mo1·e in - eni us than any dramatist ould be l i ely to invent - for startlin sta e effect. ~he blast at Beverly ills blew out the entire front of the j ■ home of oneof the leading figures of liollywood -- H. ~. Hover, owner of Ciro's/ ~ swanky hau\t of the movie elite. Hover himself,..--.. in another room, • s uninjured -- in a blow-up ■■ xftaxai ■ so violent that it jarred Holl1wood and ~os An,:)eles for miles. At once the question flashed like a mystery -- why this bombing of the ••• home of the o•ner of ~iro's1 ~ few minutes before the explosion, the police had pickea u a driver of a small izaa truck. He was acting in a peculiar way, and they found a truck loaaed with dynamite. !hey took him to the station Ja.a ■ H for investigation and while he was being • uestion d, out roared the blast, with thundering violence. ,, loreupon, the truck <river faint d, f■■ l« fell into a coma, and was taken to a hos p ital - llUQalQJi - . 1V - , unconscious. A uick inquiry di B clo·ed th fact that he •s a workman ho at one ti m e ha d been denied a claim for staLe ai d , industrial accident compensation bis claim ha d been rejected on t h e authority of two physicians, and one of these, t. Dr. Dani al leller, ~ t u r n s out to be a broth r-in-law of the owner of ' iro's, and he resides in the mansion that was blown up. Moreover, the truck driver ith the dynamite, when the p 0 lice pick.a. him up, was in front of ~ he house of Dr. Frederick Ilfeld, the 4ber p hy s i c i a n who had f i g u re in the re j e c ti on o f t be com ensation claim. '!he inference •s clear. 9Tbe explosion was meant for the Doctor ~rother-in-law of Lhe ~Ki proprietor of ~iro's,-- grudge revenge because of the co~pensation case -- a time bomb of dynamite planted to low up Lh e p.ace. 'he other doctor•• was also marked for a blast -- interupLed by Lhe p o lice. "'na on the t r u c k r i v e r w a s f o u n d list indicating that he pl ann °d t Bev rly u lls. omb hal a doz~n home i n • A t, '' \, O C 11 P. ' • Y r I l 1 < po 1 i < : L ot y w re u s t. i o n i n cl - - t. e " m j · J I d ion o r on it.". ~--~-&...!., •-r-- "unaoubte ly one o A. lh rat.eat, b urglar who ever operated". He is ~erard Graham ~ennis, or1 L inal_y from Canada, twenty-n·ne years old -- so• 1 groomed and goodlooking that he oft.en pos d as •th h &n o & movie actor.• Utber iii• ti ■ tf be assumed th~ rol of a ionair playbo •i o ~ for a ol·en ti ae. Be co ute by East Coast - ~al l e .. .G i e, e Ca forn·a, ea ch, I .,~ r 1 · l ~ , ~ .. . . ,. . .... . . . d Palm p rin bungalow of oil ma g nate · 11 1 iam oheny • • ' !hirty-s v en thou and d ol l a rs from,- sociali t e Mrs. or man • i n · ton o bis in which are listed future victims, with information about t hem -- data for bur lary. These future •••••••Avictims include movie magnate, Louis H • • ~ . . t ; ; . t - , : , - ~ ~ ~ layer,/'•rs. Henry taieer J"r. of the automobili' ~aisers, Lady Thelaa furn~ss of tngland, ~ rs. Philip rigley of the chewing gum lrigleys of '-ihicago. mil ian" dollar er v e 7 o r R / 1.e<, trade 0£ urglary i'hat hzdi.d t have '7' o to : h J ~: rw / d fe:ce y u pose of a, { loot an{i get reduced price or it. ,, ,,✓ / ~s ed as ~ /J: w 1 ry s a1. s man, and / / / / / / t · 1 t~ / le i timat..e j " 1ry st0 8 , r lC / - / / #"':.maintained to love nests, , .... one i n ew rork, the other i n B e verly Hills, alifo . rnia. The police raided his ~ ••e Xork apartment., and ftr .tl. M ;;1~.'