabana
district 'to which he returned
from a hospital only yesterday
Troops surrounded the build
ing and barred all visitors.
Telephone calls to the apart
ment were interrupted.
Dr. Raymundo de Brito. Ca
jfe's personal physician, went
I to the former president’s apart
men this morning and an am
bulance believed to be carry
ing hospital equipment follow
ed soon afterward. This led to
speculation that Caife had suf
fered a relapse. A heart at
tack Caused his reirement
4 from office on Nov. 8.
A shooting stove!
LOUISVILLE, Ky. </P) A kit
chen stove shot Leroy Carter in
the leg yesterday.
Some bullets from a nearby
container fell in the stove and
were discharged when Carter,
55, fired it tup. He was hit once
[Mild November
[weather replaces
'storms generally
t by The Associated Press
I It was colder in sections of
the northwest today 'but fairly
mild Novemiber weather ap
peared in prospect for mos.
other parts of the country.
The cold air sent tempera
tures down as much as 23 de
grees in the northern Rookie*
and the Great, Basin region :
readings generally were in the
20s and 30s with lower marks
in some areas, including Butte,
Mont., which reported 8 above,
a drop of 21 degrees.
It was warmer over the Miss
issippi valley with biggest rises
in i.emperatures in northern
Minnesota and parts of Louis
iana and Mississippi. Readings
ranged from the mid-20s in
Minnesota to around 60 along
the Louisiana coast. Not much
change in weather conditions
was reported in ot her areas.
Harriman hits out
at GOP in foreign
relations field
SEATTLE tJP) Gov. Averell
Harriman of New York said
here Last ni|g!tot “our alliances
are creaking” because of what
he called Republican “incom
petence and shortsightedness”
in the field of foreign relations
Speaking at a $ 7.50 a plate
Democratic fund raising dinner
the New York governor des
cribed i:he summit conference
at Geneva last J-uly as a “great
communist victory” he said re
suited from “confusion and
contradiction in Washington.”
Harriman said while he fav
ored holding the conference
he later found it “inexcusable
for the president and
his advisers to give the imipres
sion that they believed in the
sincerity of the Kremlin words
, in advance of deeds.”
j World tensions relaxed, Har
riman said, when the presi
dent. upon returning from Ge
: neva, “spoke though with
* some reservations, off ‘the most
| shining opportunity’ and the
.‘spark ignited at Geneva’ -
“But unfortunately so did
our defense effort. Secretaries
' Humphries and Wilson began
to talk about cutting our de
fenses still more. Free peoples
were thrown off balance. They
were psychologically disarmed
Neutralists and pro-communist
elements in Europe were
strengthened.”
Harriman is in the Pacific
northwest to urge reelection of
Sens. Warren G. M*ajgnuson of
Washington and Wayne Morse
of Oregon. While he has 'been
mentioned as a possible Demo
cratic candidate for president,
he declined to discuss his own
political plans other than to
tell reporters at a news con
ference “I am not a formal
candidate for president at this
time.”
fDelgotes discussion roams
far afield from main task
Would change
«iame of McKinley
hack to Mt. Denali
FAIRBANKS (IP) Delegates
to the Alaska Constitutional
convention wandered afar from
their basic task today when a
delegate introduced a resolu
tion to change the name of Mt.
McKinley back no Mt. Denali.
However, an admonition
from president Elgan and an ov
erwhelming vote put an end to
the proposed resolution.
The motion to change the
name of Mt. McKinley in che
constitution was proposed by
delegate Yule Kilcher of Hom
er.
He asked to suspend the rules j
to move his document into third
reading for a vote.
President William Egan dou
tbted the propriety of steamrol
ler i nig the action, and other de
legates questioned whether .the
convention had any business
'voting on such a matter.
The motion to move the reso
lution from first to third read
ing in the plenary session fail
ed by a vote of 49 to 6.
After this vote, the matter
was referred to uhs resolutions
committee.
A letter was received Iby de
legates this morning from the
President thanks
cabinet for good
cooperation
GETTYSBURG, Pa. t/P) Pre
sident Eisenhower met with his
cabinet in a mountain hidea
way today and voiced thanks
for the members’ “perfection of
cordination and cooperation”
. during his illness.
The two-hour meeting took
place at Camp David, in the
heart of the Catoctin Mount
ains, with most cabinet mem
bers flying in by helicopter
from Washington.
Later, after the president’s
return to ihis Gettysburg coun
try home, James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary,
told newsmen of the chief ex
ecutive’s expression of jgrati
tude to the cabinet members.
Hiagerty quoted the president
as telling his department heads
he had “gratitude and appre
ciation” for tJheir “perfection
of coordination and coopera
tion ... in carrying on the ex
' eoutive business of the govern
ment with the minimum of
communication from me while
‘ I was in the hospital.”
I Hagerty said secretary of st
ate Dulles gave the cabinet and
| other officials at the meeting a
report on developments stem
ming from the Geneva confer
ence of foreign ministers and
his visir.s to Rome and to Mar
shal Tito of Yugoslavia.
In addition, Hagerty said,
“domestic matters” were discus
sed. This undoubtedly included
a blocking out of the presi
dent’s next state of the union
message, due in January, since
the White House’s top speech
writers were present.
mayor of Skaigrway, Cyril A.
Coyne, who pleaded against in
! elusion in the constitution of a
! “riight to work” clause.
{ Such a clause. Coyne declar
ed, would he “vicious and anti
labor.”
The Sfkagway mayor said
that if “such a clause is insert
ed in our proposed constitution
•the hurdles in the territory and
in congress will prove insux
mountaible as laibor and the
friends of labor would be 100
per cent against it.”
Second attempt to
amend rule 50 fails
to gain votes
FAIRBANKS </P) The second
land probably final attempt to
| amend rule 50 of the Alaska
-constitutional convention to
give ian easy second chance to
chanlge sections of the consti
tution heifore final adoption
failed Monday iby a vote of
50-4.
I As it' stood originally, rule
150 made no provision for nhe
amending of any section of the
constitution, once framed, be
fore final ‘adoption.
Last week, delegate W. O.
! Smith of Ketchikan sought tto
[insert into the rule the right
of a delegate to put any part
of the document back into sec
ond reading with a simple ma
jority vote. This motion failed
Then Georfge Sundborg, say
ing he was acting againsr. his
better judgment but wanted
to honor the voice of the min
ority, presented a mo.ion to
make amendment possible by a
vote of 28 members. This mo
tion was referred to the rules
committtee.
Yesterday i.he committee re
ported unfavorably on Sund
borg’s motion. However, a re
draft of rule 50 was passed pro
viding that any part of the
document, when proposed in
its final form, may be opened
for specific amendment by ithe
affirmative vote of at least 37
of the members. This redraft
was passed by a vote of 47-7.
Proposals were dropping in
i to the hopper constant ly Mon
day and the total now intro
duced stands at 15. Champion
proposal makers are Maurice
Johnson of Fairbanks, who has
six to his credit, and R. E.
Roben son of Junea-u, who al
so has introduced six.
A Johnson proposal on exec
utive rights would establish
the powers and duties of the
governor. Under his plan, the
governor would be at least 35
years old, a citizen for 20
years and an Alaska resident
(continued on page four?
Marine forecast: from Tues
day to Wednesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Yaikufcat east to north
east winds 10 to 20 mph increas
: ing to 15 to 25 mph with strong
gusts south otf Cape Spenctid
I Partly cloudy today. Clear
tonight.