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Windy, Colder Partly cloudy Saturday. Windy and colder with the high around 28. Colder Saturday night, low about 10. Week End Edition mm 117th Year. 363rd Day.

Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, Saturday, December 29, 1962. 26 Pages. Faces Drunk Confesses Killing Grimes Sisters in 1956 mm me Vil-T i Police Say Alfred Lawless Has Details LOS ANGELES A prisoner about to be released 10 lLpu after serving 60 days on a drunkenness charge confessed News l-- Friday to the 1956 slaying of the Grimes sisters in Chicago. WOMAN'S TOUCH LONDON (UPD The Daily Mirror said Friday Elizabeth Arden has painted all the stable buckets bright pink at the castle she bought in County Kildare, Ireland. Five Die As Wall Collapses I'M JOE WESTON, Mass (UPI)-The new sign on the Masachusetts Turnpike, reading "Stop at roused the curiosity of a state trooper Friday.

The mystery was solved one-half mile away when the trooper discovered a hitch-hiker standing beside another sign. It read, "I'm Joe." Wall Blast Irks U.S. "Six years ago today I killed Barbara and Patricia Grimes and I've been running ever since," sandy-haired Alfred Smith Lawless told police and newsmen. I see visions of those two ffw, mVlo oil tV.0 iimo All think yl gnu (At liiv. uuiv.

about lately is how I left them to die, stripped and naked on that snowbank in the woods. For years I've been running. I just had to tell somebody." Lawless, 34, who said he is from Jamestown, said he GREENBELT, Genera picked up the girls at a Chicago Five workmen were killed and at least 11 others injured Friday theater where an Elvis Presley when they were buried under picture was playing, molested BERLIN Blasting holes earth released by the collapse of a retaining wall at a shopping them, choked and bound them, then threw them from an auto. center excavation project. The bodies of Barbara, 15, and Rescue workers from 10 fire companies worked throughout the afternoon and into the night in the Communist wall by West Berliners was assailed Friday as "futile and dangerous" by the U.S.

commandant. Maj. Gen. Albert Watson II, retiring after 20 months in the city, was commenting on the 14th Patricia, 13, were found in a ditch beside a country road southwest of Chicago on Jan. 22, If Ik '6j te mi to free any other workmen that might have been trapped in the 1957.

An autopsy showed the Wooed by Book Seattle (P) Angelos Four-las, Royal Hellenic Navy petty officer from Athens, Greece, could speak English. Mary i a Magliore, Bothell, could speak Greek. But it was love at first sight and they found their language of love in an English-Greek dictionary. They were married Friday at Seattle using their bilingual 'wooing book' to help expedite the wedding. girls froze to death, but failed to cave-in.

A crane operator said blast since the Reds erected the wall 16 months ago. the wall collapsed without warn provide any clues as to how ana why the girls were left to die. The explosion early Friday was ing, engulfing the workers in red clay. The girls vanished from their southside home in Chicago Dec. the biggest yet.

But it ripped only a small hole three feet square in By coincidence, the tragedy 28 after attending a movie they occurred as Labor Secretary the barricade while smashing 600 had seen several times before. Willard Wirtz announced a pro Alfred Lawless windows in neighboring buildings 'I had to tell somebody about If's a Kiffenskle Hutchinson, Kan. (A) A milk bottle that froze and flipped its lid gives Tabby the cream of the contents in Popsicle form. posed ban on the employment of 16 and 17-year-old youths in haz in West Berlin. The winter night was ripped by the murders.

I am scared that if I didn't I might do the same ardous excavation operations. He the detonation at the intersection of Jerusalcmer Strasse and Lin thing again to other innocent girls," Lawless said. 1 He said he met the girls when said numerous reports of death and Injuries to minors had been received. One of those injured In the den Strasse. There were two other SKYBOLT FELL explosions in this area earlier they left the theater, and: this month.

Plan New Medicare Approach "I struck up a casual conver The Communist regime made Greenbelt accident was 18-year-old John Pool, Takoma Park, whose father, Edgar, 57, sation. They agreed to go with its usual protest statement. But They Know Not Where WASHINGTON (UPD Aionly that radio-telemetry data gresslonal hearings on the 1949 me in my car to get hamburgers. charging "provocation against the was among the dead. had never seen them before.

state border" and said the bomb- We drove out to the country, ers "gambled with West Berlin Then I stopped the car and made ers lives. new controversy flared Friday on the missiles night was be- Claim Katanga love to them. I got scared, fig' The blasts have been deplored over Skybolt missile when ing re-checked. He said this PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD-A new approach to Congress on medicare and federal aid to edu ured they might tell somebody admirals' revolt against the B3S which eventually culminated in the ouster 'of Adm.