.oiY-U.. 11 ll■p t - --p llHUl-t,!u,y- ~e1tiM!'- beautiful you n woman .. - - n&W trele ...a e a.. wiw•••· Today the police at Beverly Hills were searching his apartment out there, i-rl wb-4:e'h-the)' ~ found Jne Hundred and twenty thousand dollars wo1·th of ~ 1 - ; ; ; - - a beautiful brunette. · ,-" ~ trail e&- ~ ,rre ..au per eea4ii ,. . . a laRg o ~ e ~ pai:we g e t t i n g ~ fiNtr--alt1ee RI. ~inet.een lorly-s 1 ven, • • • Burglar Gerard Graham ~ ~ . . . · d H n!• 11Hh • bu_t>i'";,; ~ New enn is w-~pp wp a.-11e1r ~ ~ ~ York fashion mode1 1 ~ a cocktail bar 1 . . _ ld • r h wa a , r,J t.hy Canadian) s-h~ was ~!L_LAtt --44 ___________________ _ • fie& l S.Q.. J. e f t ~ LL... ...._, .J ,,,._J. ~ -t.a_ ~ - " ~ • • .,...._...,..,,~ - o- t-e ha-- o~b e - ~ A.cau ght su oo nly in nee of fun s, an · a k ed her to sel l a pai r of xpensive diamond aar rin gs . She tried bu tle i a mond ear rin g s wer e quickly rec o g n i 1, ed a ~ ~ n ' a Pehll.n.h e.e~r.:y.1 .. -.....;:::=i'f:11b:aw=- -. a:=. Gerard iven the fashion model a photo g raph of himself -- ant~~~?:~ the pol~-:;'d _/'(. ~ " M M i c t u r e of this greatest of je el thiev e :re'Tbey sent out circulars with the picture - man wanted ~ by the police. a& finally took effect in Cleveland. A~~~ . \dbere)... G erard Graham D~nnis$vating---a c4ti&en ef-good stand-i:Rg w i ~ ad gone on fishin g tri ps 4J,:,' now--t,,M e ...f rit-11& hap peneci to see #< that. p o lice fi circular.--; Teco ni ze d it a s ~ ~ SW e r, s•anky fishin com p an ion. 'I h arrest, follo e t an to ay era rd t, lli n g it. t t, p ic of Gra m . nn i 6 BURGL H - 6 ----- eslche t r 011Dty. Confes in freely but he couldn't emember al l of i ro beri s or ven half of th m. The electives haa to jogg his memory by reminding him of the facts of big-time jewel thefts they had on their boo ks. r LL . u LAH - - -- -- T p 1 ic o " Los no " 1 a nnounc -- a c am i o n for r. his e xpert of o u c cks as V 8 t 0 S C 1 " t r ine t s n e o ~cratch in U ·orgery racket". 1 ho is thi~ won er o the fraudulent si nnlure? A fifty-five y ar old gc · an<imoth r, di tin uishe lookin atron who as arre t today. They say that randme has forged more than sev n hundred checks, using ~ ore than fifty a i ff ere n t names, forged signatures. i>he has been at. it for years, operating so cleverly that the police have been unable to catch her -- unti 1 now. J From Springfield, 1111· n 1· s d . h a news 1spatc that will bring a vivid recollection to peo , le w■ tx wit.h long memories. It is announced that hearings for a parole have been granted to Nathan Leopold. nemember that Leopold-4oeb case, back in Nineteen Twen:,V f•ma 11 ,-£our, just •• twenty-five years w• ago. It was cne of the biggest of crime . sensati ns -- a thrill aurder of a fourteen year old boy committed weal thy by Nathan beopold and ~ichard Loeb sons o~••I•*~' •• families. -tbey were given life sentences in prison. Loeb was kil ed by a fellow convict in ineteen Thi r ty - s i x, and now Leopold may be given - his freedom under parole proceedings. '.rhis comes about after an episode or war- time heroism, when a num er of prisoners in the lllinois penitentiary offered thems lves as hu ■ an guinea pigs for medical experiment. The scientist.a were tes tin a new drug for th cure of malaria, an d t. convicts voluntarily contractc malaria, v,ere inj . ctea with virul nt forms of that is ease -- t, 1ry out tte drug. One of the ·than - 2 Leopold -- of the Leopold-Loeb murder. tbr uh