Berserk Soldier Kills Three and
Wounds Seven in Wild Shooting Spree
FAIRBANKS OP — A berserk
soldier killed three persons and
wounded seven others in a wild
shooting spree Monday night. He
boasted to police late, “I wanted to
kill someone before I killed my
self.”
The slayer, Spec. 5 Kenneth H.
Schlomann, 24, of Madelia, Minn.,
was held Tuesday on a murder
charge in the Fairbanks jail,
trussed in a strait jacket and under
heavy sedation.
Schlomann, whose wife is with
him here, was an artilleyrman sta
tioned at nearby Ft. Wainwright.
He was transferred there May 2
from Ft. Hood, Tex.
The dead were:
O. C. (Shorty) Howard, a Fair
banks cab driver.
George Walker Stockton, 68. of
Brookston, Ind., a retired farmer.
T. O. (Tex) Lenord, manager of
the El Rancho motel six miles
south of Fairbanks.
One of the injured, Airman
2/C Ralph Miller was reported
in critical condition after ampu
tation of his left arm.
State Police Capt. John Monagle
said Howard was shot through the
back at a skating rink near the
Army post. Lenord and Stockton
were killed in the motel office
about a mile from the rink. Mon
agle called the slayings wanton.
Police said Schlomann said to
Stockton:
“Old man, you ain’t no good. I
think I’ll kill you.”
With that he shot the Indiana
man through the heart. Then he
turned and killed Lenord. The
same bullet went through the hip
of Lenord's wife, Isabel, who was
standing beside him.
Schlomann later laughed about
wounding Mrs. Lenord and said
“She bled like a stuck hog.”
Others hospitalized in addition
to Miller and Mrs. Lenord were
Pvt. Jimmy Bryan Adams of Ft.
Wainwright. E. H. Cook and Lowell
Shank, both of Elkhart, Ind., Mrs.
Frederieka May Gay and Mrs.
Gay’s son, Michael Lynn, 5.
The two Elkhart men put an
end to Schlomann’s rampage.
After killing Stockton and
Lenord, the soldier tried to break
into several motel rooms. He fired
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once through the door of the room
Cook and Shank occupied, kicked
it in and was subdued in a violent
struggle with the two tourists.
They were badly beaten and
bruised.
Cook suffered a broken wrist
in the process.
Police said Schlomann started
out with the idea of staging rob
beries to get enough money to
leave Alaska. They said he ob
tained a .30-06 rifle at a pawn shop
and then entered Howard's cab.
They said this sequence followed:
After two aimless stops Howard
was forced to drive south. He ap
parently pulled off at the skating
rink to seek help, even though
Schlomann held a knife at his
throat. The cabbie managed to get
out and was shot in the back as
he reached the steps of the rink.
The Gay car was parked out
side and the soldier began firing
at it. Gay got his family out the
other side but his wife and son
were cut with fragments of glass
and bullets.
»cmomann inen ran into tne
rink, where the occupants had
taken refuge in the basement and
rest rooms. He fired wildly through
the floor trying to hit those below.
Then he tried to force open a rest
room door and encountered Pvt.
Adams, who he tried to kill but
the gun missed. Adam’s hand was
cut in a struggle as Schlomann
hacked at him with his knife.
Miller, manager of the rink, was
shot next, and Schlomann fled,
! commandeering the cab. At the
I motel about a mile away he
threatened to kill Anthony E.
] Smith, 53, of West Warwick, R.I.,
who was unloading his car’s lug
! gage rack. Smith began running
] and escaped as the soldier shot
! once and missed.
Inside the motel office, Mr. and
Mrs. Stockton were looking at
I postcards with the Lenords as
i Schlomann entered. The Stocktons
had been visiting on nephew in
Palmer and were on their way
home.
Schlomann demanded money,
Lenord gave him what was in the
register and Schlomann said “It’s
not enough.’
Then he shot Stockton and
Lenord and was captured soon
afterward by Cook and Shank.
Some manfacturers estimate that
in the next five years 50 per cent
of road vehicles will be rented
or leased rather than individually
owned.
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British Osteopath
Stephen Ward Will Stand I
Trial on Vice Charges
LONDON — A magistrate’s
court today ordered Dr. Stephen
Ward to stand trial on vice charges
after hearing a long series of party
girls tell how he helped them play
for pay with partners including
former War Minister John Pro
fumo and millionaire Lord Astor.
The trial, where Ward’s defense
is expected to explode new shock
on an already-battered Britain,
tentatively was set for September.
In the meantime, the court freed
Ward — who proclaimed “I deny
all the charges completely” — on
2,000 pounds C$5,600) bail and the
50-year-old osteopath left the court
in a taxi.
He declined to say where he was
going.