Louis E. Denfeld as chief of naval opera tions. That outcome was a re conflicting claims were issued, might take several days. In the past by West Berlin city leaders but not in such strong about it. I had been drinking over the results of last week cation was drawn up here Friday The situation was strongly It's fuzzy about how exactly Police Beyond end's test ot the rocket terms as Watson used.

The retiring American com reminiscent of the 1949 admirals' revolt against the B36 and Secretary of Health, The Air Force Insisted as re- sounding victory for the Air Force which, for the moment at off their clothes and mi infill- i ii j. ti 1 1 ihh rfiirt.il inn nnri ueiiar Antnonv mandant said even though he understood the psychology behind them in the snowbank. cently as Friday morning that bomber and seemed likely to the test over Cape wind up the same way in a J. Celebrezze. Tshombe Grip "It seems like I knocked them the attacks, they were "gestures Following the conference, Cele was highly successful.

But congressional investi- of ultimate futility that do no brezze said Kennedy proposed least, seems to be wagir.g a losing battle tor Skybolt. The Air Force test of Skybolt obviously was embarrassing to I the administration, coming as it did only two days after Ken- Pentagon reporters were told gation of President Kennedy later by other sources that the I decision to cancel the Skybolt unconscious somehow. I burned all their clothes, their slacks, blouses, coats and got rid of By Pantagraph Wire Services test did not turn out nearly as program. Katangan police forces have several suggested changes in the H-E-W program for 1963. Department experts would begin work at once incorporating the changes their.

shoes and pufjesJThen opened attacks with heavy mor got out ot town." well as the Air Force had contended. These sources laid the air-to- Chalrman Richard B. Russell, D-Ga already has said his Senate Armed Sen-Ices Committee tars and automatic weapons on good." Watson, who rums over his command here Tuesday, told newsmen: "I believe good times will come again for Berlin. I cannot say why I believe this possibly I Just think the Berliners deserve it after all they've been I went to Indiana, then De In the departmental budget for troit. I've been all over the coun U.N.

forces in EUsabcthvllle. Ignoring orders from President Moise Tshombe to cease firing, try running ever since, fiscal 1961. he said. The cabinet officer said the basic philosophy and general ground missile would have; will look into the situation after missed its target by some 100 Congress returns next month, miles if it had returned to earth. Chairman Carl Vinson, Actually it burned up because of the House Armed Services Chicago detectives familiar the United Nations reported Fri nedy and British Prime Minister Harold iNlacmiUan had agreed at Nassau to shelve Sky.

bolt. Instead, it was agreed Britain would buy submarine launched Polaris missiles. Mae millan previously had counted on the bomber-launched Skybolt to provide Britain with an independent nuclear deterrent. Macmiilan now faces heavy tnrougn. day.

It said seven U.N. soldiers with the case that shocked Chicago and the nation six years Takes Oath Palm Beach, Fla. Kcrmit Gordon, who succeeds David Bell as budget director for the federal government, takes the oath of office in the garden of the Winter White House. Looking on were President Kennedy; Mrs. Gordon; and Mayor Claude Reese of Palm Beach.

group is being urged to conduct it carried no nose cone to pro structure of medicare and aid to education, both ot which failed In Congress last year, would remain essentially the same. He said, had been wounded. A U.N. spokesman In New ago reported that Lawless gave a similar inquiry. tect it during the fiery plunge back through the atmosphere.

a detailed account or the mur- York said President Moise One ot the leaders in the drive for an investigation is Sen. Stu- ders with an excellent descrip however, the suggested changes Tshombe of the secessionist It also was learned that the tion ot the girls, including that Kennedy came up with would province appeared to have lost Air rorce statement ocscriDing art Symington, a mem- opposition both within and out- all control of European- Knowieoge or ramcia croonea require lour or live aays or wont trained troops and mercenaries toe and the clothing they wore! by departmental experts before the test as a success was issued bcr of the Senate committee and.gkje of his own Conservative without prior Defense Depart-j a former Air Force secretary in party. This opposition increased Highway Blood Bath Renewed; Record Assured By t'nltrd Pwi International the H-E-W budget could be con but he denied reports Tshombe at the time of their disappear- iiu-iu mnuvxii. hi- jurnit-r i ruiuiui uininiira-itf(rr the Air Force announee had fled the capital. He said his ance.

sidered finished. Celebrezze said medical care Reporters who sought Air turn, lie has strongly criticized that last week's test over Ca Force reaction to the state ministers might have "fled into the bush," however. Police said Lawless also confessed to the murder ot a man for the aged, as proposed by the ments were met with a no com me aecuion ro orop Kyoolu naveral was highly successful. Paradoxically, Symington Five previous testa were fall-played a leading role in con-lures. administration, again would be named Walter "Pea-John" Mil Tshombe broadcast a com ment.