the experim e nts as a hu an g uin a pig, and the attack of :nalaria left h-im with a dangerous internal ailment, a kidney infection. tie recover d -- Rnd since then has been working as a prison ex-ray tectnic ian. Other prisoners who played the part of hu ■ an guinea pigs in the malaria research have been paroled and now ~aJ,han Leopold is asking this L - ~ , r /- reward for hi ■ s~ll") lie is serving two termsE ·or that saia ■ thrill crime of a quarter of a century ago. A life term for murder and ninety-nine year ■ for iti · nap µ ing. U L , lJ ' ,E T ' R --------- --- --- Jl col a ave a r li v c. th dan e r o v.i d e- sprea 1.. " l ds in t h iairifim: •ort est -- a 1 uick free e 0 t..h el in no s. Bu it h s een •• warm and u ns i y her in alt Lake, which s ts the them of v. ea ther for ost of t e we tern m ountain ar 6. . Vtarm spring-like "'eat er - - with 8 thr a t. of flo d an avalanche. EATB.fil! It has been warm and sun-shiny here in Salt Lake today, nd that sets the g~neral theme for the W est- warm, spring-li · e weather - with a threat of flood and avalanche. The prayer of the West is that the warm thaw will continue -- but will be interrupted by a freeze •••r • so often -- to slow down the water pouring from the great snows and check the wild hurtling peril of the ayalanche. In these we~tern mountains, the accent is on avalanche. Right now -- at this very hour -- snow slide• are roaring down a thousand mountains, crashing into canyons. There haYe been a number of casualties so far, and there are liiely to be more. A man was killed by an ayalanche in the Jackson Bole country of yoaing thi• week. Three more to the north of Ogden, Utah recently, in the Bear River Canyon. On ~t. Rose in Nevada, just a few minutes after s everal of ••x••• us had r chatte d with him, Coach J e rry etzel a d b n mem ers o f th e Neva d a S ki 1e am wer e cau g ht b y an avalanche. \.- Wet el is in the R eno •••,t hospital. s•••t--i~ft ri,et--et -4,bia ■ omen-t., "llie leading avalanche expert of tne world has been brought over from Eur•e ~ndre noch 1 from the historic I ~ /\ In Switzerland they have an important gov,rnaent organization called - the ~•iss Avalanche Institute. ~11-important among peo le who have lived for centuriee with the avalanche hazard banging over them like the sword of D amacle s . Audre noch has come over as a g uest of the uational ki tat1ol, through C. Minot D oe, hea d of that organiz tion, and is making stu d i e s in th e \,olor a do nockies, the Sierras, the f a u ous •ineral 'in country, and h e re i n the Wasatch ountains. 2 1 - ~ 1 n e re in the • , a&a tc h , they h ve m a de the only comprehensive body of avalanohe •• re~rds in th i s country -- c o mpiled by • the sup e r visor o f the asatch lat io nal Fore s t, K~ c. ~ Koz~ and his col l ea g ue, II. Ii(. A\water, Utah ran g er. It covers a period of ten yea r s, and has not yet been publiabed. •'ve been looking over that record, The picture it presen t s_,!.