The last hours of the three-day
pre-trial hearing saw convicted
prostitute Margaret Ricardo hint
at weird sexual rites at one of
Ward's London apartments. An
other girl, unidentified, claimed
Ward got her pregnant and then
she had an abortion at his flat with
Christine Keeler present.
Christine, a 21-year-old, self
styled model whose simultaneous
relations with Profumo and Soviet
naval attache Yevgeny Ivanov al
most toppled Prime Minister Har
old MacMillan’s government, was
the star of Ward’s galaxy of pro
tegees.
Miss Ricardo refused to describe
the nature of sexual performance
she conceded having had with at
least one man at the Ward resi
dence.
There already are eight charges
against Ward, including managing
a brothel, living off the proceeds
of prostitution, procuring underage
girls for men and aiding abor
tions.
Fist-Swinging Brawl
NEWARK, N.J. UP> — Construc
tion workers, Negro demonstra
tors and police engaged in a fist
swinging brawl today when the
demonstrators tried to block the
entrance to a construction site.
Only minor injuries were re
ported. Two demonstrators were
arrested and charged with dis
orderly conduct.
The battle erupted between
about 50 workers and a like num
ber of pickets who had formed
a human wall across one of four
entrances to the new Barringer
high school project. Some 150 ad
ditional pickets were marching
at the other entrances in the pro
test against alleged job discrimin
ation.
BID NOTICE
Bids will be received in the
Office of the City Clerk until 5
p.m. Monday. July 8, 1963, for fur
nishing following:
All labor to install complete
new running gear on D-8
Tractor — tracks, rollers,
sprockets, idlers, etc. — and
welding on track frame —
City to furnish all parts.
The City reserves the right to
refuse or reject any or all bids.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Pub: July 1, 3, 5, 8, 1963.
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DISMISS SOLICITING CHARGE
LOS ANGELES W — When a
key witness failed to show up, ex
actress Barbara Payton won dis
missal of a soliciting charge.
Miss Payton, 25, at one time
was married to actor Franchot
Tone.
She was arrested Feb. 7 by po
liceman J. L. Lamonica. He alleged
she invited him to her Sunset
Boulevard apartment in Holly
wood if he would pay $40.
Municipal Judge Mario Clinco
dismissed the charge Friday on a
motion by the city attorney’s of
fice. The court noted that Lamoni
ca, the chief witness for the pro
secution, had repeatedly failed to
appear in court to testify.
Postpone Arraignment
JACKSON, Miss. UP — Byron
de la Beckwith’s arraignment on
a charge of murdering a Negro
civil rights leader with postponed
today until Monday because de
fense lawyers didn't show up.
An attorney told Circuit Court
Judge Leon Hendrick that Beck
with’s two lawyers could not be
J present aiid had asked for a delay
until Friday. Judge Hendrick,
however, extended the delay over
the weekend.
THE ONLY WAY . . .
PORTLAND i/P) — Mr. and Mrs.
Willard La Barre of Portland, plan
to leave for Fairbanks this week
in a Model T Ford.
La Barre said he is taking plenty
of spare parts for the car — in
cluding two tires, an engine, a rear
axle, brake lining and a batten.-.
The La Barres plan to take about
a month on their trip, traveling
25 to 30 miles an hour.
“That’s the only way to see the
country,” La Barre said.
Lord Audley Dies Suddenly
MADRID, Spain UP — Lord
Audley, husband of actress Sarah
Churchill, died suddenly early to
day at a holiday hotel in Gra
nada, the British embassy here
reported. He was 40.
His wife, a daughter of Sir
Winston Churchill, was with him,
an embassy spokesman said. They
were on holiday in Spain.
It was her third marriage and
the second for Lord Audley, whose
title dates back from the 14th
Century.
Newsprint Production Increase
POWELL RIVER, B.C. W — A
Canadian forestry executive says
newsprint production in western
Canada and the United States will
have increased by 60 per cent in
the decade ending in 1965.
Gary Powell, vice president and
general manager of pulp and paper
for MacMillan. Bloedel and Powell
River Ltd., told the Chamber of
Commerce here that newsprint
output in British Columbia, Al
berta and the 13 western US.
states will have jumped to 1,600,000
tons from 960,000 a year in the
1955-65 period.
HOUSTON. Tex. W — Lt. Cmdr.
M. Scott Carpenter is the astro
naut selected to go along on a
i chase of the moon's shadow as it
crosses western Canada July 20.
Carpenter, described as the most
science-minded of the original
seven astronauts, will accompany
| a team of scientists in a jet air
I liner to observe the eclipse of the
. sun.
j His selection was announced by
i the National Aeronautics and Space
' Administration’s manned space
craft center Monday in Houston.
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