A spokesman would say munique saying the U.N. troops ler in Jamestown, "in 1947 or 1948." provoked" Fridays action. Americans Friday began their! last big holiday outing of the year with fair weather through RELUCTANT SPEAKER linked to social security, but the private insurance alternative of-fered in the Senate last year by Sen. Jacob Javits, was being studied for possible inclusion In the administration proposals. Celebrezze indicated, how THE GRIMES CASE most of the nation luring mil lions to the highways.

During the 102 hour New- ever, that such a study was, for Year's holiday, from 6 p.m. kv Another Chapter cal time Friday until midnight the present, highly tentative Refugee Release Valve 'Shut Off' MIAMI (LTI) Fidel Castro abruptly halted the of relatives of Cuban invasion prisoners Friday dealing a harsh blow to spirits of the ransomed Invaders who will atand formation for Prc-ldnt Kennedy Saturday. V. matter. local time Tuesday, the National Safety Council estimated that SPRINGFIELD -4n Gov.

Otto KcmtT made speeches this year at the rate ot about one every other day. The total was 1R5. Kcmer'a office said Friday the governor turned down eight times as many speaking engagements as he accepted. The cabinet officer aim report from 420 to 4 SO persons would ed that the administration program next year again would in die in traffic accidents. To Grim Story Even the minimum estimate clude propoted federal grants to ntrt lie secondary schools, as well of 420.

if reached, would make i. ti k. mnn prournm inr concert. uw uhi-m i rur The Cuban De Gaulle Likely government gave fek ta TlWlTs Al red'and YtM of aWance tor ill highways In U.S. history.

The AiL'tS S3 n.0,-r..m? salaries. previous record for a four-dny MTU Uiwtens IB muiurr vi.urinirs Riri, tu iui uh-ui Wmu Yptr'i hnilrinv In MfJi To Nix Polaris no reason for halting the release ot relatives. It previously had announced that any who wished to two teen-age slstert in Chlcago.for a week on the tawdry west ji-j il-ear. Friday added an- Skit Skid Row. and then beat Diet Of Bums T(r iSidly died other-nd tomewhat famUlar- them and threw them out of an TEORU Mr-.

lUry i Ti, iL PARIS UPI) President Fire Theft Hearing Continued charter to what has become Charles de Gaulle is likely to do to were free to leave to long turn down President Kennedy txin)(4 -vr their proper known as The Grimes case. auto into a ditch. yJ of bunvjly irt nedwTll even redacted the wffTM In a fire Hunt Aimgrd)t)n. dlH ta trafno -Ccklcnts. crime, leading a caravan of jf Convalescent UtX hrct day i ThiBri4AW ntiht Out mtmm Thursday night.

She was one of Polaris missile offer unlet The Grimes sUtert-narbara. ty to the ttate. An estimated 3.000 to 6.000 of France it guaranteed trtar-finger Sovereignty in any Allied cart as he mapped out hit al holiday 337 were killed. Anns Angel New York Artrms Ann SnUiern aM her di tighter. IHtfrieu Ann Sterling, radiate hni'pinrts at tlx Astor Hotel lu re.

Tito ttren-lon was the sriety dibut of Mls Sterling at Or International DrlHitonte BalL four women injured. the relativet reportedly want to The toll during the first 7i nuclear force, government soure- 13. and Patricia. lJ-dlsap- peared on Dec. 28.

after they left their South Side Chl-caco home to attend a movie leged murder mute. However, when It was point leave Cuba. tviitra nf th hnlklav nertntt will Friday. anCAGO -iv- A Judge con-turned a hearing for three teen agrrt Friday until Jan. 1 to aW -n mile mnr time to almost certainly puh the num-l De Gaulle also will reject the Castro's pntlcy twitch wis an Safety Step -(ITI Italian driv.

ed out that llcdweU was an illi ber of U.S. traffic fatalities offer unless the United States nounced In Havana by an otfi- terate and hit story did not theater showing an uvu rret- ley film, above the 40.ooo mark, the safe- agrees to share nuclear aeo check out 1U particulars, he.ln license, will carry the blond clal ot the Swlst Embassy, which' ap)Urunent kung that a It presently wnresentlnf UJ. ftr- blamed on firemen. rummA type or the owtmt anrr Jan. id xy council maieateo.

maxing mis rtta witn rrance on ine tame Their nuae, xrozen Doaies were found on a snow bank along a lonely country road nf itliw tnetrm than ft.i..M -t nvne to speed transfusions; the deadliest year on the high- basla It with Prltaln, the Chicago poifho itiu Kt.t. interests in that country. The request for a eontlnuanca About 1.000 Cubans were gam- nmi! from Josenh a id 4 nwm vi nn 'uai at si -ii i'i iitfwn lit tv es mi RUUItl-l a. a ered outside the embassy at the rueker. attome for Thomst three weeks later on Jan.

