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NO GREATER TRIBUTE
“Mr. R‘ Is Mystery Man
At Vancouver Morgue
VANCOUVER. B.C. 1.P — “Mr. I
R,” a mystery tattooed man, lies
in the Vancouver morgue as po
lice of two countries try to identi
fy him.
He was found dead Monday
night, floating off the Immigration
Dock. He was about 55 years old
and carried no identification. In
his pocket was a 25 cent piece.
On his belt buckle was the letter
“R”.
Inside his left arm was tatooed
the number 556-14-2363. Below
that is an eagle, a faded flag and
a woman's face.
Another woman’s face looks out
from the back of his left forearm.
On the right arm is the faded
word “Alaska,” surrounded by a
wreath.
City police, after trying for
three days to identify the man,
have taken his fingerprints for
forwarding to Ottawa RCMP and
the FBI in Washington.
But they couldn’t get them all.
There are three fingers missing
from his right hand.
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In The News
By The Associated Press
Mrs. Yul Brynncr, wife of the
film actor, gave birth in a Lau
sanne. Switzerland, hospital to a
6 pound, 9 ounce daughter. Both
mother and daughter were report
ed doing fine.
Robert Montgomery, actor-di
rector-producer of stage, screen
and television, is convalescing in
Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York following an
emergency operation Sunday to
remove his gall bladder.
CHOPPED IN TWO . . .
RUIDOSO, N.M. UP) — A stop
sign was put at a street corner
here three weeks ago. The next
morning police found it knocked
down.
The police put it in a more pro
tected spot the next day. The
following morning it was down.
Again the sign was erected. But
when police checked the next
morning it wTas down and this time
it had been chopped in two with
an axe.
The sign hasn’t been set up
again.
Dr. Jonathan Gill, psychiatrist,
j observes that a race horse is an
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j of people for a ride at the same
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Nixon Bitter
Against Press
For Coverage
LOS ANGELES UP> — Richard
M. Nixon, as angry and distraught
as ho has ever been in public, met
reporters in what he called his
final news conference — and ac
cused segments of the press of
utterly failing to give him a fair
shake.
Newsmen thought the Republi
can gubernatorial candidate had
called the conference Wednesday
to concede victory to Democratic
Gov. Edmund Brown. Nixon did
that, but he kept talking.
“As I leave you,” Nixon told
reporters coldly, “I want you to
know just how much you're going
to be missing.
“You won’t have Nixon to kick
around any more because, gentle
men. this is my last press confer
ence."
Nixon was endorsed by some 75
per cent of the California daily
newspapers that took sides in the
turbulent gubernatorial campaign.
But he said many of his statements
had been ignored by the press.
•‘1 have no complaints about the
press coverage," Nixon said early
in his statement. But it turned out
he had plenty.
Samples:
"I am proud of the fact I de
fended my opponent’s patriotism.
You gentlemen didn’t report it, but
I am proud that I did that.
“As I leave the press, all I can
say is this: For 16 years, ever
since the Alger Hiss case, you’ve
had a lot of fun, that you've had
an opportunity to attack me and
I think I have given as good as
I can take.
“It was carried right up to the
last day of the campaign. I made
a talk on television, a talk in
which I made a flub.
“I said I was running for gov
ernor of the United States. The
Los Angeles Times dutifully re
ported that. Mr. Brown the last
day made a flub. He said ‘I hope
everybody wins, that you vote the
straight Democratic ticket, includ
ing Sen. Kuchel (a Republican'.’
The Los Angeles Times did not
record it.”
The Times endorsed Nixon.
“And I can only say thank God
for television and radio for keep
ing the newspapers a little more
honest.”
Gov. Brown said his campaign
received “very fair coverage.”
“The press has treated me fair
ly,” Brown said. “I’m almost
afraid to say that because my op
ponent might say this is evidence
of special treatment from the
press.”
Of Nixon’s news conference,
Brown said: “I think Mr. Nixon
took the defeat a little bit hard.
In retrospect, he’ll feel different
ly.”
At his news conference, Nixon
said this of his future:
“Well, my plans are to go home.
I’ve got to get acquainted with my
family again. My plans, incident
ally, are, from a political stand
point, of course, to take a holiday.
It will be a long holiday.”
Of the pilgrims who came to
America on the first voyage of
the Mayflower and survived the
first terrible winter, most lived to
a riper old age than did other
members of the Pilgrim faith who
remained in Holland and England.
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Billie So! Estes Sentenced
To 8 Years for Swindling
TYLER. Tex. — A jury con
victed bankrupt promoter Billie
Sol Estes of swindling and set his
sentence at eight years in the
state penitentiary Wednesday.
The verdict, reached after the
11 men and one woman deliberated
2 hours and 3 minutes, ended a !
17-dav trial on state charges grow
ing out of a transaction involving
a mortgage on liquid fertilizer
tanks. The state said the tanks
did not exist.
Estes, 37. faces state anti-trust
charges accusing him of fixing the
price of liquid fertilizer. Also
pending against him are federal
charges of fraud, conspiracy and
perjury in connection with $22
million in loans obtained on ferti
lizer tanks.
It was the first conviction for
Estes since his multi-million dollar
complex of liquid fertilizer tank
mortgage deals, cotton allotment
transfers and grain storage col
lapsed last spring.
Asked for comment on the ver
dict, Estes replied: “What can you
say?'’
Estes was accused of inducing
Pecos farmer T. J. Wilson to sign
a $94,500 mortgage on non-exist
ent liquid fertilizer tanks. Prose- ;
cutors claimed Estes, his own j
credit exhausted, paid rental s
bonuses and got farmers to con- i
tract for non-existent tanks, leased \
the tanks from them and agreed
to pay monthly rentals matching
payments due on the mortgages.
The defense claimed he merely
paid a bonus for borrowing credit.
Estes remained free under $20,
000 pending a motion for a new
trial.
The first atomic-powered sub
marine, the USS Nautilus, has
traveled over 60,000 miles in three
years on just a few pounds of
uranium which gave as much
energy as three million gallons of
oil.
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SS Chena lias Long
Stormy Tow from Seward
SEATTLE (4’) — Men of the sen
exchanged sighs of relief — and
tokens of esteem — here yester
day at the conclusion of a long,
stormy voyage in tow from Sew
ard, Alaska.
Fifty-two men made the voyage.
40 aboard the lamed Alaska Steam
ship Co. Liberty ship Chena, 12
aboard the 1.500-horsepower Foss
tug Adeline Foss. The Chena had
to return south in tow after she
dropped her propeller in the Cxulf
of Alaska.
Winds as high as 80 knots at
times blasted ship and tug on the
1.400-mile, 12-day run south.
And as the Adeline Foss cast
loose her line in Elli >tt Bay, Capt.
Erling Brastad of the Chena hail
ed Capt. Cecil Rice of the Adeline
to come alongside. There the ship’s
skipper presented the tug’s skipper
with a purse collected among the
Chena's crew as a token of their
respect for the seamanship ex
hibited by the towboatmen in
shepherding them safely home.
Paul Pearson, general manager
of the Foss Launch & Tug Co
here, said:
’Tt’s the first time I’ve ever
known that to happen . . . also
that’s one of the stormiest such
voyages I can recall."
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