~e long fantasy ~ _now. In ..,.. c~f"fi: e • a satch, the records ,.. ,, go back to Eighteen Seventy - five . I ~• At that time, Alta was a ailver mining camp with a population of five tnous and. !Juri ng the mi'ning period, some thirty five yeara, the number of lives lost came to aixty- five. Three separate avalanches took ten live s each. That was b ack in the days w ti en the Little ~mma m i ne •s world famous, the' mine w h ich promoters - ~ 7 ~ + ~ - unloaded on ling Edwardthe Seventh and his British A collea g ue s . b i nce then, the terror of the aval a nche in that pa rti c ularcanyon has been lar g ely overco me . lliilit.H. - 4 Duri.1 the past ten years, while For stry Supervisor . Kozeil and his colleagues have been keeping their eye Cll the snow, there has been mly ne casualty. ~nd, during the •inter months, more than a hundred ~ thousand p e o ~ v ~ r ~ ~ i ~ c a m p of Alta, •ell, ,tHt. £ . r - : : : ~ , A : - . . , . _ / ~ ~ ~ avalanche country,AI had to tangle with one, myself. ~ot a giant avalanche, or l might not be here to tell the story. Luckily, I hap ened to'be with snow slide • expert, I. C. Ioztel, - which helped no end. e were travelling through big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch. The road to Brighton, Utah had been cut off for someti ■ e -- by many •••lanchea. ~ But yesterday••• morning powerful rotor snowplow• cut -4 way through -- ~uat wide enough for one a_J ~ T . - ~ car."8 m • ~ aur aut~ih.,.. w@nt t r l , ~ , occasional y touching the high sher white walls on either side. 1hen, •• at noon, w start d bee : own th e canyon, an ~ had six or seven mile i 0 ~h n we JLUiilR - , found that anoth e r avalanche had come d own and trappea us, a minor slide. It was interesting to watch expert Koz~l go into action. First he looked tM.(_ the situation ov e r to make sure a second ~•4.anehe- would not come down on top f the first '1.one. Then he got out two shovels that he alway~ carried.Several other cars were behind us, and avalanche expert • , o z. 4'& 1 p u t. us a 11 to work sh o-v e 1 i ng that heavy compressed snow which buried abdat thirty yards of the road. lt was our only chance to get out to Salt ~ake ~ity so that l could get through to the studio at I.S.L. My companions were stalwart mountaineers ot utah, and they pitched in. i:>o did I, shoveling more snow than ••ve handled in a score of years. We made it by an eye-lash, while a herd of a hundred or more elk, and several hundred deer looked on, probably lau gh ing at us, as w e got out of Cottonwood Canyon. From Greece the announcement -- that Lieutenant Colonel belden Edner of San Jose. California was mu1dered by Gr ek ned~guerrillas. Colonel Edner, an air hero of the Second •orld war was flying in , a Greek •rmy plane - as an ~merican observer. He disappeared together with the ~reek pilot. This was on ~anuary twenty-~ourth and now the bodies of both have been found and identified. Their plane was forced down in territory of the ~ommunists, and u.~.Army headquarters in Greece announc~that they were lrutally killed by the Red guerrillas. • HUNG ARY ----- · ---- In °ungary, the R eds have arrested a papel courier, a messen ge r bearing a let e r from Pope P i us the T e 1 ft h to the b is hops of li u ng a ry, - This courier from the Vatican was taken into custody, a f ter the arrest of ~erdinal Mi~dszenty and is aid to have borne ins t ructions from the Pope, bidding the nungarian bishops not to yield, not to make an agreement with the Red regime - keep on ' resisting Communism. JAPAN -- - In iapan they have cross word puzzles -- ho~ good l don't know. In Japan they also have some of our western 1•1•• gadgets, and how goo d they are •o uld se ea to be indicated by a cro as word puzzle puRisbed in Tokyo today. One word - was defined as -- •a modern instrument which of t•n does not work.• .1: t •as a nine letter word and the ans1rer was -- · •telephone• • . <2..1.~ ~~~,.u--4 ~)--y~ tv-~.