22. cwnpuni The murders touched off 5 000 Pcrsont of the mot wfclespread. turbu- Instigated at polblt tut- Ll nl Hmr mvtftlitfl- ve-tiffstiont in the city's long1 Chicago. polc Lt- time clamoring for help In 2lt. la, one of the youtht ting out of Cuba.

Irharged with burglary of a MitH The newt hsd a sobering ef- Side apartment buikhng dUnv fcrt on Miami's hues colony of aged by fire on Chrtstmat morn-eMled Cu twins hleh now nunv'tng. x-rs more than loo.OOO. The rx- -Ynu should hve had the lr Ucs had been elated In romplrlci hcn txi da-s. first by the release of Itlrker t44 history of vtolrnt crime. ivrr was on the list.

A spreUU unit of the uueago Miery snrotweq ine cate pot )re was set up to work on the' from the first, when police could 17 Tt caend still is wording on nrxi no ooioos rauie oi acam. prtnneni and then the rtlrse a a rtng bctre Judte of K3 relatives. ii-ui a. rrtmi Munlclfal after six rart of lifting and re-Tbe glrlr frozen buJr wrre rrrskknt Kennedy gave their Court. morale another boost by promis-l sifting the mracer clues and not particuuny nestcn ana aa checking hundreds of ksdt that not show signs of having been led no here.

I strangled. The confession of LawWt Is A comoer's report wM the the Utmt of dozens by persons girl had not been sexually mo-who aoutht for whatever, Irsted and that the probable Ing to come to Miami mhiM.iv to mlew the 1.113 membrn of I v. twitted reaon to Mume the, cause of death wst exposure to Invasion Prlee 3Trt. the exile army that stormed the bearhes of Itay ot Dcs southeast ot Havana on April 17, IXL SOLD 3 PUPS ft kvrfl lew les Pe-'wyeeH m-9 teerfr keca the freezing guilt of one ot the ugliest mur der In the memory of veicran The autopsy also showed the girls' torn ac hi contained a meatless meal apparently the rmlicemcn. There wat no Immediate comment from bete on Like all the other lead I the action by Castro.

trr. this one loo win ne inor- Mme one me gins ate rno-jr otichly checked Inib fill night fat their hotrte before lesv- i ne exue roKviy wat ntity an day getting out Its Stinday best T.s' c-sST-i I i strong hope that at last a rue ing lor in mo-ie. -r- i 1 The girU clothing wat never KT Uie ITTSMCni VISII. that now fills several cabinets in the central police headquarters ran he marked "rtcd." found, a detail that Immediately led Invrtilcatnrt to consider a pmtsible link to an ever crim Shtll Kills Boy TAIPEI, rormnta -(ITT- A For a time It appeared the Communis artillery shrU kilted rae mI oe quiraiy amvea. rner muinpie mtinwx ine un-Withln dyt after the ttrangtilation of three of the bodtei tterifri police an- Chicago ichoolboyt two years Out on Bond lMlywood.

Calif. 1.11 Imnis Crrntiy. 2. son of famed sineer tting Crtny, nhoM-n- Irnvins the Wrt Shrrifrs Rtatkm curly Friday morning. He bud been armted late Thirliy niebt on nurtcinn of drunken drlvine.

A Irtrtwl prwtrai S2T0 ball (r his re kae. Voting CmMiy was erf-ted after officers fx iced his spmtt rar "weaving from tkto to tkle." a try and wmnded his nvuher nouncei thry had a deiaBed pmlntiiiy. enete-ainn tmm an Illiterate! The nude bodies of Robert Pe on the offhe isUnd ef Qtie moy Tbir4iiy wsht. it a re- sve Te e-w fcvrt fi tve A- A-h ri. te c-m 9 Km.

4r' f. swwtrr 7 Jvtf i-e 4 0r S-f Zktd Row dishwasher they 14: John Srhurslrr, 13. pnMed Frklay. The wfwml Cnv Only The Pilot Died nottcrdam, ll(1Und 44V-Tim? crumplcxl wreckage of a Brillnh plane lim upside down on the fcnau-mcmi airport Krlday alter rrah Ins; Into a dike at the rnd of the runway. The plane flipped end over end four time, killing the pilot.

Twelve olhcn on board escaped serious injury. 1: tral Newt Arney taid they were hit by one of 104 rounda Hred durtrg the night. I j.iet.ioed lor setral dni In and hi brother. Anton, ll, wrre a tecltidcd motel. I found In a forest pre-me MnH- In tht "coniesskm, Edsrd west of Chkigo Oct IS, 1X3.

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